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The Manaus metro in the city of Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon is to be equipped with Thales’ automated driverless monorail solution, following the award to the company of its second signalling Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) project in Brazil in less than a year for the The signalling contract was awarded to Thales by the Monotrilho Manaus Consortium, comprising CR Almeida, Mendes Junior, and Serveng-Civilsan e Scomi. The 20 km monorail will be a fully automated driverless system using Thale

Berlin wants to expand its role as the showcase city for electromobility. The charging infrastructure within the capital is to increase from 100 to 300 by 2013 and to 800 by the end of 2015. The Berlin senate has released a corresponding EU-wide tender. Germany Trade & Invest will present the industry’s latest prospects and developments at this year's "The Battery Show" in Detroit. An increasing number of municipalities have consulted the Federation of German Industry for Electromobility for information reg

Customers in Massachusetts Bay on the US east coast can now purchase and then display rail tickets and passes using the MBTA mTicket app for iPhone and Android. Blackberry devices will also be supported soon. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Masabi US, the transit mobile ticketing provider, jointly announced the launch of the US’ first full smartphone commuter rail ticketing system. The tickets are displayed on the phone’s screen as an encrypted barcode and as a human readable ticket.

A new 3G wireless communications solution which allows Siemens UTMC OTUs to be connected to the company’s PC SCOOT UTC instation has been launched by the company following extensive field trials. The newly released 3G option is available on Gemini2 and is provided by the use of an approved 3G router and antenna kit and is quick and easy to install. It allows junctions to be added onto the UTC system without the need for physically wired or fibre links, reducing installation and civil engineering costs. Acc

Australia’s National Transport Commission (NTC) wants cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) technology to be considered in the country. In a recently-released discussion paper, the NTC states the technology, which allows vehicles and other parts of the road network to communicate, could save 300 lives on the nation’s roads each year. The paper discusses the technology that is currently being trialled in the US and Europe by auto manufacturers and governments to allow drivers to plan their trips

According to the latest report by independent technical consultancy SBD, End User Survey for Consumer Needs in South East Asia, 85 per cent of south-east Asian drivers already use some form of navigation each month. SBD surveyed 2,400 drivers in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand and implemented its consumer profiling tool to find out what connected services these drivers likely to need. South-east Asia has long been an afterthought market for the telematics industry, largely due to its poor road infrastruct

Royal HaskoningDHV, Netherlands-headquartered international engineering consultancy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Turkey’s Hakan Kiran Architecture for the design of the new Kabatas Seagull Transportation Hub in Istanbul. The multi modal transportation hub will connect ferry, metro, tram, bus and normal traffic and is to be located on the western shore of the Bosporus in Istanbul. The project will include an underpass for vehicles, a metro station, a tram station and ferry docks, and will

The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) has extended its contract with Q-Free for the servicing and maintenance of the congestion charging infrastructure in Stockholm. Valued at approximately US$3.13 million the contract has been extended for a year, starting 1 January 2013, Q-Free’s CEO, Oyvind Isaksen, said, “We see Sweden as a very important and exciting market going forward. Our continuing participation in service and maintenance activities is essential for our local presence and not at lea

The preliminary programme for the IRF Road Safety Across Six Continents Seminar is now available, and space is limited. The seminar takes place 2-12 December 2012 at Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida, USA, and is one of the most comprehensive road safety training programs in the world. Experts from a variety of countries will present best practices and state of the art technologies in roadside safety, work zone safety, vulnerable user safety, traffic management and road safety audits over a

The Future Standards Forum (FSF), a joint initiative by European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), Automated Imaging Association (AIA) and Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA), has been set up to provide proactive, strategic guidance to the development of industry standards and to minimise the creation of conflicting standards within the machine vision industry and in related industries. The FSF believes the machine vision industry is a knowledge driven industry which experiences an ever increasing

The latest report from the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), entitled Vehicle Electrification and the Smart Grid - The Supporting Role of Safety and Mobility Services, is to be presented in a webinar hosted by Dr Kenneth Laberteaux, Senior Principal Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute-North America. The webinar, entitled What’s Driving All This Driving? will be held on 15 November, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Click here for more information and to register. The report is

Qatar’s Public Works Authority (Ashghal) is in the final phase of preparing an ITS master plan, while smart transport solutions have already been integrated in the traffic system in the country, with the aim of implementing a fully integrated Intelligent Transport System (ITS) before the FIFA World Cup 2022. Plans include special lanes for buses, more advanced surveillance cameras, a dedicated radio station to raise traffic awareness and special operation rooms to deal with accidents and other emergencies.

San Mateo County in California is to implement a US$35 million dollar smart corridor project which will apply the latest management technology along twenty miles of El Camino Real from San Bruno to Menlo Park and on local streets in San Mateo County. “We’re working together to help people get to where they are going easier and faster,” said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. “This is a good example of how technology can help us make better use of the roads we already have.” The Intelligent Transportation

The Asia development Bank (ADB) is calling for countries in Asia, including the Philippines, to invest heavily in "inclusive" and "sustainable" transportation systems if they want to spur economic growth and reduce poverty. "Without appropriate and adequate transport, countless millions of people lack access to jobs, markets, hospitals and schools. Regional connectivity remains a major challenge for many countries," ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said in his speech during the second day of the "Transport For

TraficOK, a joint development by Romanian software company AROBS Transilvania Software, specialising in customised automotive solutions, and be-mobile, Belgian provider of traffic and mobility information, is, according to both companies, a fully comprehensive traffic portal that provides precise traffic and mobility information the Romanian public accurate and. TraficOK provides detailed and up to the minute live traffic information, sourced from an extensive fleet and uniquely for the Romanian market, enh