The charity raffle, held in conjunction with the Lord Austin Lecture, raised £665 for Wings for Life and BEN. The prizes of David Coulthard’s and Mark Webber’s signed race suits were won by John Murdoch of Maidstone, Kent, and Anuj Mitra of Bracknell, Berkshire.

Road transport information control (RTIC) 2008 20-22 May 2008, Manchester, UK The event will form the ITS UK Member Conference in order to monitor and control traffic on road networks and meet the growing demand for real-time travel and traffic information.

The IET Intelligent Transport Systems Journal has been accepted for inclusion in: Science Citation Index Expanded, ISI Alerting Services and Current Contents / Engineering, Computing and Technology. For more information visit the digital library

Featured paper from the IET Intelligent Transport Systems Journal: Developing human–machine interaction components for a driver assistance system for safe speed and safe distance.

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IET Events

Road pricing
8-10 December 2008, The IET, Savoy Place, London, UK
Following on from last year's seminar this extended event will explore the technologies used in Road Pricing and effectiveley they work in trials and real operational schemes. For further details, please contact Matthew Poole, TPN Manager.

Other events of interest

Seminar on V2.0 IAM Competence Requirements Deploying, Developing and Assessing Tomorrow’s Asset Managers
3 June, London, UK
This seminar, organised by the IAM Competence Requirements Framework’s authors, will equip attendees to tackle competence barriers to high performance asset management. It includes three workshops on learning/development, recruitment/selection and team building and an international keynote from the Australian Asset Management Council.

3rd System Safety Conference 
20-22 October, 2008
System Safety 2008 will focus on the complicated issues faced by safety professionals.

Details from past events

The 3rd IET conference on automotive electronics 2007
Presentation slides from both days and all streams of this event are available for viewing

Technologies for Incident Management
View presentation slides from September 2007's seminar.

Intelligent transport systems world congress
Presentations and special sessions from October 2006 now available, including details of the award winner.

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