London buses to test automatic speed-limiting technology

The actual Intelligent Speed Application (ISA) uses GPS technology attached to buses.

It tracks the actual vehicles' positions on a electronic map showing the speed restrict for the roads they are venturing on and restricts their motors accordingly.

More than 1, eight hundred people have been killed or even badly hurt by Greater london buses over a five-year time period.

Road hazards

Transport with regard to London (TfL) said ISA would come into force upon 47 London buses through next month.

It said the device would allow drivers to focus on possible road hazards rather than needing to constantly check their speedometers, and has been welcomed through pedestrian campaigners.

TfL examined a different form of ISA automobile speed-limiting technology on a London, uk bus in 2009 but did not go ahead with it because the program could be overridden. In the most recent trial the speed limiter is actually connected directly to the motor and is automatic.

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The maximum speed of the tour bus is capped at the speed reduce on the road according to the digital chart of London

Between 08 and 2013 a total of just one, 859 people were killed or perhaps seriously injured by Birmingham buses, which represents a relentless downward trend in the amount of casualties in recent years, TfL stated.

The trials, which are because of begin in July, will take put on the number 19 route coming from Battersea to Finsbury Recreation area and the number 486 path, which runs from To the north Greenwich to Bexleyheath.

TfL said it tested the particular ISA technology on vehicles in 2010 and 2011 also it was now in a position to check it out on buses.

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