Transportation

The most successful countries view their ITS investments as creating a platform through which the private sector can develop value-added products and services. They also preserve a strong role for competition, especially in awarding ITS application research and development grants or contracts to the private sector. (United States: Appears to slightly trail world leaders.)

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   Governments have a critical role to play in spearheading the co-development of interoperable standards for intelligent trans- portation systems and platforms. In a dynamic marketplace, vehicles need to have standards that interoperate in any jurisdiction. This role extends both domestically and internationally, including, for example, setting common standards for electronic toll collection within a country, but also including working with the international community to establish common standards to enable vehicles to communicate with one another when they cross borders. (United States: On par with world leaders.)
   

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