Intertraffic Amsterdam 2016 will see Smart Parking showcase SmartPark, the company’s proven, robust, accurate and cost-effective solution to ensure that road users can easily find unoccupied parking in on- and off-street locations. The company says SmartPark has already been deployed in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Costa Rica, with pilots also underway or planned for capitals and key cities across Europe.
Swarco has installed a new dynamic parking guidance system in the city of Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany, in an effort to achieve a more efficient usage of the existing parking facilities in the city.
Eight parking lots are integrated into the system, which features an open parking capability to detect vehicles entering and leaving cars via video technology. The system also includes 29 LCD variable message signs (VMS), five of which feature two-line information displays to display local event information.
The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded £2 million to develop a national health-check of road markings.
The DfT is to analyse nearly 10,000 miles of road with the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) to understand where investment is needed. The council will use Gaist’s machine learning artificial intelligence technology to review close to 150 million high definition images.
Stu McInroy, chief executive of the Road Safety Markings Association, believes the study will provide “ha
