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Deadline approaching for ITS World Congress technology demonstration participants
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The 18th World Congress on ITS will be held in Orlando, Fla. from Oct. 16-20, 2011. The conference organizers are planning to feature a live outdoor demonstration of ITS technologies. Interested organizations are invited to submit a pre-application by Oct. 30, 2009 to participate in the World Congress technology demonstrations. More
ITS Congestion finalist spotlight: Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge
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The Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge, a demonstration of how cooperative driving systems, which provide vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, can reduce the incidence of traffic jams, minimize CO2 emissions and prevent accidents on the road, was named a finalist in global ITS Congestion Challenge. More
Exhibit space going fast for ITS America's 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition
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More than 80 percent of the show floor has been reserved.
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Houston METRO selects TransCore to implement High Occupancy Vehicle Improvement Program
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TransCore, a subsidiary of Roper Industries, has been notified by Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County that it has been selected as prime contractor to design, furnish, install, operate, and maintain a high occupancy toll and automated reversible gate operation system for 83 miles of reversible high occupancy vehicle lanes.
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ACS signs contract for real-time passenger information system with San Mateo County Transit in California
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Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. has been selected by San Mateo County Transit District in California to install a Predictive Bus Arrival / Departure System system to provide real-time bus arrival/departure information to their customers via the Web, telephone systems, and on dynamic message signs at major SamTrans terminals.
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Take back the streets
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Creating headline-grabbing instaparks in the middle of America's most frenetic, congested city is business as usual for Janette Sadik-Khan, 49, a bureaucrat who behaves like anything but. The New York City transportation commissionership, which she assumed in April 2007, has historically been the preserve of beleaguered officials saddled with duties like filling potholes and erasing graffiti. The commissioner manages streets, sidewalks, nontoll bridges and tunnels plus the Staten Island Ferry but not the city's $6.1 billion mass transit operation. Sadik-Khan has attacked her job with the energy of a speeding bullet train.
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Massachusetts offers real-time data on I-93 traffic
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Radar beams and cameras are confirming what many travelers on Interstate 93 already know — moving from three lanes to two can mean a nightmare of a wait. Anyone heading north from Salem between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on a Friday or south from Manchester on a Sunday afternoon knows that all too well. Delays routinely mean motorists may take three to four times the normal travel time to get through those congested areas during peak travel times, according to recent corridor studies.
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Congress considering legislation to make states prohibit cell use behind the wheel
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Two congressional committees will hold hearings next week on whether the federal government should require states to ban drivers from talking on handheld cell phones and texting. The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee meets to hear from U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski regarding combating distracted driving.
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Will smarter roads save us more money?
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Traffic congestion reduces gross national product around the world by 1 percent, I.B.M. researchers calculate — a serious chunk of money. To do something about it, Big Blue has been experimenting in Australia, Hong Kong, Scotland and the Netherlands on new ideas for smart roads to speed traffic.
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Massachusetts Turnpike Authority prepares closeout
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The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Board of Directors held its final meeting last week as the 57-year-old agency prepares to dissolve at the end of this month as part of a reorganization of the state's transportation agencies. A new state transportation organizational structure takes effect Nov. 1, that will fold the Turnpike Authority and other agencies together into a newly created Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
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Beijing is using the latest information and communications technologies to streamline the city's traffic
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The National Day parade in Beijing, drew an audience of more than 200,000 people and nearly 200,000 participants, who all needed to be dispersed within three and a half hours after the ceremony. The event posed an unprecedented challenge to the city's traffic control system. But a newly adopted intelligent transportation system (ITS), which uses information and communications technologies to manage infrastructure and vehicles, helped the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau complete its daunting mission.
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Improving transportation - above ground
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The most comprehensive analysis of Michael Bloomberg's New York mayoral administration's transportation record is, like so many other comprehensive analyses offered by the administration, an internally authored document. Released in December, the Department of Transportation's Sustainable Streets Index tracks transportation trends over the past decade. It's a well-designed, fact-packed, reader-friendly report that unsurprisingly depicts the agency that authored it quite favorably.
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Should speeders pay more on the Kansas Turnpike?
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If you drive the speedlimit, you'd pay the standard fare. If you speed, you'd pay more. How would the Turnpike know? Your time would start when you picked up a farecard at the tollway entrance; when you exit you'd pay based on how long it took you to do the trip.
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Group to evaluate freight efficiency technologies
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The U.S. Council for Freight Efficiency will hold its first organizational meeting Nov. 3, at the University of Chicago, according to the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit research organization focused on energy and resources conservation. The meeting is open to all freight industry stakeholders, including truck OEMs, component suppliers, policy makers, research institutes and fleets, the organization said.
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Transportation Calendar
Oct. 30, 2009
ITS Virginia's Transit ITS Information Exchange
Charlottesville, Va.
Nov. 11-13, 2009
ITS Texas 2009 Annual Meeting
Galveston, Texas
November 14, 2009
MassDOT Developers Conference
Cambridge, Mass.
Nov. 16-17, 2009
ITS California Annual Meeting
Anaheim, Calif.
December 8, 2009
ITS Florida Annual Meeting
Orlando, Fla.
May 3-5, 2010
ITS America's 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition
Houston, Texas
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