Urban Traffic Control

Neavia Technologies is launching WebVia Mobile, an innovative new tool that expands the capabilities of its traffic management software. It provides alarms and pictures in real time so that traffic managers not actually in the traffic management centre control room can check and qualify road traffic events when they happen in real time and react more quickly. Not only that, variable message signs can be activated directly from the smart phone. Thanks to alarm triggered phone calls, SMS, MMS or emails, WebVi

McCain has released a new major version upgrade to the QuicNet Pro 2.0 central control software, an advanced software system that provides traffic control from a central location. It allows entire transportation networks to be monitored and optimised from a single platform and currently operates in over 40,000 intersections worldwide. Enhancements to the latest release include extensive 24/7 data collection and easy-to-read charts, allowing quick identification of trends, resulting in cost reduction and imp

Although much of the emphasis of research into intersection management has tended to concentrate on the needs of urban locations, there remain specific issues pertaining to rural intersections which need to be addressed. Here, Rebecca Szymkowski and Greg Helgeson, Wisconsin DOT, Todd Szymkowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Craig Shankwitz and Arvind Menon, University of Minnesota detail progress on an intersection collision avoidance system for more remote locations.

Pete Goldin reports on a new wireless, solar-powered traffic detection system being used by Caltrans District 12. As more and more traffic data is necessary to satisfy the needs of traffic management centres and traveller information systems, and as traffic detection technology becomes more ubiquitous, transportation authorities are pressured to find more economical ways of expanding their detection systems. Caltrans District 12 is leading this push by deploying the latest detection system from Case Global

Istanbul-headquartered Isbak, a specialist in traffic management and electronic payment systems, has launched Wait'n Fun, an innovative variable message sign designed for mounting on traffic lights to communicate traffic information, speed limits, weather information, commercials, traffic light countdowns and so on.

Cisco's Paul Brubaker, former administrator of the US Department of Transportation's (USDOT's) Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), takes a look at how the ITS sector is starting to attract the attention of major corporations and what this will mean for intelligent transportation in the coming years

The US is losing its advantage in the ITS sector because of a lack of strategic leadership, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Here, Stephen Ezell, one of the report's authors, talks to ITS International about what can be done to remedy the situation. A new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Explaining International IT Leadership: Intelligent Transportation Systems, makes for sobering reading within the US ITS community.

In a unique and hard-hitting speed reduction initiative, primary schoolchildren across Carmarthenshire, in Wales, have been targeting drivers who drive too fast near their schools.