Posts by Jim

The Waze Issue

Much has changed in the world of traffic and technology since GEWI opened its doors in 1992. One of the transformational trends globally is crowd-sourced data such as provided by Waze and other organizations creating traffic flow and incidents from user generated content.

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GEWI Launches Traffic News System for German Public Radio Stations

In July 2016, GEWI was selected after a public bid process to provide a traffic news system for Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), a Germany Public Radio station for the German state of Hesse, based in Frankfurt. HR is a member of the European Broadcast Union (EBU) which includes organizations such as the BBC, as well as […]

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GEWI Promotes Matthias Defée to Executive Director

Global traffic software leader GEWI Europe announces the elevation of Matthias Defée to the position of Executive Director. Defée joined GEWI as Product Manager in 2002 and over the years has advanced through the positions of Business Development Manager and since 2008, Director of Customer Projects, Worldwide.

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German public radio selects Gewi traffic news system

Traffic software developer Gewi has been selected by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), a German public radio station for the state of Hesse, Frankfurt, to collect, create and aggregate traffic information to be broadcast on the HR stations which include five different radio formats. In addition, the traffic information is distributed to TV channels, internet platforms and […]

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GEWI Launches Traffic News System for German Public Radio Stations

In July of 2016, GEWI was selected after a public bid process to provide a traffic news system for Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), a Germany Public Radio station for the German state of Hesse, based in Frankfurt.

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The Analytics Issue

The new TIC Analytics product feature was added in the Q4/2016 software release. Read about this new feature and a profile of GEWI developer Thomas Rothe who is responsible for the analytics product feature as well as the new partnership between GEWI and Waze to provide off-the-shelf integration of Waze crowd-sourced data.

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GEWI Partners with Waze Connected Citizens Program to Enable “off-the-shelf” Waze Data Integration

GEWI announced a new global partnership with Waze to provide an “off-the-shelf” solution for collecting, harmonizing, and integrating Waze data with existing public agency data using GEWI’s TIC software.

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GEWI Hosts Work Zone User Group

In November 2016, GEWI hosted a Work Zone user group in Werder Germany, near Potsdam, allowing users to share problems and ideas related to their Work Zone process as well to review the latest TIC Work Zone Features.

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GEWI to Speak on Social Media and Traffic Management at GRITS

GEWI will be wrapping up the 2016 conference season by exhibiting and speaking at the Gulf Region ITS (GRITS) annual meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana 14-16 November 2016.

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The ITS World Congress – Wrong-Way Driver Issue

Wrong-way drivers are a dangerous issue for agencies worldwide and in this newsletter you can learn more about the GEWI commercial off-the-shelf solution to this problem. Also news about HERE’s addition of the TIC Camera feature and the launch of the new GEWI website.

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