Parking & Access Control

Jo Versavel, Managing Director of Traficon, talks about near-term trends in video camera systems. Jo Versavel starts by making one thing clear: long-term forecasts as to what the future holds for video-based traffic monitoring are to all intents and purposes meaningless. The state of the art is developing so fast that in reality it's impossible to say where we'll be in 10 years' time, says the Managing Director of Traficon. In his opinion making firm predictions even five years out is too ambitious, whereas

IPS Group, a San Diego-based high-tech parking meter company, has announced the completion of the installation of 10,000 new coin and credit-card parking meters throughout the city of Los Angeles.

Jon Taylor of Faber Maunsell and Tabatha Bailey of Transport for London describe how an unusual mix of traffic practitioners, researchers and industry are working together to build new tools for the future. As we face higher expectations for managing congestion from both citizens and politicians, and as more and more data is becoming available from new sources, our traffic management challenge is changing.

Although urban traffic control and parking management are inextricably linked in so many ways, there remain fundamental differences which undermine closer integration. Car parking guidance systems can have a significant, positive impact on congestion in town and city centres, however conflicting business models still stand in the way of the more profound integration of car parking management and Urban Traffic Control (UTC) systems.

Traffic Technology is launching the iSight CSS (Cycle Safety System), which detects cyclists in mixed traffic to provide advance warning to motorists of the cyclist's presence. The event will also be the opportunity for the company to introduce the Datacollector, which provides fast and easy data communication with the SID Speed Indicator Display.