Slow-Moving Vehicle

Illustration by Joon Mo Kang

By MARY ROACH
Published: August 10, 2008
Traffic jams are not, by and large, caused by flaws in road design but by flaws in human nature. While this is bad news for drivers — there’s not much to be done about human nature — it is good news for readers of Tom Vanderbilt’s [...]

Deaths of Motorcyclists Rise Again

By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: August 14, 2008
WASHINGTON — The number of motorcyclist deaths jumped in 2007, accounting for nearly one in eight motor vehicle deaths, government safety officials said on Thursday.
Deaths of people in cars and trucks, on bicycles or on foot dropped by nearly 2,000 last year, pushing the overall death rate to a [...]

After Fatal Crashes, Police to Set Up Motorcycle Checkpoints

By NICOLE NEROULIAS
Published: June 29, 2008
NORTH SALEM
DRIED roses and a smiling photograph, distortedly reflected in chunks of black plastic motorcycle parts crudely fashioned into a cross, mark the spot where Brian HoSang crashed and died on southbound Interstate-684 two months ago.
Sabrina HoSang, of Pleasantville, hopes the broken pieces of her brother’s 2005 Honda prompt other [...]

Satellite navigation systems, more than a luxury?

Tuesday 12 August 2008
More than a luxury?
Paul Cheeseman, Global Technical Director, Lloyd’s Register Group, discusses the idea that satellite navigation systems are no longer a luxury item but, increasingly, an essential safety tool
An investigation by the Dutch research institute TNO, which was carried out on behalf of Delta Lloyd Verzekeringen, TomTom International BV, Aon Nederland [...]

VICS, First to Market

SmartWay pre-trials have been conducted on the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway
VICS, which brought real-time driver information to Japan’s major roads in 1996, is to be superseded by the 5.8GHz DSRC-based SmartWay solution. Takashi Ito, International ITS Research Fellow with the USDOT’s Federal Highway Administration, details progress
Japan’s Vehicle Information and Communication System (VICS) went into operation in [...]

Planning Order, Causing Chaos: Transantiago

Michael Munger
by Michael Munger*
September 1, 2008
I sat in the office of the Decano, or Dean, of the School of Government. Out the window, the sun sank into the Andes in a Dr. Seuss palette of pastels. I must have been distracted. Because I thought I heard el Decano say that, according to his [...]

Transantiago technology will be fully implemented

Friday 5 September 2008

DATOS GENERALES Empresa: Subus Chile Tipo de Buses: Rígidos Estándar Transantiago
Transantiago technology will be fully implemented
Technology on Chilean capital Santiago’s mass transport system Transantiago will be fully implemented once a new firm has been hired to provide the service, an official from the country’s transport and telecommunications ministry (MTT) [...]