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SFC Energy has received a follow up order from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles for equipping another 242 toll inspection vehicles, based on the T5 vehicle model, ordered by the German Federal Office for Goods (BAG). with EFOY Pro fuel cell generators. The BAG uses the vehicles all across Germany for toll inspection purposes. Volkswagen equips the T5 transporters ‘ex works’ with the fuel cells.

The US Department of Transportation has announced a Request for Information (RFI) for documents related to nomadic devices for real time data collection. The purpose of the notice is to obtain information, for planning purposes, concerning the availability of nomadic data collection devices for real time travel data with what are perceived to be unique capabilities for operating in a highly mobile environment; and to determine whether the needed capabilities exist or where there are gaps that need to be fil

Volvo Trucks has announced it has developed I-See, which operates like an autopilot and takes over gear-changing and utilises gradients to save fuel. The system, which will be available on the market next year, is linked to the transmission’s tilt sensor and obtains information about the topography digitally. The fact that the system is not dependent on maps makes it more dependable since it always obtains the very latest information. I-See can recall about 4,000 gradients, corresponding to a distance of 5,

US Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL) announced yesterday that House and Senate conferees are concluding a bicameral, bipartisan agreement on a major transportation bill. The measure focuses on unprecedented reforms by cutting red tape and consolidating federal transportation programmes.

Mobile Pay has been added to PassportParking’s suite of cloud based parking solutions to provide greater operational efficiency to operators through real-time monitoring and control of their facilities. For instance, its operations management console can now allow parking providers to simply manage their day-to-day functions such as parking rates, contract parking, ticketing and enforcement, real-time monitoring and reporting, all from the internet. Motorists can pay for parking by using a mobile app, calli

Electrification of the automobile is not limited to the electric vehicles (EVs). As a new report from Frost & Sullivan points out, conventional cars of today are partly electric in their own way, with most systems in the vehicle having electrical and electronic connections for better functionality. Certain high-end vehicles possess more than 90 electronic control units (ECUs) to control the various modules within the car, making the car both sophisticated and complicated. However, added functions such as el

Mediamobile and UK based traffic service provider Trafficmaster has signed an agreement which will enable Mediamobile to enhance its European traffic information service for carmakers, navigation system and PND manufacturers, telco's and media companies. The agreement will allow Mediamobile to offer as part of its multi-country service portfolio, traffic related data such as traffic events and traffic flow data over the UK territory produced by Trafficmaster. Whilst operating its own traffic and travel info

Ford's research organisation will use Nokia's location platform to advance innovation for smart and connected vehicles, as demonstrated by the Ford EVOS concept car. Ford selected the platform to leverage Nokia's high-quality global location content, including the Navteq map, as well as scaleable cloud services and APIs. It is claimed this complete solution offers a fast, easy and cost-effective path to create innovative and differentiated location products.

Veolia Transdev and IBM today announced that together they are developing a smarter mobility solution designed to help cities alleviate road congestion, optimise transportation infrastructures and improve the urban traveller experience. The first application of the smarter mobility solution is being piloted in the city of Lyon, France, which is the second largest metropolitan area in the country outside of Paris, as part of the city’s Optimod project. Optimod'Lyon will test and validate new services to impr

Clearview Traffic has launched the M210 solar-powered logging stud, which the company claims is a unique and innovative solution for accurately counting vehicles on a wide range of roads. As the company points out, on roads which have no counting systems installed, long-term trends are often completely invisible. However, installing a wide network of loop-based traffic counters is often not economically practical due to the costs of installing and maintaining these devices.

The Russian ministry of transport has prepared a government draft decree that will require all commercial vehicles over 12 tons to pay a toll for each kilometre driven on federal roads. A unified fee collecting operator will be set up, which will equip all heavyweight vehicles with on-board units. The devices will determine the vehicle's route by using Glonass satellite navigation, and calculate a fee for roadway damage. The rates will be set by the government, but a charge of US$0.11 per kilometre is curre

Intelematics Australia, the company behind Suna Traffic Channel, has embarked on its first international venture with the launch of the service in New Zealand to provide live traffic updates on Garmin Nüvi models as well as an in-app purchase on the Magellan RoadMate AU and NZ App for iPhone. “SUNA is now providing up-to-the-minute- information on traffic congestion and road incidents directly to compatible navigation devices to motorists in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch,” said Adam Game, CCEO, Inte

The Traffic Solutions division of Jenoptik has announced it will be supplying over 30 installations, consisting of a mix of fixed, tunnel and mobile speed enforcement applications in the Tsing Ma and Tsing Sha Control Areas. Recently, the approval authority delegation from Hong Kong visited Jenoptik Robot in Germany to successfully perform a factory acceptance test. Close to 70 tests were performed over a period of five days to ensure the systems fully comply with the specifications in the tender. First del

Traficon has been awarded a contract to provide 70 VIP-IP video image processing boards for installation in the Dartford tunnel on London’s M25 orbital motorway. The technology will be installed in collaboration with Vital Technology Ltd, and will provide extensive automatic incident detection (AID) capabilities, including the detection of stopped vehicles and smoke detection. The Dartford - Thurrock river crossing is one of Europe's most heavily used crossings and complex traffic management systems. An ave

Today, the euroFOT consortium published the findings of a four-year study focused on the impact of driver assistance systems in the Europe. The €22 million (US$27.5 million) European Field Operational Test (euroFOT) project which began in June 2008 and involved 28 companies and organisations, was led by Aria Etemad from Ford’s European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany. The study looked at existing technologies and their potential to both enhance safety and reduce environmental impact. euroFOT also reveale

Siemens has launched a new low-cost coating for traffic controllers and signals which provides lasting protection against dirt and acts as an anti-graffiti barrier, making it difficult to attach posters or write on the protected surface. According to head of product management, Keith Manston, the new coating is completely transparent so does not affect the appearance of coated products. Treated surfaces are up to 80% self-cleaning. Coated assets such as VMS signs and controller cabinets require little atten

Video detection specialist Traficon has been awarded a contract to provide video image processors for traffic monitoring inside the Södra Länken and Norra Länken tunnels in Stockholm, Sweden. The company will provide some 763 of its VIP-T modules designed for automatic incident detection and traffic data analysis. 22 VIP-T video image processing modules have already been installed in the Södra Länken tunnel. In cooperation with traffic specialists Swarco Sweden and ISG Systems AB Sweden, Traficon will insta

BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) concerning a mid to long term collaboration on next-generation environmentally friendly technologies. Under the partnership, the two companies have agreed to collaborate on development of lithium-ion battery technologies and to identify and discuss other possible collaborative projects. In addition, Toyota Motor Europe (TME), TMC’s European subsidiary, and BMW have entered into a contract under which BMW will supply

Federal Signal Technologies (FSTech) has been awarded a three year back office system and operations contract by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDoT). The contract, valued at US$68 million, also provides for two extensions, each of three years. FSTech's major subcontractors are Faneuil and Municipal Services Bureau (MSB).

The city of White Plains in New York is deploying a new SCATS-based adaptive traffic signal control system from TransCore. The system will collect real-time information and then adjust signal timing parameters on a cycle-by-cycle basis on one of the city’s major arterials. Previous conventional traffic control techniques, such as time-of-day signal timing and responsive timing plan selection, were not able to accommodate all the variable and unpredictable traffic conditions experienced on the Tarrytown Road