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Issue 47: Oct 17-23, 2008
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ITS REPORT NEWS
ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION
E-ZPass coming to Ohio Turnpike (The Toledo Blade, Oct 20): "The Ohio Turnpike Commission will get a little closer to offering electronic toll collection to its customers today when it awards the first of three contracts to modify toll plazas for E-ZPass service." Read more
Big Success with the Performance Evaluation of the New 5.9 GHz Tolling Technology from Kapsch TrafficCom at the Trial Facility in Denver, Colorado (Sys-Con, Oct 21): "The Kapsch solution under evaluation is an electronic toll collection system for Open Road Tolling (Multi-Lane Free-Flow)." Read more
FREIGHT AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS
DEUTZ Launch Groundbreaking Engine Telematics Monitoring & Diagnostics System (HUB, Oct 20): "DEUTZ, one of the world's leading independent engine manufacturers, has unveiled a new telematics system for the remote monitoring of engines and fleet management - the first from an industrial engine manufacturer." Read more
IN-VEHICLE SYSTEMS
Bosch's Vehicle Motion and Safety Offers Integrated Solutions, Provides Comfort, Agility and Safety (Market Watch, Oct 22): "VMS integrates existing vehicle systems creating an intelligent network to provide maximum safety, comfort, stability and agility." Read more
TRAFFIC INFORMATION
Dayton, Ohio Drivers to Receive Real-Time Traffic Information and Travel Times (Market Watch, Oct 17): "SpeedInfo has completed deployment of its sensors along important routes with the cooperation of several Dayton area municipal governments." Read more
Google Maps gets gov M-way congestion overlay (The Register, Oct 22): "England's Highways Agency has announced a hookup with Google which presents live traffic information overlaid atop the online ad firm's popular cloud map app, Google Maps." Read more
TRAFFIC SIGNALIZATION
Believe it or not, traffic signals are made to aid traffic flow (Gazette Xtra, Oct 22) "Improper traffic signal timing on major national roadways accounts for 5 to 10 percent of all traffic delay, or 295 million vehicle-hours of delay." Read more
VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE AND VEHICLE-TO-INFRASTRUCTURE
GM develops second-generation car-to-car communications system (Motor Authority, Oct 22): "Together with the CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium (C2C-CC), GM is demonstrating for the first time a worldwide 'vehicle-to-X' communication system that is independent of the manufacturer or vehicle-type." Read more
Road test for vehicle-to-vehicle communication (German Aerospace Center, Oct 22): "At the Opel proving ground in Dudenhofen near Frankfurt am Main, the new car-to-car (C2C) communication technology is demonstrated in real life." Read more
Honda Demonstrates Life Saving Motorcycle Technology (The Auto Channel, Oct 22): "The system generates warnings to riders and drivers of other vehicles by continuous exchange of positioning data from satellite GPS sources." Read more
VEHICLE TRACKING
WebTech Wireless Sells an Initial Order for 3,000 Vehicle Locators to a Leading Telematics Service Provider for a UK-Based Global Auto Insurance Company (Market Watch, Oct 17): "The WebTech units will be installed in insured vehicles, and using GPS and mobile wireless networks, will transmit up-to-the-minute, real-time data such as vehicle location, engine diagnostics and vehicle usage patterns." Read more
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ITS JOBS
5 new ITS job postings (US - California, Florida, New Jersey, Minnesota) have been added on our website this week.
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