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Issue 43: Sep 19-25, 2008
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ITS REPORT NEWS
ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION
New Toll Transponder Fulfills Consumers' Desire for Driver Feedback (MarketWatch, Sep 22): "In-Vehicle Audio and Visual Cues Communicate Directly with Customers." Read more
Tampa El Going Great, Underlines Case for All Electronic Toll Collection (Hawaii Reporter, Sep 23): "The Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA), its owner, is being showered with awards for the innovative project." Read more
State considers toll lanes to pay for interstate widening projects (Greenvile Online, Sep 25): "The [South Carolina] Department of Transportation plans to spend $13 million over the next two years to design both projects and to find a way to pay for them -- including the possible use of toll lanes." Read more
FREIGHT AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS
Advantage PressurePro Releases Drop-and-Hook Truck Tire Pressure Monitoring System (Truck Net, Sep 25): "The Drop-and-Hook System, a first in the market, has been designed to work specifically with multi trailer fleets, allowing automatic tethering and un-tethering of trailers to tractors." Read more
HOT/HOV LANES
Michigan may get more serious about car pool lanes (Detroit Free-Press, Sep 19): "The world's automotive capital may be getting more serious about car pool lanes." Read more
Connolly: You should get a refund if HOT lanes are slow (WTOP News, Sep 23): "WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors thinks drivers should get a refund if High Occupancy Toll lanes aren't moving fast enough." Read more
IN-VEHICLE SYSTEMS
Japanese Cell Phone Doubles as Car Key (Gadget Lab, Sep 24): "Lose this cell phone and you'll be locked out of your car, too." Read more
LOCATION BASED SERVICES
Update: Visa Unveils Massive Mobile Payment Plans (PC Magazine, Sep 25): "Visa unveiled several partnerships on Thursday to move payment processing from the PC to the mobile phone." Read more
PARKING SYSTEMS
Mumbai steps up a gear, gets robotic car parking lot (IBN Live, Sep 23): "The multi-storied parking system in the city's posh Breach Candy area boasts of a fully automated technology that can park and retrieve your car within one minute." Read more
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
Goldman Sachs Invests in American Traffic Solutions (MarketWatch, Sep 25): "Goldman Sachs was invited to invest in ATS as a minority shareholder to support the explosive growth in the company's photo traffic safety enforcement and electronic toll payment businesses, according to Jim Tuton, president and CEO of ATS." Read more
TRAFFIC INFORMATION
When WILL We Optimize Road Traffic? (The Moderate Voice, Sep 24): Broad discussion about optimizing traffic with some technology considerations. Read more
TRANSIT ITS
Montreal shares 'lessons' learned from transit smartcard (National Post, Sep 19): "The Toronto Transit Commission may join forces with other GTA transportation agencies to introduce a smartcard fare payment system like those in Hong Kong, London and most recently Montreal." Read more
Dublin Selects IBM for Citywide Smart Ticketing System (MarketWatch, Sep 22): "The Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) has selected IBM to create and implement the infrastructure for an Integrated Ticketing System (ITS) across all public transport in the greater Dublin area." Read more
Shenzhen Metro to Secure New Subway Lines With Intelligent Video Solution From ObjectVideo and TeraMage (MarketWatch, Sep 23): "Video Analytics to Help Ensure Rail Line and Facility Safety and Security." Read more
VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE AND VEHICLE-TO-INFRASTRUCTURE
Travolution enables traffic lights to talk to cars (CNET, Sep 19): "The system consists of a network of 46 'intelligent' traffic lights (with 50 more light installations planned) installed in the center of Ingolstadt, the software to which they are all linked optimizing their phasing to bring stopping times down to a minimum, and specially modified A5 and A6 Avant models provided by Audi." Read more
ITS REPORT EXTRAS
ITS JOBS
4 new ITS job postings (Ontario-Canada, Delaware, New York, Washington DC) have been added on our website this week.
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