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INIT Innovations in Transportation has signed a contract with San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) to equip 65 light rail vehicles with INIT’s advanced transportation technology.

HCL Security, a subsidiary of HCL Infosystems, a leading Indian systems integration company, has chosen Barco to be the visualisation partner in a prestigious project to set up a new C4i (Command, Control, Communication, Computing and Intelligence) centre in Delhi.

UK-headquartered Traffic Safety Systems (TSS), part of AD Group, has delivered a multi-million dollar in-vehicle CCTV order to the Romanian Police for 449 of its state-of-the-art Radar Autovision systems.

IMS Research, which has just released a report that it says identifies the key market opportunities for ITS product development in each of the 50 individual states and major cities across the US, predicts states will spend a combined US$1.4 billion on ITS during 2010.

AMG Systems is launching a new comprehensive training programme which has a wider approach to transmission systems for security and surveillance applications.

TrafficLand, which claims to be the largest authorised aggregator of live traffic video in the US, has launched its live traffic video service in Miami, Florida.

The future tramway line and bus network in the French city of Angers will be equipped with a ticketing system supplied by Parkeon.

In a unique and hard-hitting speed reduction initiative, primary schoolchildren across Carmarthenshire, in Wales, have been targeting drivers who drive too fast near their schools.

The supervisory board of Porsche yesterday gave the green light to series development and production of the Porsche 918 Spyder.

Isolux-Corsan has awarded Telvent a contract to implement its SmartMobility Light Rail solution for a new light rail system in the Algerian city of Oran. Comprising 32 stations along its 18-kilometre route, the new light rail system is scheduled to begin operating by 2011.

DAF Trucks has signed a five-year contract extension to continue to offer Iteris’ Lane Departure Warning (LDW) systems as a factory-installed option on its heavy trucks.

Installation of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) will be made mandatory for all cars and sedans below 4.5 tons manufactured from 2012 in South Korea.