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The Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, today announced it has successfully raised Β£50,000 with its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign....
Air Monitors is playing a key role in the UKβs first Urban Observatory which has been designed to provide a digital view of how our cities work. The company has supplied...
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Enables live, statewide, real-time monitoring of roadway weather conditions Baron Services, the worldwide provider of critical weather intelligence, has released a new pr...
Eurovia Surfacing has joined forces with key supply chain partner Sims Milling to help trial a new innovative automatic braking system that could save the lives of worker...
Highly Automated Vehicles (HAV) are currently testing on public roads in fewer than 50 cities around the world, but more markets are interested in bringing this new techn...
British luxury brand Aston Martin is today presenting the Volante Vision Concept, a luxury concept aircraft with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities. Produc...
Parking is one of the few sources of revenue for Britain’s local councils, who received a record Β£819 million from parking fees in the 2016/17 financial year. While...
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further, in both s...
Meteorological equipment specialist Biral has just launched its new RWS-30 Road Tunnel Weather Sensor. The sensor is easily integrated with systems in road and tunnel app...
Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation, today announced the launch of its interactive infographic depicting the evolution of Americaβs iconic Interst...
In our recent review of the second edition of the CIC BIM protocol (Second Helpings) we noted references to an Asset Information Model (AIM), which had been introduced in...
A new Internet of Things predictive technology software, called SmartWater, for gully management, developed with support from Lancaster University, Innovate UK and the De...
After ten years of experimentation under actual operating conditions with its customer-partners, Renault Trucks unveil its second generation of all-electric vehicles: the...
AGD Systems, one of the UKβs leading manufacturers of ITS product solutions, is to exhibit at this yearβs Traffex Seeing is Believing (SIB) β 27-28 June 2018 at Bruntingt...
The Highways England A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme has become the first UK project to switch to temporary lighting powered by Prolectric sunshine in pref...
Grayhill announces the release of an exciting line of updated CANbus keypads and MMI Controllers for off-highway vehicles. As the originators of CANbus Keypads and Jog Di...
Good signing and road markings could cut run-off crashes by up to 80% over the next 30-40 years with the car of the future. These may be the easiest crashes to prevent in...
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is responsible for managing over 8,000 miles of state and interstate highways within Oregon as well as managing programs re...
Energi Mine, the blockchain platform that financially rewards energy saving behaviour using EnergiTokens (ETK), has announced a partnership with Electra Commercial Vehicl...
Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, today announced that it is a finalist for the prestigious AgilityNet Tech4Good Awards. The compa...
GKD Technologies design, develop and produce height, slew and load safety control systems for Road Rail vehicles (RRVβs) and general construction equipment such as excava...
The Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling (MIDAS) system uses various types of vehicle detection technology to monitor traffic flow and speed. This is used...
A concept for a smart hydraulic hybrid excavator from Volvo Construction Equipment has received the Volvo Technology Award 2018. Engineers from Volvo Construction Equipme...
Thatcham Research and the ABI (Association of British Insurers) are today issuing an urgent call to carmakers and legislators for greater clarity around the capability of...
The updated Load Assist, On-Board Weighing, from Volvo Construction Equipment provides payload accuracy within Β± 1% on every bucket, while the machine is moving. Volvo Co...
Launched within the framework of DIMECC Oyβs LIFEX programme, the MIDAS project, which focuses on artificial intelligence, is Finlandβs first machine learning project in...
For its second consecutive year, Trace Software International confirms it will be an exhibitor at Intersolar Europe, taking place 20th β 22nd of June at the Messe MΓΌnchen...
Today, more than 8 billion devices, including construction machinery, are connected around the world, forming an internet of things (IoT). By 2020, experts estimate that...
Telensa, the market leader the leader in connected street lighting and smart city applications, today announced that it has been selected by the Highways Department of th...
Moonshadow Mobile, Inc. announced a partnership with INRIX, the world leader in transportation analytics and connected car services, to incorporate INRIX Trips Reports in...
INRIX, the world leader in connected car services and transportation analytics, and Information Logistics (ILog) has announced a new emergency alert service for transport...
Brokk, the worldβs leading manufacturer of remote-controlled demolition machines, launches Brokk SmartConcept™, a set of technological features that offer improvem...
Britainβs estimated 1 billion windows could become the power generators of the future, letting light through while harnessing solar energy. A Cambridge firm, Polysolar, w...
StreetLight Data, Inc., the mobility analytics company that brings real-world travel patterns to light by launching their Multimodal Measurement Initiative (MΒ²Initiative)...
Mack Trucks, a part of Volvo Group, plans to have a fully electric Mack LR refuse model equipped with an integrated Mack electric drivetrain operating in North America in...
This morning, MyLogic, Inc., announced the launch of Dump Truck Math, a mobile app available for both iOS and Android devices. Dump Truck Math was designed with estimator...
When Gothenburg, Sweden, welcomes the Volvo Ocean Race on June 14β21, the city will also welcome two concept all-electric articulated Volvo buses which will carry visitor...
Scientists at Aston University have developed Bio-Bitumen, a new way to convert organic bin waste such as decomposed food, paper and plastic into a substance suitable for...
GKD Technologies is a leading provider of systems designed for safeguarding personnel and machines. The company, based in the South of England, was founded by current CEO...
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