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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.

Nissan Motor has been chosen as the winner for its NV200 cab design in the "Taxi of Tomorrow" contest in the US, based on a survey on 23,000 people.

TeleNav has launched hybrid navigation technology which can provide premium turn-by-turn navigation and local search capabilities by either using real-time data sent to the phone over the wireless network or data that has been cached on the device.

For most people, using a smartphone while driving is the last thing anyone would want to encourage in the interest of safe driving. However, major US insurance company State Farm, is launching a new free mobile application, Driver Feedback, which turns a person's cell phone into a pocket-sized driving coach.

TagMaster, the specialist producer of advanced RFID solutions for automatic vehicle identification (AVI) has announced that Siemens Mobility will use its long-range RFID readers and ID-tags as part of a solution for traffic management and Selective Vehicle Detection (SVD).

IBM has announced a new collaboration with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), a research institute at the University of California, Berkeley, to develop an intelligent transportation solution that will help commuters avoid congestion and enable transportation agencies to better understand, predict and manage traffic flow.

Ford and Azure Dynamics Corporation have confirmed their first European customer for the zero-emission Ford Transit Connect Electric van.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication Systems ESK in Munich, Germany, have developed a car-to-x communication (C2X) system that makes structured communication possible between an electronic unit in the vehicle and the outside world.