Dublin’s city-scale AI enables data‑driven active travel and road safety decisions
Dublin has teamed up with VivaCity and Bentley Systems to create a real‑time digital twin that fuses sensor, traffic and environmental data, enabling data‑driven decisions for safer, greener travel across the city and its boroughs. Smart Dublin, an initiative of the four local authorities in the Dublin region to support innovation, has been trialing new […]
VivaCity ranked in first place on the North East Combined Authority Framework
VivaCity, the transport technology scaleup transforming cities into smarter, safer and more sustainable places to live and work, has been selected as the top supplier on the North East Combined Authority (NECA) framework titled Intelligent Detection and Automated Turning Counts Specification. This framework, led by Newcastle City Council, enables local authorities in the region to […]
DfT stalwart Hanson wins top ITS UK honour
One of the most influential professionals in the UK ITS industry, Graham Hanson, has won the Rees Hills Award for Personal Contribution and Achievement at the Intelligent Transport Systems UK awards in London, while Valerann, AGD Systems, Westcotec and Yunex Traffic were among others honoured at the prestigious event. The Rees-Hills award is named in […]
VivaCity wins inaugural exhibitors’ award at JCT Traffic Signals Symposium
VivaCity’s smart signals control solution has won the first ITS UK-sponsored “Most Innovative product or Service at the Exhibition” award at the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham. The solution was chosen out of ten who were shortlisted for recognition at the popular event. “Congratulations to VivaCity on winning the inaugural ITS UK’s Most Innovative […]
A34: Smart sensor trial to improve road safety for cyclists and pedestrians begins
Transport for West Midlands and Solihull Council are trialling smart sensor technology on the A34 in Solihull with the aim of making busy crossings safer for cyclists and pedestrians. The innovative technology from VivaCity has been installed at a toucan crossing near Blythe Valley on Stratford Road. The sensors detect cyclists 20-30m away from the […]
V for victory: VESOS, Valerann and VivaCity solutions among six road safety innovations to win trials with National Highways
Near-misses, collisions, unsafe driving and roadworks – just some of the hazards that National Highways has to manage on motorways and major A roads across the country. But now, after National Highways launched a competition to find new ways to manage such hazards, six winning ideas are going to be trialled which could help to […]
JCT sees surge in delegate bookings for this year’s Traffic Signals Symposium
The ever-popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium is proving more popular than ever this year, with bookings running at double the rate they were this time last year. The Symposium, in Nottingham this September, brings together the private and public sector for a series of learned presentations and speeches, an exhibition of the latest signals-related technology, […]
Nine finalists named in National Highways competition to tackle hazards
Nine innovative new ideas that could help manage hazards on motorways and major A roads have been selected by National Highways to receive up to £90,000 funding to develop their concepts and improve safety. It follows the launch of a competition by National Highways to find new ways to help protect road users by better […]
Using AI to make roads safer with VivaCity and West Midlands Combined Authority on this week’s Highways Voices
“You can’t change behaviour if you don’t know what the behaviour is,” comments Darren Divall, Regional Road Safety Manager from the West Midlands Combined Authority on this week’s Highways Voices. “You can’t increase enforcement of speed limits until you know what the reason is why people are speeding, and it might be that that’s the […]
Welsh Town uses Vivacity Sensors to Monitor Contraflow Cycle Lanes
A new contraflow cycle lane has been implemented in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, to make it safer to cycle in the town, overseen by three Vivacity sensors installed to gather multi-modal count, path and speed data. Monmouthshire County Council are using this data to assess if cycling has become more popular in the town as a result […]