Products

Traficon has unveiled Viewcom/E Max, its latest innovation for the US market. This module performs all primary functions for communication and transmission of traffic data and alarm events issued by VIP vehicle presence detectors. New for this communication module is its more powerful processor, bringing higher computing performance and the addition of MPEG-4 video streaming functionality.

Traficon has announced the TrafiCam Collect-R as a cost-effective and reliable solution that combines the benefits of video detection with state-of-the-art CMOS sensor technology, to collect traffic data, detect queues and emulate or simulate loops on highways and inter-urban roads.

Vitronic's new PoliScanspeed remote camera is designed to overcome typical speed enforcement situations: one direction of travel is covered whilst speeding drivers travelling in the opposite direction evade enforcement; offending motorcyclists are captured from the front and the license plate remains unidentified.

Vitronic has claimed a world first for its next-generation speed enforcement solution that enables police forces to provide fixed and mobile speed enforcement from a single installation. The 'dual-use' housing system consists of LIDAR (laser-based) technology which can capture speeding vehicles on up to three lanes in a single direction.

Nortech International has developed a piezo-based axle detection card which has enabled Idris technology to use alternative sensors for data collection applications.

A few years back, as part of ongoing efforts to better myself, I took to reading the literary classics. I

I like it when an otherwise unremarkable evening turns into something which stays in the mind awhile, and enlivened debate has that habit of planting seeds in the mind which over time grow into thinking with much wider application.

It's long been the case that policy should drive technology and not the other way round.

Back in 1982, the TV series Knight Rider was first aired.

The hit film Jurassic Park took its name from one of the several geological periods or epochs (as they are also known) in which dinosaurs were the dominant land-dwellers.

I'll take a punt that a few months ago not many outside those with some form of business or economics qualification had even heard of John Maynard Keynes and his ideas on governments' interventionist role in stimulating growth and stability.

The new release of PTV MapServer, based on COM, provides updated maps with toll tables and environmental zones which are taken into account during the routing process. The tool also includes new features for routing and logistical optimisation methods and allows users to easily embed digital maps, route calculation or other geo- functionalities.

Welcome to a first edition of ITS International under a new editor - one fully aware of a need to maintain high standards. Jason Barnes is a hard act to follow. Jason remains involved in this magazine, contributing as technical editor with his invaluable knowledge of the ITS industry. I congratulate him on all he has achieved, steering ITS International to being recognised as the sector's leading and most respected title. With a change comes a new perspective, however. Joining as editor with a general but n

Germany-headquartered PTV claims that the current version of map&guide professional sets new standards for green logistics and transports and provides a wide range of additional useful features.

UK-headquartered CATS-i (Covert Asset Tracking Systems for the internet) has announced the CATSi which, the company claims, uses the smallest and lowest-profile components available to create an extremely small and thin GPS, GSM and RF tracking product