Classification & data collection

The benefits of combining enforcement and traffic management Jason Barnes considers how combining enforcement equipment with other traffic management technologies might benefit our future if only the will were really in place to do so. During the ITS World Congress in Vienna in October last year, Navtech Radar and Vysionics ITS announced a strategic partnership that would combine the expertise of Navtech in millimetre-wave wide-area surveillance...

Developing new detection and monitoring technologies Established detection and monitoring technologies continue to evolve, but is it time to challenge their supremacy and take a serious look at less conventional ITS? Andy Graham considers the options with Jason Barnes. For ITS system providers, the most potentially lucrative markets over the next few years are going to be the BRIC (Brazil Russia India and China) group of countries, all of which...

Xerox video enforcement deters stopped-bus overtaking High resolution cameras, video motion detection and modems are being fitted to school buses in Maryland, as part of a system designed to enforce and deter stopped-bus overtaking violations. A new video enforcement system is being installed to record drivers illegally overtaking school buses in Frederick County, Maryland. It is against the law to overtake a parked school bus that is loading or...