Posted on 10/09/2004 8:43:19 PM PDT by Warden
Technology and Funds to Drive "Smart Highways"
Increased spending on emerging technologies that allow for the efficient and safe movement of traffic on our nation's highways, combined with a concerted federal effort to create the next generation intelligent transportation system, are expected to boost state & local spending for transportation IT systems from $1.8 billion in FY 2005 to $2.5 billion in FY 2009, according to a report released by INPUT, the leading provider of government market intelligence.
Increased transportation technology investment will center on Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), the technology expected to support applications for "smart" highway initiatives such as real-time traffic and weather updates to motorists, comprehensive automobile tracking, and universal electronic toll collection. Used today primarily for automated toll collection, DSRC is a combination of wireless and radio frequency identification technologies, used to support a wide range of roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle public safety applications, according to INPUT.
Jurisdictional investments in DSRC and other advanced technologies will continue to generate opportunity in this sector, according to the INPUT report, but IT spending in the state and local transportation market will also be driven increasingly by federal policy and funding in support of a more coordinated and integrated plan for upgrading the national transportation system. An increased number of homeland security initiatives for logistical management, tracking and control also will help bolster the market.
"After relatively flat growth over the last couple of years, the market has rebounded with considerable growth across all categories," said James Krouse, manager of state and local market analysis at INPUT. "A steady influx of federal funding, driven by the need to address our nation's crowded highways, will ensure that the market has a continual infusion of capital to help drive key initiatives across state and local jurisdictions."
INPUT estimates the state and local transportation IT market will grow conservatively between FY 2005 and FY 2006, but will then pick up speed, growing at a compound annual growth rate of eight percent through FY 2009. Despite early market dominance by smaller specialized companies, INPUT projects that large contractors with the resources to compete for large scale systems integration contracts and intelligent communications systems will be well positioned to capitalize on the growing market.
To download a summary of INPUT's State & Local Transportation MarketView, go to: http://state transportation.input.com.
Editor's Note: INPUT is the leading provider of government market intelligence. Based in Reston, Virginia, INPUT provides market development services, advisory services, and software solutions to help clients secure new business, address new markets, and manage business development. For more information about INPUT visit http://www.input.com or call 703-707-3500.
And they PROMISE not to use it to track people's movements. Well, except when they see the "need" to.
BTW, if you have a Cell phone made this year, chances are that it has GPS tracking built into it. They say that it is so the 911 operators can find you in an emergency and that the government won't misuse it.
Right.
"comprehensive automobile tracking"
that's certainly exciting---never did like that nasty old 4th amendment....
What it really means is that they are going to want to put a chip in your car that tracks its speed and where its going, so you end up getting a ticket in the mail every week for some tiny infraction. Its all about money.
It cost $Billions....but was a Complete Failure......
Did a tour around my place a year or so ago, with a atate of the art GPS unit, hoping to figure out my actual acreage (those old land grants are just so vague);
by the time I got back around to where I started, the GPS showed I was 67 feet away.
They're going to REALLY have to fine tune that system before it could ever control vehicle movements.
"atate" = state
Arrrrgh!
Drive I-44 from Tulsa into Missouri. In Oklahoma, it's a toll road. At the Missouri border, it's free, with regular off ramps and a service road. The lonely Toll road in Okla turns into a regular "city" in Missiouri along the highway.
Like the rivers built the cities in the 1800's, the highways do the same now. By placing dis-incentives to drive, there is a corresponding reduction in the general economy.
Humans have been surrendering their rights in bids for utopia since time immemorial.
It never works.
Howdy,
If I can learn to use paragraph codes in html, I'm confident that you can.
greather than sign p less than sign with no spaces among them.
Not difficult.
Many of us with older eyes will simply not read a very tedius, almost painful mass of words.
It also tends to come across as thoughtless and/or lazy. Not exactly attractive things to enlist readers with.
PLEASE use at least paragraph codes.
AND PREVIEW, PREVIEW, PREVIEW, PREVIEW
TO MAKE SURE that the paragraph codes are sticking and functioning.
Otherwise, PLEASE let someone else post your article for you--who knows and uses paragraph codes.
This is why Plato never makes the Best Seller List.
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