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Improving safety - at a (lower) price

Kapsch TrafficCom this week launched a 5.9GHz wireless communications module at the ITS World Congress to support car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications. The company's chief technical officer, Justin McNew, explains how the new 5.9GHz global industry standard for such communications promises to improve road safety while cutting costs.

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Justin McNew, chief technical officer, Kapsch TrafficCom
Justin McNew, chief technical officer, Kapsch TrafficCom

How will the new 5.9GHz global industry wireless communications standard improve road safety while cutting costs?

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Paul Manuel, Mark IV's vice president of sales and marketing
Paul Manuel, Mark IV's vice president of sales and marketing

What is the benefit of a toll transponder that provides feedback?

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Mike Payne, business development manager of Diamond Consulting Services
Mike Payne, business development manager of Diamond Consulting Services

How to ensure efficient hard shoulder running in adverse conditions

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Paul Kompfner, head of development at Ertico
Paul Kompfner, head of development at Ertico

How the adoption of the 5.9GHz band for V2V technology can help cut congestion

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Dr David Bizley, RAC technical director
Dr David Bizley, RAC technical director

Which in-car systems distract drivers the most?

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Phil Pettit, chief executive of InnovITS
Phil Pettit, chief executive of InnovITS

How does the UK lead the worldwide ITS industry and how can it improve?

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Jeremy Gould, TomTom UK & Ireland sales manager
Jeremy Gould, TomTom UK & Ireland sales manager

How can sat nav and fleet management save money and protect the environment?

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Tom Vanderbilt, author of 'Why we drive the way we do and what it says about us'
Tom Vanderbilt, author of 'Why we drive the way we do and what it says about us'

How could new technology help to overcome the foibles of driver behaviour and inattentiveness?

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Nigel Wilkinson, head of health, safety and engineering at T-Mobile
Nigel Wilkinson, head of health, safety and engineering at T-Mobile

What impact does the Green Roads driver monitoring system have on a fleet?

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Bern Grush, founder and chief scientist of Skymeter Corporation
Bern Grush, founder and chief scientist of Skymeter Corporation

Why are privacy concerns are threatening to block widespread adoption of tracking technology.

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John McGoldrick of the UK-based National Alliance Against Tolls campaign group
John McGoldrick of the UK-based National Alliance Against Tolls campaign group

Why spend money on tolling systems when fuel taxes are a far more efficient way of collecting money?

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Hans Nyth and Jonas Ekmark of Volvo's Car Safety Center
Hans Nyth and Jonas Ekmark of Volvo's Car Safety Center

How can we ensure that car safety systems support drivers without distracting them?

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Erik Nelson, spokesman for Norwich Union Insurance
Erik Nelson, spokesman for Norwich Union Insurance

Pay As You Drive was not a commercial success for Norwich Union, but the company believes one day it will be

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Muhammad Usman Iqbal of the University of New South Wales
Muhammad Usman Iqbal of the University of New South Wales

Why should toll operators take more care to maintain client privacy?

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Terry Bills, transportation industry manager at ESRI
Terry Bills, transportation industry manager at ESRI

What does GIS offer transport managers?

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Andrew Poliak of QNX Software
Andrew Poliak of QNX Software

How new techniques are improving the performance of voice activation in vehicles

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Karen Finley, president and chief executive of Redflex Traffic Systems
Karen Finley, president and chief executive of Redflex Traffic Systems

Why is the US finally embracing traffic cameras?

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David Brown, director of the Institute of Industrial Research at the University of Portsmouth
David Brown, director of the Institute of Industrial Research at the University of Portsmouth

What are the latest moves in the development of vehicle-to-vehicle communications?

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Adrian Hide, road safety manager for the Staffordshire County Council
Adrian Hide, road safety manager for the Staffordshire County Council

Can monitoring devices help to encourage young drivers to act responsibly behind the steering wheel?

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Alan Hayes - managing director of AMG Systems
Alan Hayes - managing director of AMG Systems

Why uncompressed video transmission could be the way ahead for transport departments.

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Panu Partenen from Vaisala
Panu Partenen from Vaisala

How will weather sensing systems help keep traffic flowing during the Beijing Olympics?

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Johan Frilund, chief executive of Sensys Traffic
Johan Frilund, chief executive of Sensys Traffic

Why have public attitudes to speed cameras in Sweden improved?

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Paul Marques, senior research scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Paul Marques, senior research scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation

How does Sweden plan to eliminate drink driving?

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Aidan Rowsome of GreenRoad Technologies
Aidan Rowsome of GreenRoad Technologies

How can technology encourage safer driving by young people?

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Professor John Tyrer of Loughborough University
Professor John Tyrer of Loughborough University

How can you ensure that vehicles travelling in hgh occupancy vehicle lanes, are transporting more than one person?

