Traffic Monitoring Articles
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Metro Railway Projects - Doha Metro, Qatar
Doha Metro, Qatar Web-based monitoring of tunnels, stations, cross passages, station exits and structures within the zone of ...
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Advantages and challenges of using weather sensors in smart cities
Abstract:Smart cities are becoming a reality across the globe, with technology playing an important role in improving urban living, sustainability and efficiency. One of the areas where smart cities are making significant progress is through the use of weather sensors. These sensors collect real-time weather data, which can then be used to optimize city operations, enhance decision-making, and ...
By JXCT
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What is a tripod turnstile?
What is a tripod turnstile? Tripod turnstile, also called waist high turnstile or tripod barrier turnstile gate, is a straightforward, affordable, and small waist-high access control turnstile with three rotating arms. It includes a chassis, a mechanism, and three blocking rods, offering automated access control that is dissuasive for heavily used areas. The automatic turnstile barrier uses ...
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Enhancing Urban Navigation Data Quality with RESEPI
Urban navigation has become increasingly complex with the growth of cities and the rising demand for efficient transportation systems. Accurate and reliable navigation data is crucial for optimizing urban mobility, ensuring safety, and reducing traffic congestion. One technology that has revolutionized urban navigation data quality is RESEPI LiDAR, a cutting-edge system that combines LiDAR ...
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Air pollution in Minnesota: Current air conditions with solution
Air pollution is an issue of global concern, and Minnesota is no exception to this alarming trend. The very air we breathe, essential for life, is being tainted with pollutants that pose risks to both our health and the environment. Understanding this problem requires an in-depth exploration of the factors at play in Minnesota, from industrial activities and transportation to ...
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Bird Strikes in the Aviation Industry are Increasing. What are the Dangers?
Air travel is widely considered the safest form of transportation due to several factors, including adhering to stringent safety regulations and continuous advancements in aircraft technology, maintenance practices, and air traffic control systems. Despite being one of the safest modes of travel, the aviation industry faces an escalating threat from bird strikes, which poses risks to the overall ...
By Bird-X Inc.
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Colorado Dot’s Visionary Investment: TrafficVision Video Analytics
Background In 2015 the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) issued a request for proposals to the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) community for a proactive incident detection and data collection system that would leverage their existing highway CCTV cameras. TrafficVision was selected for award and is currently in the second year of a five-year contract. Like other states using ...
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Is poor air quality damaging your Data Centre equipment?
If you are managing a data centre, you will already know the significance of cooling, (or temperature maintenance) and humidity, and you will have equipment and processes in place for managing these environmental conditions. Do you also have mitigation in place for corrosion resulting from airborne contamination? Research from ASHRAE (the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and ...
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Trafficability of construction sites
Toppling cranes, lorries getting stuck causing construction works to come to a standstill, personnel slipping or sinking and then staying home as a result of their injuries; these are some of the dangerous situations that occur when the ground of a construction site has insufficient load-bearing capacity. This prompted the ‘Federation of Piling Specialists’ (FPS) to develop the ...
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Prevent tail gas pollution and reject environmental hazards
Motor vehicle exhaust is the exhaust gas generated during the operation of motor vehicles, including carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), hydrocarbons (HC) and solid suspended particles (PM), which is one of the culprits of air pollution. From the perspective of the current pollution situation, the vehicle exhaust emissions to a large extent exceed the self purification capacity of the ...
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Weather Monitoring for Rail Traffic
Railway traffic is the backbone of both business and individual transport. Keeping the flow safe and on time is a challenge, especially due to the fact that railways are prone to inclement weather. Strong winds, snowfall, floods, heat, freezing switches, and platforms … rail network operators have a lot to consider to ensure safe train traffic. Many of these meteorological phenomena ...
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The Use of Johnson’s Criteria for Thermal Camera and Systems Performance
When customers are considering which thermal security camera to buy, one of the first questions to the manufacturers of thermal imagers is usually: “At what distance can the thermal camera detect a target?” In other words, what is the camera’s ability to capture very small details at great distances? When thinking about effective surveillance, it is indeed an excellent benchmark ...
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TrafficVision™ Case Study: Video Analytics Detection for KC SCOUT
Intelligent Expansion The Kansas City metropolitan area is internationally renowned: it has its own cool jazz, distinctive barbecue, and one of the highest levels of quality of life, as reported by its friendly citizens. Less well-known until recently is its reputation for progressive and forward-thinking traffic management, enhanced by the use of emerging technology. Not only is Kansas City a ...
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TrafficVision Supports the 2015 PanAmerican Games - Case study
When Toronto won the bid for the 2015 PanAmerican Games in 2009, the Ministry for Transportation Ontario (MTO) knew they were facing an unprecedented challenge. During the Games, Toronto’s normally heavy traffic will include an influx of over 500,000 visitors and athletes. Over a million ticketed spectators and Games volunteers will be traveling through the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in ...
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Temperature and humidity sensor in highway weather monitoring station
Summary: We can use the highway weather monitoring station to do weather monitoring, reduce traffic accidents.In recent years, the rapid development of Highway construction in China has improved people’s living standards and accelerated the speed of economic development, but modern transportation is restricted by meteorological conditions, summer high temperature exposure, will lead to car tire ...
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What are clean air zones and how do they affect HGV drivers?
Clean Air Zones are popping up more and more around the country in order to try and reduce the pollution in the area. This means that charges are put in place for certain vehicles that want to pass through the zone. For many, this can be avoided, but for HGV drivers, this could be a difficult and costly minefield to negotiate. Whilst the importance of Clean Air Zones is clear, the impact on those ...
By Fleetex
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Is zero leakage becoming an attainable goal?
As Ofwat prepares its draft methodology for AMP8, FIDO CEO Victoria Edwards asks if it’s possible to replicate the UK’s past leaps in leakage performance without a game-changing leap in technology. In 2018, the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission called on water companies in England and Wales to halve leakage to protect long term water supplies. That means reducing ...
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Swarco Technology
The background Rush hour in major European cities equals endless traffic jams, long travel time and delays for thousands of commuters to and from work. A complex problem that puts pressure on not only the infrastructure but also the safety of the commuters. Swarco Technology is working with the management of traffic and works with solutions to streamline and improve traffic safety for ...
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Smart Parking Sensor Technology - Case Study
Our smart parking sensor technology helps to reduce air pollution and save drivers time. Applying advanced, yet simple to install technology, drivers can be directed to available car parking spaces. The Challenge. Vehicles are a big contributor to carbon emissions and as cities and towns get busier, finding a parking spot can be highly polluting and time consuming. Governments ...
By Vortex
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A/V Testing for Video Apps: Things you should Know
Mobile users today spend hours on audio, video, and social sites — whether that’s creating videos on short-video apps or in a video conferencing call. No matter what they’re playing or streaming, no user would prefer an app with recurring performance issues. In today’s digitally-complex world, mobile users anticipate an app's speedy, stable, scalable, and reliable ...
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