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Editor’s letter In the Traffic Technology
International archive we have the
proceedings from first ITS World
Congress, which took pace in
Paris in 1994. When I mentioned
this at an industry event recently
the person I was talking to
suggested I take a look at some of the subjects
covered – “I bet we’re still talking about the
same stuff then as we are now,” he sighed. “And
it’s still not happened!” Well, he was sort of right.
Twenty five years ago many of the subjects
covered are still familiar today – enforcement,
traffic management, traffic modeling, even
connected and autonomous vehicles were
under discussion in the PROMETHEUS project
(PROgraMme for a European Traffic of Highest
Efficiency and Unprecedented Safety), which
made it seem like advanced driver assistance
was just around the corner. Of course, in 1994,
it wasn’t. And hardly anyone had an internet
connection in their home, let alone in their car.
But, fast-forward to today and while we are
still talking about the same things, and many
ambitions are still not fully realized, so much
has been achieved. Technologies like automatic
lane keeping and emergency braking are
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commonplace; traffic modeling has moved from
2D line drawings to 4D digital twins; and we
are all connected 24/7, whether walking, cycling
or in our cars – via our smartphones, which
can deliver advanced sat-nav, with live traffic
information and instant rerouting. The first
standalone sat-navs from the early 2000s, would
set you back at least US$500, with ones built into
your dashboard adding as much as US$2,000 to
vehicle prices as late as 2006. Now, smartphone
sat-nav apps are free.
Is this just the beginning of a more equitable
society? In 25 years’ time will we live in a world
where technology enables large swathes of
our transportation networks to be completely
free? That’s certainly the idea several of our
Anniversary Special thought leaders are leaning
toward, you can read more from page 6.
Anniversaries are a great time for looking back
and assessing progress, and also for looking to
the future and wondering where we are headed.
We can do this with pessimism or optimism.
Based on the progress of the last quarter century,
I’d say there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic,
even if we may still be waiting for a fully
autonomous vehicle fleet in 2044…
Tom Stone, editor
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60 Norway’s approach to
free-fl ow tolling
Efkon, Austria
62 Smarter pedestrian
management for events
AGD Systems, UK
64 Growing smarter with
mulitmodal thinking
Kapsch, Austria
66 The lessons tolling can
learn from parking
Egis Projects, France
68 A fi rst glimpse of realworld
MaaS impacts Ramboll, UK
70 Tackling congestion,
pollution and accidents
Jenoptik, Germany
72 New technology for
open-road tolling
Norbit, Austria
73 Tolling enforcement in
the 21st century
Imperial Civil Enforcement, UK
74 Transforming transport
in the USA A-to-Be, Portugual
76 The Olso study: How
will MaaS defeat traffi c? PTV Group, Germany
79 A mission to read all
license plates CARRIDA, Germany
80 A free-fl ow weigh-inmotion
system Cross Zlín, Czech Republic
82 Traffi c data and the
internet of things
ADEC Technologies, Switzerland
83 Enabling a WIM,
toll-by-weight future Intercomp Company, USA
84 Sensors that optimize
winter maintenance Lufft, Germany
86 Eff ective charging for
overloaded vehicles Kistler, Switzerland
88 Customizable solutions
for weight enforcement Haenni, Switzerland
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