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Letter from Bryan Mulligan...
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Nearly halfway through the year and it is time for the ITS America trade show again. Over the past several years, we and other practitioners in the ITS market have the sense that this trade show, and others like it, are shrinking. The vendors are taking smaller booths and the volume of government officials (i.e. “customers”) is shrinking with each passing year. I have devoted one of the articles in the newsletter to this topic, as it is essential that we as an industry find a way to get governmental officials back to the important trade shows. Read More...
ITS Officials Can’t Travel to Trade Shows: A Major Threat to ITS Success…
The ITS America trade show is just around the corner (June 4-6 in Palm Springs, CA) and once again it is brought front and foremost to mind a major threat facing our industry, which is the inability of US ITS officials to travel to trade shows. Pre-show feedback for us at Intelligent Devices is disappointing: more and more of the state and city officials that we deal with are unable to travel to ITS America due to restrictions on “out-of-state” travel. Read More...
Innovative NTCIP Lane Control System…
The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) has a significant ITS roll out program underway in Johannesburg, South Africa. This roll out is motivated both by increasing traffic that has resulted from the booming economy, but also the need to improve the traffic infrastructure in time for the Soccer World Cup, to be hosted by South Africa, in 2010. ![[SATraffic]](http://www.intelligentdevicesinc.com/eNewsletters/images/SATraffic.jpg) The initial deployment of cameras, electronic signs, traffic sensors, traffic management center and a fiber optic communications network has been focused on the freeway linking the major cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria. This highly congested stretch of road is the busiest stretch of roadway in the African continent, and the South African road authorities, with their consultants and contractors, have deployed a number of innovative technologies to help manage congestion. Read More...
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