Highway & Network Management

The Workzone Backsense pulsed radar system from Brigade boasts close-in corner-to-corner blind-spot detection, and is said to be ideal for light to medium duty mobile plant machinery. It completes Brigade's portfolio of Xtreme and Standard pulsed radar obstacle-detection systems.

Traffic signs play important roles in traffic, providing road users with regulatory, warning, and guide information about road conditions ahead. According to LEDSigns, the Taiwan-based company established by HONYEE Group in 2009 to concentrate on the development of LED [light emitting diode] signs, visibility and legibility of traffic signs can have a great influence on a driver's ability to comprehend a sign's messages and response time: "it is critical their brightness is enhanced at night and in bad weat

In China Ningbo City has set out a strategic plan to improve its road links and boost capacity.

Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) is going ahead with plans to upgrade the Pan Island Expressway (PIE).

HTS now offers a sophisticated vehicle identity recognition (VIR) package, which offers key benefits over basic LPR technology. The VIR patentpending technology provides a comprehensive profile of each car including make, model, colour, country or state name and special plate icons.

Oregon Department of Transportation's James Whitty spoke with Jason Barnes on the state's progress with VMT fee-based charging

A new project aims to bring Europe to the forefront of developing the future of transport. A three-year project has set itself the challenge of developing a "truly inspiring vision" of how roads will be built and maintained in the 21st century. Forever Open Road is a revolutionary concept led by the Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL) and supported by the UK's influential TRL (Transport Research Laboratory).