Transportation Blog

Telvent has been selected to expand Alberta Transportation’s current road weather information and traffic monitoring systems. The project will build upon the success of original development and deployment of a comprehensive road weather information system that has contributed to improved road safety throughout the Province for the last six years. Current installation delivers an extremely high level of road weather forecast accuracy, reaching 94.4% in the last two years of service. Over the next four-year period, We will design and install 38 new road weather information system (RWIS) stations and 15 new video traffic monitoring system (VTMS) towers, which will provide even more location-specific road weather and traffic data to increase the effectiveness of the existing systems in operation throughout Alberta.

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February 21, 2012 – Schneider Electric, the global leader in energy management, signed an agreement today with the Barcelona City Council to create in the Catalonian capital the first Smart City Excellence Center promoted by the company in the world. The center will be located at the Smart City Campus that will be set up in Barcelona’s District 22@, headquarters of the future cluster of “smart city” concept-related businesses.

Among the priorities of the Excellence Center is to promote smart mobility solutions in the city linked to the development of the electric mobility infrastructures, initiatives stimulated by the City Council. The agreement signed between the City Council and Schneider Electric envisages drawing up a SmartMobility Plan for Barcelona and, potentially, the city’s metropolitan area, to ensure the introduction of the best technologies and solutions applied to the realm of mobility. As part of this plan, the companies will determine needs and available resources, define strategic mobility objectives, and implement pilot projects that best adapt to Barcelona’s mobility needs.

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Smart Mobility Solutions

Reducing traffic and improving network management

Urban populations will nearly double by 2050—accounting for 70 percent of the world’s population. Undoubtedly, transportation systems will be impacted, increasing congestion, threatening safety, delaying commuters, burning up valuable fuel, and harming the environment. To meet current and anticipated challenges, SmartCities around the world are relying on Schneider Electric’s Smart Mobility solutions for integrated city management—improving mobility for citizens through operational efficiency and smart information.

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Collaborative approach to integrated city management helps cities become more efficient, sustainable & livable

To meet the needs of cities across the world, Schneider Electric, the global leader in energy management, and its recently acquired Telvent, a leading real-time IT solutions and information provider for a sustainable world, announced today their joint SmartCity offering. The combined offering provides cities with access to an integrated suite of solutions to improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban infrastructures, leading to more livable cities.

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