Wow, with my JAVA Programming class and everything else going on – had no idea I had skipped 8 weeks blogging! I thought I’d offer some food for thought on the transportation guns versus butter debate. Not a judgment but a couple of examples. On Bernie Wagenblasts’s newsletter I found this interesting story from Australia. [...]
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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 [...]
What I keep thinking about as a transportation professional can be summed up in my title. Technology is speeding along rapidly it seems. ITS is moving well beyond traffic cameras, dynamic signs and web sites with colored speed schemes. Telematics and GPS and Bluetooth, etc…are game changers in how ITS data is collected and disseminated. [...]
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 [...]
My readers who are football fans or follow sports know that there have been some aggressive attempts to protect players from the dangers of concussions. New rules have been employed and the NFL is planning suspensions as a penalty for intentional head collisions. The former penalty was just a fine. The dean of college coaches, [...]
I happened to ride on a new train the other day and it actually did have in-train signage. i was able to verify the line I was on and the next station flashed a few times right before each stop. Kudos to Marta!
Having been working in virginia I have had the opportunity to sample the famous Washington METRO. The system is much larger than MARTA with more lines and stations but that is not the point of my post. It is obvious that ridership is much higher here and therefore they can afford to run trains frequent [...]
I feel like the North Georgia Rural ITS theme has been taken as far as it needs to go for now. May come back to it in the future, but for now, I am going to go in another direction. I want to talk through IntelliDrive and think about how what the program can bring [...]
I recently began a new job with a management consulting firm in McLean Virginia. I will be helping my firm grow its ITS business including the move of ITS innovation into the IntelliDrive space. I have been slack in posting to the blog as I recently completed orientation and have been getting up to speed [...]
