A series of road tunnels is taking shape to help relieve Istanbul from crippling road congestion, with an extensive array of safety and management systems operating from a single ITS platform. Nino Sehagic reports. Traffic in Istanbul has historically been described simply as jammed. Severe congestion and chaotic use of available road space are characteristics of a city of more than one and a half million cars. Istanbul’s existing road network could not cope and was in urgent need of expansion, leading the
Panasonic Corporation of North America and TransitScreen have today announced a strategic alliance to bring advanced IoT applications to smart cities around the US, with the aim of providing city residents and visitors with real-time transit and transportation information to enable more informed commuting and travel decisions.
Colin Sowman considers some of the latest advances in camera technology and transport-related
vision technology applications. Vision technology in the transportation sector is moving apace as technical developments on both the hardware and software sides combine to make cameras more multifunctional with a single digital camera now able to cover a multitude of tasks.
Flir’s open architecture video detection management software, Flux, enables users to scale the system to their own requirements, says the company.
Flux is an intelligent software platform for use with a Flir video detection system. It collects traffic data, events, alarms and video images generated by the video detectors, to manage and control all traffic information generated by multiple detectors and provide the user with meaningful and relevant data.
The user-friendly web-based graphical user inter
