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Wireless solutions supplier Intuicom, in conjunction with Econolite Canada, has been awarded the Wireless Traffic Communications Project for the City of North Vancouver, Canada. The contract includes the supply, installation, configuration, testing and training of the complete wireless system for the City and integrates the City’s IP-based traffic signal controllers while providing centralised monitoring and management of the entire traffic network from the City’s traffic management centre. Intuicom

A new study by the Northeast Group says there are currently more than 2,000 LED and smart streetlight projects globally. With these infrastructure projects, cities and municipalities across the world modernise their streetlights with more efficient light-emitting diode (LED) lights. They are also deploying sensors, communications and analytics software throughout their street lighting infrastructure and creating smart cities. This is a key segment of the emerging Internet of Things. Rapidly falling costs an

The US toll road industry is gathering in Portland this week to discuss road usage charging (RUC), the mechanism that allows drivers to pay by the mile for their use of roads. Opening the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association’s (IBTTA) Transportation Financing and Road Usage Charging Conference, Patrick Jones, executive director, said a ‘sea change in thinking’ was needed to help find stable sources of funding for surface transportation. Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer told conferen

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is to install advanced wrong-way driving detection systems, beginning this week, at 24 locations across the state. The systems will both alert a driver who is travelling in the wrong direction as well as notify police and other motorists in the area of a potential wrong-way driver. The new detection systems will sense if a driver has entered a highway off-ramp and activate a series of flashing signs. It will also notify the Rhode Island State Police

Oregon’s new pay-by-the-mile road usage charge program, OReGO, took a step forward Monday, as state officials announced that three private business partners are now technically certified to manage accounts and collect road user fees from those accounts for deposit into the State Highway Fund. “Oregon is pioneering the nation’s first pay-by-the-mile road usage charge system. We now have three trusted private partners on board — Azuga, Sanef and Verizon Telematics — that Oregonians can choose from when the

Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) and Toyota Motor Thailand (TMT) will partner with Chulalongkorn University (Chula) on a pilot traffic and congestion management project on the heavily-congested Sathorn Road, Bangkok, Thailand. The project, which will take an estimated eighteen months to complete, from April 2015 –to December 2016, and a US$3.4 million investment, will create a road map to manage traffic control and flow by focusing on four areas. These include the developing sustainable shuttle bus and p

A new rail signalling system to be installed across the UK could be liable to hacking, a government adviser has warned. Professor David Stupples told the BBC that the European Rail Traffic Management system (ERTMS) could be exposed to malicious software, or malware, and used to cause an accident perhaps telling the system the train is slowing when down when it is speeding up. "However, he said governments aren't complacent."Certain ministers know this is absolutely possible and they are worried about

D’Artagnan Consulting has been awarded a four-year contract by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) as the State of California seeks to implement one of the nation’s most ambitious per-mile road charging study and pilot efforts to date. D’Artagnan is providing direct support to Caltrans to achieve the objectives of 2014 legislation which directed a study to implement, evaluate, and report back to lawmakers on a pilot test of road charging methods before the end of June 2018. In the

New technology which communicates between traffic signals and motorists to help the way they drive is being rolled out across Newcastle as part of a joint cooperative project with Siemens. In the first pilot of its kind in the UK, the system links an in-vehicle communication system directly with the city’s urban traffic management centre (UTMC), the infrastructure will ‘communicate’ directly with motorists, giving certain vehicles priority at junctions. Initially, the system has been fitted to non-emerge

Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc invites you to take part in her twitter chat on "Intelligent Transport Systems – a Digital Strategy for Mobility" on Monday 27 April at 1400-1500 CET. Tweet your questions to Commissioner Bulc under the hashtag #ITS2015chat!

Driving dynamics play a huge role in the purchasing decisions of vehicle owners in Europe. While safety and reliability are top priorities, driving dynamics-related capabilities such as manoeuvrability and ride quality rank high in importance among consumers looking to buy a car. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, European Consumers’ Attitude towards Driving Dynamics Technologies, finds that urban male customers are willing to pay a higher than average price to upgrade driving dynamics technologies. Wo

As a continuation of the International Road Federation (IRF) e-learning webinar series, the IRF Road Safety Subcommittee on Work Zones and Temporary Traffic Control Safety is to present a webinar on Pedestrian Safety in the Work Zone on 29 April. This can be especially true for pedestrians with disabilities. This webinar will examine the issue of pedestrian safety and identify best practices and other considerations to facilitate the safe and proper flow of pedestrian traffic during construction. Whilst

Peek says the SG-1000 exceeds both NEMA TS1-1989 and NEMA TS2-2003 including amendment 4 for functional, flashing yellow arrow and environmental requirements for an MMU. Building on all the features of Peek’s Double Diamond MMU, the SG-1000 offers an improved dynamic status display with OLED technology and adds new features, such as support for flashing yellow arrow, standard USB device support for log collection and optional Ethernet capabilities.

According to IDTechEx, there is divided opinion on future of traction fuel cells in electric vehicles, though few argue any more that they will power the majority of electric vehicles (EVs). Nonetheless some manufacturers are very enthusiastic and now could be the beginning of the end of the trough of disillusionment, indeed the time to invest, as analysed in the IDTechEx report Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2015-2030: Land, Water, Air. A comparison of views by IDTechEx) found that Toyota, Nissan, Honda,