Sigura components for ITS expansion
Temple, a regional systems distributor based in Alabama, USA has awarded Optelecom-NKF a US$503,000 contract for Siqura 9000 series fibre components to support the expansion of South Carolina Department of Transportation’s intelligent transport system to remote areas of the state.
Changes needed to Italy's enforcement tendering?
Fixed penalty notices KRIA's co-founder and President Stefano Arrighetti discusses the events which led up to investigations into the fraudulent use of his company's T-RED red light enforcement system and his house arrest. Looking forward, he says, there needs to be fundamental reform of how Italy goes about the enforcement contract tendering process
High-viz' potholes innovation
Two Milan Polytechnic students, Domenico Diego and Cristina Corradini have designed the ‘Street Safe Initiative’, comprising a brightly coloured layer of asphalt a few centimetres beneath the surface of the road, which becomes visible when the road surface breaks up, making potholes easier to see and avoid.
Land of ITS opportunities
Geographically, Russia, the largest country in the world, is vast. So too are the opportunities for the global ITS community, which is why ITS Russia has been actively promoting the country and the opportunities that abound there. ITS Russia is reaching out around the world. In October, at the 17th ITS World Congress in Busan, South Korea, a cooperative agreement was signed with ITS America to promote and strengthen research, educational, and commercial cooperation in the ITS field among the two association
Scania contract extension for Iteris's LDW systems
Scania, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, has signed a three-year contract extension to continue to offer Iteris’s AutoVue Lane Departure Warning systems as a factory-installed option on its heavy trucks. The contract period began at the end of 2009 and extends through 2012.
Bluetooth speed and travel data collection shows cost savings
Houston TranStar is using Bluetooth sensors to collect speed and travel data in a project which is already demonstrating significant cost savings
Prosilica renamed
Prosilica’s integration into the Allied Vision Technologies group is now complete and it has been incorporated as Allied Vision Technologies Canada.
VISUM goes environmental
To avoid traffic-related pollution, it is important to know the source and amount of pollutants emitted. PTV has developed a new method, which it has integrated into its VISUM transportation planning tool, that calculates all relevant pollutants and therefore enables traffic planners to address environmental issues while using traffic planning tools.
Copenhagen turning parking spaces into EV recharging stations
The City of Copenhagen in Denmark has decided to support use of electric cars by earmarking up to 500 parking places, equipped with charging points, for EVs. The plan also includes reduced parking fees for the vehicles.
Automotive and law enforcement surveillance
The Ganz Automotive line, from CBC America, features leading-edge technology from drive recorders and mobile DVRs to video surveillance mobile cameras and rear view monitoring systems. The company has also recently introduced its new H.264 Mobile DVR and its Armoured Series of Mobile PTZ cameras for command and control vehicles to the range.
Transport and traffic management for major sporting events
Maurizio Tomassini, Isis, and Monica Giannini, Pluservice, detail the STADIUM project, which is intended to provide those responsible for planning major international events with a blueprint for success
EarthCam construction camera software
EarthCam has introduced its new Control Center 7 software designed to provide project managers with smart access to remote webcam technology advances, including streaming HD widescreen with visual charting of essential system performance details. The software provides visually dynamic real-time views of essential solar and wireless system performance, current weather and forecasts. Technical details of wireless connectivity, solar power parameters, fuel cell data, camera location and other critical performa
Data acquisition front-end IC
Austriamicrosystems has announced the AS8510, a high precision data acquisition front-end IC for automotive battery current, voltage, temperature sensing applications. It is also suited to sensor interface applications where precise measurement of small signals close to ground is required.
Nashville passenger info
Affiliated Computer Services, a Xerox Company, has been selected by the Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (Nashville MTA) to design, engineer and install a state-of-the-art passenger information system
New series of Sony block cameras
Sony's latest FCB E-Series of colour block cameras, which cover a variety of features, optical zoom ranges and advanced capabilities including progressive scan imaging, is designed to provide original equipment manufacturers and systems integrators with the right camera for an expanding number of applications including security, intelligent traffic, unmanned vehicles, low vision, inspection and videoconferencing.
LED roadway sign light
Dialight's new StreetSense RS Series LED Roadway Sign Light combines precision optics and the latest in advanced, patent-pending, LED technology to meet the most demanding specification criteria for road sign lighting. Designed to easily replace outdated mercury vapour and metal halide fixtures, the company says the new series' ultra-low power consumption delivers 60-70 per cent energy cost savings over the typical 250+W fixtures commonly used for road sign lighting.
What's next for transport communication systems?
Moxa Americas, Inc.'s Charles Chen ponders the way forward for transportation communications networks in the US
Stop thinking and act on cooperative infrastructures
OmniAir's Tim McGuckin looks at why metropolitan transportation networks might be the key to securing the long-term funding of cooperative infrastructure
DVM-250 now shipping
Digital Ally has begun production of its new DVM-250 Digital Event Recorders, and has also won its first order for 65 of the units from one of the largest ambulance service providers in the United States.
Guardian RWIS
Global weather specialist Vaisala has launched a newly developed non-invasive road weather information system with substantial benefits for road operators. The Guardian Road Weather Information System (RWIS) uses laser spectroscopy to gauge pavement condition during all types of weather. It measures a variety of parameters: amount of accumulated water, frost, ice, slush, snow, and humidity as well as air and pavement temperature. For the first time ever for non-contact sensors, Guardian also derives a measu