Travel information & weather

Vaisala's RoadAI can optimise maintenance Alerts for natural disasters are ones that most of us would rather do without, writes Adam Hill. But the ITS industry still needs help to deal with more common meteorological issues Google Maps has added SOS alerts to its service. For those of us more used to using the phone app to navigate from a metro station to an unfamiliar restaurant, this may seem extreme. But this is not what...

Yeti more AV snow-clearing by Semcon There is a lot of debate about the place of autonomous vehicles on our roads but a Swedish company is already ploughing ahead with driverless snow clearance on airport runways, writes David Arminas Femcon, a Swedish applied automation company, has started an on-site project to clear snow from runway landing lights using autonomous vehicles (AVs). Most often, this time-consuming job has to...

Hurricane prompts Houston TranStar flood warning app When Harvey came calling in 2017, the people of Houston got more than their feet wet. But some good came out of it a flood-warning app which could save lives, finds Adam Hill Over four days in August 2017, Hurricane Harvey caused more than 100 deaths as it delivered over 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain to parts of Texas, leaving Biblical scenes of destruction as it went. Hundreds of thousands...