

Controlling the cause
All accidents have causes and by identifying the causes of accidents you can eliminate them. So say Hans Nyth (pictured, left) and Jonas Ekmark of Volvo's Car Safety Center. Here they explain how car safety systems will need to develop to support drivers without distracting them.
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How can we ensure that car safety systems support drivers without distracting them?
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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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Why should toll operators take more care to maintain client privacy?
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What does GIS offer transport managers?
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How new techniques are improving the performance of voice activation in vehicles
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Why is the US finally embracing traffic cameras?
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What are the latest moves in the development of vehicle-to-vehicle communications?
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Can monitoring devices help to encourage young drivers to act responsibly behind the steering wheel?
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Why uncompressed video transmission could be the way ahead for transport departments.
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How will weather sensing systems help keep traffic flowing during the Beijing Olympics?
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Why have public attitudes to speed cameras in Sweden improved?
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How does Sweden plan to eliminate drink driving?
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How can technology encourage safer driving by young people?
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How can you ensure that vehicles travelling in hgh occupancy vehicle lanes, are transporting more than one person?
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Why do we need to do more to assess the impact of technology on driver behaviour?
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Sales are taking off in the US traffic camera market. Why?
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How best to finance traffic information services - advertising or subscription?
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How are traffic models developing to better meet the needs of transport planners
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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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How can technology help to prevent casualties at railroad crossings?
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How will mobile communications improve the performance of PNDs?
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What can be done to improve route guidance?
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How has electronic tolling been embraced by five of Florida's leading carrental firms?
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How the latest techniques are raising the accuracy of automated number plate reading systems.
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How can we encourage the widespread deployment of vehicle safety developments?
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How can service providers improve broadband access for travellers?
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Why did PND sales take off in 2007 and what are the prospects for global sales in 2008 and beyond?
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How does Tele Atlas maintain the accuracy of its digital map databases?
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Could advances in technology herald a dramatic increase in stolen vehicle tracking?
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Does the I-95 real time traffic data contract mark an historic development for transport telematics?
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Are we missing safety benefits by placing too much emphasis on eliminating traffic congestion?
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How is parcels firm UPS using proprietary routing software to significantly cut its fleet mileage?
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How do the latest technologies enable parking specialists to provide a complete service to local authorities?
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How new biometric technology could cut accidents caused by drowsy truck drivers
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How has Transport for London cut road casualties through the use of technology?
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What's next in the development of vehicle navigation?
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Is it time the US took a national and regional approach to transport funding?
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Robot cars face the future
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Why bother joining a national ITS organisation?
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How can road user charging be made acceptable?
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Which in-car technologies show greatest potential?
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Can the traffic and transport industry ever satisfy the green lobby?
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With raw material prices going through the roof, politicians in Connecticut are seeking to channel funds earmarked for ITS to highway construction. Richard Scrase, editor of this website, is concerned.
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