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Visteon Corporation has announced that it has agreed to sell its automotive lighting business to Varroc Group, a global provider of automotive parts headquartered in India, for US$92 million in cash. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory reviews and other conditions, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2012. The business to be sold encompasses a wide range of exterior lighting products supplied to global vehicle manufacturers, including front and rear lighting systems, auxiliary la

Indra, Spain’s leading IT multinational, has been awarded a contract with the Public Transportation Municipal Company in Wroclaw, which is the fourth largest city in Poland, to install its intelligent public transportation management technology for US$22.23 million and a one year execution period. Indra will install an operations assistance system (OAS) that includes passenger information subsystems, fleet management and video surveillance for 251 vehicles, 136 buses and 115 trams in the city. The OAS will

VOXX International Corporation has completed its acquisition of Car Communication Holding GmbH and its worldwide subsidiaries (Hirschmann) for a total purchase price of approximately US$112 million, plus related transaction fees, expenses and working capital adjustments. In 2011, Hirschmann sales were approximately US$199 million, representing a 16% increase over the prior year. Management believes, based on the company's existing pipeline of booked business through 2016 and anticipated global market oppor

CyRide, the city transit system for Ames, Iowa has partnered with INIT to implement a scheduling, block building and runcutting system, as well as a bid dispatch system for their agency’s scheduling, staff and fleet operational needs. The new scheduling software, Mobile-Plan, will streamline operations and consolidate time-intensive tasks which were previously manually performed by Ames administrative staff. The software is a modular system that completely integrates with other INIT products to ensure data

Vice-President Siim Kallas, European Commissioner for mobility and transport, has announced the winners of the first Smart Mobility Challenge on European multi-modal journey planners, to promote the development of all-in-one journey planners, going beyond national borders and offering travel options combining different transport modes. In the category of 'operational journey planners' the two winners are Idos and Trenitalia, and in the category of 'innovative ideas' the winners are Penelope Ventures and SNC

TTS Italia has announced it is involved in the Compass (optimised CO-Modal PASSenger transport for reducing Carbon emissions) project. The 25 months project, coordinated by Edinburgh Napier University, is deeply rooted in the European Transport Policy (ETP) in the first decade of the 21st Century, with a look towards the new challenges of the incoming second decade of the century. In particular, three topics are being addressed: challenges from the key socio-economic trends, challenges from environmental co

AMG-Panogenics, the British manufacturer of 5 Megapixel camera solutions has today announced a strategic OEM agreement with Canadian based I3 International. Under the new agreement i3 will integrate PanoCam360 into its SRX Pro video management system. According to Vy Hoang, VP of sales and marketing for i3, the company conducted extensive research before selecting the PanoCam360. “There were a number of reasons why we have chosen to work with AMG-Panogenics. First and foremost we’re impressed with the robus

Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, has confirmed that a contract has been awarded to Virgin Media to provide public access wi-fi at up to 120 underground station platforms at zero cost to the fare or taxpayer. The new service will launch as a free, unlimited service for all tube passengers this summer and will continue to offer free live Transport for London (TfL) travel information via a new online portal after this period. Virgin Media, in partnership with London Underground, will initially introduce wi-

Colossal is not too bold a word to describe the scale of ITS developments currently under way in Europe. The European Commission’s ITS Action Plan has six areas of focus, each of which expands out into numerous projects involving a lot of leg work by various committees, working groups or consultants. Add to that the supporting work and research efforts of the many parts of Ertico (ITS Europe); plus each of the 27 European Union member states is working on ‘transition’ of the EU’s ITS Directive into their ow

US company AFC Industries, a manufacturer and designer of ergonomic command and control consoles, workstations, video walls, plasma carts and accessories, has released its C-Line Console. It features electronic height adjustment of the work surface at the touch of a button. Digital readouts enable every user to preserve and easily store optimal settings for surface placement.

Envitia is launching the next generation of MapLink Pro featuring over 400 enhancements to both the Windows and Linux platforms to provide high performance and flexible components for demanding geospatial systems. The latest issue takes advantage of modern 64-bit hardware and utilises multi-threading to boost performance by up to 60%.

TRL is actively supporting ‘new blood’ coming into the traffic engineering world. Transyt 14 software is to be shipped under a Student Licence, the first of its products to do so. This will enable students studying traffic engineering around the world to have a fully functional version of Transyt 14 on a nine-month licence.

Delta has unveiled two important new features for the company’s LTL-M mobile retroreflectometer – an overhead camera and distance measurement instrument (DMI) – to further accommodate customer requirements. The overhead camera is placed in the vehicle windscreen, providing a complete HD video of the markings and the road as seen by the driver.

Geko is a new state of the art LED illuminator line, designed and produced by Videotec to provide excellent lighting for standard definition and megapixel cameras. The devices can provide clear night vision up to 140 metres in an indoor or outdoor environment.

SpeedGauge, a provider of business intelligence and location-based analytics for the trucking and insurance industry, has announced the release of SpeedGaugeAnywhere, which enables fleets to create speed zones around any custom location that is not subject to government set speed limits.

Nedap AVI, a specialist in solutions for long range vehicle and driver identification, has expanded its product line of vehicle identification systems with its ANPR Access licence plate reader specifically designed for vehicle access applications. The company claims it is easy to implement in existing access control systems, because the software supports Wiegand, RS422, RS485 and IP.

Leading traffic technology company Siemens has unveiled a new generation of signal heads specifically designed and built for tram operations. Based on the company’s existing range of Helios extra low voltage (ELV) traffic signals, the dedicated ELV tram signal is fully compatible with the company’s ST900 ELV controller. According to head of product management, Keith Manston, the Siemens ELV solution is priced lower than currently available low-voltage tram signals and all aspects can be lamp monitored as no

Navman Wireless has added a route optimisation capability to its OnlineAVL2 fleet tracking software through integration with Dashfly's web-based mapping service.

Point Grey has announced a new addition to its growing family of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 products, the U3-PCIE2-2P01 host adapter card. Designed and manufactured at the company's headquarters in Richmond, BC, Canada, the U3-PCIE2-2P01 is a low-profile PCI Express Gen 2.0 USB 3.0 card that incorporates a Fresco Logic FL1009 Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) chip.

French chemical light maker Cyalume Technologies, working in collaboration with British company Amey, has adapted the existing features of Cyalume Snaplights to the specific needs of railway maintenance work on UK railways. The light sticks now provide a guaranteed 12 hours of light, resulting in improved safety for workers and making it easier to locate cables which had previously been marked only by a stroke of spray paint, which is not visible at night.