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This is the third of four follow-on articles to Do Smart Highways Now—Delay is Not Smart, in which an integrated automated highway system is envisioned. This article will describe the communications infrastructure for the system. The Layer 1 (radio link) component that carries signalling and control to and from the cars themselves arguably could be provided …
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This is the second of four follow-on articles to Do Smart Highways Now—Delay is Not Smart, in which an integrated automated highway system is envisioned. This article will describe how the vehicle flow system and all the cars connected to it communicate with each other. For the system to guide each car through an efficient …
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This is the first of four follow-on articles to Do Smart Highways Now—Delay is Not Smart, in which an integrated automated highway system is envisioned. This article will describe how such a system would work and what its architecture would look like. Imagine you’re driving your car. It doesn’t matter what type of road you’re …
Anyone who travels on the roads, whether as driver or passenger, has experienced the discomfort, inconvenience, and danger from deteriorated highway infrastructure. Traffic congestion, not only in major cities but also in small towns, is dysfunctionally severe. Besides the potholes and crumbling pavement in too many places, the level of traffic most everywhere exceeds the …
There are several causes, some of them less than noble, for the economic inequality between urban and rural areas (and also within those areas). One factor that, if adjusted, could even the odds is equitable availability of broadband Internet in rural areas. For documented reasons it is not commercially feasible for private service providers to …
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