UK’s Highway Safety is Set in Concrete
A new concrete step barrier project in the UK hopes to increase safety on the highway while stimulating the economy. Frances Penwill-Cook investigates.
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The Road to Virtualisation
From better efficiency to lower costs, virtualisation is changing the way IT affects road traffic around the world. Gareth Evans finds out how.
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Vision Zero Drives Forward New Levels of Safety on Swedish Roads
12 years ago, Sweden implemented Vision Zero, making the country's roads some of the safest in the world. With the 16th ITS World Congress being held in Stockholm in September,...
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Fatigue Analysis Software Keeping Roads Safe
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Travellers Turn to Social Networking
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Galileo – The Unchartered Constellation
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Traffic Control at the Paris Air Show
The Paris Air Show attracts nearly half a million visitors but has only one major highway providing access to the site. It can become a logistical nightmare, but have improvements...
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South Korea Puts Tunnels to the Test
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Future is Bright for Zebra Crossings
With a startling number of pedestrian casualties on the UK roads each year, Frances Penwill-Cook finds out more about a lighting technology set to revolutionise the safety of Britain’s zebra...
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Video Detection: Increasing the Light at the End of the Tunnel
With products in over 450 tunnels worldwide and a new software release announced last month, Citilog is a global market leader in video-based traffic incident detection. Frances Penwill-Cook talks to...
