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004 Traffic Technology International July/August 2019
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| Connected mapping
A new UK project is connecting maps
to the real world, using HD cameras to
provide advanced updates
| Utah’s US$50m CAV network
Utah DOT is deploying a statewide
communication network to gather
connected vehicle data
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Unnecessary weight?
Weigh-in-motion is in need
of international standards
Floating car-data explosion
Just how much information can
you get from mobile devices?
Caught
in the act! Detecting drivers who are using
phones at the wheel has long been
a labor-intensive manual task – but
now the world’s first automated
enforcement solutions are here
What is ITS? Strictly speaking
intelligent transportation
systems are the smart
infrastructure and software used
to manage traffic on our roads.
But, as was clear when the
industry gathered last month
under the ITS banner – in both Washington DC
and Eindhoven – the term has come to be used
to mean so much more.
In Eindhoven, for example, in the pond
outside the flying-saucer like Evoluon
conference center, there was a demonstration of
autonomous shipping prototypes. And across
the larger Pond, in Washington, ITS America’s
president and CEO Shailen Bhatt revealed that
he is already looking into the possibility of
organizing demonstrations of eVTOL (electric
vertical takeoff and landing) vehicles at the ITS
World Congress when it comes to Los Angeles
in 2020 (you can read more on that story at www.
traffictechnologytoday.com/evtol). Furthermore,
when I spoke to Dynniq’s CEO, Cees De Wijs in
Eindhoven, he suggested yet another sector that
should be brought to the table – logistics and
e-commerce companies such as Amazon. “They
also face severe mobility challenges, especially
when it comes to last-mile solutions,” said De
Wijs, who is a member of the ERTICO board.
“I think it would be a powerful statement to
bring those companies to our events.”
And so the definition of ITS grows. And yet
we must not lose site of what is at the heart of
our industry. And this magazine never will.
For keeping abreast of the rapid and growing
developments in core topics such as floatingcar
and probe data (p28) and weigh-in-motion
(p16) is the essential foundation for anyone
who wants to build new mobility solutions. As
is learning from the insight of our industry’s
thought leaders such as our interviewee
Delaware DOT Secretary Jennifer Cohan (p12)
and our esteemed columnists, Larry Yermack,
JJ Eden, Richard Butter and Kirk Steudle
(beginning on p59). These days it seems like
everyone wants to be involved in ITS. But only
Traffic readers will have the deep insight.
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58 Tackling traffi c noise
with eff ective WIM
systems
Cestel, Slovenia
60 Automatic detection
of mobile phone use
Roadmetric, Canada
62 Bridge safety after the
Genoa accident
Kistler, Switzerland
64 Weather sensors for
bridges and diffi cult-toaccess
roads
Kineo, Spain
66 WIM sensors for
enforcement and tolling
Intercomp, USA
68 International standard
or a reliable WIM:
which is fi rst?
Haenni, Switzerland
69 Information-based
traffi c solutions for
smart cities
Cross Zlín, Czechia
70 The valuable data
delivered by bridge
WIM
PSP, Austria
73 Eff ective and effi cient
tunnel monitoring
JES, Austria
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