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The A9 Safety Group in the UK has won the CIHT John Smart Road Safety Award, for a range of interventions along more than 200km of carriageway, including the implementation of 50 SPECS3 average speed cameras, supplied by Vysionics. The A9 SPECS3 installation has been in operation since October 2014, and is already delivering impressive changes to driver behaviour. Whilst it is still too early to report on casualty analysis, key performance indicators are already demonstrating that drivers have improved the

A report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) outlines the life-saving benefits of currently available collision avoidance systems and recommends that the technology become standard on all new passenger and commercial vehicles. The report, The Use of Forward Collision Avoidance Systems to Prevent and Mitigate Rear-End Crashes, stresses that collision avoidance systems can prevent or lessen the severity of rear-end crashes, thus saving lives and reducing injuries. According to statistics fro

Lector Vision has supplied the city of Rzeszow in Poland with its Traffic Eye automatic licence plate recognition (ALPR) system for the city's Smart City project. This major project comprises traffic management, public transportation, driver's real time information delivery, travel time calculation based on ALPR, video surveillance, etc. For this project, Lector Vision supplied over 70 Traffic Eye units with a multilane configuration, reading the plates of more than 130 lanes.

In an ongoing project, the eastern Polish city of Lublin is using software from the PTV Group to improve its traffic infrastructure. The City Council has set itself the goal of putting in place an intelligent transport system based on the latest technology and hopes to speed up the flow of traffic and encourage more people to switch to public transport. The plan is to improve the linkage between public transport provision and private transport, continue adapting timetables to meet passenger needs, reduce t

Dutch vehicle identification and detection specialist Nedap is taking advantage of IFSEC 2015 to launch its Transit Ultimate microwave RFID long-range reader, developed for vehicular access control in high-security applications and under heavy environmental conditions.

Crosslinx Transit Solutions, consisting of Aecon, ACS Infrastructure Canada, EllisDon, and SNC-Lavalin, has been selected by Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario as the preferred supplier for the development of the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit project in Toronto.

Since many early generation variable message signs (VMS) are now reaching end of life and are either failing completely or becoming extremely difficult to maintain, Swarco Traffic has launched a new service to repair and renovate life expired VMS.

Sensys Traffic has received an order valued at US$846,000 for traffic safety systems from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sensys has its largest installed base, apart from Sweden, in the United Arab Emirates and has been supplying the Dubai police since 2001; this order expands the number of their traffic safety systems.

Five cities in the south Denver, Colorado metropolitan area have now chosen Econolite Centracs ATMS as their advanced transportation management system to control networked actuated signalised intersections.

Back in 2009, the public transport sector set itself a goal: double its market share worldwide by 2025 to make cities more liveable and more productive. Today, in 2015, on the occasion of the biennial UITP World Congress & Exhibition in Milan this week, UITP presented a report to illustrate the urban policies that are moving cities closer to that goal. In a report presented at the plenary session of the World Congress, UITP research points to a general increase in public transport modal share thanks to

A joint venture between RATP Dev and Transdev, the Mumbai metro line 1 started service on 8 June 2014 and is about to celebrate its first anniversary by crossing the 100 million passenger mark. The 12 kilometre line, with 12 stations and built on a viaduct, is the first in the city, the fifth most populated city in the world with a population of 22 million. The line connects the city’s eastern and western suburbs and has radically changed the daily life of people who previously depended on a bus net

Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed Apple Pay can be used on London's public transport system when it launches in the UK next month. TfL developed the contactless technology needed to travel on its services in-house, with over 100 million contactless journeys made on its services since it launched in September 2014. TfL's Director of Customer Experience, Shashi Verma, said: “With around one in ten of all contactless transactions in the UK now taking place on our transport services in London, we a

New radar traffic cameras that can detect and fine motorists for tailgating will become operational on 1 July, according to a report in The National. Dubai Police has launched its annual ‘Keep a safe distance’ traffic campaign, quoting tailgating as the third-leading cause of traffic deaths. Tailgating caused 26 deaths in 2014, and 11 deaths between January and May this year. Police said the system would reduce traffic accidents and fatalities by penalising motorists who fail to observe a safe distanc

More than 40 European organisations concerned with road safety, together with 11 members of the European Parliament have sent a letter to President Jean-Claude Juncker urging him to not drop setting new EU target to cut serious road injuries. The letter was sent yesterday by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), ahead of Thursday's meeting of national transport ministers in Luxembourg where the target was set to be announced. The European Transport Safety Council has learnt that the announcemen

The China Machine Vision Union (CMVU) has become the fifth member of the G3 standardisation initiative of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), joining AIA-Advancing Vision + Imaging (AIA), EMVA, Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA) and VDMA Machine Vision (VDMA MV). EMVA says cooperation on vision standards is critical to the expanded use of vision and imaging technologies throughout industry, cutting cut down on development time, investment costs and accelerating time-to-market. Joc