Swarco Traffic has launched a range of highly reliable mini-signals for towns and cities looking to install street-level signals for bicycle lanes. The first signals are already being installed in the UK on new Cycle Superhighway routes.
The signals use a bespoke LED technology with high light output, low energy consumption and virtually no maintenance.
Canada-based Skymeter Corporation has won the overall 2010 Intertraffic Innovation Award. The company succeeded with its smart road-use device which it has designed to handle a wide range of automotive mobility-related payment needs, including road user charging, parking fees, insurance and carbon metering, as well as reward schemes to encourage differential driving times, carpooling or teleworking.
Research from Johns Hopkins University suggests nearly 700,000 deaths and severe injuries were prevented over eight years in road safety projects which used the International Road Assessment Programme methodology
