11 October, 2018
This month’s news includes:
Opportunities Ahead…
Fed Govt establishes Office of Future Transport Technologies
The Federal Government is establishing an Office of Future Transport Technologies to prepare for automated vehicles and other transport innovations. You can read more on this here..
Smart Infrastructure Light ITS Solutions
JYW is currently involved across a number of emerging transport technology applications associated to C-ITS, IoT, Smart Edge Computing, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, LiDAR, RADAR, Machine Learning and Machine Vision initiatives. If you are interested in knowledge exchange or collaboration (e.g. Proof of Concepts) please contact us..
Honda teams up with GM on self-driving cars
Honda Motor’s $2.75 million investment in General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle, is a sign that Honda wants to catch rivals in development of self-driving vehicles. Honda will pay $750 million for a 5.7% equity stake and will invest another $2 billion over 12 years while continuing to seek an agreement to use Waymo self-driving technology in its vehicle. You can read more on this here..
News
ITS World Congress 2019
The ITS World Congress is to be hosted by ITS Singapore next year. As an active member of the ITS Asia Pacific forum, we note that launch of the paper submission officially opened on 1 October. We encourage all our clients to actively take part in this important event for the region. You can find details of the registration here..
NZTA’s Pilot Internship Program – Summer 2018/19
Over the summer of 2018-19, NZTA are launching a pilot internship program. This program will connect brilliant minds to exciting projects in the Connected Journeys and Customer Experience & Behaviour teams. Interns will have the chance to work on some amazing future-focused projects, see what it is like to work at the Agency, and meet new people. For more information, please take a look at the career’s section on NZTA’s website..
Something out of the ordinary…
Did you know that – it is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
A note from Henry…
I was able to attend a couple of interesting technical tours as part of the ITS World Congress. Visiting Denmark’s National Transport Management Centre that hosts both the Rail and Road control centres, as well as the Oresund Bridge Control Centre – the smart link between Denmark and Sweden. If you would like access to a summary of these technical tours please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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