A smart parking solution can ease pain for drivers and increase efficiency for local authorities - and New Zealand’s capital is feeling the benefit. Adam Hill reports. ITS technology has the power to ease headaches for local authorities and car drivers alike when it comes to parking. For urban dwellers, few things are more irritating than driving slowly around crowded city centre streets, anxiously searching for a parking space – indeed, in congested downtown areas, as much as 30% of traffic can be driving
Amsterdam’s authorities have announced that most municipality vehicles must be zero-emission by 2025 - followed by all other vehicles in the city 2030.
The Dutch city says the municipality owns around 1,500 vehicles, which account for around 4% of all road traffic emissions in Amsterdam.
As part of the plan, the city will aim to convert all its cars and small cars and delivery vans to zero-emission as early as 2022. Street-sweeping and cleaning trucks and other medium-sized vehicles will follow in 202
The Netherlands aims to lead Europe, and the world, in the area of cooperative ITS and smart mobility. That’s not an aspiration – it’s a necessity as Frans op de Beek, principal advisor for traffic management and ITS within the Rijkswaterstaat, the Ministry for Infrastructure and the Environment, explains.
Houston Radar has been awarded the 2016 Intertraffic Innovation Award in the Traffic Management category.
The winning combination of Houston Radar's SpeedLane radar and Tetryon cloud server provides a fully integrated, ultra-low power, end-to-end traffic data collection and visualization platform. The system allows cities and communities to access their live traffic data anywhere, anytime, online.
SpeedLane features two side-fire radars, a HD video camera, penta-band worldwide modem, GPS locator, MPPT
