Ford claims that its American Journey 2.0 research project culminated in the world’s first social media-connected road trip. Along the way from Ann Arbor, Mich. to the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif, Ford engineers and University of Michigan (U-M) students demonstrated the “first-ever auto-centric cloud-based apps,” claims the automaker.
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A whitepaper published by the U.S. DOT (Department of Transportation) provides a quick introduction to the DOT’s new IntelliDrive initiative. The program, which comprises a major portion of DOT’s current five-year ITS (intelligent transportation systems) Strategic Research Plan, aims to enhance safety, mobility, and environmental factors via wireless connectivity among ground vehicles, infrastructure, and passengers’ devices.
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Presentation videos from the annual Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Europe Forum, held June 15 in Brussels, are now available for public online access. This year’s event had the theme, “Bringing Intelligence into Mobility — Deployment Challenges.” and was sponsored by ERTICO – ITS Europe, a public/private ITS stakeholder partnership.
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We happened upon a delightful video that presents and explains several traffic-related Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) concepts. The video, which takes the form of a conversation between a child and her dad along with animated illustrations, covers applications and technologies such as cooperative vehicles and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications without resorting to technical jargon.
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The U.S. DOT’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS-JPO) has concluded a three-day, free workshop at which the DOT’s IntelliDrive Safety program research roadmaps were presented and discussed. Slides from the IntelliDrive Safety Workshop’s first six presenters are now available for download in pdf format.
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