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Sunday, August 14, 2011

'Study finds US intelligent transportation industry has grown to $48B; total North American ITS products and services market of $52B'

from green car congress........

"A new study released by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) found intelligent transportation to be a fast-growing sector valued at approximately $48 billion, slightly larger than the direct mail industry. Results indicate that cities and states with drastically reduced budgets are turning to technology solutions to maximize existing highway capacity.


Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is the collective term for the use of electronics, communications, and information processing technology to improve all aspects—such as safety, mobility and the environment—of the surface transportation system. A few examples of ITS applications include advanced traffic and incident management systems; electronic tolling and payment systems; vehicle crash avoidance technologies; smart traffic signals; and real-time traffic, transit, and parking information"............READ MORE

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