David Arminas

England

Assistant Editor at World Highways

I'm a Canadian freelance journalist living in London,

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Unifly acquires EuroUSC Italia for drone services

5 days ago | itsinternational.com | David Arminas

Unifly, a Belgian global provider of drone traffic management, has acquired EuroUSC Italia. Established in 2014 as a joint venture between Deep Blue and Filippo Tomasello, EuroUSC Italia was created to provide drone regulation and safety. The company provides tailored consultancy and training services for the drone industry, specialising in risk assessment, certification and regulatory compliance. Its client base includes national authorities, major corporations and defence institutions.
Twinning Bribie Bridge is preferred option

1 week ago | globalhighways.com | David Arminas

The Queensland state government is proposing a new Bribie Island Bridge beside the existing two-lane bridge which will remain in service. Bribie Island is the smallest of three major sand islands along the northern part of Moreton Bay north of near Brisbane. The existing Bribie Island Bridge was opened in 1963 and consists of two traffic lanes and a narrow pedestrian pathway.
Samba time for Travelier and Moovit in Brazil

1 week ago | itsinternational.com | David Arminas

Travelier, a travel technology provider, has partnered with commuter app maker Moovit to offer Brazilians intercity and interstate bus ticket planning and purchasing. The purchases in the Moovit app are now available in Brazil through Travelier’s B2C domestic brand DeÔnibus. DeÔnibus offers bus travel through a network of more than 300 bus operators and thousands of routes across Brazil.
Gotcha with Genetec’s AutoVu ANPR Reports

1 week ago | itsinternational.com | David Arminas

Genetec, a provider of products for video management, access control and ANPR, has launched AutoVu ANPR Analysis Reports for law enforcement officers and investigators. The plugin is an advanced investigation tool that expands ANPR-based forensic search capabilities within Genetec Security Center. Users can quickly narrow down a pool of suspects using vehicle behaviour patterns, specifically driving speed and travel cohorts.
Get ready for ITS Australia's Mobility 2025

1 week ago | itsinternational.com | David Arminas

ITS Australia's Mobility 2025 event, which takes place in Sydney on 15-16 May, will address the practical application and strategic implications of advanced transport technologies to create more efficient, sustainable, safe and accessible mobility systems. Topics include sustainable transport, on-demand and active transport, smart payments and seamless ticketing, energy transition and grid management and accessible and inclusive transport.
Vejdirektoratet finishes €18.75 million LED update

1 week ago | globalhighways.com | David Arminas

The Danish Road Directorate, Vejdirektoratet, has completed its largest lighting project, replacement of 23,000 lamps on the national road network with modern LED lamps. Vejdirektoratet also said it has removed lighting on motorway sections where it was deemed not essential. Overall, the project means that energy consumption for road lighting has been reduced by about 65%, according to Thomas Danielsen, Denmark’s transport minister. Total investment is about €18.75 million.
Ex-Yunex boss Schlitt takes over at Holon

2 weeks ago | itsinternational.com | David Arminas

Former Yunex Traffic boss Markus Schlitt has taken over as CEO and managing director of autonomous vehicle specialist Holon. The appointment of Schlitt comes as Holon’s fully-driverless shuttle, named Holon Urban, is set to be tested sometime this year on the streets of Hamburg, Germany, as part of the first pilot project. Holon is a joint subsidiary of the Benteler Group and Tasaru Mobility Investments. "Development of our autonomous shuttle is in full swing,” said Ralf Göttel, CEO of Benteler.
Aurora starts driverless delivery in Texas

2 weeks ago | itsinternational.com | David Arminas

Aurora Innovation has launched its commercial self-driving trucking service in the US state of Texas, with regular driverless customer deliveries between Dallas and Houston. Aurora said it is now the first company to operate a commercial, self-driving service with heavy-duty trucks on public roads in the US. It plans to expand this to El Paso in Texas and Phoenix in Arizona by the end of this year. “We founded Aurora to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly and broadly.
Three for Q-Free in the US

2 weeks ago | itsinternational.com | David Arminas

Q-Free has secured the first US contracts for its Kinetic Mobility advanced traffic management system. The company, a provider of mobility solutions for smart city infrastructure, said the contracts cover three major metropolitan areas. One is with Transurban’s 95, 395 and Capital Beltway (495) Express Lanes near Washington, DC. Another is the E-470 Public Highway Authority’s toll road on the eastern perimeter of Denver city in Colorado. The third is Cintra’s Lyndon B.
MAD about Vitronic in Germany

2 weeks ago | globalhighways.com | David Arminas

Vitronic it is now a partner in Germany’s research project MAD Urban - Managed Automated Driving which is led by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). MAD is being set up in the Tostmannplatz area of the city of Braunschweig (Brunswick) in the northwest state of Lower Saxony and will run until the end of September. It is branded as the world’s first research project for the “Holistic Remote Control of Vehicles Using Intelligent Infrastructure”.