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Canada’s Skymeter claims Intertraffic Innovation Trophy.
Canada-based
Skymeter Corporation has won the overall 2010 Intertraffic Innovation Award.
The company succeeded with its smart road-use device which it has designed to handle a wide
range of automotive mobility-related payment needs, including road user
charging, parking fees, insurance and carbon metering, as well as reward
schemes to encourage differential driving times, carpooling or teleworking.
Specific
innovations include the mitigation of urban canyon-derived errors, privacy-protection ranging from full
anonymity for private motorists to full transparency in logistics management,
and charging reliability independent of map matching.
Skymeter was also the individual sector winner in the ITS/Traffic Management category. The
Awards Jury saw it as a technology for the future and one which seemingly
addresses many apparent concerns over using satellite tracking for traffic
management applications.
Stand 09.216
www.skymetercorp.com
Meet the category winners...
Presenting the trophy at Tuesday's official opening of Intertraffic 2010 at the RAI in Amsterdam, Awards Jury chair Fred Wegman said: “Skymeter clearly came top out of the six individual sector winners”.
The other five
category winners are:
Gevas (Germany, Cooperative Systems), Gatsometer (The
Netherlands, Environment), Crown International (UK, Infrastructure), Lidror (Israel, Parking) and Badennova (Spain,
Safety).
The
Awards Jury chose Skymeter for the overall award on the grounds that it brings
an integrated service to users, with a platform on which they can access a
variety of added-value services based on extremely accurate satellite
positioning.
GEVAS
won in the Cooperative Systems
category for its Travolution system, which has demonstrated the scope for optimising
traffic control for green waves across an entire urban road network. A trial in
the German city of Ingolstadt, involving automotive Audi’s informed driver
system and the Technical University of Munich, used genetic algorithms in
on-line operation, and showed 46 traffic signal locations being equipped for traffic-adaptive
network control.
An
intelligent in-vehicle display with a communications interface to the city’s
traffic management system enabled drivers to adapt their speeds to the traffic
context. The Jury commented on GEVAS’use of modern mathematics to solve
complicated network optimisation issues, with positive results on travelling
time and environmental pollution.
Stand
11.717 www.gevas.eu
Gatsometer collected in the Environment category for its work on the recently-completed Amsterdam
Environmental Zone. Based on automated enforcement, this is the first such
deployment in The Netherlands, introduced to keep highly-polluting lorries out
of the core city.
Using specially-developed ANPR software, the scheme has
achieved a 98% success rate with a very low
margin of error. Installation at 38 locations has taken maximum advantage of
existing street furniture and avoided disruption of the road surface by
deploying Gatso loopless trigger radar (LTR).
The data communication are wireless. The Jury welcomed the deployment as an important initial step towards achieving a
much cleaner environment in a major city. And hoped that it will succeed in influence
the trucking industry in its vehicle procurement procedures.
Stand 01.314 www.gatso.com
Crown International came first in the Infratsructure category with its VMC
pole, an 8m-high wind up/down cantilever structure designed for use in mounting and accessing roadside
equipment including VMS signs,
CCTV cameras and speed monitoring systems. The
6m-long counterbalanced pole arm can rotate through 90o and be
lowered within around 90 seconds to allow for maintenance work without the need
for specialist lifting equipment or lane closures.
Independent estimates suggest a €2250 annual saving in
operating costs as compared with alternative cantilever designs for the system,
which is currently being deployed on the M42 managed motorway scheme in the UK.
The jury appreciated the company’s straightforward and practical approach to addressing
the problem of carrying out maintenance work without impacting on free traffic
movement along major roads.
Stand 11.930 www.crown-international.co.uk
Disability solutions developer Lidror won in the Parking
category for its Biopark portable digital parking permit device. This contains
an electronic identification system designed to prevent the forgery or abuse of
parking concessions for disabled drivers, with each unit coded for the individual
driver using specially-developed software.
The authorised user can carry the Biopark in any vehicle,
and activate it with fingerprint touch identification – at which point, when it
starts blinking to signal correct use. When it senses that a vehicle is in
motion, it automatically switches off.
The Jury commended this as a most innovative solution which
addresses a serious problem for vulnerable citizens in many countries in the
world. They saw it as a low- cost, effective, well-thought through approach,
which will also prove cost-saving to
parking authorities and operators by deterring fraud.
Stand 02.115 www.lidror.com
Badennova carried off the Safety Award for its BIV intelligent and selective speed hump.
This contains a non-Newtonian fluid that reacts appropriately to pre-set speed
limits.
Contact at a speed above the limit causes the fluid material
to harden to the consistency of a conventional speed hump; while, at safe
speeds below the limit, it deforms and offers no resistance to passing
vehicles.
The height of the hump above the road surface is
configurable. The Jury considered the
device as innovative, simple to install and likely to encourage more considerate driving behaviour.
Stand 11.721 www.badennova.com
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