Transportation

Leading countries have fostered close alignment between transportation and telecommunications regulatory agencies and technology communities in their countries, recognizing the critical importance of allocating wireless spectrum or radio frequen- cies for intelligent transportation systems. ITS is inextricably linked to the wireless transmission of information from vehicle-to-vehicle or from vehicle-to-infrastructure. Wired broadband networks are also critical to connect transportation management centers both to one another and to field-deployed assets in the transportation system, such as dynamic messaging signs or other roadside equipment. (United States: On par with world leaders.)

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   Governments should fund deployment of infrastructure to collect real time-traffic information. Transportation agencies should make this information, at least in basic form, available to the public through the Internet. Governments’ roles in collecting and disseminat- ing traffic information should be similar to thier role in collecting and disseminating weather information.¹⁷⁹ This information can then be used by the private sector and others to provide value-added services. (United States: Trails world leaders.)
   

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