Kapsch TrafficCom Australia Pty Ltd announced at the ITS World Congress that it had reached agreement with Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) in New South Wales, for the supply of electronic transponders. Over a potential five-year period, the contract has an approximate value of AUS$24 million (15 million EUR).
Julián Núñez, immediate past president of ASECAP, gets his teeth into the vision of a European strategy for toll roads. David Arminas reports from Madrid. Getting European politicians to agree to a long-term cross-border highway infrastructure programme for toll roads is extremely difficult. It’s a bit like pulling teeth: people want to avoid the pain. But pain is something that Spanish operators, including Abertis, OHL, ACS, FCC and Acciona, have been going through for the past decade. The country has
The future of mobility is a complex and changing topic. The IBTTA’s Bill Cramer finds the tolling industry is asking new questions – and finding some surprising new answers
TM 2.0 views connected vehicles and V2I as two-way communications channels, benefitting traffic management and drivers, as Alan Dron discovers.
As connected vehicles are progressively rolled out there will come a point at which traffic managers and traffic management centres (TMCs) will have to gear up to cope with a rapidly-evolving road scenario.
The TM 2.0 Platform (see box) is promoting a concept of new-generation traffic management (which carries the same TM 2.0 title) and is studying how future T
