Detroit was once a byword for urban decay – but ITS America recently held its annual meeting there. This gave David Arminas a chance to assess how fast Motor City is moving down the road to recovery. Motor City, as Detroit is still called, was on its financial knees only five short years ago. The future looked bleak as the city and greater urban area bled jobs and population. It was on 18 July 2013 that Motown, as Detroit is also known, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, the
Adaptive Display Solutions has announced that it has supplied a new generation of LED traffic signs to Virginia Department of Transportation (VDoT). The company supplied its 8700 Series 9 Rows x 18 columns signs that could house the NTCIP controller, redundant power supplies, and wireless communication modem with easy access from the front of the sign for servicing.
For German company Traffic Lines, Intertraffic Amsterdam will be the first international exhibition it has participated at. The company was founded to focus on developing road marking removal technology against a background where many conventional techniques often do not produce the desired results and cause substantial damage to the road surface.
Austrian company, Commend International, a specialist in security and communication solutions for parking and mass transit systems, will use Intertraffic Amsterdam 2014 to unveil the NoVento Wind Guard.
The company says the device is an ingeniously simple solution to combat sound distortion caused by wind in help phone call connections at roadsides, toll gates, pay points, etc. A microphone attachment with a brush-like shape, the No Vento is precision crafted to dissipate noise causing wind swirls. Comme
