Enforcement

Information technology provider Indra used the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona to demonstrate its contactless smart card that the company aims to develop into a card that integrates access to all services that require identification, access control or payment. Indra says this will provide increasingly personalised services, whilst offering the convenience of integrating everything into a single medium.

By combining the compact GT20 camera which captures clear images of moving vehicles in all conditions, with its RT3 tracking radar, Gatso says its new T-Series enforcement system offers an enforcement solution platform which can be adapted and expanded to meet future traffic enforcement needs. Specially designed for traffic enforcement, the 20 megapixel CMOS in the GT20 combines speed with sensitivity to deliver high quality image capture at 30 full-resolution frames per second, enabling the system to captu

Robot Nederland, part of Jenoptik's Traffic Solutions division, has recently been awarded a contract to deliver up to 225 mobile speed enforcement systems to police forces in the Netherlands. The contract is for Jenoptik’s Multanova MultaRadar CD mobile speed enforcement system. The system uses a radar sensor which Jenoptik says is capable of capturing high resolution images of offending vehicles regardless of time of day or weather conditions. The contract is for tripod-mounted systems and both front and

Navtech Radar and Vysionics ITS are to enter into a strategic partnership that will combine Navtech’s expertise in millimetre-wave wide-area surveillance technology with Vysionics’ machine vision-based Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and average speed measurement competencies.Navtech Radar and Vysionics ITS are to enter into a strategic partnership that will combine Navtech’s expertise in millimetre-wave wide-area surveillance technology with Vysionics’ machine vision-based Automatic Number Plate

What price can be put on the value of a life? How much should be spent on preventing untimely deaths? Difficult questions such as these help to put the comparatively small costs of ITS systems into context. While monetary analysis may seem cold and inhumane in consideration of road casualties, death and costly clear-up are often the stark reality transportation authorities are dealing with. This issue of ITS International contains numerous examples of large benefits to be gained from relatively modest inves