Don’t forget to make some time for Emergency Response Day 2015 tomorrow--an annual event at the ITS America Annual Meeting and Expo since 2011. Conference attendees will have the ability to engage with emergency responders as they act out a Traffic Incident Management (TIM) scenario, complete with a planning meeting, training, a staged incident and after-action review. Local first responders will participate, including firefighters, police, tow vehicles and traffic management engineers from Allegheny County
Scope Technologies and specialist technology Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia, have partnered to develop Smart Cities technology which they say will help municipalities and major cities identify dangerous infrastructure-related driving areas. The technology collects billions of data sets per day through a range of telemetry, including comprehensive geographical and road infrastructure data in conjunction with traffic, weather and road accident data. By behavioural elements in the way people drive, tr
Every time you drive by a vehicle monitoring system, chances are it’s from Metrocount – systems which are on display at this week’s ITS World Congress in Melbourne. For close to 20 years, Australian company Metrocount, has been developing advanced traffic survey systems and exporting them around the globe. Its multi-award winning system has remained customerfocused, with feedback from road managers incorporated in updates to ensure the system continues to deliver useful traffic information.
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The European Transport Conference (ETC) is the annual conference of the Association for European Transport, attracting transport policy makers, practitioners and researchers from all over Europe and beyond. ETC offers in-depth presentations on policy issues, best practice and research findings across the broad spectrum of transport. ETC also provides an opportunity where delegates can enjoy networking opportunities, participate in technical visits, and explore the exhibition.
