The European Union has finally agreed to Germany’s plan to introduce road tolls, says EurActiv, despite originally saying that the proposals were discriminatory to foreign drivers and would break EU law.
Germany will now change its road toll law so that it does not discriminate against drivers registered in other EU countries, German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said.
However, the plan has met with opposition from Germany’s neighbours in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark.
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A targeted roadside advertising project for digital signage using big data and deep learning just launched in Tokyo, Japan, by US smart data storage company Cloudian will focus on vehicle recognition and the ability to present relevant display ads by vehicle make and model.
Together with Dentsu, Smart Insight Corporation, and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) Japan, and with support from Intel Japan, the project will conduct, at its first stage, deep learning analysis – artificial intelligence (AI) for recog
ITS Germany used its presence at the June 2016 Europe ITS Congress in Glasgow to make two major announcements from the city of Hamburg, country’s second-largest urban area. First came a formal bid to host the 2021 ITS World Congress; second, the global unveiling of new Roadwork Administration and Decision System (ROADS) software.ROADS has emerged to enable coordination of planned transport construction projects several years before start dates, to minimise impacts on traffic flows when work begins.
Australian enforcement company Redflex has scooped two major orders in the Antipodes.
RedflexPoint-to-point cameras are now providing average speed enforcement on two major carriageways leading into the city of Adelaide, South Australia; in both directions on the 13km stretch of the two-lane Dukes Highway, with a further two on 51km of the dual carriageway Port Wakefield Road.
The cameras installed on Dukes Highway not only monitor traffic in both directions on the two-lane road, they are capture images
