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The city of Temecula in California has approved McCain as the sole supplier for its citywide adaptive traffic signal synchronisation system.

Transmission specialist Zeroshift has devised a multi-speed gearbox for electric vehicles (EVs) that needs no clutch.

The QU Wireless Innovations Centre (QUWIC), and Mowasalat “Karwa”, a provider of public transportation solutions and services owned by the government of Qatar, have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreement for Collaborating on Advanced Technologies for Intelligent Traffic Monitoring System (ITMS) and applications.

URS has been awarded a contract by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) to provide operations and support services for transportation management centres (TMC) statewide.

This weekend, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) maintenance crews plan to install Astucia SolarLite solar-powered road studs as part of a test project on the centerline of a stretch of SR 530 which has a history of run-off-the-road collisions.

Sensys Networks has announced the award of patent number 7,739,000 entitled “Method and Apparatus Reporting a Vehicular Sensor Waveform in a Wireless Vehicular Sensor Network.”

Sweden-based truck manufacturer Scania has created a division in Brazil especially for Bus Rapid Transit systems.

Motorway lighting along a section of the M6 in Lancashire in the UK will be switched off between midnight and 5am in a move to reduce energy costs, carbon emissions, and light pollution, the Highways Agency has announced.

INIT Innovations in Transportation has signed a contract with San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) to equip 65 light rail vehicles with INIT’s advanced transportation technology.

HCL Security, a subsidiary of HCL Infosystems, a leading Indian systems integration company, has chosen Barco to be the visualisation partner in a prestigious project to set up a new C4i (Command, Control, Communication, Computing and Intelligence) centre in Delhi.

UK-headquartered Traffic Safety Systems (TSS), part of AD Group, has delivered a multi-million dollar in-vehicle CCTV order to the Romanian Police for 449 of its state-of-the-art Radar Autovision systems.

IMS Research, which has just released a report that it says identifies the key market opportunities for ITS product development in each of the 50 individual states and major cities across the US, predicts states will spend a combined US$1.4 billion on ITS during 2010.

AMG Systems is launching a new comprehensive training programme which has a wider approach to transmission systems for security and surveillance applications.

TrafficLand, which claims to be the largest authorised aggregator of live traffic video in the US, has launched its live traffic video service in Miami, Florida.

The future tramway line and bus network in the French city of Angers will be equipped with a ticketing system supplied by Parkeon.