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A white paper setting out Birmingham’s 20-year vision for improving transport across the city is set to be unveiled today. Birmingham Connected aims to make the city safer and easier to travel around by reducing congestion and promoting more sustainable forms of transport. Initiatives in the plan include the completion of a US$1.9 billion public transport network within 20 years and the development of Green Travel Districts to enable people to walk, cycle or take public transport safely. A feasibilit

Organised by Ertico-ITS Europe and ETSI, the third eCall testfest was held at CTAG in Spain at the end of October, joined by new IVS (in vehicle system) and PSAP (public safety answering point) vendors from all over the world. The event was supported by CETECOM, the European Commission and the HeERO2 project. During the five days of the event, hundreds of pairing sessions were organised. Each session, lasting two hours, allowed one IVS unit to test with one PSAP unit or against a test system. This set

PTV Group has launched the PTV Vision traffic add-in marketplace (link vision-traffic.ptvgroup.com/en/add-in), where its developers and users can discuss and learn about new features and functions of the company’s PTV Visum and PTV Vissim products and contribute their own add-ins. "In the last few years, a secondary market has built up around our transport planning software, where users of PTV Visum and PTV Vissim offer valuable functional extensions," said Dr Klaus Nökel, vice president Traffic Softwar

A new report by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Cymru Wales, Vision 2035: Cymru Wales, looks to the future and visualises how transport and logistics in Wales would develop, taking account of population changes, technological developments and social and political change. By 2035, Wales will be making decisions on all aspects of transport, including air passenger duty, rail franchising and road policy. There will also be greater government involvement in public transport operatio

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has partnered with the IPS Group, the city’s new parking pay station vendor in a project to replace all the city’s parking pay stations with new technology in 2015-2016. The US$20 million contract runs for seven years and will replace 1,500 older pay stations with new IPS MS1 pay stations, and retrofit 700 of the city’s newer pay stations with new technology and components. Available in pay-by-space, pay-and-display and pay-by-plate models, the solar-pow

SAP, Shell and Volkswagen are to collaborate on a co-innovation pilot to investigate how connected vehicles would interact with the world around them. The ongoing pilot in Hannover, Germany, aims to lay the foundations for a range of services including an integrated system for connected fuelling. The three companies are piloting an end-to-end scalable solution with the aim of delivering a hosted cloud-based solution that saves time and delivers new, exciting customer offers through connected vehicles tha

Swarco Traffic Americas is to install new parking guidance technology in a ten-level parking garage for Monarch Casino Black Hawk in Black Hawk, Colorado. The system involves a combination of single space monitoring as well as indoor and outdoor garage variable message signage. Each parking space will be monitored by 1,265 state of the art ultrasonic sensors above each parking space to detect vehicles as they park. Vacant spaces are indicated by LED lights. Space availability data from the sensors will t

The next iMobility Challenge event, "Intelligent Mobility, Smart Cities" takes place in Brussels on 18 November 2014. Experts from innovation companies and researchers will share the latest ideas and developments in the field of intelligent mobility, sharing insights into how we will move forward in cities tomorrow, and what future vehicles will look like. Confirmed keynote speakers include John Baekelsmans, CTO at Cisco; other key speakers will be Rupert Fausset, Principal Sustainability Advisor at F

Siemens has teamed up with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) specialist, Harland Simon UPS, which has created a new range of UPS systems for Siemens the company to offer critical protection within key traffic control systems, reducing the chances of accidents and traffic congestion in the event of power failure. The high specification solution is based on the Harland ProtectUPS-T, which can be adapted to meet specific demands that are available in 500W, 1000W and 2000W versions. The system is equipped w

Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation (MTE), the largest electric cooperative organisation in Tennessee is using Nedap Identification Systems’ Transit Standard long-range RFID readers on its Murfreesboro site entry and exit lanes to offer fast, convenient and secure vehicle access control to their facility. Transit Standard readers were installed at the entry and exit lanes of the facility, taking advantage of the system’s directional read characteristics that eliminate crossover reads and let

The world’s first solar powered cycle road officially opens today along the N203 at Krommenie, north-west of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Developed by TNO, the Province of North-Holland, Ooms Civiel and Imtech Traffic&Infra, the SolaRoad pilot project is a road surface that acts as a solar panel, converting sunlight into electricity.

Responding to the UK Prime Minister’s announcement which outlined a ‘roads revolution,’ the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has said that plans to deliver roads improvements across the country are good news for the freight and logistics industry. David Cameron stated that plans for the biggest road building programme for almost half a century will be unveiled in next month's Autumn Statement and would contain a US$24 billion overhaul of 100 of Britain's busiest roads and motorways by the end of the

BMW is to run a pilot project in Munich to test a newly-developed an electric car charging station which the company says can be can be grafted straight onto the existing local authority street lighting infrastructure. BMW said it has made two prototype ‘Light and Charge’ street lights which combine efficient light emitting diodes (LED) with the company's ChargeNow recharging stations for electric cars. "Seamless charging infrastructure is essential if we want to see more electric vehicles on the road