Smart Cities News

Orange County Transportation Authority has awarded Iteris a $4.7m contract for a regional traffic signal synchronisation project spanning eight cities including Anaheim, Stanton and County of Orange.

New deal enables municipalities with limited resources to become smart cities.

As part of the deployment, Iteris has upgraded services with a suite of SC511 mobile apps including Waze crowdsourcing, whereby users can switch seamlessly between the Waze and SC511 apps.

The developer’s software platform offers transportation agencies the flexibility of integrating real-time traffic data for signal performance measurement and optimisation.

A 45-per cent population growth in the last several decades has helped increase the vehicle traffic counts to more than 75,000 vehicles per day at some of its busiest intersections.

The University of Melbourne has teamed with Cubic Transportation Systems to test how its artificial intelligence technology with real-time computer vision tracking can help improve road safety.

Cubic’s Trafficware ATMS central transport management platform brings traffic network data into a single repository for a real-time, integrated view of traffic operations.

NoTraffic and Eye-Net Mobile are joining forces to enable communication between drivers and city infrastructure to assist at blind spots and increase safety at intersections.

The Nevada city will partner with Cox Communications to trial new water system control, lighting controls and parking and traffic management solutions in its Water Street District Innovation Corridor.