The Connected Vehicle is far from commonplace and is still in the planning/testing/pilot stage – actually the RFP letting for each in most cases. Yet it must be concerning to see how fickle the public is when it comes to technology. And in a similar fashion, how technologies change so rapidly. In a movie I [...]
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Seems like an odd title – at least in this country where we typically don’t have armed guards over our highways. In my last post, I introduced the parallel between funding transportation to our overall Federal funding mechanisms in the US. As a civil engineering student, most of what we learned about in the 1980s [...]
Back when I was in high school, Reagan was president and there was a political battle over how much to spend on the military and how much on social programs and entitlements. (We of course have the same issue today.) What I remember about back then is that the media called it a battle between [...]
It has been a crazy 6 weeks for me and I have been negligent in my posts. I resolve to remedy that. Started with a whirlwind trip to Atlanta for Halloween – even saw Jeff Foxworthy at a charity event at m church. A week later I was back in Atlanta for PMP Bootcamp then [...]
As a start, the map shown here identifies a few possible ITS elements for the region. Items 1A and 1B are the Georgia DOT field offices, where maintenance trucks are dispatched. Also anticipated for storage in these locations might be one or more portable/solar-powered Changeable Message Signs. If fitted with GPS and other equipment, maintenance [...]
