Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia is increasing the number of its vehicles equipped with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) to enhance road safety and security on Queensland roads.
QPS began trialling ANPR technology in 2012 to boost road policing enforcement and currently has just under 800 authorised ANPR operators across the state.
As of the beginning of July, 60 vehicles have now been equipped with ANPR and assigned to work units including Road Policing Unit (RPU), Tactical Crime
Geneva has become the latest major city to roll out cashless mobile parking payments city-wide. The mobile payment service from parking payments systems supplier, PayByPhone, is now available in all spaces across the city. Drivers can pay for parking via the PayByPhone smartphone app.
The deployment of PayByPhone across Geneva follows a successful year and a half pilot trial that saw the technology used in 500 spaces across the city. After positive feedback from drivers, Fondation des Parkings, the compa
The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) has set out the blueprint for how US$20 billion of government investment in transport will help create the Northern Powerhouse.
The investment aims to make transport better by improving the links, bringing cities closer together and strengthening connections. The blueprint shows how transport links across the north are being transformed by government investment.
Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: “This one nation government is determined to close the e
Six companies have been shortlisted as potential project delivery partners in the US$7.5 billion Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP), which is to be rolled out in stages from 2017. The plan aims to resolve traffic woes in the state, especially on the island. It involves massive infrastructure works and a comprehensive public transport system incorporating light rail transit, trams, buses and catamarans, expanding roads and building new highways. It also includes five new intra-state highways and an undersea
