The city of Sausalito, California, has deployed Streetline's smart parking platform, including its free smartphone app, Parker, giving the city's residents and visitors real-time insight for finding open parking spaces in this picturesque waterfront community.Available for iPhone, Android or compatible tablet, users see an instant map showing real-time availability of 530+ spaces along local streets and in parking lots, with icons noting more than four spaces available (plenty of parking available), more th
German municipalities may soon be allowed to issue special rules giving drivers of electric cars and other low-emission vehicles priority parking status.
A draft proposal has been issued by the Bundesrat, the second chamber of the German parliament, to the first chamber, the Bundestag. Currently, only disabled people and local residents enjoy any kind of vehicle parking privileges.
According to the proposal, local authorities could, for instance, free electric cars from parking fees and forbid parking of
The UK’s National Infrastructure Commission has shortlisted five companies including Aecom and Arup in a competition for ideas to make roads fit for driverless cars. The five companies were chosen from 81 entries submitted to the Roads for the Future initiative led by the roads authority Highways England and Innovate UK, a government agency that encourages research and innovation in many sectors. Aecom is examining how smart traffic signals could advise drivers as to a speed they should be driving if they
