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Five freshEST mobility and smart city solutions
Are you working in a zoo? An airport, maybe? Or at a telecom company? Do you know what all these different institutions have in common? They all could use mobility and smart city solutions to improve their offerings and their employees’ lives. Got curious? You should take note of the freshest mobility solutions by five Estonian tech companies.
Bercman Technologies – the smart pedestrian crosswalk
Bercman Technologies has developed an intelligent crosswalk with the primary goal to increase pedestrian crosswalks on unregulated intersections by notifying all road users about the crosswalk. The main focus is to get the drivers´ attention – by using backlighted traffic signs and LED lights on the pole. This intelligent crosswalk also detects potentially dangerous situations to prevent accidents on the crosswalk. It combines video camera data with radar sensors to accurately measure the speed of vehicles nearb
February 17, 2021
Public transport owners have declared they want a seat at the Social Partnership table, alongside the troika of Government, labour unions and the private sector.
And Mark Haynes, the spokesman for the Alliance of Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) has also called for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Mia Mottley on the industry’s future, amid complaints from public service vehicle operators that were not included among the small businesses to be compensated by Government for losses during the lockdown, which was extended Monday by another two weeks to month-end.
Haynes told
Barbados TODAY the lockdown had seriously affected the finances of PSV operators who are limited to carrying 60 per cent of their capacity, causing many to withdraw their vehicles from several routes.