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Transport Scotland has released provisional headline figures for road casualties reported to the police in Scotland in 2016, showing 191 people were killed in reported accidents in 2016 - 23 more than in 2015.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is planning to test the use of an autonomous bus in a cold weather climate and is to issue a request for proposals seeking partners to help demonstrate the technology.

US security systems provider ONVIF is to provide Highways England with an open standards CCTV management system for the continued expansion and management of its national highway CCTV and traffic system.

Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) is to supply the city of Green Bay in Wisconsin, US with its Opticom GPS-enabled emergency vehicle pre-emption solution at four key intersections in the city.

Phoenix Valley Metro Rail, Arizona, US has awarded Siemens the contract to build 11 new S70 light rail vehicles to help meet growing passenger needs and the next expansion of the 26-mile rail line.

Following the deployment of the automatic fare collection (AFC) systems on Phase I and II of the Delhi Metro, Thales has now delivered the AFC systems on the first section of the 79 stations of Phase III that became operational recently. Thales has installed its new-generation Dream Gates ticket gates on two stations of the metro, allowing passengers to travel using QR code on their mobile phones, said to be a first in India. With the Dream Gates solution, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has become the

IBM is to partner with BMW in a pilot of the recently-released BMW CarData, which gives 8.5 million BMW ConnectedDrive customers globally the ability to share telematics data from their BMW vehicles with third parties of their choice. As a pilot partner, IBM has integrated its Bluemix with the BMW CarData platform. Vehicle data will be enhanced by IBM Watson IoT, using cognitive and data analytics services to enable third parties, such as automotive repair shops or insurance companies, to develop customer e

Intuicom, which supplies wireless solutions to the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) market, has been selected by the State of North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to supply its broadband and spread spectrum radios state-wide. The multi-year contract was awarded in conjunction with Intuicom’s distribution partner, Rosenblatt & Associates. Intuicom’s broadband solutions radios were selected for their extended range and secure, high capacity throughput providing the overriding framework

A US$3.7 million project by Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to construct a thermal detection system to detect wrong-way vehicles and alert other drivers and law enforcement has been approved by the State Transportation Board. Once operational, the system will use thermal cameras, warning signs for wrong-way drivers and advisories for right-way drivers along a 15-mile stretch of I-17. In addition, the system will automatically focus highway cameras on the wrong-way vehicle and send automated aler

Germany private radio Station ANTENNE BAYERN has recently upgraded to Gewi’s TIC3 software to take advantage of the latest features in the traffic news for radio solution. The station now has access to the newest features of TIC Newsreader which allows the traffic reporter to custom build scripts to fit the time available for each traffic broadcast. TIC3 is used to create traffic and travel event information and also use flow data to add delay times to traffic messages. In addition to being broadcast over

US transportation solutions provider McCain has named Greg McKhann as chief operating officer effective immediately. McKhann will also assume the regional responsibility for all Swarco ITS companies in the Americas. McKhann has held several senior management positions in the ITS market, most recently at Image Sensing Systems where he was general manager - traffic management. He previously held an executive management role at Iteris, after starting his career in engineering at Rockwell International. In his

One of Australia’s largest tollways, EastLink, has successfully switched over to a new tolling back office system and customer website, provided by intelligent transport systems provider SICE. EastLink (M3) is the 39km freeway in Melbourne's east connecting the Eastern, Monash, Frankston and Peninsula Link freeways. The new tolling back office system is a tailored version of SICE’s billing and invoicing system (BIS) and, since going live, has been processing the tolls and payments for the 250,000 vehicle tr

Chicago Mayor Emanuel has announced the city’s Vision Zero Chicago Action Plan, a multi-Agency approach which aims to improve traffic safety for all road users. The ultimate goal of Vision Zero is to reduce roadway crashes and eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries in Chicago by 2026. A dozen City departments and agencies have been working for months with traffic safety stakeholders to develop the Vision Zero Action plan, which covers the first three years of the effort and is based on the princi