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Located near the French capital Paris, the innovative city Les Mureaux successfully introduced smart parking sensors to monitor parking spaces in blue zones this year. The town is using Nedap’s wireless vehicle detection system Sensit, a network of wireless parking sensors which detect vehicle occupancy in parking spaces. The system collects parking data and shares that information with third party parking guidance, enforcement and intelligent transport systems. Information on the real-time availabili

Inrix has been selected by the I-95 Corridor Coalition as one of their preferred providers of real-time traffic information. The majority of member states in the I-95 Corridor Coalition are continuing to use Inrix XD traffic information to help them streamline daily operations, pinpoint investments and deliver better traveller services. The I-95 Corridor Coalition is an alliance of transportation agencies, toll authorities, and related organisations, including public safety, from the State of Maine to t

A consortium of Strabag and its subsidiary Heilit and Woerner has been awarded a US$51.7 million design-and-build contract for a 7.6 kilometre bypass around the city of Kościerzyna in northern Poland. The project comprises the construction of three traffic lanes with one additional lane that can be adapted for traffic if needed. It also includes nine civil engineering structures, including bridges and a railway overpass; environmental protection measures such as noise barriers and wildlife crossings; a

US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx has announced a new initiative to reduce the growing number of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and fatalities through a comprehensive approach that addresses infrastructure safety, education, vehicle safety and data collection. Injuries and fatalities of pedestrian and people bicycling have steadily increased since 2009, at a rate higher than motor vehicle fatalities. From 2011 to 2012, pedestrian deaths rose six per cent and bicyclist fatalities went up almost s

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and mobile ticketing solutions provider Bytemark are to team up to offer mobile and web based ticketing for the state’s BusPlus program. The BusPlus program, a partnership between MassDOT and private bus operators, offers new regional transportation services to increase intercity and commuter transportation options available across the Commonwealth and New England. The free BusPlus app will utilise Bytemark’s patented mobile ticketing solution,

Australian telematics solutions provider Intelematics took advantage of the ITS World Congress to announce a major network expansion of its real-time traffic service. In one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest service rollouts, Intelematics will add more than 45,000 square miles (72,500 square kilometres) to the SUNA traffic channel’s RDS-TMC network by December 2014. The network's coverage footprint will be expanded by more than 80 per cent and be available to more than 17.5 million Australian motor

The idea of average speed enforcement, or section control, in Germany has long been discussed by German authorities following its recommendation in 2009 by the 47th German Traffic Court Day. Interior Minister Boris Pistorius has announced a section control pilot project which is scheduled to be operational in Lower Saxony in spring 2015. Instead measuring speed in the conventional at a single point, section control measures average speed over a longer stretch of road. This method usually results in l

Findings of a Jordanian Customs’ trial of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (E-GNSS) and EGNOS (the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service which corrects GNSS errors to improve accuracy and security) are to be presented at a special event in Amman. The trial evaluated the system for tracking and tracing containers shipped across the Mediterranean Sea and the vehicles transporting the goods in Jordan.

Work on the new US$12.9 billion Mexico City international airport is scheduled to begin next month, according to Gerardo Ruiz, head of Mexico's transport and communications ministry SCT. Initial works include involve soil improvement, road connectivity and water infrastructure works. Water-related issues on the site could present the greatest challenge to the airport project, as the area is presently used as a buffer zone where excess rainwater from storms is diverted to the land to ease the capital's d

The technology exists to make self-driving cars an emerging reality in the next three to five years - if the country will build the infrastructure and the government will issue the necessary rules, the CEO of wireless communications company Verizon told the Detroit Economic Club on Monday. His comments, reported by the Detroit News, came the day after the announcement that Michigan will install cameras and sensors along 120 miles of Detroit freeways to connect cars wirelessly to highways and each other.

Iteris has joined the University of Michigan as one of 13 companies that includes Denso, Delphi, Econolite, Ford, GM, Nissan, Verizon and Toyota as a founding partner in its Mobility Transformation Center (MTC). The MTC will initiate and execute multiple research programs to advance the technology and policies surrounding new methods of transportation relating to smart vehicles and infrastructure. Iteris plans to collaborate with MTC and the select group of companies to guide the selection of specific re

The 2014 World Congress in Detroit provided the ideal venue to launch the ITS Australia Asia Pacific Student Excellence Scholarship program. The program offers sponsorships to up to 10 students representing ITS Asia Pacific associations to attend the 23rd ITS World Congress 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. ITS Australia CEO, Susan Harris, says: “ITS Australia created this Scholarship Program to support and encourage student participation, not just attendance, at the Congress, and to recognise student exc

US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx has announced a Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan of US$950 million to help pay for the reconstruction and widening of 21 miles of Interstate 4 in metropolitan Orlando, Florida. This is the largest loan the Department has awarded to a public-private partnership (P3). When completed, the project will relieve congestion in one of the country's most heavily-travelled areas. Known as the I-4 Ultimate, the project is part of the 54-y

Stegojet keeps sensitive electronics cool. Stego’s next generation built-in fan is on display at the ITS World Congress. Offering versatility and power in a compact, lightweight housing, Stegojet delivers precise ventilation and cooling of heat sources in dense enclosures and harsh environments. Strong air flow (> 16 cfm) prevents heat pockets that can damage electronics or reduce performance. Stegojet’s design offers a maximum rotation range with air output in almost any direction. The dual clip sys

Recognising that common everyday equipment can be transformed for multiple uses, a new data services company piggybacks on the miles travelled by large commercial and municipal fleets by turning the vehicles into mobile weather stations. WeatherCloud will begin a pilot programme with Colorado DOT in the autumn to use its fleet to record and collate road and weather conditions. WeatherCloud will collect the information, analyse it and provide it via API to CDOT for use in its transportation operations.

Citilog is introducing a North American-compliant version of its XCam-p video detection sensor. The new version of XCam-p – the ‘p’ stands for presence detection – follows an agreement with Signal Group, the parent company of Peek Traffic. Peek manufactures the cabinet interface unit for the system. Citilog’s previous version of XCam-p is used internationally but does not conform to US standards. “We’ve always made the camera head sensor but until this collaboration we didn’t have an interface board t

Big data keeps these entrepreneurs up at night, but in a good way. Self-described “transit data nerds”, the guys at Transit Labs are working to help build smarter cities through intelligent transportation services.

Electricity is in the air – and in Toshiba’s new super charge ion battery (SCiB), on display at ITS World Congress. SCiB batteries can be charged in five to 10 minutes, compared with the traditional overnight charging required for applications such as electric buses. SCiB charges even faster than current fast charge batteries, which take 30 minutes. The ultra-fast charging is possible because SCiB can tolerate a high current of 400 amps, almost three times higher than today’s normal fast charging batt

A new mobile app called RideScout provides Transit as a Service (TaaS) by consolidating multiple public, private and social transit options in a single platform.

Cloud Parc is debuting its smart parking camera solutions in the Entrepreneurial Village, highlighting its ability to automatically detect unused parking spaces through visual analysis. Each LPR camera can monitor up to 10 spaces while the company’s Sky camera can monitor an entire city block. According to Kerrian Bard Fournier, COO, Cloud Parc