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Speeding up the Supply Chain: A Guide for Real-Time Truck Data Collection and Sharing
Miscellaneous
As seen in Port Technology International, a guide for how real-time truck data can speed up the supply chain at ports.

5 Ways to Use Floating Car Data
Big Data
Miscellaneous
Traffic Management
With billions of GPS users everyday, floating car data can be leveraged for a variety of use cases to improve traffic management

5 Reasons for Adding Floating Car Data to your Data Mix
Big Data
Miscellaneous
Traffic Management
With billions of users relying on GPS apps every day, floating car data can be leveraged for effective traffic management.

Connected Car Data: The Next Generation of Surrogate Safety Analytics
Miscellaneous
See how connected car data can provide the next generation of surrogate safety analytics for road segments and intersections.

Measuring Port Wait Time: Which Technology is Right For You?
Miscellaneous
A comparison of what different systems offer for measuring port wait time, including: cost, reliability, installation, and privacy concerns.

5 Problems with Truck Congestion at Ports - and How to Solve Them
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
Miscellaneous
5 issues of truck congestion impacting port efficiency and competitiveness and how to solve them.

7 Asset Tracking Technologies
ITS Systems
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
A guide to 7 different asset tracking technologies, including newer technologies like Bluetooth Low Energy.

4 Ways to Address Transportation Equity
ITS Systems
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
4 ways to address transportation equity in roadway design, and why transportation equity is important for sustainable transportation..

8 Traffic Calming Measures for Neighborhood Streets
Miscellaneous
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
8 traffic calming measures to reduce high speeds and cut-through traffic on neighborhood streets.

All Location Data are Not Created Equal
ITS Systems
Traffic Management
Vehicle detection
Comparing location data for location-based services apps and connected car data for low and high frequencies.

Level of Service: Defining Scores for Different Transportation Facilities
ITS Systems
Traffic Management
Vehicle detection
A description of the different criteria used to assign LOS scores for different transportation facilities.

6 Traffic Counts and Classification Study Methods
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
Miscellaneous
A comparison of 6 different counts and classification data collection methods, including radar data, the most advanced method.

High-Resolution Connected Car Trajectory Data: The Future of ATSPMs?
Big Data
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
ITS Systems
HRCC trajectory data can offer a cost-effective solution for ATSPM collection, with more advanced, accurate data than traditional methods.

DSRC vs 5G for Connected Vehicles: 5 Metrics Compared
Smart City
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
ITS Systems
A description of DSRC and 5G, and a comparison of 5 key metrics in the DSRC vs 5G for connected vehicles debate.

5 Useful Smart Work Zone Systems: An Introduction
Delay Management
Traffic Management
Vehicle detection
ITS Systems
Smart work zones make traffic safer, faster, and more efficient. These systems use real-time technology to improve work zone conditions.

5 Ways High Resolution Connected Car Data is Changing Traffic Analytics
Big Data
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
High resolution connected car data can provide advanced, accurate traffic data analytics. With high coverage, low data latency, increased accuracy, ease of access, and quality data, connected cars are changing data analytics.

13 Actionable ATSPMs
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
Traffic Management
An introduction to 13 common ATSPMs and how they can benefit agencies. Cut costs, reduce travel time, and improve safety!

9 Active Traffic Management Strategies
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
Traffic Management
Learn about the 9 active traffic management strategies and how agencies are using them to optimize roadways and increase user safety!

5 Key Steps for Signal Retiming Projects
Miscellaneous
Traffic Management
ITS Systems
5 key steps for traffic signal retiming projects. Optimize your transportation systems and understand the benefits of traffic retiming.

Travel Time Reliability: How to Measure and Why it is Important?
Vehicle detection
Traffic Management
ITS Systems
How to measure travel time reliability, and why it is important to do so, including a description of the main TTR components.at they remember due to unexpected delays. The following are the main components of travel time reliability.

How Ports & Rail Yards are Cracking Congestion
ITS Systems
Delay Management
Traffic Management
Vehicle detection
Ports and Rail Yards need to accommodate additional space for shipment capacity by cracking down on congestion monitoring.

