Tag: Transport Systems
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Improving Road Safety through Smart Data
[box type=”shadow” ] Robust and reliable data is essential for road safety and to guide all policies, programmes and interventions. In the era of evidencebased systems, data plays a pivotal role to evaluate the need and effectiveness of solutions. TrafficInfraTech speaks to few experts to understand how good quality data is important to road safety…
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AGILITY TO SUPPORT Intelligent Transport Systems
The range of opportunities to expand and enhance the user experience from ITS related products will expand in future. However, to support this developers and suppliers of ITS systems will need to ensure they operate with agility to keep pace with technological enhancements to provide solutions that deliver real value when they are needed by…
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MOBILE PHONE Data in transport
[box type=”shadow” ] The practice of transport demand modelling has not changed much over the last few decades where the estimation is still primarily manual survey based. Accurate and up-to-date information about mobility patterns is essential for city authorities to make investment decisions on transport infrastructure improvements that give the maximum bang for the buck.…
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Intelligent Transport Systems In India
This report is derived from an extensive secondary literature survey of the intelligent transport systems (ITS) sector in India. The primary aim of the report is to set the context for understanding the current state and future evolution of the sector in the country. Briefly, the policy framework and institutional structure as well as the…
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Interview with : Ravi Agarwal, ‘Putting sensors on transport systems is a challenging task’
Pepperl+Fuchs India is well known for its wide range of sensors and RFID products. Ravi Agarwal, its Director (Asia–Pacific) says that the company’s long presence in India is a sign of its commitment and dedication towards the Indian market. You manufacture many types of industrial sensors for the traffic industry such as proximity sensors, vision…
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Who I am and where am I going Demography, Lifestyles and Mobility
Gerard Tertoolen, Traffic Psychologist, XTNT at Utrecht, the Netherlands discusses how demographic and lifestyle changes can influence travel patterns. He says that by taking the wishes, motives and experiential values of mobile individuals into account as much as possible and by providing the right incentives at the right time, people can be induced to adjust…