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News and information about the Ukrainian and international ITS industry.

January 2, 2016

Improved traffic management for Odessa?

According to a post at OddessaBlogger.com, “Sergey Dubenko, head of the Odessa City Council working group to improve traffic management group has now announced that Odessa will adopt “European norms” regarding the speed limits within the city.  The maximum speed will be officially reduced from 60 kph (as used in Russia and Belarus) to 50 […]

News, News from ITS Ukraine
November 20, 2015

UAROADS Road quality data for travel planning

Driving in Ukraine is unlike driving in the EU – its a unique experience. That is, uniquely bad. Years of neglect have left most roads in a desperate state of disrepair and corruption within the institutions of State responsible for road building/maintenance means that even when repair work is done it is often under-funded and […]

News, News from ITS Ukraine
November 20, 2015

ITS Ukraine meets with Yunasko, an innovative Ukrainian company producing Ultracapacitors

On 22 October ITS Ukraine visited an innovative Ukrainian company that designs and produces industry leading Ultracapacitors. Yunasko, which has a head office in Kyiv and factory in western Ukraine. They have a large scale ultracapacitor production plant currently under development in Latvia as the company expand to supply ultracapacitors for electric buses in China. For […]

News, News from ITS Ukraine
November 20, 2015

Telecommunications and engineering excellence at KPI

On 20 October ITS Ukraine met with Igor Vladymyrskyi and Sergiy Shukayev at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, located on a huge campus on Peremohy Ave in  Kyiv. After a brief discussion about ITS Ukraine and possible areas of research and collaboration, Igor and Sergiy gave us a guided tour of the KPI museum which showcases the […]

News, News from ITS Ukraine
November 11, 2015

Report praises Ukraine’s financial sector reforms

Ukraine is leading the way among emerging economies in financial sector reforms, according to the EBRD’s latest Transition report which says that the outlook for market reforms across the whole area appears to have improved. The Transition Report 2015-16 shows that many factors holding back the reform process persist. However, despite isolated cases of reform […]

European ITS News, International ITS News, News
November 10, 2015

Львівський концерн “Електрон” презентував перший в Україні електроавтобус

Львівський концерн “Електрон” презентував перший в Україні електроавтобус. За інформацією Zaxid.net, електроавтобус може перевозити до 100 пасажирів, розвиває швидкість до 70 км/год, за день може проїжджати без підзарядки 200 км. Зарядкою з потужністю 380 вольт батареї автобуса заряджаються за 15-20 хв. Споживання електроенергії такого автобуса на день в десять разів дешевше від споживання пального звичайного міського автобуса. В […]

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November 2, 2015

ITS World Congress Report

Proceedings of the ITS World Congress in Bordeaux have been released. Read Eric Sampson’s Executive Summary below . You can also download a report from the Ministerial Round Table discussion that took place during the congress here. Congress Report – Executive Summary Bordeaux was all about deployment issues but especially so for connected and highly automated vehicles. In […]

International ITS News, News