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Avis Budget Group (ABG) has launched a Mobility Lab to test a fleet of 5,000 connected vehicles across 20 car rental locations which include Kansas City International Airport, Nebraska’s Eppley Airfield and Lincoln Airport. The test aims to provide a seamless connection between Avis’ fleet management platform and its mobile app while creating opportunities to collaborate with municipalities on Smart City initiatives around the world. Passengers renting from airport and off-airport locations can make change

Adasens has entered a partnership to provide its portfolio of computer vision functions to Videantis in a project that aims to bring advanced sensing technologies to self-driving vehicles and automotive advanced driver assistance systems applications. Videantis will also offer its low-power, high-performance embedded vision processor to the agreement.

Traffic Technology's (TT’s) iSight-iD cycle count information display has counted more than 5,155,904 cycles since August 2013, and more 1,000,000 cycles since January 2017, at Goldsmiths Row in the London Borough of Hackney. The data collected enables the Council to monitor the growth in cycling and plan future improvements to keep cyclists safe and make cycling more popular. According to the Council, the Borough has the highest cycle to work rate in London and the fourth highest in the UK. The

Daimler subsidiary EvoBus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rhein Neckar Verkehr GmbH (RNV) which will allow electric city buses from Mercedes-Benz to be deployed to the public for a trial in the metropolitan region. The first vehicles are scheduled for delivery at the end of 2018.

French Highway company and tag issuer Vinci Autoroutes has placed extension orders for Q-Free tags valued 25 MNOK. The additional volumes follow a frame agreement made in December 2016. Håkon Volldal, chief executive officer of Q-Free, said: “These extension orders confirm the high technical performance of Q-Free’s tags and our ability to supply significant volumes on short notice. We are grateful for Vinci’s continued confidence in Q-Free and look forward to continuing our partnership.”

Moia, the mobility startup from Volkswagen Group, has introduced a fully electric six-seated car as part of its ride pooling concept that plans to replace 1 million cars and reduce congestion on major cities in Europe and the USA by 2025. The car, unveiled at TechCrunch in Berlin, will launch in Hamburg at the end of next year. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Volkswagen Osnabrück planned, developed and built the Moia car, which according to WLTP-standard has a range of more than 300km and can be charged

Swarco’s traffic control technology has been chosen by construction company SDC to regulate heavy vehicle and plant traffic movements over a two-year building project at the University of Cambridge’s Civil Engineering department. Called ITC-3, the solution is designed for a range of traffic management applications and can be connected to a variety of control and monitoring systems. The ITC-3 can be delivered for pedestrian control and small intersections, as a version with six phases and up to 16

California’s Office of Administrative Law has issued a notice of approval of regulatory changes to adopt the ISO 18000-63 (6C) electronic toll collection (ETC) protocol on all roads throughout the state, from January 2019. According to Patrick Jones, chief executive officer of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA), the action helps to advance plans for achieving nationwide interoperability (NIOP). In addition, It also allows states using 6C to become interoperable with each other

Clearview Intelligence (CI) has launched two free to use Return on Investment (ROI) calculators to assist highway professionals in showing the benefit of improving road safety on their network. The tools are said to demonstrate how road safety schemes pay for themselves during their lifetime as well as quantify the number of lives saved and injuries prevented. Designed for SolarLite Active Road Stud installations and the other for combination road safety solutions, the tools use the costs of accidents from

A trial in which Arrival provided Royal Mail with nine heavy electric vehicles (HEVS), which are said to travel 100 miles on a single charge, and their potential will be discussed at the Microlise Transport Conference, in May 2018. These vehicles have been deployed in and around London to move mail between distribution centres and its mail centres. Grahame Bennett, Royal Mail’s head of fleet engineering will discuss work being undertaken by the UK postal service. In addition, Matt Key chief of business

The International Association of Public Transport (Uitp) has integrated Door2Door, Citymapper, Uber, Moovel, Via, Grab, Ola, Yandex, 99 and Upstream into a new Digital Platforms subsection of its membership which will work collaboratively on digitalisation, sustainable development or combined mobility, in Brussels. Uitp’s subsection will include online digital platforms that facilitate access to services or assets via a business to business, business to customer or peer to peer connection. A service

E.on clients in Sweden who purchase a Uniti electric car (EC) will be provided with five years’ worth of charging through solar cells at home, as part of a new partnership between the two companies that aims to create a sustainable source of energy for charging. The ECs are expected for delivery in 2019. Uniti will launch the new product line at its production facility on the 7 December which is expected to host two thousand guests as well as exhibitions from partner companies. Tobias Ekman, Innovation