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The Central Office of the Florida Department of Transportation has selected infrastructure firm HNTB Corporation for a three-year automated vehicle support contract. HNTB will support FDOT by working directly with auto manufacturers, related original equipment manufacturers and suppliers on pilot projects, working with universities on automated vehicle research projects, and developing policy to move forward with application testing. “Florida is one of a handful of states leading the way toward a futu

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US claim to have found a solution to delays caused by traffic signals. They estimate that replacing physical traffic signals with virtual traffic signals could reduce urban commute times by 40 per cent. Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Ozan Tonguz’s research on virtual traffic lights uses connected vehicle technology, enabling vehicles to manage traffic control without infrastructure based traffic lights. Using the technology, virtua

The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) is to host a free webinar to inform stakeholders of its new Connected Cities Research Program. The webinar, ‘Creating Smart Paths for Connected Cities’, is scheduled for 26 February 2015, from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm EST. The webinar follows the release of the ITS JPO white paper, The Smart/Connected City and its Implications for Connected Transportation, which will provide a foundation for the discussion.

Google has begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers and has assembled a team of traditional and non-traditional suppliers to speed up efforts to bring self-driving cars to market by 2020, a top Google executive has said. Those manufacturers are said to include General Motors, Ford Motor, Toyota, Daimler and Volkswagen. "We'd be remiss not to talk to ... the biggest auto manufacturers. They've got a lot to offer," Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, said in an

The main findings and recommendations of the INTERREG IVC co-funded POSSE project are summarised in several reports, the POSSE Good Practice Guide to developing and implementing OSS and the POSSE Exploitation Plan, both of which were published towards the end of 2014. The three years of discussion and knowledge-sharing on Open Specifications and Standards (OSS) for urban ITS in Europe have been very beneficial to all partners; a key finding of the project is that the diversity of Europe, notably its in

According to citymetric.com, Copenhagen is a haven for cyclists. They have a special orange cycling bridge over the harbour and everything from mail to Christmas trees is delivered by cycle. In the city there are more cycles than people, while a traffic system encourages the residents to cycle, with the promise of a stop-free ride into the city. It's all thanks to a traffic management system known as the Green Wave, which operates at peak times. Traffic signage is timed such that, if a cyclist travels at

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) has teamed up with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to undertake a four-year project to test connected vehicle technology on a portion of I35 in the state. Funded by a US Department of Transportation (USDOT) grant, the US$2 million project, called I-35 Connected Work Zone, will initially focus on improving freight movement along the construction corridor by providing long-haul trucks a steady stream of traveller information through on-board devices c

In the US, Q-Free Open Roads has begun the year with an order for advanced transportation management systems (ATMS) valued at US$1.5 million from West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH). “We are proud to see WVDOH continues to retain Q-Free Open Roads, which deployed the initial state-wide ATMS, the backbone of the West Virginia ITS program, in 2008,” says Q-Free CEO Thomas Falck. The collaboration between Q-Free Open Roads and WVDOH has resulted in many successful ITS initiatives West Virginia, i

Econolite Group has appointed Mark Nogaki as its vice president of sales, responsible for the company’s worldwide sales program, reporting directly to Econolite Group president and COO David St Amant. Nogaki will be responsible for driving Econolite’s domestic and international sales programs to the next level. His track record with companies such as Toshiba, Raytheon, Cambio Technologies and ClosingCorp will be vital in helping Econolite identify and realise key business development objectives to meet t

The High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh, represented by Arriyadh Development Authority, has awarded a significant contract to Trapeze Group, a division of Constellation Software's wholly-owned subsidiary, Volaris Group, for the provision of a comprehensive intelligent transportation system (ITS). The ITS solution for Riyadh is designed to help to improve the efficiency of both fixed-route and flexible public transport services in the area and includes automated vehicle management and real-ti