Geotab, a global positioning system fleet management and vehicle tracking firm, has introduced its OBD fleet management system in association with mobile telecommunications provider O2 in the UK. With this, O2, a commercial brand of ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, auto parts, truck, engine indicators
Container transport operators see positive signs from a concerted campaign to highlight the productivity, safety and export competitiveness that can be achieved by allowing Higher Productivity Freight Vehicles (HPFV) to operate at higher ...
Tags: Container transport, Gross Vehicle, Trucks
German crash-test facility maker Messring has joined hands with TH Ingolstadt University to test for systems to be put in place for an active safety device capable of averting accident or ameliorate the severity of collisions. The duo is ...
Tags: Messring, TH Ingolstadt University
AlertDriving, the global leader in driver risk management, today announced that Todo Transito has joined the growing number of businesses around the world unlocking new value as Certified AlertDriving Channel Partners. Through ADvantage, ...
Tags: driver risk management, FleetDefenseSM, reaction-based metrics
Winter tires, also referred to as snow tires, cold weather tires, and thermal tires, improve the road safety for vehicles during winter, and thus play an important role in reducing road accidents. These tires are made of soft rubber ...
Tags: Tire Market, Tire
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has selected NXP Semiconductors to set up a S$22m ($16.2m) smart mobility test bed at the campus, to accelerate introducing life-saving vehicle communications. The move will support ...
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, has been selected by the city of Szczecin in Poland to renew its street lighting system with LED technology. By September 2015, Philips will replace 5,000 existing street lights with new LED ...
Tags: Philips, LED Technology, Lights
Navman Wireless, vehicle tracking technology maker has introduced ‘360 Degree’ fleet safety solution which is aimed at improving road safety. The technology integrates telematics, vehicle tracking technology and in-cab safety ...
Tags: protective technology, road safety, Auto
Jaguar Land Rover is working with Intel and computer vision technology maker Seeing Machines to develop a technology that will be capable of monitoring driver's face and eyes to reduce distraction and drowsy driving. Seeing Machines ...
Tags: driver's face, drowsy driving, Auto
A review of the chain of responsibility duties provides an opportunity for the transport industry to have a say in how these laws could be improved and encourage safer behaviour on our roads, says the NTC. The National Transport ...
Tags: transport industry, Heavy Vehicle, Service
Recently, Mr. Zhongyu Shi was driving a brand new Volvo Trucks FM460, one of the vehicles in the Anhui Liu An Logistics fleet, down the Outer Ring of Qipu Road in Shanghai at nearly 100 km/hour, with a total weight of 55 tons of the truck ...
Tags: Safe Transportation, Trucks Dynamic Steering System, Transportation
I am writing to you on behalf of the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare), an alliance of 57 public health organisations from 25 European countries working on the prevention and reduction of alcohol related harm. Improving road ...
Tags: road safety, alcohol sponsorship of Formula One, Agriculture
Power Stop Extreme Performance Brake Systems and the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving are proud to announce a breakthrough partnership to keep our roads safer and our drivers more secure. Bondurant, considered the premier ...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is helping to modernise public transport in the Romanian city of Pitesti with a RON 58.5 million loan (€13 million equivalent) to the municipal transport company Publitrans ...
Tags: EBRD, Transport, Accessories
Volvo Buses has introduced forward collision warning and emergency braking system which automatically pulls full brake to the bus if a collision with a vehicle in front is imminent The company is planning to introduce the technology in ...
Tags: Volvo Buses, system, Accessories