Contactless technology, the ability to tap your bank issued card or enabled mobile device to make a payment, has brought speed and simplicity to the in-store shopping experience. Doug Howe explains how innovations, like Contactless, in the mobile and banking industries have the potential to transform public transportation.
Q Why is public transportation ripe for transformation?
A Today, more than half the world’s population lives in cities; that’s a figure set to increase to 70% by 2050. International
Melbourne is to host a world first demonstration of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) during the 23rd World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, 10-14 October.
For the first time, multiple devices from multiple suppliers will come together to talk to live traffic signals on a major street in the heart of Melbourne, to showcase interoperability of V2V and V2X at live intersections.
World Congress demonstration partners - CO-GISTICS, Cohda Wireless, Kapsch, NXP, Q-Free and Robert
As part of the 23rd ITS World Congress to be held in Melbourne, Australia in 2016, event host Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Australia initiated a scholarship program for students in the Asia Pacific region and an ITS Future Innovators Club to foster young ITS professionals.
The ten scholarship winners represent nations in the Asia Pacific region and were announced at the recent Asia Pacific Forum in Nanjing. ITS Australia congratulates these winners and acknowledges the contribution of each ITS as
Anglo-Australian parking technology supplier Smart Parking has been awarded the contract by Hobart City Council to implement its vehicle detection sensor solution in Tasmania’s capital city, in partnership with Australian Parking and Revenue Control (APARC). Over the last 12 months, Hobart City Council has begun to formulate and introduce state-of-the-art Smart City solutions. The city’s smart parking solution comprises of Parkeon seven-inch colour screen parking meters, integrated enforcement, sensors, a m
