There’s no point in technology for technology’s sake: the smart iron suite of digital solutions gets straight to the heart of what customers actually want
The world’s highway networks are facing “a major paradigm shift” from a past that was based on hardware, engineering, economic, analogue, vehicle and supply driven solutions to a future that will be based instead on software, social, environmental, digital, multi-modal demand-driven solutions. Think road users and the customers first if you want to help drive future road policy said Young Tae Kim, secretary general of the International Transport Forum (ITF), speaking at the opening ceremony of PPRS 2018
A test stretch of road in the US is playing a valuable role in developing technology and boosting traffic safety -*Tom Gibson writes
Located a short distance from the Virginia Tech campus in the mountains of rural southwest Virginia in the mid-Atlantic region of United States, the Virginia Smart Road looks like a conventional road. But venturing to either end of the 3.5km-long thoroughfare reveals that it actually goes nowhere, at least for now.
The result of a plan conceived back in the 1980s, the Vi
Bomag is customer-testing a new Digital Field Service has the potential to redefine onsite maintenance … globally. The focus here is not digitisation for its own sake. Rather, it is an attempt to reduce downtime by linking a maintenance operator on site, wearing a construction hard hat with a built-in camera and a “heads up” mini-screen in view, remotely guided by a Bomag expert back at the company’s headquarters. Problems on site can be talked through, whether the machine is 1km or 1,000km away. Bomag
New advances in machine control systems are revolutionising the construction industry - Mike Woof writes Trimble is working on innovations for machine control to meet demand for highly sophisticated solutions, as well as for more simple equipment. Major developments in available technology will provide revolutionary advances in efficiency and productivity as a result.
