Highway & Network Management

McCann lights up the M1 in major upgrade

January 7, 2019

UK engineering firm J. McCann is installing 500 lighting columns and accessories as part of a major 12km upgrade to one of England’s busiest motorways.

Indra’s Horus added to more tunnels on Bogotá-Villavicencio route

January 7, 2019

Spainish IT firm Indra has implemented its Horus management system for the Herradura, Moscosio, Culebra and Oro Perdido tunnels in Colombia. The new tunnels, between Cáqueza and Puente Quetame, are part of the Bogotá-Villavicencio highway, one of Colombia's busiest roads. Indra's platform now manages 15 tunnels on the highway. This new section of the highway was opened in November 2017. The four new tunnels will be controlled by the Horus traffic and tunnel management platform, an Indra proprietary produ

DURAG buys into JES Elektrotechnik to expand tunnel sensor work

January 7, 2019

German tunnel sensor monitoring manufacturer DURAG has taken a 50% stake in the Austrian tunnel air and lighting monitoring company JES Elektrotechnik. JES, based in Hallein, Austria, manufactures and sells environmental monitoring solutions for transport infrastructure applications such as tunnels, underground car parks and road weather stations. It’s markets are mainly in the German-speaking countries worldwide and it also carries out maintenance on behalf of tunnel operators. DURAG Group, with headquart

Electronic tolling to be introduced for California bridges?

December 6, 2018

California’s Bay Area Toll Authority is evaluating the potential for introducing electronic tolling technology on key bridge links in the state. The proposals would see electronic tolling systems being introduced for the seven state-owned toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area. Should the proposal go ahead, it would cost an estimated US$50 million to install the systems on the seven crossings. A decision is expected in early 2019 and if the go-ahead is given, the systems would be made operational durin

SMIGHT and PTV in real-time traffic solution

November 13, 2018

SMIGHT, maker of traffic data management systems and hardware, has teamed up with traffic management software developer PTV Group to create a traffic management package. Cities and municipalities can use the new solution to analyse traffic flows and plan ahead to reduce traffic volume on roads and in regions. SMIGHT intelligent street lighting and multifunctional base towers can be equipped with features such as public WiFi, charging technology for electric cars or sensors for recording traffic data and en

Telensa PLANet shines for Edinburgh

November 13, 2018

Telensa Smart Streetlight Controls have been deployed as part of Edinburgh’s 64,000-light Energy Efficiency Programme. All 64,000 units are Telensa LED lights and selected by CGI Group, a global information technology consulting and systems integration company based in Montreal, Canada. The Edinburgh project is being run by UK services group Amey and is expected to be finished at the end of 2020. Telensa PLANet is a wireless management system that centralises remote control of the city’s lighting through

UK launches rehabilitation programme for riskiest major roads

October 17, 2018

The UK government has embarked on a €114 million programme to prevent almost 1,450 deaths and serious injuries on the riskiest A roads in England. The money has been allocated from the Safer Roads Fund to rehabilitate the roads - all of which are under the management of local authorities – over the next decade. However, an analysis by the Road Safety Foundation and the RAC Foundation – two driving and highway safety organisations - estimates the value to upgrade over the 20 years would be €627 million

Cleaner urban streets through sensor use

October 9, 2018

Sophisticated new sensors from EarthSense are said to help improve urban air quality according to the firm. Air quality monitoring technology from EarthSense is providing real-time data for trials into the use of low emission vehicles to cut vehicle pollution in city centres. The data, collected by both mobile and static EarthSense Zephyr air quality monitoring sensors, is being used to automatically activate zero-emission

Good routes with QRoutes

September 28, 2018

England’s Kent County Council has improved its special-educational-needs transport services with computerised routing technology that optimises transport efficiency by up to 15%. Using cloud-based software from QRoutes, the council has reviewed 1,500 routes and re-planned transport for 4,000 special-educational-needs pupils, as well as 1,000 people entitled to social care transport. Kent has a greater number of special-educational-needs clients than any other council in the UK, amounting to a €28.3 milli

StreetLight Data launches congestion-busting Traffic Diagnostics

September 28, 2018

StreetLight Data, a mobility analytics company, has launched Traffic Diagnostics, a tool to better understand the causes of traffic jams and identify solutions. StreetLight said that the tool, which assists multimodal planning and travel demand management, is available to its customers in the US. The tool is an addition to StreetLight Data's InSight, a platform for turning big data from mobile devices into transportation data analytics. StreetLight’s Traffic Diagnostics offers an overlay that locates traff