Traffic safety researchers at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) and SLR Engineering have launched a tool that aims to evaluate the safety of pedestrian crossings and make them comparable as part of a research project. The platform is intended to be especially useful for children and adolescents making their way to school safely. Called AIT Mobility Observation Box, the solution assesses crossings to help provide a basis for targeted improvement actions and for determining where the risk to
Italian company Intertraff is here at ITS America 2016 San Jose to present a radically new mobile speed enforcement camera, the D-cop Mobile, to the US market and also to find a reliable distributor for the product in the US. The device, which combines a compact, tripod-mounted speed camera with multi-lane radar is claimed to be a first.
“Tripod-mounted systems have been popular with police forces around the world for many years but they have either been limited to one lane for enforcement, or multilane
Schneider Electrics is to implement its smart mobility management platform in Ecuador’s capital city, Quito. The contract, part of the range of initiatives being developed in the city, was awarded by the Metropolitan Public Mobility and Public Works Company (EPMMOP) and will provide integrated management and coordination of the city’s mobility. Schneider Electric’s SmartMobility ICM platform will allow municipal agents to coordinate the management of the city traffic, video surveillance system, and travell
Get ready for an industry-changing announcement on the Siemens stand at 2pm this afternoon. Until then, the company is being tight-lipped about what will be unveiled, but what is promised is “a ground-breaking Siemens innovation, which will change the rules of the game in urban traffic control”.
