David Crawford reports on an urban electronic nervous system. The northern Spanish city of Santander – historically a port - is now an emerging technology showcase attracting global attention as a prototype for a medium-sized smart city of the future. In a move to determine the optimal use of available data, it is creating a de-facto experimental laboratory for sensor and mobile phone-based urban traffic management and environmental monitoring innovations.
Time is running out for submissions to the ITS European Congress in Brainport, Netherlands, in June.
ITS experts have until 11 January to submit special interest Sessions proposals and papers to be considered for presentation and publication at the event.
Experts are invited to share ideas and discuss mobility challenges that cities face and how they can be addressed through ITS solutions.
Draft papers should be a minimum of five pages for technical and commercial topics, and nine pages for scient
Delegates at this year’s ITS World Congress in Singapore will be able to experience Mobility as a Service for themselves in the form of MobilityX’s Zipster app
French public transit operator RATP has signed an agreement to trial a hydrogen bus from Solaris in real operating conditions in France next year.
The two-month trial is part of RATP’s ambition to convert its 25 bus depots to electric and biogas by 2025 and to operate a clean bus fleet of 4,700 vehicles.
RATP says the Solaris bus will be housed at the Thiais bus depot in the Val-de-Marne department, located south-east of Paris.