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Elizabeth Dainton, research development manager for the RAC Foundation
Elizabeth Dainton, research development manager for the RAC Foundation

Why do we need to do more to assess the impact of technology on driver behaviour?

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James Tuton, chief executive of American Traffic Solutions
James Tuton, chief executive of American Traffic Solutions

Sales are taking off in the US traffic camera market. Why?

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Mark Thompson, director of mobile services for The Weather Network and MétéoMédia
Mark Thompson, director of mobile services for The Weather Network and MétéoMédia

How best to finance traffic information services - advertising or subscription?

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Dr David Weber director of the US Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Centre
Dr David Weber director of the US Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Centre

How are traffic models developing to better meet the needs of transport planners

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David Freidman, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at ATX Group
David Freidman, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at ATX Group

How can car makers ensure their vehicles offer the functions and connectivity to work with the latest telematics and entertainment technologies?

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Terry Warin - executive director of ITS Australia
Terry Warin - executive director of ITS Australia

How can technology help to prevent casualties at railroad crossings?

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Marc Prioleau, de Carta's vice president of marketing and business development
Marc Prioleau, de Carta's vice president of marketing and business development

How will mobile communications improve the performance of PNDs?

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John Holland, COO of Journey Dynamics
John Holland, COO of Journey Dynamics

What can be done to improve route guidance?

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Tom Knuckey - tolling specialist from PBS&J
Tom Knuckey - tolling specialist from PBS&J

How has electronic tolling been embraced by five of Florida's leading carrental firms?

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Tom Keene, commercial director of Appian Technologies
Tom Keene, commercial director of Appian Technologies

How the latest techniques are raising the accuracy of automated number plate reading systems.

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Oliver Carsten, Professor of Transport Safety at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies
Oliver Carsten, Professor of Transport Safety at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies

How can we encourage the widespread deployment of vehicle safety developments?

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Jim Baker, chief executive and founder of Moovera Networks
Jim Baker, chief executive and founder of Moovera Networks

How can service providers improve broadband access for travellers?

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Dominique Bonte of ABI Research
Dominique Bonte of ABI Research

Why did PND sales take off in 2007 and what are the prospects for global sales in 2008 and beyond?

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Alan Rasmussen, director of database operations for Tele Atlas in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia
Alan Rasmussen, director of database operations for Tele Atlas in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia

How does Tele Atlas maintain the accuracy of its digital map databases?

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 Pat Gallagher, in-vehicle products director at Traficmaster
Pat Gallagher, in-vehicle products director at Traficmaster

Could advances in technology herald a dramatic increase in stolen vehicle tracking?

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Rick Schuman from Inrix
Rick Schuman from Inrix

Does the I-95 real time traffic data contract mark an historic development for transport telematics?

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Fred Wegman, managing director of the SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research in The Netherlands
Fred Wegman, managing director of the SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research in The Netherlands

Are we missing safety benefits by placing too much emphasis on eliminating traffic congestion?

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Donna Barrett, UPS spokesperson
Donna Barrett, UPS spokesperson

How is parcels firm UPS using proprietary routing software to significantly cut its fleet mileage?

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Martin Cassini, transport campaigner
Martin Cassini, transport campaigner

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Barry Borzillo, chief executive of Tenix Solutions
Barry Borzillo, chief executive of Tenix Solutions

How do the latest technologies enable parking specialists to provide a complete service to local authorities?

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Doctor Gib de Medeiros, from Effective Control Transport in Quebec, Canada
Doctor Gib de Medeiros, from Effective Control Transport in Quebec, Canada

How new biometric technology could cut accidents caused by drowsy truck drivers

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Chris Lines, head of TfL's London Road Safety Unit
Chris Lines, head of TfL's London Road Safety Unit

How has Transport for London cut road casualties through the use of technology?

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Bryan Mistele, co-founder and president of Inrix
Bryan Mistele, co-founder and president of Inrix

What's next in the development of vehicle navigation?

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Brad Dennard, national director of ITS at PBS&J
Brad Dennard, national director of ITS at PBS&J

Is it time the US took a national and regional approach to transport funding?

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Raj Rajkumar, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the General Motors Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University
Raj Rajkumar, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the General Motors Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University

Robot cars face the future

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Jennie Martin is secretary general of ITS UK
Jennie Martin is secretary general of ITS UK

Why bother joining a national ITS organisation?

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Tony Neill, vice president, Navman Wireless
Tony Neill, vice president, Navman Wireless

How can road user charging be made acceptable?

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Jim Barbaresso, vice president of intelligent transportation systems at HNTB
Jim Barbaresso, vice president of intelligent transportation systems at HNTB

Which in-car technologies show greatest potential?

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Keith Farnish, from The Earth Blog and co-founder of Green Seniors
Keith Farnish, from The Earth Blog and co-founder of Green Seniors

Can the traffic and transport industry ever satisfy the green lobby?

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