roads
RSS roadsAdvancing 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... [02 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.09.09
Round-Up Manufacturing costs are lower, there'd be no need to dig up roads or lay cables in sewers. A lot of people think their broadband service is bad. You probably think your broadband is bad. Even people that don't have... [18 Sep 2009]
Avoid Potholes on the Road to Business Service Management (BSM)
White Paper But - the performance may vary - if one don't have smooth roads in the form of a properly operating network infrastructure. Operating a highly-tuned Formula One racecar on a washed-out dirt road, will never reach top... [01 Aug 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News The thing that really dictates the economies of P rather than C is the amount of civils' work you have to do [ie digging up roads etc to lay fibre] so where we feel there are no civils and we can run fibre all the way to... [02 Jul 2009]
'RFID in all new mobiles by next summer'
News Another example of leveraging location data is to create real-time road traffic maps generated by analysing the speed of mobile phone base station hand-off to ascertain how fast cars are travelling on roads. [24 Jun 2009]
The Roads to a smarter planet
White Paper Our rapidly urbanizing planet depends on getting people and things from here to there. Our cars keep getting smarter. So how about our roadways? [23 Jun 2009]
AAA Drives Results for Staff and Members Using the Google Search Appliance
White Paper Since 1902, the not-for-profit AAA (American Automobile Association) has been an advocate for motorists and travelers, spearheading the movement for adequate roads and vehicle safety regulations. AAA employees use the... [22 Jun 2009]
Bangalore bashing: Recession gets nasty
Comment The buildings are ultra-modern but the roads leading to them are still filled with potholes and clogged with traffic. The latest symptom of the worldwide recession? The West becoming hostile towards Indian outsourcing... [28 May 2009]
Photos: Thirty years of technology on the buses
Photo More technology was added in 1997 in the form of CCTV feeds from major bus stations and roads, used to help manage the fleet. When it opened 30 years ago, staff in London Buses' emergency control centre CentreComm relied... [26 May 2009]
Speed-limiter tech trial coming this summer
News Councillor Jeff Hook, executive member for environment at Southwark Council, added in a statement: "This technology could revolutionise the way we keep our roads safer in Southwark, and that's why we're really interested... [11 May 2009]
Vanderburgh County Highway Department Automates AVL Data Collection
White Paper The Vanderburgh County Highway Department encompasses the Highway, Local Roads, and Street and Cumulative Bridge departments within the Vanderburgh County Government. During an unusually harsh winter, Vanderburgh County... [08 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]
Photos: The top tech sites on Google Street View
Photo Not all roads in the selected cities have been mapped - Google relied on a fleet of camera-packing vans to take images, and coverage 'blackspots' are easy to find. Google has launched its Street View service in the UK,... [20 Mar 2009]
Google's Street View gives UK its close up
News Ed Parsons, Google UK's geospatial technologist, said in a statement: "Street View has been hugely popular with our users in Europe and worldwide, and we're thrilled it's now available in the UK for so many great cities, enabling users... [20 Mar 2009]
Bangalore's brain gain
Comment There is no discipline on the roads," he complains. In mid 2007, 20 years after he went to the US to work, Madan Moudgal made the journey back to Bangalore. For Moudgal, a healthcare technologist who grew up in the city,... [17 Mar 2009]
