http://www.silicon.com Results for roads en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39661655,00.htm Four years ago the Highways Agency - which is responsible for maintaining the UK's motorways and some A-roads - relied on more than 100 contracts with external companies to deliver a wide range of its IT services. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60721501p,00.htm Highway authorities worldwide are facing rapid growth in the number of passenger vehicles, combined with constraints on budgets and available space for new roads. To leverage available resources, transportation agencies are turning to Intelligent... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:23:10 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39527464,00.htm Manufacturing costs are lower, there'd be no need to dig up roads or lay cables in sewers. A lot of people think their broadband service is bad. You probably think your broadband is bad. Even people that don't have broadband have an opinion about... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:37:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60637780p,00.htm But - the performance may vary - if one don't have smooth roads in the form of a properly operating network infrastructure. Operating a highly-tuned Formula One racecar on a washed-out dirt road, will never reach top speed and efficiency without a... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:21:51 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39447845,00.htm The thing that really dictates the economies of P rather than C is the amount of civils' work you have to do [ie digging up roads etc to lay fibre] so where we feel there are no civils and we can run fibre all the way to the customer - either... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:33:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39444914,00.htm Another example of leveraging location data is to create real-time road traffic maps generated by analysing the speed of mobile phone base station hand-off to ascertain how fast cars are travelling on roads. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:13:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60598129p,00.htm Our rapidly urbanizing planet depends on getting people and things from here to there. Our cars keep getting smarter. So how about our roadways? editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:17:34 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60604782p,00.htm Since 1902, the not-for-profit AAA (American Automobile Association) has been an advocate for motorists and travelers, spearheading the movement for adequate roads and vehicle safety regulations. AAA employees use the company's intranet to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:19:43 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/offshoring/0,3800004877,39435172,00.htm The buildings are ultra-modern but the roads leading to them are still filled with potholes and clogged with traffic. The latest symptom of the worldwide recession? The West becoming hostile towards Indian outsourcing hubs such as Bangalore, says... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 28 May 2009 08:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39434058,00.htm More technology was added in 1997 in the form of CCTV feeds from major bus stations and roads, used to help manage the fleet. When it opened 30 years ago, staff in London Buses' emergency control centre CentreComm relied on a radio and pen and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 26 May 2009 16:02:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39429759,00.htm Councillor Jeff Hook, executive member for environment at Southwark Council, added in a statement: "This technology could revolutionise the way we keep our roads safer in Southwark, and that's why we're really interested in this trial, and if it's... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 11 May 2009 17:06:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60573382p,00.htm The Vanderburgh County Highway Department encompasses the Highway, Local Roads, and Street and Cumulative Bridge departments within the Vanderburgh County Government. During an unusually harsh winter, Vanderburgh County was pummeled with 24 inches... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60566063p,00.htm One's business cannot operate to optimal speed and effect without the core network being secure, ordered and healthy, any more than highways and roads can operate without power, programming and routing rules and hierarchies. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39410364,00.htm Not all roads in the selected cities have been mapped - Google relied on a fleet of camera-packing vans to take images, and coverage 'blackspots' are easy to find. Google has launched its Street View service in the UK, giving street-level... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:49:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39410357,00.htm Ed Parsons, Google UK's geospatial technologist, said in a statement: "Street View has been hugely popular with our users in Europe and worldwide, and we're thrilled it's now available in the UK for so many great cities, enabling users to see... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:05:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39407417,00.htm There is no discipline on the roads," he complains. In mid 2007, 20 years after he went to the US to work, Madan Moudgal made the journey back to Bangalore. For Moudgal, a healthcare technologist who grew up in the city, it was a homecoming. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:44:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39406832,00.htm The funds will be used to improve facilities including the roads, the drains - which on the site "only just function" - according to Greenish; power supplies and the clock tower, which Greenish is "concerned about from a structural point of view". editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:56:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39396821,00.htm Compiled in my office over a nice warm coffee while snowed in with roads that are mostly black ice, and dispatched via my LAN connection Because my areas of expertise straddle science, technology, engineering, academia and investing, I am often... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:42:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39394810,00.htm A spokesman told silicon.com: "The number of fatalities among young people on the roads are shocking. It's a way to cut the carnage on the roads while also cutting the cost of car insurance. Young drivers in Staffordshire will have their driving... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:39:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39391134,00.htm As a result, responses such as diversions can be co-ordinated where roads cross local authority boundaries and long-term decisions can be better informed. Three councils in the West Country have teamed up on a shared services project to bring... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:13:02 +0000