As research and trials show the benefits of average speed enforcement - David Crawford reviews developments on two continents.
August 2013 saw the switch on of the Australian State of Victoria’s latest combined point-to-point (P2P) average speed enforcement (ASE) and spot camera control system. Installed on the 27km Peninsula Link to the south-east of Melbourne, the system uses high-resolution automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras and optical character recognition (OCR) technology developed b
The United States Department of Transportation ITS Joint Program Office and the European Commission Information Society and Media Information, Communication, and Technology Unit, which have been working together on mutual ITS challenges and opportunities related to connected vehicles, will create a showcase to share their joint work at the ITS World Congress in Vienna, October 22-26, 2012.
Euro NCAP has revealed its 2025 Roadmap for car safety, highlighting child presence detection (CPD) systems as essential technology. Both the US and Europe are pushing to make CPD systems mandatory in new vehicles to prevent tragic accidents involving children.
Aisin Corporation is here to showcase its CPD system which uses advanced radar technology to detect people, even with minimal movement. The system employs a single multifunctional millimetre-wave sensor to monitor the vehicle’s interior, detecting infants or children left behind and alerting the vehicle’s user.
