New officers elected for Network of National ITS Associations
ITS UK’s Secretary General Jennie Martin has handed over the chairmanship of the Network of National ITS Associations to Roman Srp of the Czech and Slovak ITS&S. Commenting on his new role,
Mr Srp called ITS Nationals “a unique community of national platforms
with hundreds of
institutions from the public and private sectors included and jointly possessing the greatest ITS knowledge in Europe”. He added that during the next two years, he would like to encourage the Net- work to be “more active to achieve even more efficient partnership with political influence and fund- ing which will be appreciated by
both ITS Nationals members and their governments.” Te new Vice Chairman is Dr
Florin Nemtanu of ITS Romania who said “I think that in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems we can best build this cooperation through Network of ITS Nation- als, having in our minds a strong European ITS market as well as a strong relationship between nations, academia, industry and people. Te Network of ITS Nationals has to be a result of our cooperation and a force to push forward the ITS domain” Mrs Martin will continue to
serve the network in her new role as Promotion and Awareness Champion.
Mott MacDonald blazing the trail towards colour - and reaping the rewards. Last year, A-one+ deployed our VMS during its A1 refurbishment project, and attributed the zero standing-traffic related incidents over the period to the signs’ superior impact. “When the industry is
fully convinced about colour, which we believe it soon will be, Bartco UK will be ahead of the game, with a tried and tested product and excellent sign management system.” And Troy Wollard believes
that this is an excellent way of getting British innovation into the Australian market: “To put it plainly, the UK portable ITS market is way ahead of that in Australia” he said. “Te products within MVIS Ltd’s portfolio are new to the industry there. “However, we believe that the
Australian market is now ready to fully embrace mobile ITS solutions. MVIS AUS will harness that nascent demand, offer- ing customers well-established solutions and good service, leading the market forward.”
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SWARCO EXTENDS TRAFFIC SIGNAGE BUSINESS TO GREATER MANCHESTER
SWARCO Traffic Ltd is starting work with Transport for Greater Man- chester (TfGM) to provide enhanced driver information on roads across the region, using full-colour VMS. Forty signs will be placed at key
sites to provide accurate real-time traveller information. Tey will pri- marily be used to display journey time, traffic incident information, alternative routing, and network con- gestion information using text, graph- ics or a mixture of both. SWARCO will deploy their latest
generation full colour sign which uses a patented lens system to max- imise colour contrast, legibility, and uniformity, whilst minimising power consumption, and providing optimal performance in all operating conditions. Signs will be networked back to
TfGM’s UTMC system, enabling messages to be set either automatically by time- table and strategy plan, or manually by the traffic centre operators. In the future they could also be used for
parking guidance, event promotion and tourist information.
smarthighways.net Tis technology is already used in Reading and
Middlesbrough, and SWARCO’s success with TfGM follows awards earlier this year to supply signs to Leeds and Slough. Te scheme is funded by the Department for Transport under the Local Sustainable Transport Fund.
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