The first goal of any transportation agency is safety. Yet almost 40,000 Americans die on the transportation system every year. New proposals for safer streets, better vehicle design, and crash avoidance technology are reshaping the narrative around safety in an effort to reverse the downward trend of transportation safety. Governments are also concerned about the security of the system. Terrorism, hacking, and international affairs can threaten the transportation systems that support the national economy.
BY RICHARD HARRIS Solution Director, Xerox Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) refers to a wide range of services that use information...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Carter Templetonhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngCarter Templeton2014-04-24 19:54:112023-04-14 15:05:57Improving Transportation = Better Quality of Life for City Dwellers
There is tremendous excitement in the transportation world about the idea of self-driving vehicles, also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs)....
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Last month was the first time in a long time that anyone with the ability to act on it has...
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The United States is increasingly a metropolitan nation, with more of the population concentrating in urban areas. The largest of...
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The advice often given to incoming members of the President’s Cabinet is to pick three issues on which to focus...
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Last week the sequester finally began hitting Congress where it hurts – by snarling air traffic and delaying flights. The...
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Last month, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) unveiled a plan to permit some items that had been previously banned back...
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When President Obama gave his State of the Union speech to Congress last month, the transportation community reaction was mixed....
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2010 Transportation Weekly Archive Index January 2010 January 5, 2010 issue January 21, 2010 issue January 26, 2010...
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Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars
The Implications of the Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars (September 2018) concludes that until the federal government better understands the potential national security risks of using Chinese railcars in American transit systems, a one-year appropriations ban is more appropriate than a permanent policy change.