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Hawaii’s Lt. Governor Brian Schatz has announced that AeroVironment has been selected to help lead the way to a cleaner transportation future through an $820,000 contract from the Hawaii EV Ready Grants Programme.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is ready to provide a loan package worth up to US$500 million for developing an electric tricycle (e-trike) system in three to five years.

Automotive lighting and electronics specialist Hella is providing an optional full-LED headlamp system with adaptive front lighting for the 2011 Audi A6.

Kapsch TrafficCom IVHS Corporaton and Federal Signal Corporation have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding after substantial discussions during the past few months regarding ways in which the two organisations might cooperate and jointly pursue mutual business interests in North America.

Version 2.0 of Canada’s ITS Architecture has been announced. Now more closely aligned with the United States National ITS Architecture, Version 6.1, it provides a TURBO Tool and guidelines for the development of regional ITS architectures.

The UK Government has announced that it will provide grants of 25 per cent towards the cost of a new, plug-in electric car, capped at US$7,630.

Tesla Motors and Panasonic are collaborating to develop next-generation battery cells for Electric Vehicles (EVs).

Last year Taiwan saved more than US$18.75 million in energy conservation and carbon emission reductions in 2009 thanks to the use of an Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system on the country’s freeways, the Taiwan Area National Freeway Bureau has announced.

Autotoll, Hong Kong’s leading ITS and RFID services provider in the transport and logistics sectors, has won contracts for three projects for Hong Kong’s Transport Department.

The Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has authorised the purchase of a new toll collection system for the agency’s six bi-state crossings, which will have the capability to accommodate all-electronic tolling in the future.

Traffic congestion in the US is back on the rise according to the 3rd Annual Inrix Traffic Scorecard. Analysing traffic flow from 2009 in the Top 100 metropolitan areas nationwide, the study found that gridlock across the US bottomed out in March 2009 and congestion levels have begun to bounce back, ending the year slightly ahead of 2008.

In an initiative unprecedented across the Middle East and North Africa, Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has teamed up with Google to upload Dubai public bus stop information on the digital space of Google Earth.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota are working on a method that helps snowploughs determine exactly where slippery patches are and to target those specific areas with their sand-and-salt mixtures.

Daktronics will provide its Vanguard Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) under a new US$25.6 million contract.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has awarded electric car pioneer ZAP an engineering contract for the design and development of an electric version of its Long Life Vehicle (LLV).