Swarco Traffic has appointed Tony Logan as sales manager to support the roll-out of Smart City Messenger, its next-generation of mobile variable message signs (VMS).
Logan has particular expertise in the VMS market, having recently led the development and delivery of a broad range of traffic design, management and operational maintenance projects.
Smart City Messenger has four central features: the only full colour portable VMS in the UK; a long-lasting fuel cell power unit enables year round unatten
Proving the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, Georg Kapsch, CEO of Kapsch TrafficCom, came to Intertraffic yesterday and challenged attendees with a new vision of how motorists and commercial operators will overcome the competing challenges of congestion, environmental quality and mobility.
Kimley-Horn is displaying a new travel time data collection platform at ITS America in Detroit, showing how crowd-sourced information can fill the gaps on roadway corridors that have little or no communications infrastructure to support remote monitoring. The cloud-based software, called Traction, provides data and analytics for user-defined routes, crowd-sourced travel times and high-level system indicators. The User Trip Module records vehicle travel times in second-by-second intervals - collecting speed,
Italian firm Pilomat is showing off the latest version of its surface-mounted hydraulic road blocker at Intertraffic.
Designed to increase security at access points to residential, commercial and industrial areas, the Road Blocker Surface has been made more functional and safe with “aesthetical and mechanical improvements”, the company says. It is now “compact and easy to integrate into any urban space”.
The first prototype was displayed at the last edition of Intertraffic two years ago. It previously ha
