United Kingdom
Fuel spill response tests in road accidents
National Highways, 05.04.2022
Accidents often require police investigations, including detailed forensic examination, but this work prevents the processing of oil and diesel fuel spills that can damage the road surface in just 90 minutes, up to the need to replace it.
National Highways has announced that it is joining forces with the Forensic Accident Investigation Network (FCIN) and Kier Highways to conduct special tests. To do this, three different types of pavement have been laid on a 200-meter section of the Santa Pod Raceway, near the city of Northampton, on which road accidents will be simulated and the possibility of handling fuel and oil spills with special substances will be tested without compromising the accuracy of forensic medical examination.
https://www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk/National-Highways-seeks-to-clean-up-with-spillage-solution/9625
Vivacity Labs provides data collection on pedestrian and bicycle traffic trends in Dorset
Traffic Technology Today, 07.04.2022
Vivacity Labs, a London-based transport technology company, is partnering with Dorset City Council to deploy its sensors as part of a major sustainable infrastructure development project.
Fifteen Vivacity Labs traffic sensors will be installed in the Dorchester, Ferndown, Shaftesbury, Staphill and Weymouth areas. The sensors will collect detailed and anonymous data 24/7 about the types of vehicles, traffic flows and movement patterns, as well as the dynamics of their changes over time.
Dorset Council is working with Vivacity Labs as part of the UK Department for Transport's Urban Transformation Fund to understand current cycling and walking trends.
The data collected during the five-year monitoring period will be used to measure changes in the behavior of cyclists and pedestrians after the implementation of projects focused on active movement, including the construction of new bicycle and pedestrian paths.
USA
Joint project Iteris and UMTRI in the field of intellectual mobility and security
Traffic Technology Today, 09.04.2022
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) has selected Iteris Inc to implement an intelligent mobility and road safety project in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Iteris equips more than 20 regulated intersections with its "car to everything" (V2X) technology. The three-year, $20 million project aims to demonstrate the significant advantages of detection systems with support for the V2X function.
"One of the most promising aspects of this project is that we will be able to pave the way for the deployment of connected and automated vehicles at the national level," says Henry Liu, UMTRI research professor and director of the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). "With partners in the innovative technology of intelligent mobile infrastructure management, such as Iteris, we will finally demonstrate not only the technology, but also the financing mechanism for the construction of its infrastructure — both aspects are necessary for implementation at the national level. "
Half of the funding is provided by the US Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration Program for the Deployment of Advanced Transportation and Traffic Management Technologies (ATCMTD), and the remainder is provided by participants under the public-private partnership program.
As part of the connected vehicle safety program, Iteris and Continental will deploy their Vantage Fusion hybrid video and radar traffic detection technology at key regulated intersections. Vantage Fusion allows you to use V2X applications and advanced visualization of intersections. As a first step in this process, a pilot project has already been launched at the University of Michigan.
Vantage Fusion is the first solution from Iteris and Continental within the framework of cooperation between companies in the field of road infrastructure.
Netherlands
UAV Conference in Amsterdam
Traffic Technology Today, 05.04.2022
The UAV Week, which took place on March 29-31, 2022 in Amsterdam, gathered about 3,500 visitors, 250 speakers, representatives of 80 countries and more than 65 hours of panel discussions, demonstrations, seminars and presentations.
The three-day event, held jointly with Intertraffic Amsterdam, was organized by the Aviation Safety Authority of the European Union (EASA) and RAI Amsterdam.
Patrick Kaye, EASA Executive Director noted: "Despite the pandemic, this new segment of aviation has been actively developing in the last two years. Now we have European rules, billions of dollars are being invested in this sector, and it is slowly but surely coming out of its infancy."
On the first day of the conference, the World Economic Forum announced the creation of a Coalition of Cities and Regions on Advanced and Urban Air Mobility. The coalition of Cities and regions will ensure joint work on the implementation of best practices of urban air mobility.
"City authorities have a great opportunity to ensure the introduction of advanced air mobility technologies in such a way that they work for cities and their communities, and not vice versa," said David Hyde, head of Aerospace at the World Economic Forum.
A pan-European community of projects and initiatives in the field of urban air mobility was also created, designed to contribute to the sustainable development of UAV ecosystems. The new community aims to create a pan-European platform for cooperation to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between UAV projects and initiatives in Europe.