And so you get a whole bunch of traffic systems that don't work and aren't efficient and don't serve commuters very well at all.
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Smarter traffic systems can help traffic and public transit systems flow more smoothly, anticipate congestion and improve it in advance, reduce emissions and increase the capacity of infrastructure.
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The effect is that users do not have to wait for a channel to clear if another person is talking, as is common with many high traffic systems today.
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The remake of traffic systems, rebuilding cities on smarter grid systems, synchronizing parking, possibly reinventing entire markets to reward drivers for sustainable activity, and actually re-imagining vehicles themselves will lead us not only to better cars, but possibly better cities and an easier way of living.
For instance, the same technology that guides missiles can be repackaged to provide satellite-based air-traffic management systems.
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This new group will work within the Federal Aviation Administration and focus exclusively on air traffic delivery systems.
It is set to replace radar in commercial aviation as the next generation of air traffic control systems come online by 2020.
President Obama warned that the country's enemies were "seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions and our air traffic control systems".
Since then, there have been questions about the country's underfunded air traffic control systems, deficient radar system and the airlines' ability to cope with a surge in travelers.
Current municipal traffic monitoring systems study individual stretches of road that use induction loops to sense the passage of cars, or complex camera systems that capture licence plates.
Another issue for current air traffic control systems is that they face interference from wind farms, which are increasingly springing up around the UK to provide alternative sources of energy.
But a company that monitors website traffic, Keynote Systems Inc, has reported that traffic appears normal at some of the most-visited US websites, such as Yahoo, Google and Excite.
This hardware was used to build a simulated aircraft that ran many of the systems found on commercial aircraft and could swap data via radio with the air traffic and navigation systems used in the real world.
The Spanish company sells traffic-control systems, as well as programs to reduce energy usage in water utilities and weather-monitoring software.
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If there are thousands of these little aircraft buzzing around in the sky, will they terminally clog up air-traffic-control systems?
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And some nations, notably Brazil and Senegal, which were handling Air France Flight 447, don't yet have modern oceanic air-traffic-control systems.
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What with the court case, not to mention the fact that the next generation of air-traffic-control systems are still at least ten years away, passengers should continue to expect delays.
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The potential for GPS systems to track traffic snarls will be on show at the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in New York this week, where one of two systems that went into operation earlier this month will be showcased.
Besides improving traffic reporting, the information that the systems glean can also help to route traffic, assist town planners and fine-tune future assistive driving technologies.
He suggested that combining both the traffic light and GDA systems could help consumers.
The new paid search systems direct traffic to other in-stock products when supplies run low.
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To eliminate traffic bottlenecks in storage systems and enterprise and mobile networks smart silicon must be integrated within strategic areas of IT infrastructures.
The panel of cycling advocates suggested filter systems at traffic lights, priority lanes at roundabouts and for greater private sector involvement, for example getting firms to sponsor cycle lanes or highways.
This will allow them to optimize expensive bandwidth from Intelsat to route all other traffic to land-based systems.
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Replacing outmoded radar-based air traffic control with more efficient systems has been possible for decades, but it has not happened.
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Not to mention the one-way systems, the traffic lights, the junctions...
Among the targeted infrastructure was everything from systems that control traffic lights in large cities to nuclear plants, water treatment plants , large manufacturers, defense contractors and high tech companies.
The first transatlantic coupling could be an alliance of Thomson, a partly privatised French defence-electronics group, and Raytheon, America's fourth-biggest defence firm, with which it already collaborates on air-traffic-control and other systems.
Qualcomm started out making satellite-based tracking systems for trucking companies, but Irwin had far bigger plans:selling the world on a new digital way to connect cellular calls and carry 40 times as much traffic as the old analog systems then in place.
The number of users with mobile devices is expected to climb to 5.2 billion in 2017 from 4.3 billion in 2012 and traffic across high-speed 4G networks will grow 40-fold during that time, according to a five-year forecast for mobile traffic data compiled by Cisco Systems and released today.
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