Kapsch has opened a branch office in London to represent its CarrierCom and TrafficCom businesses.
The company is a technology supplier to Transport for London’s congestion charging scheme as well as providing Network Rail with GSM-R communications and digital radio communications for the Tyne and Wear Metro. Kapsch TrafficCom is also working with Highways England (and its Dutch equivalent, Rijkswaterstaat) on what it said will be Europe’s most advanced integrated traffic management systems.
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Q-Free’s Whitney Nottage talks to Adam Hill about the importance of getting youngsters enthused about engineering – and about how the ITS sector could do with more collaboration
The European GINA project is intended to address and overcome many of the institutional, technical and public acceptance hurdles currently faced by satellite-based road user charging schemes. Dave Tindall and Denis Naberezhnykh, TRL, and Laure Dezes, ERF, write. Pay-as-you-drive Road User Charging (RUC), whereby demand (or congestion) is managed by applying appropriate tariffs in order to encourage drivers to make their journeys at less busy times, on less congested routes or even on different modes, could
