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McCain has announced a contract award from the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) for 2070E traffic signal controllers, the first deployment of these units in New York.

UTI, a Romanian headquartered company, has won a tender launched by the city of Szczecin, in Poland, for the development and implementation of a traffic management system. The contract, which is worth around US$2.58 million, was won against bids submitted by Peek Traffic of the Netherlands, Kapsch of Austria and Sprint and Telsat of Poland.

Motorway toll systems of Slovakia and Austria may be interconnected as part of the planned European interoperability. Operators of the national systems, SkyToll of Slovakia and Asfinag of Austria, have expressed interest in cooperation, saying that they will hold further, more detailed negotiations. SkyToll claims that the satellite system in Slovakia is ready for interoperability with the systems of the neighbouring countries and any changes can be implemented quickly.

According to a report in the Korea Times today, Seoul city officials are city urgently undertaking the development and of an integrated traffic information and operation system resistant to cyber terrorism to guard the city's traffic network from outside attacks. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it plans to build an advanced transport management system that monitors the total traffic network around the clock by the end of this year, as part of efforts to vigilantly respond against any security threat.

Iteris, which vews the Middle East region as a vital part of its global business development strategy, has announced today, on the opening day of Gulf Traffic in Dubai, UAE, an extension of its existing partnership with TrafQuest to include the distribution of its roadway sensors product line in the UAE. This includes the Vantage, Versicam and Pico video sensors for adaptive traffic signal control and the Abacus product for automated incident detection and data collection.

RBF Consulting has been selected by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to provide transportation planning and engineering for the Measure R funded I-605 Congestion ‘Hot Spots’ Feasibility Analysis. Hot spots are identified as major traffic congestion areas, attributed to increasing passenger car and truck traffic, localised capacity and/or operational constraints on the freeway, or arterial street system.

Capita Symonds’ Innovations team has secured a contract extension, valued at over US$1.1 million to $11.2 million UK Highways Agency Traffic Information System (HATRIS) contract which will take the project through to the end of March 2012. The HATRIS system, which has been developed and enhanced by Capita Symonds since 2005, is used to monitor and report on vehicle journey times across set routes on the motorway and trunk road network. This enables the Highways Agency and Department for Transport to identif

UK highways servicing contractor, Ringway, has successfully delivered a scheme on behalf of Solihull Council to improve travel links in the Solihull area that includes a new variable bus lane, the first of its kind in the UK.The variable bus lane uses the Ringway-installed CCTV and digital signage to adjust the status of the bus lane in order that it does not remain empty during peak traffic times. “This pioneering bus lane is just one aspect of the ANITA Project, which has seen Ringway provide a dedicated