Ticketing specialist Masabi’s Justride mobile ticketing platform is to be incorporated into Japan’s transit market.
The deal sees Japanese trip planner Jorudan integrating Justride into its transit apps.
The firm will also use the Justride external orders API to deliver tickets to users’ smartphones when purchased through Jorudan’s transit search and travel planner websites.
“The problems that mobile ticketing solves are universal, with transit operators from Kyoto to Kettering wishing to speed up
Seamless multi-modal traveller information services are becoming reality in the Danube Region. On 15th of March 2013, a Hungarian national holiday of which many people were unaware, unexpected extreme winter weather paralysed Hungary as well as large parts of Slovakia. Several thousand people were stranded on the region’s highways and the railways incurred delays of several hours. Not only did the transport system in the affected regions break down, the information flow to neighbouring countries was very sl
A new study by automotive company Continental finds a clear majority of motorists would welcome automated driving.
The Continental Mobility Study 2013 indicates that 79 per cent of drivers in China, 77 per cent in Japan, 53 per cent in Germany, and 50 per cent in the US realise the benefit of automated driving. When asked about their individual intentions for using the technology, drivers specified they would primarily like to be driven through freeway roadworks and congestion and long freeway stretches.
The Virginia Automated Corridors, a new initiative that its developers claim will revolutionise the development and deployment of automated vehicles, has been unveiled on more than 70 miles of interstates and arterial roads in the Northern Virginia region.
The Corridors were established by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in partnership with the Virginia Department of Transportation; the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles; Transurban; and Here, Nokia’s mapping business in support of the tran
