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McCain, US manufacturer and supplier of intelligent transportation systems, traffic control equipment and parking guidance solutions, has successfully completed the evaluation of its latest QuicTrac adaptive control project in the City of Woodland Park, Colorado. The project ran on eight intersections along a 3.65 mile stretch of United States Highway 24 (US 24), where average daily traffic ranges from 19,000–26,000 vehicles.

Dutch traffic enforcement equipment manufacturer, Gatso, is to expand its European operations into Germany. Gatso says it has established Gatso Deutschland in order to work more closely with customers in reaching the targets of ‘Vision Zero’, as adopted by the German Road Safety Council. Area sales manager, Dietmar Schwalm, says "Being closer to our German customers makes it possible to be more engaged which results in optimised products for this progressive market.”

Tenders will shortly be issued for a proposed US$9.33 billion metro railway system in Jeddah. The metro system will consist of three main lines and 46 stations; the Orange line will be 67km long with 22 stations, the Blue line 24km with 17 stations and the Green line 17km with only seven stations.

Mitsubishi Motors North America has introduced its new roadside assistance app, enabling Mitsubishi owners to obtain quick, one-touch access to emergency dispatchers and response in an emergency, as well as automatically transmitting data about the vehicle, vehicle location, and owner. The new app, available for iPhone-compatible devices and included among the free benefits Mitusbishi dealers provide to new vehicle owners, puts drivers directly in touch with a roadside assistance agent

Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications has set aside a budget of US$333.67 million to improve public transportation from 2013 to 2016. The proposal was approved by the Council for Economic Planning and Development on 20 August 2012. The ministry aims to increase the use of public transport to 18 per cent in 2016 and three per cent in 2025, as compared to 14.3% in 2011. By the end of 2012, 90 per cent of buses in Taiwan are aimed to be equipped with multi-card readers.

A new average-speed camera, which can measure driving speeds over several kilometres, will be installed near Besançon. By late 2012, roughly 20 cameras will be installed in France. Similar systems exist in Italy, the UK and Netherlands. Over a stretch of two kilometres with a 70km/h speed limit, drivers are monitored twice. Some 13,000 to 15,000 vehicles use the portion of road near Besançon each day. During the test period, 40 speed infractions were recorded each day.

In a bid to improve Sydney's roads and congestion, Australia's Federal and New South Wales governments are to jointly fund a project to equip the full length of the state's M4 motorway with technology which will improve traffic flows and ease congestion along this vital part of Sydney's road network. The US$17 million project will provide the M4 with an electronic freeway management system consisting of variable speed limit sign, entry ramp signalling, CCTV, digital traveller information signs, and signs ad

The deadline for submissions for this year’s 2012 ITS Video Competition which will culminate at the ITS World Congress, being held in Vienna, Austria, from 22-26 October, 2012, is exactly two weeks away on Friday 7 September. The purpose of this video competition is to reach out to citizens and policy makers showing the potential and need for intelligent transport systems and services to create a better future with less accidents, fewer fatalities and injured people, less congestion, cleaner and more comfor

According to Frost & Sullivan, by 2020 more than 200 traditional carsharing organisations (CSOs) and another 24 Peer-to-Peer (P2P) CSOs are expected to take the European market for carsharing to new heights. More than 14 million new members are expected to use carsharing services in Europe by the same year, while three new sub-segments will emerge in the market: electric vehicle carsharing, corporate carsharing and one-way carsharing. While the new segments arise in particular due to continued urbanisation

One year after breaking ground, the largest solar highway project in the US — a partnership between Portland General Electric and the Oregon Department of Transportation — is now open to visitors stopping to take a break from their travels along Interstate 5 in Oregon. Growing clean, renewable energy amongst farm fields of corn and cabbage, the Baldock Solar Station is a 1.75-megawatt solar array boasting nearly 7,000 solar panels across seven acres of the Baldock Safety Rest Area, located on Interstate 5 n

Safety Vision, a specialist in mobile video and fleet automation solutions, has announced the addition of exterior cameras for the Houston Independent School District’s (HISD) fleet of 989 school buses. The company’s RoadRecorder 6000 PRO mobile digital video recorder (MDVR) and four SV-830 dome interior cameras are currently outfitted on every vehicle in HISD’s fleet to monitor the interior, entrance door, and front driver views of the school buses. In an on-going effort to increase student safety on schoo

The Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) of Thailand is to make immediate plans to develop six additional mass rapid transit (MRT) rail lines that should be operational by 2020. The lines will measure a length of 200 kilometres and entail US$19.16 billion in combined investments. The move was spurred by a forecast that suggests some three million passengers a day will use the MRT rail system in Bangkok by 2020.

Econolite has announced that Lee County, Florida, has harnessed the travel time module of its Centracs advanced transportation management system (ATMS) for the deployment of its BlueToad (Bluetooth Travel-time Origination and Destination) system to actively monitor travel times and road speeds. The ATMS was installed in 2011, as part of Lee County’s signal re-timing project for which the county’s DoT received an ‘A’ grade in the 2012 National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC) National Traffic Signa

The ASEAN region is set to become the 6th biggest automotive market globally by 2018 with vehicle sales almost doubling to nearly 4.7 million units as compared to 2.4 million in 2011, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. Entitled CEO 360 Degree Perspective of the Automotive Industry in ASEAN, (covering four key automotive markets in ASEAN - Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) the study finds that the market is likely to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.1 per cent (2011-2

Yesterday, Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles, a part of the US$15.4 billion Mahindra Group, formally inaugurated its manufacturing facility, which is the first platinum rated automobile facility in India. Inaugurating the world-class, energy efficient, green manufacturing facility, Anand Mahindra, chairman and managing director, Mahindra Group unveiled the Group's vision to co-create and shape the "future of mobility".