Posted by transportgooru on August 10, 2010 in
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Transit Attend one of three FREE IntelliDrive workshops and inventors meetings at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS-JPO), part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) will be hosting on IntelliDrive(SM) Systems Engineering User Needs to obtain stakeholder input for the definition of the core IntelliDrive System. User needs identified during these workshops will be critical to the development of the new IntelliDrive Concept of Operations (ConOps). The ConOps will describe the vision for how the IntelliDrive system will work, from the perspective of the user.
Tags: IntelliDrive, Intelligent Transportation System, Inventors Meeting, ITS, ITS Joint Program Office, ITS JPO, Research and Innovative TEchnology Administration, RITA, Systems Engineering, USDOT, Vehicle to Vehicle Communications
This year’s ITS Committee mid-year workshop will focus on IntelliDrive(SM) and is planned for September 21-22 at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California. Visit the link above to register and reserve your hotel room. The deadline for reduced hotel rates is August 13.
Tags: AHB15, IBEC, IntelliDrive, Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITS, ITS Evaluation, TRB, TRB ITS Committee, United States Department of Transportation
Posted by transportgooru on July 14, 2010 in
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Travel The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS-JPO), part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), will hold a three-day workshop to present and discuss IntelliDrive SM Safety program research roadmaps, including applications, technical and policy activities from July 20-22, 2010 in Chicago, IL.
Tags: IntelliDrive, Intelligent Transportation System, ITS, ITS Joint Program Office, ITS JPO, Research and Innovative TEchnology Administration, RITA, Vehicle to Vehicle Communications
Posted by transportgooru on June 16, 2010 in
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Travel This was a great forum to share/listen best practices, lessons learned, failure stories and ideas of how to put theory into practice, as it relates to the following over-arching questions: What online tools exist in the D.C. area to make transportation more efficient, user-friendly and sustainable? What are some examples of Web-based innovation and collaboration in the D.C. transport sector? How can government, technology and civil society work together to improve the way we move around – by foot, by car, by bike, and by transit – in the nation’s capital?
Tags: DC, DCDOT, DDOT, Digital Capital Week, EMBARQ, Online Citizen Engagement, Open Data, OpenPlans, SeeClickFix, Social Media, Transportation, Washington DC, World Resources Institute, WRI
[ June 22, 2010 to June 23, 2010. ] Event Alert: USDOT’s IntelliDriveSM Deployment Scenarios Workshop
Tags: Events, IntelliDrive, Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITS, ITS America, ITS Deployment, ITS Joint Program Office, ITS JPO, ITS Technologies, ITSA, Workshop
Posted by transportgooru on May 10, 2010 in
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Public Policy Job Alert: USDOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration is looking for a Community Planner
Tags: Community Planner, Employment, ITS, Jobs, PCB, Professional Capacity Building Program, Research and Innovative TEchnology Administration, RITA, Transportation, VNTSC, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Posted by transportgooru on March 30, 2010 in
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Transit Today, I came across a tweet from someone that talked about T4America’s latest national poll results that said majority Americans support increased access to public transportation and safe walking and biking. As a curious mind would do it, I went on to explore the survey results and the press release issued by T4America and here is the summary of what I saw: American voters overwhelmingly support broader access to public transportation and safe walking and biking, according to this new national poll conducted for Transportation for America. This must be a ton of good news for pro-transit & bike-ped folks, especially given all the activities that are happening on the next transportation re-authorization bill. My favorite finding of this survey: 79% of rural folks support improved public transportation. Now, who would have expected that from our American voters!
Tags: Future of Transportation A National Survey (2010), Gas Tax, Public Transportation Bike and Pedestrian, T4America, Transit, Transportation Allocation, Transportation for America, Transportation Funding
Posted by transportgooru on March 24, 2010 in
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Travel Today, GM unveiled a trio of electric “urban mobility vehicles,” built with help from the über-geeks at Segway, today in Shanghai. They’re called Electric Networked Vehicles (EN-V) and they’re designed for cities bursting at the seams with traffic. The EN-V, pronounced “envy,” is GM’s latest effort to burnish its credentials as a future-focused, environmentally friendly company and shed its image as the bastion of the gas guzzling Hummer. The automaker is in the process of winding down Hummer after a deal collapsed to sell it to a Chinese heavy equipment maker. The helmet-shaped two-seater vehiclesunveiled today in Shanghai will be now showcased at world expo 2010 to be held in Shanghai starting May 1 through October 31. The pavilion will be shared by GM with its Chinese partner SAIC Motor Corp. There will be three models on display in Shanghai:
Tags: Electric vehicles, EN-V, EV, General Motors, GM, GM Electric Networked Vehicles, GM PUMA, Jiao, Miao, Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility, Segaway, Segway, Shanghai Auto Expo, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, Vehicle Automation, Wired, Xiao
[ April 15, 2010; 1:00 pm to 2:31 pm. ] The Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has developed online ITS Knowledge Resources for decision making support. The major objectives on these online tools are to:
Tags: Benefits, Costs, Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITS Evaluation, ITS Joint Program Office, ITS JPO, ITS Knowledge Resources, T3 Webinar, Talking Transportation Technology, Webinar
Individual will provide support to the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) contract with the US Department of Transportation. Typical activities will include technical oversight of standards development and deployment activities, reviewing literature to identify promising ITS technologies, reviewing new standards to determine their completeness, evaluating standards deployment outreach tools, reviewing project specifications and design documents to determine their conformance to ITS standards, reviewing standards based test documentation, and reviewing project documentation for vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications projects for conformance to ITS Standards.
Tags: Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITS, ITS Joint Program Office, ITS Standards, Job Opportunities, Noblis, USDOT
