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Issue 39: Aug 22-28, 2008
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ITS REPORT NEWS
GENERAL INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION
£18 million bid on Olympic transport (Daily Echo, Aug 26): "AN £18 MILLION bid to help people in Weymouth and Portland breathe more easily and let buses take the strain during the 2012 Olympics is under way. Plans include improving junctions at hotspots, intelligent' use of traffic signals, introducing new technology such as real time' passenger information on display screens at bus stops, and sending data to mobile phones." Read more
EU Project Promises Safer Traffic (PC World, Aug 27): "A system to avoid traffic jams, accidents and other dangers will be demonstrated at IFA in Berlin by the Coopers (Cooperative Systems for Intelligent Road Safety) project." Read more
ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION
Taking a toll: Debate heats up over charging to cross Columbia River (The Columbian, Aug 24): "Tolling has become one of the defining issues in the heated bridge debate, with Clark County commuters growing increasingly worried that the project will be built on their backs." Read more
FREIGHT AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS
Tech firm seals $12m US freight deal (New Zealand Herald, Aug 27): "New Zealand-based ICT company Imarda sealed a $12 million deal with a major US freight company yesterday." Read more
Illinois Trucking: Greener Every Day (The Earth Times, Aug 28): "The Illinois Department of Transportation's (IDOT) adoption of PrePass truck technology almost ten years ago has reduced greenhouse gas and related emissions by more than 17,000 metric tons." Read more
IN-VEHICLE SYSTEMS
Plug In and Drive (World Changing, Aug 27): "There's a lot to chew over in Wired's profile of Shai Agassi, the entrepreneur engaged in an audacious experiment to electrify an entire nation's transportation system, and in the process rewrite the automotive industry's business model." Read more
PARKING SYSTEMS
High Tech Tickets Issued in Holyoke (ABC, Aug 26): "The City of Holyoke, Mass has unveiled a new system for writing parking tickets. It is an automated and high-tech. There are three components: a cell phone, digital paper, and a digital pen." Read more
TRAFFIC INFORMATION
Pointing the way (The Engineer, Aug 27): "The [British] government's Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is investing £7m in research that aims to help members of the public plan their journeys better." Read more
NAVIGON Delivers Free Real-Time Traffic Updates for Life Across Product Suite (Market Watch, Aug 27): "NAVIGON, one of the world's leading and fastest growing providers of navigation products and solutions, today announced it is making Free Real-Time Traffic Updates for Life standard on a wide range of its new products this fall." Read more
New Garmin personal navigators add free traffic info (Boston Herald, Aug 28): "A new line of personal navigators that add free traffic information and clearer directions was unveiled Wednesday by Garmin International." Read more
TRANSIT ITS
Las Vegas Transit Authority Deploys March Networks Mobile Video Surveillance Solution for Security and Risk Management (Market Watch, Aug 26): "March Networks, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, announced today that the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) is using the Company's mobile video surveillance solutions for security and risk management on its para-transit and fixed route buses." Read more
VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE AND VEHICLE-TO-INFRASTRUCTURE
Ford's Smart Intersection Seeks to Reduce Accidents (Automobile.com, Aug 22): "Though a great deal of research and investment has been made regarding passive safety (physical protection from accidents), the future will be ensuring vehicles do not get into accidents in the first place." Read more
ITS REPORT EXTRAS
ITS JOBS
7 new ITS job postings (California, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Utah) have been added on our website this week.
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