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Society may already be dangerously over-reliant on satellite radio navigation systems like GPS, the Royal Academy of Engineering warns in a report published yesterday. The range of applications using the technology is now so broad that, without adequate independent backup, signal failure or interference could potentially affect safety systems and other critical parts of the economy.

A Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled by a standard production passenger car on a single tank of fuel.

WebTech Wireless has won a contract award for its NextBus intelligent transportation system with the Conseil Intermunicipal de Transport Laurentides (CITL), which provides intra-urban bus services to several communities near Montreal, in Canada.

Continental, the international automotive supplier, has developed a system for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles which will immediately shut off the high-voltage battery in the event of a collision, enabling emergency service personnel to come to the aid of accident victims without the risk of suffering an electric shock.

Telmap has introduced multi-modal routing as part of its involvement with the In-Time project that will pilot and validate an innovative pan-European approach to Real Time Traffic and Travel Information (RTTI) services.

The launch of Latin NCAP has taken place simultaneously in Montevideo, Uruguay and São Paolo, Brazil with the new association releasing test results of nine cars from the popular small vehicle class using the same frontal impact test that is included in Euro NCAP’s test programme. The FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile), FIA Foundation, ICRT (International Consumer Research and Testing) and GRMF (the Gonzalo Rodriguez Memorial Foundation) with support of the IDB (the Inter-American Developmen

A new world record for the fastest car on ice has been set this week by Nokian Tyres' test driver Janne Laitinen who drove 331.610 km/h (206.05 mph) on the Gulf of Bothnia in Oulu, Finland.

Frito-Lay North America division, the US$13 billion convenient foods business unit of PepsiCo, has started rolling out some of its fully electric delivery trucks in Columbus.

A few years back, as part of ongoing efforts to better myself, I took to reading the literary classics. I

I like it when an otherwise unremarkable evening turns into something which stays in the mind awhile, and enlivened debate has that habit of planting seeds in the mind which over time grow into thinking with much wider application.

It's long been the case that policy should drive technology and not the other way round.

Back in 1982, the TV series Knight Rider was first aired.

The hit film Jurassic Park took its name from one of the several geological periods or epochs (as they are also known) in which dinosaurs were the dominant land-dwellers.

I'll take a punt that a few months ago not many outside those with some form of business or economics qualification had even heard of John Maynard Keynes and his ideas on governments' interventionist role in stimulating growth and stability.

The new release of PTV MapServer, based on COM, provides updated maps with toll tables and environmental zones which are taken into account during the routing process. The tool also includes new features for routing and logistical optimisation methods and allows users to easily embed digital maps, route calculation or other geo- functionalities.

Welcome to a first edition of ITS International under a new editor - one fully aware of a need to maintain high standards. Jason Barnes is a hard act to follow. Jason remains involved in this magazine, contributing as technical editor with his invaluable knowledge of the ITS industry. I congratulate him on all he has achieved, steering ITS International to being recognised as the sector's leading and most respected title. With a change comes a new perspective, however. Joining as editor with a general but n

Germany-headquartered PTV claims that the current version of map&guide professional sets new standards for green logistics and transports and provides a wide range of additional useful features.

UK-headquartered CATS-i (Covert Asset Tracking Systems for the internet) has announced the CATSi which, the company claims, uses the smallest and lowest-profile components available to create an extremely small and thin GPS, GSM and RF tracking product

At risk of being accused of going on like a broken record (and, perhaps, mystifying those readers of the post-vinyl generation with my choice of expression), I want to come back to... well, everything but the technology.

Like many, I'm a creature of habit. Day to day, those who know me can usually find me in one of a very few places doing very much the same things.