As part of a previously announced strategy to strengthen its parking and electro-mobility businesses which it says is a key investment focus, Austrian traffic technology group Swarco has announced a restructuring of its UK business and a series of new appointments.
The company has created a new parking and e-mobility division comprising APT SkiData, Veri-park, Evolt and APT Security Systems, to be led by Sean Dunstan, the former managing director of APT SkiData, who now assumes a much wider group role.
Chicago is installing automated enforcement after pilot schemes indicated that one in 10 motorists exceed the speed limits in Children’s Safety Zones. Each year in Chicago there are around 3,000 incidents of pedestrians being struck by a motor vehicle - and about 800 of those casualties are children. In an effort to improve child safety the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) has established Children’s Safety Zones around schools and other areas where children congregate. These zones allow the impos
From September and following a successful pilot, Vienna’s parking permit will be replaced by Schreiner PrinTrust’s RFID electronic parking permit.
Developed by Schreiner PrinTrust in collaboration with city officials, the new RFID parking permit for on-street parking, the new tag is attached to the vehicle’s windscreen. It has an embedded driver identification number and can be valid for multiple permits and used in different districts of the city.
Parking inspectors check the permits using handheld R
Following a pilot project, the city of Verona in Italy has integrated Nedap’s Sensit wireless parking sensors with Wes Park software from Project Automation in a bid to manage parking in the city’s narrow streets.
By introducing Nedap’s Sensit sensors, which improve utilisation of the city’s existing parking spaces, AMT, the service company managing the Verona Urban Parking Plan is now able to optimise parking.
The system consists of wireless parking sensors that detect in real-time whether or not a s
