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New Zealand road signal company Traffic Systems has won a contract to supply Transport for London (TfL) with pedestrian crossing equipment. It is one of two companies that have been selected to provide countdown timers for some 6,000 intersections in England’s capital. The company’s initial order, its first international contract, is for 300 units. However, Andrea Ransley, co-owner of Traffic Systems, says she is confident of further orders and says the deal is potentially worth tens of millions of dollars.

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.

From 2009, if all goes to plan, New York will run a three-year cordon-based congestion charging pilot - the first in the US. Upon accession, US Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters signalled her intention to continue her predecessor Norman Mineta's initiative to specifically target road congestion. And, with initiatives such as the US Department of Transportation's (USDOT's) Urban Partnership Program actively promoting tolling as a part of a compound solution to the problem, the way was opened for the co

Mentor Engineering has been awarded a US$2 million contract from the Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority to implement a complete end-to-end transit ITS system for Oklahoma City’s Metro Transit.