Urban Traffic Control

Gridsmart release Streetsmart to display real-time analytics

February 9, 2018

Gridsmart’s StreetSmart provides traffic travel time and real-time congestion analytics for traffic managers and provides them with the ability to adjust traffic flow strategies for current conditions. It uses Wi-Fi to stream real-time traffic performance data and by collecting travel time, congestion, mapping and origin destination data it creates a timing plan to reduce congestion. The web interface analyses and archives data to identify trends and analyse changes.

Barco launces new platform for the LCD video wall market

February 9, 2018

Barco Unisee is an LCD video wall with a single uniform view designed to provide faster installation, easier servicing and increased reliability. It has been designed for control rooms, corporate lobbies, experience centres, brand showrooms and meeting rooms. The bezel-less LCD video wall offers an uninterrupted viewing experience as well as higher colour and brightness uniformity both inside the display and over the entire wall. In addition, its new mounting structure eases installation, servicing, and

ISS introduces wrong way detection system

February 9, 2018

Image Sensing Systems (ISS) has added a wrong way detection and notification system designed to alert drivers travelling the wrong way along on-ramps. The Automatic Incident Detection (AID) wrong way alerting solution can detect multiple lanes of traffic using a single camera and provides accurate detection and fast notification to help improve the safety performance of roadways. The system uses high-definition video stream from ISS’ patented RTMS Sx-300 HDCAM radar product, providing radar-based data

Houston Radar releases speedlane for detecting lane, speed and class of vehicles

February 9, 2018

Houston Radar has released its low power side-fire radar, SpeedLane. It has been designed with the intention of detecting lane, speed and class of individual vehicles and compute per-lane volume, occupancy, gap, average speed, 85th percentile and headway parameters. The device can be mounted on the side of the road for traffic data collection and works in all weather and lighting conditions. Additionally, it measures all vehicles in eight user defined lanes and all traffic measurements are on per-vehicle

Auckland Airport improves city-to-gate passenger flow via BlipTrack

February 9, 2018

Beca’s BlipTrack solution has been extended across Auckland Airport’s road infrastructure to help manage both passenger and traffic flow. The solution is designed with the intention of measuring traffic between the Central Business District (CBD) and the airport, delivering real-time data on reliability, vehicle counts and travel time. BlipTrack provides data about the mix of staff and passengers using Park and Ride facility to help the airport to better understand the performance and regularly review

BKT partners with Stage Intelligence on Bike Share Scheme in Mexico

February 9, 2018

Central American Bike Share operator BKT bicipública (BKT) has chosen London-based Stage Intelligence (Stage) to deploy its artificial intelligence (AI) based Bike Share management platform to help optimize rider experience in Guadalajara, Mexico. Called Bico, the system is intended to enable BKT to distribute cycles efficiently and provide riders with bikes and docks when and where they need them.

Dundee launches call for real-world testing of transport technology

February 8, 2018

Dundee City Council has launched a call of almost £1m ($1.3m) on behalf of the city’s Mobility Innovation Living Laboratory, which is looking for new products, services and business models that can be trialled using the city as a test-bed. The request is part of a joint venture to create and bring together smart mobility knowledge with a deadline for submissions on the 2 March 2018. Proposals are sought into five lots which include advanced mobility services for the public; advanced fleet services

ITS World Congress 2019’s Expression of Interest deadline 28 February

February 8, 2018

The Expression of Interest Demonstrations deadline for ITS World Congress 2019 has been confirmed for the 28 February 2018. The event will provide exhibitors with an opportunity to showcase their products and solutions to over 10,000 ITS professionals, decision makers, government officials and media from the 21-25 October 2019, at the Suntec Singapore Exhibition & Convention Centre. Demonstration themes include Connected & Automated Vehicles; Crowdsourcing & Big Data Analytics; Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

Indra integrates expertise in UITP agreement to improve mobility

February 8, 2018

Indra has joined the International Union of Public Transport (UITP), with the intention of using its technology and experience to improve urban and interurban mobility. The adhesion agreement was signed in Brussels by Berta Barrero, head of transportation department at Indra, Pere Calvet, president of the UITP, and Mohamed Mezghani, general secretary of the association.

Eneo includes junction box in bullet camera range

February 5, 2018

Eneo has added an integrated junction box into the mounting brackets of three of its Candid Bullet cameras. The solution is said to help reduce installation costs by simplifying and speeding up the fitting process. These models are said to offer high-performance and provide high-quality, video images, even in low light conditions. The available range includes the small Candid, 2MP, IP bullet (ICB-62M2712M0A); the medium sized, 3MP, IP bullet, with WiFi set-up interface (ICB-73M2712MWA); and the medium size