ITS UK Awards shortlist announced
ITS UK has announced the shortlist for its annual Awards, to be held in London at the end of next month. The Awards, which take place during the Intelligent Transport Systems industry association’s President’s Dinner, celebrate transport technology across the industry, covering the use of technological solutions in areas like active travel, enforcement and the environment, […]
Kapsch TrafficCom expands production in Austria
Kapsch TrafficCom is expanding its production capacities for devices for contactless toll collection by more than 30% at its site in Vienna. This translates to a production expansion of about 2 million On Board Units per year. A total of €1.3 million (approx £1.1 million) has been invested in the expansion of the industrial facility. […]
Knowledge shared at record breaking JCT Traffic Signals Symposium
A record number of delegates and exhibitors have shared two days of high-level knowledge sharing at the 2023 JCT Traffic Signals Symposium, with the Keynote Address delivered by behavioural scientists Rory Sutherland and Pete Dyson winning the Most Thought Provoking Paper Award 310 delegates attended Nottingham Trent University for the 28th running of the event, […]
Lincolnshire PCC looks at using Acusensus AI cameras to improve road safety
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner says he’s thinking about using Acusensus’s Heads-Up cameras to spot distracted drivers and those not wearing a seatbelt on his county’s road. The BBC reports Marc Jones will discuss the idea at the East of England and East Midlands Road Safety Summit this week. The Acusensus Artificial Intelligence technology detects […]
Westcotec team complete charity parachute jump
Four members of the team from the Norfolk-based road safety technology firm Westcotec have successfully completed a charity skydive from 13,000ft, to raise funds for its charity Nelsons Journey. For more than 25 years, Nelson’s Journey has supported children and young people in Norfolk who’ve experienced the death of a significant person, providing a range […]
Nota AI™ identified as a company with a “Passion to Win” at global event
The South Korean traffic solutions company Nota AI (Nota Inc) has been identified as a “company with a passion to win” at Continental X Born2Global Startup Open Innovation in Pangyo, South Korea. The event, co-hosted by Continental Korea and Global Digital Innovation Network, brings together start-ups and small and medium enterprises from around the world, […]
Clearview hosts webinar “seeing mobility through a new lens”
Transport technology, data and software company Clearview Intelligence is hosting a knowledge sharing webinar this Thursday (21 September) to explain how data is used to make traffic management more efficient. International Channel Manager Nora Ali and Head of Technical Sales Pete Cattell will explain how “it’s all about the data” and the importance of understanding […]
TfL warns drivers of forthcoming closures of southbound Blackwall Tunnel
Transport for London is warning drivers that the Blackwall Tunnel will be closed to southbound traffic across the weekends of 30 September – 2 October and 7-9 October. TfL says the works, which are linked to the Silvertown Tunnel construction, will the enable the completion of the realignment of the southbound carriageway, which will carry […]
£65m road upgrade on A11 completed
National Highways’ concrete reconstruction scheme on the A11 at Wymondham has been completed. The project involved the removal of the old concrete road surface and some of its foundations, before rebuilding with recycled material and a new asphalt top. National Highways also used initiaitves to to reduce the CO2 emissions during construction. This includes recycling 60,000 […]
East Dumbartonshire introduces EV charging tariff
An cost for charging electric vehicles using council-owned charge points in East Dumbartonshire will be introduced next month. Installation of charging points began in 2016, with the Council now operating 17 across the area, and was initially funded by Transport Scotland, while the usage until now has been subsidised by the Council to encourage people […]