14 May, 2018
This month’s news includes:
Opportunities Ahead…
New Toll Likely in $800m surprise Auckland Roads Project
An industry body predicts one of the two surprise roads to be announced today will require drivers to pay a toll.
Stephen Selwood, Infrastructure New Zealand chief executive, anticipated the roading projects would cost around $800 million and said it was “really positive” that further details would be released today of the unexpected new Whangaparaoa and south Auckland projects. Read more here…
China’s Self-Driving Vehicles on Track to take Global Leadership Position, ahead of US
“Snow is unusual in Shanghai,” says Li Xiao, an engineer at the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle Pilot Zone, “so we have to take the opportunity, to test the vehicle in the most adverse weather conditions.”
Li and colleague Chen Dong are about to oversee a trial of a driverless electric bus, produced by Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus, at the Enclosed Test Zone, the first testing area for autonomous vehicles in China. Read more here…
Results of VIC Automated Vehicle Trial Released
In August 2017, in partnership with the Victorian Government, VicRoads and RACV, Transurban launched the connected and automated vehicle (CAV) trial in Victoria to understand how automated vehicles interact with our motorway infrastructure operation and maintenance. Read more here…
News
NeTC Conference
JYW will be presenting at this year’s NeTC Tolling and Beyond conference in Melbourne. We look forward to seeing you all there! For more information on this event, please see here..
MaaS Conference 2018
JYW attended the inaugural ITS Australia’s Mobility as a Service Conference on the 3rd May in Sydney. If you are interested in JYW’s summary of the key findings please contact us here..
Staff Spotlight:
Ghassan Jarjees
Ghassan is our Traffic Systems Engineer, with over 25 years experience, specialising in public transport systems and traffic control. Ghassan has been a key contributor to many projects including recent ones such as the SCATS Priority Engine (SPE), VicRoads Automatic Incident Detection (AID) and Truck Priority Engine (TPE). To find out more about Ghassan please click here…
Something out of the ordinary…
Did you know that – PCs went by the name “Electronic Brains” in the 1950s.
A note from Henry…
The latest NZ Government Position Statement (GPS) on land transport, contained in it a key theme focusing on incorporating technology and innovation into the design and delivery of land transport investment. At JYW we are able to be at the forefront of technology disruptions through targeted collaborative partnerships globally. Over the coming newsletters we will be introducing some of our global strategic partnerships and case studies of how our “think outside the square” approach delivers value for money outcomes to our industry.
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