The administration of Jakarta City, Indonesia will introduce an electronic road pricing (ERP) system as part of efforts to reduce traffic congestion by discouraging private vehicle use. Under the plan, several areas of the city will be designated as ERP areas and a toll payment is to be imposed on vehicles passing through the areas.
The ERP system to be implemented by January-March 2014 will require vehicles to have special hologram stickers.
Merge, a technology from Xerox provides municipalities with a central management system to manage parking operations, integrating hardware and software to provide real-time information about coin collections, meter maintenance, enforcement and occupancy by applying real-time data to solve parking issues. According to Xerox, Merge is the first system to fully integrate and provide analytics on all aspects of metered and off-street parking programs. Merge is built on an open architecture platform that enables
Czech company Camea will use the ITS World Congress to present its UnicamWIM, high speed weigh-in-motion system. A complete turnkey solution for variety of weigh-in-motion applications, from high quality traffic reports and statistics to sophisticated enforcement systems, the system enables pre-selection of potentially overloaded vehicles which can then be sent for precise weighing without having any impact on a traffic flow. Camea points out that the system, which has been type-approved for use in the Czec
Singapore has the third-highest population density in the world and the numbers are continuing to grow. The government knows that transit is vital: David Crawford investigates the city state’s Smart Nation strategy.
Transport is the most important of the five domains identified as the pillars of Singapore's far-reaching Smart Nation strategy, launched in November 2014 by prime minister Lee Hsien Loong with the aim of reaching fulfilment by 2024. Roads account for 12% of the island republic's 719km2 land ar
