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Geospatial Holdings Completes Project for Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Print E-mail
Written by Jeff Thurston   
Friday, 27 June 2008

PR - Geospatial Holdings, Inc.  today announced the completion of a project mapping underground fiber optic conduit for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in the City of Milpitas, California utilizing the Companys proprietary Smart Probe Technologies.

Mark A. Smith, Geospatials Chief Executive Officer stated, Geospatials Smart Probe Mapping Technologies, with the ability to map fiber optic conduits as small as 1.5 inches in diameter are an important tool to locate and accurately map underground fiber optic cables. With transportation and utility right of ways becoming increasingly more congested, it is almost impossible to safely excavate without knowing the exact 3-dimensional co-ordinates of all of the utility pipelines and conduits within the right of way.

About the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) began as a County department created by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on June 6, 1972 to oversee the regions transportation system. Until 1995, VTA's primary responsibility since its creation was the development, operation and maintenance of the bus and light rail system within the county.

VTA separated from the County of Santa Clara and merged with the regions Congestion Management Agency in January 1995, thus undertaking another responsibility: managing the county's blueprint to reduce congestion and improve air quality.

Working under the direction of a 12-member Board of Directors, VTA has a $363 million annual operating budget (FY'08). VTA's low-floor bus fleet serves a 326 square mile urbanized area. The 42.2 mile light rail system is operated with a fleet of 100 low-floor light rail vehicles. VTA has approximately 2,100 employees. (www.vta.org).


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