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TriMet, C-Tran and Portland Streetcar users in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area can now use Init's regional account-based virtual card within Google Pay to purchase transit fare. The fare card's full launch status has been achieved through a collaboration between Init, TriMet, and Moovel. Init's back-office tool Mobilevario has been utilised with the intention of allowing riders to tap their Android devices to any of the company's 1,200 fare validators. Moblevario calculates the fare, valida

Kuldeep Nothey has been appointed service delivery director for RATP Dev London from 2 July. Nothey will lead operational delivery across three of the company’s businesses: London United, London Sovereign and Quality Line. He replaces operations director Maurice Bulmer and will report to Dev London's managing director Fiona Taylor.

Technology provider Genetec unveiled a solution lets organisations use Internet Protocol (IP) cameras to identify and track number plates of vehicles entering or leaving their premises at ISC West 2018, in Las Vegas. Called AutoVu Flexreader, the platform is said to bring Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) to IP surveillance cameras supported by the company's Security Center unified platform. Users can extend security operations to access the full ANPR set of Autovu and utilise data mining tools

Cisco has appointed Mark Garrett to its board of directors effective immediately. His contributions, according to Chuck Robbins Cisco's chairman and chief executive officer, follows the company's plans to advance in its transition to drive more subscriptions and recurring revenue. Garrett, former Adobe Systems executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO), is also on the board of directors at GoDaddy and Pure Storage. In addition, he has experience of leadership in finance and accounting

Bedford Borough Council has used Qroutes' route planning software to reorganise the home to school transport network. The solution Is said to have saved over £200,000 ($140,000) a year in transport costs and has helped plan transport for 3,000 school children. Additionally, Bedford has used the cloud-based service to plan transport 700 special educational needs and 1000 social care users. The council manages a fleet of approximately 50 in-house vehicles which mainly transport the most vulnerable people.

Teledyne Dalsa has launched its Genie Nano-M2450-Polarised camera built around Sony's Pregius 5.1M polarised image sensor. The model features a monochrome quad polarisation filter, resolution of 2448 x 2048 pixels and aims to deliver an image capture of 35 frames-per-second. The product also utilises the company's TurboDrive technology with the intention of increasing frame rates by up to 50%. Additionally, the device is said to offer polarisation for both area and line scan (Piranha(TM)4 polarization)

Authorities will have to introduce strict regulations to ensure the safe introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on public roads, according to a white paper published by Utrecht-based company 2getthere. Called Safety in Autonomous Transit, the report states that authorities should set more firm conditions on road safety, reliability and availability of these vehicles and also for the spatial planning of public areas where AVs operate. 2getthere highlights that governments will have to set tighter

Three Kapsch subsidiaries will showcase smart mobility solutions for road and rail at the Transport Research Arena (TRA), in Vienna, from 16-19 April. The company will discuss how the Austrian technology group contributes to modern traffic management. These subsidiaries include Kapsch TrafficCom, Kapsch CarrierCom and Kapsch PublicTransportCom. Georg Kapsch, chief executive officer of the Kapsch, will discuss the impact of digitalisation on transportation and mobility. He will also provide a session on

IAM RoadSmart has appointed Mike Quinton as its chief executive officer from the 23 April. The former chief executive of the National House Building Council will replace Sarah Sillars. He has experience in organisational leadership over three decades and has served in a range of finance roles for Prudential, Churchhill and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Quinton then moved to Zurich Financial Services’ European direct-to-customer insurance operation.

Swarco has acquired the majority shareholding in Bergauer Holding. The Switzerland based company develops and integrates intelligent traffic guidance and control systems as well as guidance systems for infrastructure and security projects. For the medium term, the project planning, installation and services activities of Bergauer Signalbau and Swarco will be merged into Swarco Schweiz as part of a strategy to achieve a better service for clients. Bergauer will continue to manage the project planning

Global provider of high-definition (HD) maps for autonomous vehicles (AVs) Here Technologies has opened a research and development facility in Boulder, Colorado. The centre will collaborate with professionals in geospatial engineering, machine learning and data science to develop processes that allow the company’s HD Live Map to self-heal. This process uses crowdsourced data from live car sensors to validate and update the HD map to help maintain its accuracy. Here’s HD map intends to provide overall

Chevron Traffic Management (Chevron TM) is Triton’s third acquisition within the European work zone safety Services market and follows its acquisitions of Ramudden in Sweden in December 2017 and AVS in Germany in January. Catalyst Corporate Finance (Catalyst), the UK M&A advisory business of Atlantra, advised Chevron TM advise on its sale.