Jason Barnes reports from the ASECAP Days 2013 event, which took place in Dubrovnik. ASECAP, the European tolling association held its 41st annual Study and Information Days event in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which attracted more than 200 figures from the road infrastructure sector in Europe and beyond. A series of presentations over two days brought attendees up to date with developments in a variety of policy and technology fields and discussed a number of developing and new topics, such as GNSS-based tolling a
In the wake of the European Parliament’s approval of the mandatory installation of automatic emergency phones in all cars and vans by 2015, the Irish Times says Ireland’s National Roads Authority (NRA) is to deploy a range of intelligent transport systems to improve travel times, warn drivers of weather, dangers and delays ahead and automatically notify emergency services in the event of crashes or even the potential for crashes.
The NRA has developed a motorway traffic control centre, based at the Dubli
Sick will be in Hamburg to highlight its wide range of sensors and sensor system solutions for road and rail infrastructure with particular emphasis on lidar-based sensors/systems and air quality measurement devices for tunnels. Also to be featured will be the company’s light curtains and lidar sensors and systems for traffic profiling. These measure, detect, classify, count, check vehicles, and monitor other (vulnerable) road users in 3D. They determine the number of axles on trucks for vehicle classification and measure vehicle dimensions to address loading errors.