Uber: Traffic Congestionâs Cure or Epidemic?
ITS Systems
Delay Management
Traffic Management
Vehicle detection
Reducing the users of public transit reduces overall efficiency, making it ineffective to offer transit if citizens arenât going to use it

2018: A SaaS Society
Big Data
ITS Systems
Traffic Management
Miscellaneous
The use of technology to increase efficiency on roads and in ports and how you can benefit from the data collected.

A New Era: Prescriptive Analytics
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
Miscellaneous
As technology develops, we are expected to leverage it to its every capability. We are expected to search harder, dig deeper, and do more with the information that we [do not] have.

Will Blockchain Revolutionize the Ports Industry?
Delay Management
Vehicle detection
ITS Systems
We have come from hand written letters to a world where there is the possibility to completely digitize the supply chain through Blockchain.

Efficiency at Shipping Ports to Help Supply Chain
Big Data
Delay Management
Vehicle detection
ITS Systems
Port authorities need to leverage technologies in efforts to make their shipping ports work smarter and more efficiente, money or a trip. We now take these lessons and can use them in ports, at borders, on the road, you name it.

High Occupancy Vehicle & High Occupancy Toll
Delay Management
Traffic Management
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
Congestion pricing is the solution that we have been waiting for. Get your time back, by paying up and picking a lane to do your driving.

What does it take to be a "Smart City?"
Smart City
Vehicle detection
ITS Systems
These "smart cities" allow people to gain a great amount of knowledge through their data collection, and the knowledge does not stop there.

Autonomous vs. Assisted Driving: A Fork in the Road?
Miscellaneous
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
Drive-assist and autonomous cars are coming to the market and stakeholders are now faced with many questions. As it turns out, there are no easy answers...

Smart Cities: Getting Stakeholders Involved
ITS Systems
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
The name of the game today is connectivity and integration. This change has to start somewhere, and that somewhere is in the hearts of our smart cities.

Vision Zero: A New Conversation
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
Miscellaneous
It is frequently human error that leads to fatalities, but Vision Zero isn't about changing as drivers. It is about changing as communities.

Speeding: Getting Us Nowhere Fast
ITS Systems
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
Being late is stressful, so we look for any way to ease that stress, including speeding to our destination. However, is speeding really worth it?

Ride-sharing: Old Ideas, New Tech
Miscellaneous
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
The fun of carpooling is no longer just for the offspring of busy parents. With new ride-sharing applications, adults can participate easily!

Uber: A Matter of Convenience?
ITS Systems
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
Uber is established an easy transportation option, but in remembering the environmental cost of convenience, we should take notice.

Bluetooth 5: Demanding a New Era of Traffic Detection
ITS Systems
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
Technology is forever changing, and behind it industries rush to catch up.The introduction of Bluetooth 5 is no exception.

Costs of Congestion: Economic Effects
ITS Systems
Miscellaneous
Vehicle detection
This week, we decided to be backseat bloggers and turn the reins over to The Economist. We couldn't have said it better ourselves!

Costs of Congestion: The Environment
Miscellaneous
When you look around for environmental problems, what do you see? If your area is anything like most cities or towns, it's a lot of traffic and pollution.

Costs of Congestion: Your Health
Miscellaneous
It has become a matter of public knowledge that pollution is unhealthy, both for the planet and for those who call it home.

How to Improve Your Traffic Monitoring and Data Collection
Miscellaneous
Should you be measuring the performance of your traffic operations? You probably guessed âyes!â, so why are few agencies and municipalities doing so?

Here's How Much Border Delays Cost the US and Canada
Miscellaneous
Several solutions have been put forward to try and solve the border delay problem find out how you can implement new procedures

Can Autonomous Vehicles Kill Traffic Lights?
Miscellaneous
Improvements in the sensor technology and the emergence of connected vehicles and wireless communication have provided a base for the development of a new generation of vehicles with the ability to navigate on roads without human intervention.

Not All Traffic Data are Created Equal!
Miscellaneous
ITS Systems
Vehicle detection
ITS projects that use big data heavily depends on how the traffic sensors are installed and how the collected data is filtered and analysed.