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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Additional traffic sensors installed in Kent as part of ADEPT Live Labs trial

Kent County Council and its partners at Amey are installing more traffic sensors on behalf of Dartford Borough Council to monitor traffic patterns that are helping make future transport decisions for the county. It’s part of the £22.9m Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport, ADEPT, SMART Places Live Labs programme. They are […]

Vivacity Labs and Vaisala partner to provide transport, weather and environmental data insights to improve travel sustainability

Vivacity Labs, the London-based transport technology scaleup, and Vaisala, a global leader in weather, environmental, and industrial measurements, have partnered to drive sustainability in the travel industry. Vivacity’s sensors, which use artificial intelligence and machine learning to capture anonymous traffic counts of different transport modes across a selected ‘count line’, will pair its sensors with […]

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