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More details regarding the impetus behind the alignment came through today in a call with Rich Humphrey, director of the civil infrastructure line at Autodesk, and James Buckley, senior vice president and general manager of customer data and location intelligence, at Pitney Bowes Software. One of the more immediate customer-focused advancements will be the delivery [...]
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The UK department of roads has invested £2.7m for 27 police forces across England to get 3D laser scanning technology for motorway crash assessments. The time of crash closures is said to be reduced by 39 minutes, because of the precise 3D capture of the scene. The ‘economic disruption’ angle to this decision is a [...]
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The TranStar traffic monitoring center in Houston is a consortium of four government agencies that provide transportation and emergency management services to the greater Houston region. TranStar has implemented a new low-cost traffic monitoring system that tracks the MAC address of bluetooth-enabled devices to obtain real-time traffic information. The system uses a technique called Anonymous [...]
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Alex Steffen, co-founder of Worldchanging.com, gave a recent TED talk in Scotland about the possibilities to rethink our cities with the rapid urbanisation that is taking place. Rather than looking at removing fossil fuels with clean energy, Steffen suggests that we need to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of our infrastructure by altering our density. [...]
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Quadstone Paramics is a traffic simulation software that has been modeling transportation infrastructure and running models on any type of transportation for the past 18 years. This software tool is used by city engineers and planners to design more efficient, green friendly, and pleasant infrastructure from point of driver or pedestrian. The software was acquired [...]
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Building America’s Future Educational Fund, a bipartisan and national infrastructure coalition, just released a report that examines the economic challenges posed by the United States’ ailing transportation infrastructure. The report, “Falling Apart and Falling Behind,” reviews investments being made by international competitors and recommends new transportation policies to spur U.S. economic growth. Among the report [...]
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Fair Oaks Dairy, an Indiana-based milk producer, has switched their milk hauling fleet of 42 trucks to compressed natural gas and is working on producing their own biomethane form dairy cattle waste. The truck fleet transports 53 loads of milk per day, with the shift in fuel projected to reduce emissions equivalent to 1.5 million [...]
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