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White Paper: North American ITS Industry Sectors and State Programs: Market Data Analysis Phase I ITS America Share     This white paper is available online. More
ITIF Report: Explaining International Leadership in Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS America Share
Please join us from 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 27, as ITIF releases a new report, "Explaining International Leadership in Intelligent Transportation Systems," which will identify the leading countries in ITS, explain why they have made the progress they have (and conversely why the United States is lagging behind), and offer recommendations for how the federal and state governments can accelerate the deployment of intelligent transportation systems. More Texas Transportation Institute teams with INRIX for 2010 Urban Mobility Report ITS America Share
The Texas Transportation Institute announced it has selected INRIX® as the exclusive private provider of traffic information for the 2010 Urban Mobility Report. More
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and the National Safety Council announce FocusDriven ITS America Share
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and National Safety Council President Janet Froetscher announced the creation of FocusDriven, the first national nonprofit organization devoted specifically to raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. More Federal Highway Administration new resource: Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse ITS America Share
Transportation professionals now have a new resource to help them identify, implement, and evaluate cost–effective roadway safety improvements. The Federal Highway Administration has established the Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse, a central, Web-based repository of Crash Modification Factors, or CMFs. More Intelligent Transportation Society of America announces departure of director of communications ITS America Share
ITS America announced the departure of its Director of Communications, Sabrina McGowan. More
Downtown Phoenix emerges as light-rail collision hot spot The Arizona Republic Share
The Arizona Valley's light-rail track runs over 20 miles, but almost half of the line's crashes in the past year have occurred along a single mile-and-a-quarter stretch that runs through downtown Phoenix. More Public transit cuts will make California Bay Area economic recovery difficult San Jose Mercury News Share
As the California Bay Area attempts to push toward economic recovery in 2010, transit agencies expect to be moving in the opposite direction, stuck offering service levels and fares established during the downturn — or worse. Experts question whether transit operators will be ready when residents start getting back to work, and whether service funding problems will in turn slow the region's economic recovery. More
Think tank proposes system of tolls The Columbian Share
John Charles, president of the Cascade Policy Institute, a free-market think tank in Portland, Ore., has been pushing a market-based solution to the Portland-Vancouver area's traffic problem. He envisions a system of electronic tolling on all major highways in the metro area. More Traffic system could benefit other city departments The Edmond Sun Share
A state of the art Intelligent Transportation System proposed for the City of Edmond in Oklahoma could be relevant to a Public Safety Center and other city departments, City Council members learned at a recent workshop. ITS also could be useful to the Police and Fire departments, Central Communications and Emergency Management, said Kent Kacir, an engineer with Kimley–Horn and Associates. There is a trend among cities to combine a traffic management center with an emergency operations center, he said. More 
A big train fan tracks a really big train Los Angeles Times Share
To most people, videotaping a passing three and a half–mile freight train would be about as appealing as... well, waiting for a three and a half–mile freight train to get out of the way. But Joe Perry, an information network engineer for a downtown Los Angeles bank and a railroading enthusiast since childhood, may have the only still photo of the whole thing: a wide desert shot of the three locomotives at the head of the train, with double-stacked container cars trailing off around a long, sweeping curve — seemingly into infinity. More |
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