Google acquires Israel-based crowd-sourced traffic navigation app Waze for $1.03bn and Balfour Beatty's Hong Kong subsidiary wins a £722m road design and construction contract. Road-traffic-technology.com wraps the major headlines from...
Crowd-sourcing via smartphone apps and GPS devices is revolutionising the way in which traffic information is collated and analysed. Julian Turner talks to Jim Bak, director of community relations at...
A careful backyard observer would notice that ants never get caught up in their own traffic. Frances Cook finds out what it is about ants and their behaviour that prevents...
August saw a number of major road funding packages announced across the world, while testing for next-generation traffic and vehicle systems got underway. Road Traffic Technology wraps up the key...
What websites and travel tools are available to help drivers get around London hassle-free during the Olympics? Frances Cook looks at some of the more useful online and smartphone options.
With more than ten million visitors expected at the 2012 Olympic Games, should Londoners expect an increase in air pollution levels? While leading experts say yes, the government has played...
Satnav has transformed the way people use the roads – but not always for the better. In March 2012 the UK's Department for Transport held a Satnav Summit to discuss...
Could platoons of vehicles, each linked to the other to form an urban train, hold the answer to EU congestion worries? Elly Earls meets Tom Robinson and Carl Bergenhem of...
While European road freight is growing, a competitive marketplace means that big challenges must be overcome in 2012. Frances Cook reports on how companies must learn to be more efficient...
High-tech automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technologies are transforming the world of traffic monitoring. With more vehicles on the road than ever, Chris Lo discovered how these licence plate tracking...
