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Tolling, plate cameras and road data, with TTI's editors.
Traffic Technology International's podcast puts its editors in conversation with a turnpike CEO, an MP, connected-vehicle experts and a camera maker. The talk stays on working detail: when open road tolling started and what comes next, how a camera reads a plate, and which vehicle data European law makes available for road safety.
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The Transportation Podcast from Traffic Technology International is a trade publication putting questions to the people it covers. Tom Stone, editor of TTI, conducts the interviews. Saul Wordsworth, the publication's Editor-at-Large, sometimes introduces an episode by naming the guest and listing what the conversation will cover, and several episodes lead with a quick run of pulled quotes before anyone says hello. The guests include a turnpike chief, an MP, industry experts and equipment makers. Road cameras come up in several episodes. In the ghost plates debate, Sarah Coombes MP is joined by Chris Shepard of sponsor Mav Systems, and the talk turns to a camera that, it is claimed, can read the plates whether they are ghost or not. One case described there traced a car through footage back to where it was parked, and when the vehicle was found it had ghost plates on. The policy argument is practical: punish low-level users seriously, and police can concentrate on the more serious criminals. Worth knowing: the sponsor is not confined to the ad break. A separate installment, 'Episode 47: MAV System's game-changing ANPR camera', is given over to the camera, and the case for plate reading is made in everyday terms, from cars kept on driveways to dangerous parking outside schools. With Brett Ferrin of Traffic Logix, a developer of traffic calming products, the talk turns to concerns over privacy and profiteering. It also covers how US states and cities are each deciding where the technology is allowed, in some places only in school zones or work zones. Tolling gets the operator's view. Mark Compton, CEO of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, is asked about open road tolling from its start to its next steps, in an episode titled 'Podcast 56: Open road tolling and integrating AI with Mark Compton, CEO of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission'. Someone in it calls a test site named Penn Start 'the Disney world of test sites', and it ends on a sober note, with a funeral recalled and what still keeps him up at night. Europe supplies the policy end. Three experts, among them the CEO of Ertico, discuss connected vehicles, the ITS Directive and a delegated act from 2013 that one of them suggests came before connected vehicles and connected roads existed. One voice insists the work is for the public good, not for monetizing data. Giles Perkins discusses Live Labs 2, a program spread across seven places and described as starting to publish reports on the good, the bad and the ugly of what has been learned so far. That episode is 'Podcast 55: Why EVs aren’t enough to decarbonize road travel, with Giles Perkins'. The ghost plates debate is the most direct way in, since it puts a lawmaker, a vendor and the editor on one problem. For regulatory detail, pick the connected vehicles conversation.
Made for: Suits a listener who works around tolling, traffic enforcement or road operations, or who follows transport regulation, and wants operators, vendors and policymakers explaining specifics in the field's own vocabulary.
What sets it apart: It is made by a trade publication's editors, so the conversations stay on tolling rollouts, European directives and plate-reading cameras. The sponsor's ANPR specialist also joins an editorial debate, not just the ad slot.
The Transportation Podcast from Traffic Technology International covers traffic management, intelligent transportation systems and tolling.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Puts listeners inside regulator and operator conversations on ANPR enforcement, connected-vehicle data sharing, and tolling technology.
The Transportation Podcast, produced by Traffic Technology International, favors trade access over tech punditry. Hosts Saul Wordsworth and Tom Stone talk with the people who build and regulate intelligent transportation systems, and the conversations stay close to enforcement…
You came for road cameras and stayed for the policy plumbing.
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A grounded look at tolling, charging, AI, and the safety pressures behind highway innovation.
Pennsylvania's turnpike frames a practical question about public infrastructure: how a major road operator can adopt new systems while protecting customers, colleagues, and work-zone crews.
A practical look at road carbon and the challenge of turning live trials into wider transport change.
Road decarbonization is handled here as a practical engineering problem rather than a slogan. Tom Stone of TTI speaks with Giles Perkins about the carbon tied up in concrete, steel, tarmac, and other road materials, with Live Labs 2 positioned as the testing ground.
A focused look at ghost plates, where enforcement urgency meets camera technology built to recover what standard systems miss.
Ghost plates are framed as a road-policing problem that reaches well beyond routine traffic enforcement. Speakers connect them with drivers avoiding police and speed cameras, then broaden the concern to more serious criminal use, including county lines drivers moving young…
A European safety-rating shift brings connected-vehicle data, regulation, and public-purpose sharing into one practical discussion.
This episode centers on a European agreement between Data for Road Safety and Euro NCAP, and uses it to place vehicle connectivity inside the safety-rating conversation.
A clear, grounded discussion of how data, speed enforcement, and local rulemaking shape safer streets.
Safer streets come through as a mix of data, persuasion, and local rulemaking. Brett Ferrin of Traffic Logics joins TTI Editor Tom Stone to talk through data collection, privacy concerns, profiteering, driver behaviour, and traffic-calming approaches, with the discussion…
A practical look at how ANPR accuracy, durability, and edge processing support transportation systems.
The episode frames ANPR as road infrastructure, not just plate-reading tech, and keeps the focus on what that means in use. MAV Systems' AIQ camera is linked to safer roads, busier city centers, dangerous parking outside schools, and air quality around schools, while Andy…
Safety standards meet real-world emergencies.
Professional conversations on safer, smarter mobility.
Underground delivery to rooftop landing pads, as executives see it
Mark Compton says the Pennsylvania Turnpike moved from a $450 million Act 44 burden to sending $50 million to the state, which he frames as the difference between subsidy dependence and a customer-funded system.
The Transportation Podcast from TTI talks with Giles Perkins about Live Labs 2, a £30 million UK program probing the carbon embedded in roads, lighting, and other highway assets.
The Transportation Podcast from Traffic Technology International records at the Houses of Parliament in London, with Tom Stone introducing Sarah Coombs MP and Chris Shepard from Mav Systems.
Tom Stone of Traffic Technology International interviews Joost van Tommer, Richard Schramm, and Mahanad Ismail about a Data for Road Safety agreement with Euro NCAP in Seville.
The Transportation Podcast from TTI interviews Brett Ferrin of Traffic Logics about traffic calming, speed enforcement, and roadway data.
The Transportation Podcast from Traffic Technology International examines MAV Systems’ AIQ ANPR camera through interviews with Managing Director Andy Humphreys and product manager Chris Shepard.
Interview with Steve Novosad about the U.S.