Contents
COLUMNS
04 Bob Kelly & Mark Johnson’s Legal Brief
www.thinkinghighways.com
08 Thinking Highways’ new website is packed
with innovative features and high on user-
friendliness, as Kevin Borras explains
COVER FEATURE: INTELLIDRIVE
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10 The move from VII to IntelliDrive
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is more than
just a change of name or a rebranding - it’s a
shift in emphasis, as Shelley Row explains
CLIMATE CHANGE
16 Amy Zuckerman on how the connected vehicle
will have a positive impact on the environment
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Climate Change Climate ChangClimate Changee
Make the
Connected vehicle functions could be a major
factor in reducing greenhouse gases,
as AMY ZUCKERMAN reports
Stunted
growth
Throughout this past winter’s acrimonious debate
about ways to boost the United States’ faltering econ-
omy, Congress focused a great deal on rebuilding
the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges and tunnels. SMART TRAVEL
Virtually absent from the fraught Congressional and
Thinking Highways’ financial analyst MARGARET Obama Administration negotiations over the
US$790billion recovery package was any note of the
PETTIT looks at the European Territorial many technologies that can reduce traffic jams. These
Cooperation Programme and finds that like with technologies - which range from advanced traffic sig-
any other major programme, it’s a matter of
nals to the dedicated short-range communication
(DSRC) transponders and readers that underlie elec- 50 The world may have learned a lot from the
priorities tronic toll collection and more - received nary a mention
in the mainline media. The emerging world of the con-
nected vehicle wasn’t even on the media’s radar
screen.
And yet, experts from Federal agencies, the automo-
tive industry and electronics and navigation companies
that both develop and support these technologies, USA, but what has the USA got to learn from
agree that the emerging connected vehicle has a huge
potential to help mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions
that international scientists believe cause global warm-
ing. Besides which, they say many technologies are
under development for use in prototype cars, while ear-
lier technologies that rely on the networked vehicle, Copenhagen, Melbourne, London and Oxford?
combined with navigation devices and wireless com-
munication, are available for use for drivers of cars and,
more to the point, are available right now.
Randy Salzman reports
connection
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Smart Travel Climate ChangSmart Traveel
The
COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKS
terrr
Stunted
ible
22 Jim Toepper looks at how new technology is
too’
grow
s
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driving old Thinking Highways’ financial analyst MARGARET
PETTIT looks at the European Territorial
Cooperation Programme and finds that like with
any other major programme, it’s a matter of In the early 1960s, with Copenhagen, Denmark
priorities seemingly prepared to parrot Houston, Texas as a
city of overpasses, the Danish capital’s citizens
stopped an under-construction freeway rather than
lose a string of beautiful mid-town lakes.
Today the city has a booming outdoor café culture,
FINANCE & FUNDING
four highly successful pedestrian-and-bicyclist-only
shopping streets and 36 per cent of commuters arrive
on two-wheels.
In 1978, a newspaper article declared downtown Mel-
bourne, Australia “an empty, useless city center” but a
decade after the city decided to increase pedestrian
and bicycle traffic, the number of downtown residents
26 Where best to funnel infrastructure funding,
had increased 830 per cent and the number of cafes,
restaurants and bars more than tripled.
In 1991, Oxford, England closed several city streets to
private vehicles during working hours and within a dec-
ade downtown congestion all-but disappeared as 14,000
fewer cars were making daily trips into the city center.
In 1997, Perth, Australia introduced an educational
by Audey Korpus
transportation behavioral change program and today
the freeway-and-suburbs area is decreasing car trips by
30m, greenhouse gas emissions by 88m tons and
Does the Interstate highway network really need to increasing physical fitness hours by 7m annually.
keep pace with the latest trends in fashion? BOB In 2003, London, England added congestion charges
McQUEEN suggests something approaching an
on the 16 radial roads into downtown and within two
years 119,000 citizens were daily commuting by bicy-
extreme makeover... cle, battling the world’s second largest national obesity
problem.
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SPEED ENFORCEMENT
30 Commander Thomas Woodward of the Arizona
Public Safety Department details the State’s SPEED ENFORCEMENT
ground-breaking program 56 Gianni Fortunato looks at a Gatso speed
camera that’s AMBER-Alert ready
BLUETOOTH APPLICATIONS
34 Phil Tarnoff takes an issue off from the burdens 58 Speeding accounts for a disproportionate
of being The Thinker and instead looks at a number of road deaths every year, but what
Bluetooth application that’s rather close to his can we do about it? John Kask has some
heart answers
ALPR SHOW PREVIEW
40 The difference between a good ALPR system 62 Scott Belcher looks forward to the ITS America
and a truly great one, outlined by Jim Kennedy Annual Meeting and Expo coming ‘home’ to
Washington, DC for the first time in 10 years
44 Christina M Revels and Lee J Nelson chart the
course of license plates’ evolution 64 Advertisers’ Index
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