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 There's still time to register for ITS America's 20th Annual Meeting and Exposition, May 3-5! The final program is now available, and includes more than 50 sessions filled with industry experts tackling the hottest transportation issues today. The conference will also feature a 150,000 square-foot exhibit hall featuring the best of ITS technology and products, and high-tech demos, including an 18-wheeler roll-over demonstrating the latest in incident response. After the Closing Plenary, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will convene a U.S. DOT Surface Transportation Reauthorization Outreach Meeting to solicit the views of key stakeholders on ways to improve the delivery of surface transportation programs. The meeting is scheduled from 12:30 – 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5. Please RSVP to Charlie Tennyson at ctennyson@itsa.org. See you in Houston!
ITS America announces finalists for 2010 Best of ITS Awards Share    
ITS America has announced the list of finalists for the 2010 Best of ITS Awards. The Best of ITS Awards is the only program in the world that honors the most innovative, effective, and influential achievements in the ITS industry. This highly competitive program recognizes the organizations whose projects have demonstrated specific and measurable outcomes and exemplified innovation by establishing a new standard of excellence in performance. The finalists are: Best New Innovative Products, Services, or Applications
NATWG releases "Traffic Information Benchmarking Guidelines" ITS America Share
The North American Traffic Working Group just released its "Traffic Information Benchmarking Guidelines, Version 1.0." The purpose of these benchmarking guidelines is to offer the market a more unified way of assessing and comparing traffic information services. These guidelines will help buyers of traffic information, such as automobile manufacturers, media distributors, device manufacturers, fleets and roadway operators conduct more confident and effective audits and purchasing decisions. ITS America is publishing the benchmarking guidelines on behalf of NATWG under "for attribution, share-alike" Creative Commons license. This license is designed to make it easier for industry and the public sector organizations to build upon the work of NATWG and to share their work in an open source manner, under their own auspices or in close collaboration with NATWG. NATWG welcomes comments contributions and will be providing an overview of the "Traffic Information Benchmarking Guidelines" at a special session at ITS America's Annual Meeting at the Cross Cutting Forum Showcase Tuesday, May 4, 1:30 – 3 p.m, and at a special session, New Initiatives in Traffic and Traveler Information on the same day from 4 – 5:30 p.m. Room: 360 D. For more information please click here.
FHWA hosts Road Weather Policy Forum in Washington, D.C., May 25 – 26 ITS Joint Program Office Share
Join the Federal Highway Administration and the ITS Joint Program Office at a stakeholder workshop to help shape their long-range Road Weather Research Agenda. This will be the first in a series of sessions engaging stakeholders in helping to define future Road Weather research priorities. The DOT is actively seeking participation from both transportation and weather professionals, with specific interest in transportation system user needs, and insights from private sector applications developers and providers. The session will take place May 25, and 26, at the University of California Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Avenue NW. The meeting is free to attend. Information on the agenda, registration and hotel can be found at: http://webservices.camsys.com/RWMP/page.html.
Join the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research this August VTTI Share
The two-day international symposium will gather experts in the field of naturalistic driving research to discuss a wide range of topics including real world operations; instrumentation of vehicles for data gathering; field operation testing; field technology demonstrations; extraction and analysis of naturalistic driving data; data access & sharing issues; data analysis reporting. The symposium will include an international review of naturalistic driving study research with panelists who are experts in the field of naturalistic driving research in their respective countries. Registration and additional information at: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/ndmas/.
Bay Bridge: Competing against time CBS News Share
 Byron Pitts reports from the construction site of the future Bay Bridge in San Francisco, where there's a race to complete the new, earthquake-resistant span alongside the old structure, which authorities fear cannot stand up
to the next large earthquake.
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The information superhighway, on the highway Forbes Share
If Americans are going to get anything done with some of the 100 million hours every day they spend in their cars getting to and from work, they are going to need a better Internet to do it. The idea of being able to access the Internet in the car has been kicked around — and worried about — for years. But K. Venkatesh Prasad, who runs the infotronics research and advanced engineering team at Ford Motor, thinks the Internet we are familiar with from our desktops, laptops and smartphones is all but useless to someone trying to get from Peoria, Pa., to Pittsburgh at 70 miles per hour. More The looming infrastructure crisis Governing Share
It didn't take long for Scott Brown, the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, to go from tea party darling to Republican rogue. When he cast a vote for the $15 billion jobs bill, his Facebook page quickly filled with complaints that he was trading in his pickup truck for a liberal limousine. The jobs bill that created political potholes for Brown was also aimed at filling some of the nation's nastiest infrastructure potholes. The looming crisis is no secret to drivers in Minnesota's Twin Cities who got stuck in hopeless traffic following the 2007 collapse of the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi River, or to San Francisco Bay Area commuters mired in gridlock when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge emergency repairs failed and the bridge was shut down. Riders of Washington, D.C.'s troubled subway system have suffered through collisions, derailments and maintenance problems, and four U.S. senators warned that the system had suffered "an institutional failure." More
New service pays drivers to pick up hitchhikers Digital Journal TV Share
Using new
cellphone technology, a company called Avego is hoping to turn you and your friends into a massive network of taxis. This is no fly-by-night operation, either. It's a multi-million dollar initiative that could change the transport industry.
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Virginia considers banning cell phones in work zones Roads & Bridges Share
Most drivers in Virginia will encounter at least one work zone during their daily travels. With more than 275 million cell-phone users in the U.S., it has become increasingly common to see multitasking drivers attempting to dial, text or talk on their cell phones while driving through a work zone. More Cool transit apps come down the pike as New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority loosens restrictions AM New York Share
Imagine being able to find out exactly where a bus is through a tweet on your phone? Or clicking to find out if they've finally fixed that busted escalator at your station? Soon, straphangers can expect a bonanza of new transit apps offering plenty of gee-whiz services, adding to an already rich collection that is changing the way New Yorkers commute. More Smarter highways - Information the key to keep Washington state moving Issaquah Reporter Share
This summer, the Washington State Department of Transportation will begin installing the overhead electronic signs on northbound Interstate 5, State Route 520 and Interstate 90 between Seattle and Bellevue. The signs are a key component of the WSDOT Smarter Highways program, that uses real-time traffic information to improve safety and reduce congestion. Skyline High School senior Jason Lu has been studying the traffic management systems in America and overseas. Here he discusses how real-time traffic information can improve highway capacity without expensive road building. More |
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