Products

UK ticketing payment solutions supplier Metric has partnered with wireless transaction processing solutions provider Apriva in the US to achieve EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) integration and certification. This has allowed Metric to offer an unattended EMV payment solution in the US through local partner Amano McGann.

Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) has been issued a US patent for its Opticom multimode phase selector technology, which allows traffic signal priority control systems to work with both legacy infrared and modern GPS-enabled communication technologies.

Developed for use in Moto GP, the In&Motion vest provides an airbag for all motorcycle riders, which can be worn under any type of jacket and has an integrated back protector.

UK startup Brightspark has developed a USB rechargeable headlight, which it says catches the attention of other road users and aids road safety. The unit attaches to a bicycle’s handlebars with quick release grips and includes a headlight capable of emitting 300 lumens, creating up to 600 lumens of light per pair. Simple to recharge, a lithium ion battery holds charge for approximately five days of typical use.

Dutch RFID and IoT provider Smartrac has launched its latest RFID inlay for public transport applications, the dual frequency pre-laminated inlay. The new product combines a pre-laminated inlay with two secure contactless chips, one working in high frequency and the other in ultra-high frequency (UHF), into a single card.

Nedap has expanded its long-range identification portfolio with an external UHF antenna, an Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) converter and MACE (Mobile Access Control Entities) access cards.

While ITS technology has been developing apace, making travel safer, quicker and more sustainable, changing the public’s travel habits is progressing at a much slower rate. Indeed some would say it hasn’t progressed at all in that once an individual establishes a travel pattern for regular journeys, they do not consider other options and will continue to travel in the same way unless a drastic change occurs. Perhaps Sir Isaac Newton would call it the first law of commuting.

Parknav is an on-street parking solution that navigates drivers in real-time to available on-street parking in metropolitan areas without needing additional hardware. The system utilises a mix of data and crowdsourcing paired with machine learning, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to provide an optimised search route to navigate drivers to the nearest on-street parking space.

Spanish company Ficosa and Panasonic are collaborating on a project to produce a major European vehicle manufacturer with a interior rear-view mirror that allows the automatic payment of motorway tolls.