Wednesday, April 15, 2009

TransCore’s RFID technology deployed as I-95 gets HOT

TransCore has used its RFID technology for the successful deployment of high-occupancy tolling, or HOT lanes, on I-95 in Miami-Dade County – Florida’s first variably priced toll facility.
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Big features packed into new mini-RWIS system from High Sierra Electronics

Featured in October/November 2008 issue of Traffic Technology International (p81), High Sierra Electronics – a supplier of road weather monitoring and management systems – has revealed to TrafficTechnologyToday.com details of its Model 5470 NTCIP Mini-RWIS Remote Processing Unit.
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Barco launches narrow-bezel LCD display for video walls

Barco has launched the NSL-4601, a professional grade, narrow-bezel 117cm (46in) LCD display with WXGA resolution. The NSL-4601 has been designed for tiled video wall applications in small to medium-sized control rooms and is an ideal collaborative system for Emergency Operations Centers or traffic and surveillance centers. The high resolution of the tiled video wall allows operators to sit close by and monitor high-density information.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

TransCore’s dual-protocol RFID reader offers system choice

TransCore has successfully tested its Encompass 6 IAG ‘Plug ‘n’ Play’ (PNP) radio frequency identification (RFID) reader system on The Southern Connector toll road – a 16-mile Federal Interstate highway in Greenville, South Carolina. In use over the past three months, the Encompass 6 PNP reader has shown an accuracy of 99.95%, and has greatly reduced the violation rates at the lanes in which they are installed when compared to lanes that operate with older equipment.
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