San Rafael preempts signals to cut response times
California’s City of San Rafael has installed traffic signal preemption technology to improve emergency blue light response times and safety. The signal preemption technology, from Opticom, has cut the [...]
Tolling tech to ease Tel Aviv roads
Colorado-based transport infrastructure tech company Vertex has developed new technology to relieve congestion in Tel Aviv’s central pricing zone. The company’s Optical Detection Intelligent Network, ODIN, provides compact tolling [...]
Learn how to protect IoT from cyber attacks
Those who want to learn how to safeguard their connected IoT programmes from cyber attacks should tune into an IMC webinar on August 31. Called “Using intelligence to defend [...]
Vodafone tests street furniture for 5G smart city plan
Indian telco Vodafone Idea is testing the use of street furniture for its planned 5G roll out in Bhopal Smart City. The street furniture is being sued for small [...]
Baidu gets licences for driverless robotaxis in China
Baidu has been granted China’s first-ever permits for commercial fully driverless ride-hailing services. This makes Baidu the first and only company to offer a fully driverless robotaxi services to [...]
Hayden AI fits smart cameras to New York buses
Buses in New York are to be fitted with cameras from California-based Hayden AI to spot bus lane traffic violations. Hayden AI specialises in smart traffic enforcement powered by [...]
Derq uses AI to improve road safety in Texas
MIT spin-off Derq, a provider of real-time artificial intelligence (AI) analytics for connected roads and vehicles, is enhancing road safety and smart traffic infrastructure in Texas. Working with its [...]
Taiwan targets transport in smart city initiatives
Helping drivers find parking spaces and providing guidance inside a busy train station are the latest two initiatives in the Smart City Taiwan project. The Industrial Development Bureau at [...]
Kapsch upgrades Australian highway with ITS
Austrian firm Kapsch TrafficCom is helping upgrade Queensland’s Bruce Highway with an intelligent transport system (ITS), jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland governments. The Cooperative & Automated Vehicle [...]
Drover AI raises $5.4m to push machine learning
Californian micromobility start-up Drover AI has raised $5.4m in a series A round to scale its onboard computer vision (CV) and machine learning (ML) technology. This should help enhance [...]
Sharjah deploys smart taxis to improve services
UAE-based Sharjah Taxi is using artificial intelligence to improve vehicle operations and safety in what it claims are the first-of-its-kind smart taxis in the Middle East. Sharjah Taxi, a [...]
AT&T plans USA’s first 5G smart city at scale
AT&T is working with real-estate company JBG Smith to make National Landing in Washington DC the USA’s first 5G smart city at scale. The collaboration is part of a [...]
