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Road safety continues to improve according to the latest figures from the US Department of Transportation. The recorded data shows that in 2009 the US had the lowest level of traffic fatalities since 1954.

There is an urgent need to align technology standards as cooperative ITS solutions become mainstream, says ITS Australia president Dr Norm Pidgeon

Efkon Group’s subsidiary in South Africa, Tollink, has been awarded a major contract to install and operate an intelligent transportation system on freeways in South Africa.

US-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group and Australia's major investment bank Macquarie Group, have announced today that they will purchase Redflex Holdings for US$304 million.

RouteMatch Software has announced its acquisition of RouteShout, an award-winning traveller information systems (TIS) product developed by interactive mobility pioneers Deeplocal, a Carnegie Mellon University spin-out.

Austria Telekom is undertaking a project to turn its public telephone boxes, which are in danger of becoming obsolete because of mobile phones, into battery charging stations for electric cars (EVs), scooters and bikes.

Q-Park, one of the three leading providers of parking facilities in Europe, has won the bid to take over 14 car parks in the heart of London.

The 4th Annual Inrix National Traffic Scorecard reveals gridlock and longer commute times returning to America’s roads.

ASK has announced the delivery of the first batch of one million contactless cards for public transport in Dubai.

A consortium coordinated by Better Place and including Renault SA, Continental, Ernst & Young, TÜV Rheinland, KEMA and five leading European institutions has announced formal approval from the European Commission for an R&D programme to make it easier for European automobile and battery manufacturers to build electric cars with switchable batteries.

Leading global standards organisations ITU and ISO have announced the creation of a partnership in the field of intelligent transport systems.

RFID specialist TagMaster and access solutions specialist Skidata have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in the field of supplying integrated long range UHF RFID solutions.

Navteq has announced the launch of its Traffic service in Russia, delivering comprehensive, real-time traffic information to nearly 16.5 million people in three major cities

Iteris has been selected to help develop uniform and standardised engineering and planning manuals, guidelines, and procedures tailored to the particular needs of the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport, based on best practices from around the world.

Microsoft and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced yesterday they have forged a strategic partnership and plan to build a global platform for TMC's next-generation telematics services using the Windows Azure platform.