Location Based Systems

Technology developed by Melbourne’s La Trobe University’s Centre for Technology Infusion that aims to reduce or even eliminate accidents at railway level crossings is to be trialled by the Queensland government as part of a $2 million commitment to address safety at rail crossings. The system uses GPS and dedicated short range communications (DSRC) wireless technology to establish a wireless connection between trains and vehicles approaching a railway crossing. The system is designed to detect the possibili

Trimble has extended its Connected Site portfolio with the acquisition of Actronic Holdings of Auckland, New Zealand, a leading provider of weighing technology and payload information systems for construction, aggregates, mining and waste markets. Actronic Technologies’ Loadrite weighing system for wheel loaders, excavators, conveyors and waste collection vehicles adds weight to Trimble’s Connected Site portfolio by adding weight as an element of information collected at the machine. This extended capabilit

A new report from Research and Markets, M2M Communications and Intelligent Transportation Systems - Markets, Standardisation, Technologies, addresses a relatively new trend in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) development - its dependence on the progress in machine to machine (M2M) communications. The report concentrates on specifics of M2M communications and the necessity to design communications technologies that agree with M2M specifics. The M2M industry, standardisation, specifics and markets

Parking information provider Parkopedia has been selected as a parking information provider to the BMW Group. Parkopedia will be providing BMW with access to its knowledge base of over 26,000 parking facilities in North America, 42,000 in Europe and dynamic space availability in over 300 cities. Commenting on the deal, Parkopedia's CEO Eugene Tsyrklevich said, "We are extremely excited and honoured to work with such a renowned and well respected company such as BMW. In the era of the connected car, driver a

Two Competitiveness & Innovation Program (CIP) projects, Cosmo and Compass4D, met in a joint workshop at the 9th European ITS Congress in Dublin where partners discussed the deployment of cooperative systems in European cities. Both projects demonstrate the benefits of cooperative mobility services in realistic conditions and quantify their impact on increasing energy efficiency in transport. As the Cosmo project comes to a close, Compass4D is beginning and can benefit from Cosmo’s best practices and lesso

A jury of six telematics experts from across the industry selected WirelessCar as the Best Telematics Product or Service Launch in an Emerging Market (BRIC Region) and recognised Martin Rosell, managing director of WirelessCar, who received the Telematics Leadership Award. These awards were presented in Detroit at the telematics conference and hosted by Telematics Update.