highways
RSS highwaysOutsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News Highways Agency Four years ago the Highways Agency - which is responsible for maintaining the UK's motorways and some A-roads - relied on more than 100 contracts with external companies to deliver a wide... [24 Nov 2009]
Advancing Highways With Communication Solutions: Cost-Effective Ways to Address Growing Demands on Highway Infrastructure
White Paper Highway authorities worldwide are facing rapid growth in the number of passenger vehicles, combined with constraints on budgets and available space for new roads. To leverage available resources, transportation agencies are turning to... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: The firefighting robots taking to London's streets
Photo Under a two-year deal - jointly funded by Network Rail, the Highways Agency and Transport for London, in collaboration with the London Fire Brigade - QinetiQ's remote operated vehicles (ROVs) can be called out to fires... [29 Jul 2009]
Zonar Drives Advanced Fleet Telematics With Google Maps for Enterprise
White Paper Transportation customers have current, user-friendly aerial and satellite views to provide total visibility into fleets traveling the nation's highways. Since 2001, Seattle-based Zonar Systems has been revolutionizing... [23 Jun 2009]
'Airwave does do data - unlike what some of the media say'
Comment In recent years the company has been busy expanding its user base, both at home - Air Ambulances have just signed on the dotted line and the Highways Agency continues to beef up its involvement - and also abroad,... [11 Jun 2009]
Steelbox Networks, Inc. Case Study: UK Highways Project
White Paper Following the success of the M25 London Orbital Motorway project, Telindus Surveillance Solutions Ltd was chosen to design, implement and support an IP switched CCTV system for the UK Highways Agency for the NRTS project. [16 May 2009]
Exor Corporation Builds World's First and Only Out-of-The-Box Solution for Managing Linear Assets
White Paper Exor Corporation wanted to capitalize on the multi-industry need for a suite of enhanced management capabilities for linear and other assets, such as highways, railroad tracks, transmission lines, and drainage and build... [30 Apr 2009]
Stop Signs and Yields: Why Your Network Needs a Helping Hand
White Paper One's business cannot operate to optimal speed and effect without the core network being secure, ordered and healthy, any more than highways and roads can operate without power, programming and routing rules and... [23 Mar 2009]
Airwave heads out on the Highways Agency
News The Highways Agency is extending its rollout of the Airwave digital radio system to hundreds more staff. More than 500 Highways Agency traffic officers have already been using the network since 2005. The... [10 Mar 2009]
Home Entertainment Networks and Flying Cars1
White Paper Highways, like most of today's networks, do not guarantee when the data will arrive at the destination. Today's entertainment networks are reminiscent of the flying cars which have been promised for years but only seen... [07 Mar 2009]
Google's ambitious Android
Comment Or at least it will be when Google finishes eyeing up our highways and byways and launches Street View UK. Natasha Lomas got her hands on a smartphone running Google's Android OS. How does it compare to the iPhone? [23 Dec 2008]
CIOs still plan investment despite tight budgets
News Denise Plumpton, director of information at The Highways Agency - one of the IT chiefs polled by the Corporate IT Forum - said top priorities include getting value for money from IT investments, while spending to improve... [05 Dec 2008]
Proxim Wireless Case Study: California Department of Transportation
White Paper The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is responsible for planning, designing, building and maintaining California's extensive network of highways, bridges and tunnels. With increased focus on homeland... [04 Dec 2008]
Building on Office XP Enables Keylogix to Offer Innovative, Time-Saving Tools for Users in Any Industry
White Paper Off late, Keylogix has developed document assembly and automation systems for industries ranging from legal, telecommunications, local government, national highways, airlines, and construction. Software vendor Keylogix... [07 Oct 2008]
Photos: The bus that doesn't need a driver
Photo The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has provided $320,000 to fund this Automated Bus Guidance System demonstration project, conducted by the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)... [11 Sep 2008]
