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The European Commission is taking further action to stimulate investment in Europe by launching the second call for proposals of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) with more than US$8.2 billion to finance key transport projects. US$7 billion is earmarked for projects in member states eligible for the EU Cohesion Fund, in order to better integrate these countries into the internal market. Along with the Investment Plan presented by the Commission in November 2014, and in particular the new European Fund

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) and the Teamsters have given their support to the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (the STRR Act), which was overwhelmingly approved by the US House of Representatives after three days of debate. The bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorise and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs helps improve US surface transportation infrastructure, refocuses programs on address

Iteris is to deliver the 511 San Francisco Bay Area system integrator, data management & dissemination, and interactive voice response phone system.

Cars will be banned from central Oslo by 2019 to help reduce pollution, local politicians said this week, in what they said would be the first comprehensive and permanent ban for a European capital. According to Reuters, the newly elected city council, made up of the Labour Party, the Greens and the Socialist Left, said the plans would benefit all citizens despite shop-owners' fears they will hurt business. "We want to have a car-free centre," Lan Marie Nguyen Berg, lead negotiator for the Green Party

ITS Australia has announced the shortlisted ITS Australia National Awards finalists for 2015. Winners will be announced at the Awards Presentation Night Dinner, to be held at the iconic Sydney Opera House. Keynote speaker for the event, Mr Tim Reardon, Secretary Transport for the New South Wales Government will highlight the digital transport advancements in the state. A record number of nominations were submitted for the prestigious Awards Program, which is a major initiative of private, government

Rail technology company Bombardier Transportation has successfully completed a 41.6 km catenary-free test run using a Bombardier-built tram, powered entirely by its Primove battery in combination with Bombardier Mitrac. The test run was conducted in the German city of Mannheim on the Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr (RNV) network. RNV began using SuperCaps energy storage systems in 2009 and has integrated this technology into 30 of their trams. This provided sufficient energy for short CFO distances. However, the l

Volvo Cars is developing kangaroo detection technology to solve one of the most costly causes of traffic collisions in Australia. A team of Volvo Cars safety experts is in the Australian Capital Territory to film and study the roadside behaviour of kangaroos in their natural habitat. The data Volvo Cars collects will be used to develop the first ever kangaroo detection and collision avoidance system. According to the National Roads & Motorists’ Association (NRMA) there are over 20,000 kangaroo strikes on A

The UK Institute of Advanced Motorists has responded to the Department for Transport report, Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain: quarterly provisional estimates Q2 2015, which claims that there were 1,700 road deaths in the year ending June 2015, down by two per cent compared with the year ending June 2014. Neil Greig, IAM director of policy and research said: “It is indeed good news to see that in spite of an increase in volume of traffic by 2.3 per cent that the numbers of casualties has falle

International Road Dynamics (IRD) has launched a new online store, PeopleCounterStore.com, offering a selection of people counters, vehicle counters and accessories for sale to customers in the United States. The store offers a full selection of people counters including unidirectional and bidirectional pedestrian counters with or without count display. It also offers a selection of IRD's top selling counters and classifiers including Traffic Ace accumulators and Mini TRS Plus classifiers. A Mini TRS P

Manila North Tollways Corporation (MNTC) has awarded Indra the design, supply, installation, and commissioning of the new toll control solution for its Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) concession. The project includes the integration of the SCTEX toll control solution with that of the system that Indra recently implemented for the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), the main motorway connecting the capital region of Metro Manila to the northern regions of the country. The contract, awarded in a consortium w

UK fashion and homeware retailer Next has taken steps to improve the parking experience at its new flagship store in High Wycombe, with the deployment of wireless parking sensors in its car park. Nedap partner Clearview Traffic Group has integrated Nedap's Sensit wireless parking sensors into Clearview’s Insight Parking solution to provide shoppers with real time information on available parking bays. Nedap’s wireless parking sensors provide real-time occupancy status per parking bay. The in-ground se

Volvo Cars and Inrix are to collaborate on the automaker’s first live traffic service; Inrix will provide Volvo drivers with real-time and predictive traffic flow information for routes, travel times, and alerts to accidents and incidents. INRIX Traffic will be a part of Volvo Sensus Connect, an innovative on-board infotainment and navigation solution that allows drivers to find and pay for parking, discover new places, stream their favourite music and much more. Inrix real-time traffic will be availabl

Following a board meeting on 3 November, Q-Free has announced that Thomas Falck will step down from his position as CEO with immediate effect and CFO Roar Østbø is appointed as interim CEO. Chairman of the board Terje Christoffersen has also informed the board of his immediate resignation; vice chairman Charlotte Brogren will fill the role until a new chairman of the board is elected by the general meeting.

The City of Madison, Wisconsin, in association with Strand Associates, was recently awarded the ITS Wisconsin Project of the Year Award for the Verona Road Adaptive Signal Control Deployment. The project deployed Econolite’s Centracs Adaptive ahead of major highway improvement construction to help better manage alternative route/bypass traffic along an already high-volume corridor. The City worked proactively to address the projected 20 per cent increase of traffic volume through the alternative route by