Do you know your Highway Gothic from your Clearview? Neither did we - but this brilliant video from Vox explains why the lettering on US highway signs is evolving...
Transportation technology provider Xerox has signed a contract worth around US$100 million with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to provide customer service and toll operations to the state over the next five years.
Xerox will establish a new customer service operation in Austin, Texas to process a growing base of more than eight million monthly toll transactions while managing over 750,000 accounts. Customer service centre operations include transaction processing, license plate image rev
New plans to allow local councils in Great Britain the freedom to cut down the number of road markings and signs have been announced by Roads Minister Robert Goodwill.
The changes are included in a new consultation which also contains proposals for clearer road markings and new low-level signals for cyclists which will help improve safety on the roads.
US-based software developer CrowdOptic and business and training company Futton are to implement CrowdOptic’s live-streaming solution on smartglasses, complete with license plate recognition, for the Ministry of Traffic in China. In addition, Futton has initiated testing of CrowdOptic’s solution for situational awareness and anomaly detection for use by the Ministry of Traffic and other police departments.
The live-streaming and licence plate recognition capabilities are being deployed on smart glasses,
The UK’s Institution of Civil Engineers has issued its 2014 State of the Nation: Infrastructure report, which focuses on the performance, capacity and condition of the UK's key economic infrastructure networks.
The report finds that the UK approach to delivering and maintaining infrastructure requires attention and recommends that progress made to date should be built upon to ensure that the UK possesses world class infrastructure. It also finds that three sectors – energy, flood management and local tra
