The winner of the Best of ITS Awards was announced in a ceremony yesterday, featuring five innovative ITS projects that benefit communities around the US.
High resolution cameras, video motion detection and modems are being fitted to school buses in Maryland, as part of a system designed to enforce and deter stopped-bus overtaking violations. A new video enforcement system is being installed to record drivers illegally overtaking school buses in Frederick County, Maryland. It is against the law to overtake a parked school bus that is loading or unloading students, yet a 2011 survey for the Maryland Department of Education found 7,000 cases of drivers illegall
Just a few years ago, terms such as ‘embedded’ and ‘polarisation’ were buzzwords.
But now they are real and present examples of vision technology in action
– and, Adam Hill finds, the ITS industry is waking up to a number of possible applications
Every aspect of the intelligent transportation systems industry moves quickly – but developments in camera technology change with a rapidity which can appear quite bewildering. And with ITS providers constantly searching for an edge against fierce competitio
