Flow Labs and Seattle DoT sign agreement to analyze intersection efficiency
Flow Labs, a transportation software technology leader specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that makes roads cleaner, clearer and safer, announced an agreement with the Seattle DoT to deploy the company’s Traffic Signal Management platform across the city’s University District. Flow Labs’ Integrated Connected Vehicle Data (ICVD) Platform seamlessly integrates Seattle’s roadway infrastructure data, capturing high […]
AI Speed Cameras: 60% of Brits “have no idea”
As AI speed camera continue to be trialled on UK roads, used car dealers Big Motoring World has conducted a survey to see whether people had heard about the new technology and their thoughts on it. The cameras have the potential to see inside vehicles as well as monitor their speed, giving law enforcement officers […]
AI detection technology credited with faster incident detection and fewer crashes on Peruvian highway
A traffic manager in Peru has explained how an AI-enabled traffic monitoring system has helped make his roads safer, allowing him to more quickly respond to incidents and hazardous situations on the highway. Francisco Chenguayen, Operations Manager of the Lima Expresa Toll Road made the comments during a webinar hosted by the International Bridge, Tunnel […]
Research suggests gap in AI adoption and sustainability goals across transport and logistics industries
Location data and technology platform HERE has unveiled insights from its latest global ‘On the Move’ survey developed in part with Amazon Web Services. The survey has found what researchers call a significant gap in the adoption of basic data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with a lack of sustainability goals and progress toward […]
National Highways trials AI to ease roadwork problems
After inviting proposals last year and then producing a shortlist, National Highways has chosen three proposals that use technology to minimise the traffic disruption caused by roadworks. All three winning ideas use artificial intelligence (AI). They each get up to £60,000 to trial their ideas on the roads. They are among the proposals that were shortlisted in […]
Streamlining road construction with AI
Road construction is a complex logistical process that includes coordinating local council permissions, planning workforce and machinery, and traffic management. Each decision has a significant financial impact on delivery and can negatively affect local communities, so reducing risk and optimising these projects is essential. With the government’s recently announced £8.3 billion long-term plan to resurface over 5,000 […]
81% of transport project professionals say AI will have a positive impact in their sector – new survey by APM reveals
A new survey by Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered membership organisation for the project profession, has revealed that the majority (81%) of project professionals working in the transport industry think the latest advancements in AI technology will have a positive impact on their sector, such as improved data analysis, stronger cyber security and […]
TTF hears how transport technology industry looking to maximise the benefits of AI
The government is working hard to improve its understanding of Artificial Intelligence in transport, its potential and its dangers, as it looks to work out how to best use the technology. Giving the keynote address at the Transport Technology Forum Conference in Leeds, the Department for Transport’s Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, Dr Annette Pass talked […]
Tunnel operators catch the new wave of AI-powered automatic incident detection
Thermal imaging-based camera company Teledyne FLIR has announced new AI-supported cameras for incident detection in tunnels. The new systems can be trained on large datasets of images, and learn how to identify and classify objects in an image. They use this knowledge to make decisions based on new images that they have never seen before. […]
Traffic managers – the DfT needs your help!
We all know that the revolution in traffic modelling and digital twins, the network-wide availability of real-time data and the opportunities that AI and connected data/infrastructure provide are changing the way the traffic management system operate. The Department for Transport is asking for the industry’s help to gather intelligence on the digital tools local authorities […]
