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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment initiatives related to transport and vehicles.
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- New South Wales - Realtime Live Traffic Reports using Google Maps
- Provided by the NSW Government's RTA, Live Traffic NSW has a number of features to help make it easier to avoid traffic incidents and to plan trips.
Added: 13 September 2010
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- Should the DVLA become predominantly digital?
- Public Technology, 15 December 2011. "The Department for Transport is considering pushing more of its services online in a move that would save costs and improve efficiencies, the DfT says. A consultation on the future of the DVLA, launched by the department this week, says that in order to keep pace with the needs of service users, the body must move away from being a largely paper-based organisation and become a "highly efficient electronic business" which provides online services to drivers and businesses..."
Added: 15 December 2011;
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- Publishing road-works, cycle routes and car parking data will finally get Britain moving
- When we talk about open government having the power to transform the way that government and society work for the better, people often wonder what it will actually mean for them in practice, By Francis Maude. The Telegraph, 23 October 2011. "... Starting this Tuesday the Department for Transport will publish useful raw data on road-works, cycle routes, and car parks, to help travellers use our transport networks better. You may ask how raw data will help you and your business with those traffic jams. It will help because proper application of this data will allow people to better plan their journeys. With this data it will become possible to reduce the time of your journey from home by being able to see what motorways are affected by road works and where you can park when you get to your journey’s end. Or, it may have been used to develop applications so you can organise your school run avoiding the accident black-spots, or get better access to our growing network of cycle routes..."
Added: 25 October 2011;
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- TfL releases real time bike hire information
- London's transport authority provides application developers with real time updates about availability of its hire cycles, by Gill Hitchcock. Guardian Professional, Wednesday 8 June 2011. "Transport for London (TfL) has announced the launch of a live information feed about its city centre cycle hire scheme. The feed is available in the developers' area of TfL's website and the London Data Store..."
Added: 9 June 2011;
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- Smart cars trialled in national first
- New smart technology that allows cars to talk to each other and avoid crashes will be trialled in South Australia, by AAP. Computerworld, 25 May, 2011. "... Cohda Wireless, which manufactures the dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) technology, said a small wireless box provided vehicles with 360-degree awareness..."
Added: 26 May 2011;
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- Transport 2.0 Presentation
- by Crispin Butteriss. Bang the Table, April 20th, 2011. "I've spent the last couple of days with the lovely people from the Victorian Department of Transport talking about opportunities to incorporate online tools into their community engagement practices. The presentation of (mostly) examples of transport agencies and others using various online tools for communications and community engagement was put together to spark the conversation..."
Added: 12 May 2011;
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- Singapore integrates analytics in land transport
- By Adrienne Valdez. FutureGov, 24 March 2011. "Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) embarked on one of the largest government data warehouses in Singapore pooling from various business data sources cross-referencing trillions of inter-modal data records known as Planning for Land Transport Network (PLANET)..."
Added: 24 March 2011;
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- IBM - the Smarter City Transportation
- "Next time you're stuck in traffic, think about this: as smart as our cars have become, our roadways are about to get a whole lot smarter. Building new roads and new lanes often just isn't possible any longer, but building intelligence into the roads and the cars-with roadside sensors, radio frequency tags, and global positioning systems-certainly is. In Stockholm, a new smart toll system has reduced traffic congestion and carbon emissions by impressive percentages ..."
Added: 24 March 2011;
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- IBM drives smart transport centre
- By Beverley Head. IT Wire, Wednesday, 23 March 2011. "A software system which has cut Stockholm's gridlock by 20 per cent, and emissions by 12 per cent, is one of the assets provided by IBM to the newly established Smart Transport Research Centre, which has been formed to grapple with Australia's growing transportation problems..."
Added: 24 March 2011;
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- Vic govt releases app to ease traffic angst
- By Colin Ho, ZDNet Australia, September 21, 2010. "The Victorian Government yesterday launched a free iPhone application to provide commuters with real-time traffic information..."
Added: 22 September 2010;
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- NSW gets live traffic maps in $3m upgrade
- By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia, September 10, 2010. "The NSW Government has finished a $3 million upgrade of its Transport Management Centre, including the provision of a new website that allows road users to glean real-time information about NSW road conditions..."
Added: 13 September 2010;
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- Google Maps Bike Route Reporting System
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Friday, August 27, 2010. "Meldsysteem Bewegwijzering Fietsroutenetwerken - This Google Maps Mashup wins the Longest Name of the Year Award. Luckily it also qualifies for the award for most useful Google Maps Mashup for Dutch Cyclists..."
Added: 1 September 2010;
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- IdeaHub to engage DOT employees, tap their expertise
- United States Department of Transport - FastLane Blog, August 3, 2010. "Today, DOT is taking employee engagement and innovation to the next level with our new IdeaHub tool. While this is good for workers here, it's also good for the public. A more effective Department will be better able to fulfill its mission. IdeaHub is an online community where employees can post ideas for their colleagues to comment and build upon. It's a collaborative website where all of our staff are free to participate..."
Added: 5 August 2010;
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- Park Patrol - mobile parking inspector alerts
- The free ParkPatrol app is provided as an early warning to the presence of parking enforcement. You can use it in two ways: 1 - park your car, truck or bike, then check-in to ParkPatrol and set the parking; 2 patrol your streets where you live, work and study. Report every parking officer sighting with one click. Push notifications will alert parked users when a report is withing their geographical area.
Added: 29 June 2010;
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- Open and free access to data on car accidents across the country
- ePractice.eu, 10 June 2010. Country Greece; Domain eGovernment; Topic Efficiency & Effectiveness, Benchmarking, Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Legal Aspects, Policy. "Since 27 May 2010, the Traffic Division of the Greek Police has been publishing daily information on the deadly, serious and minor car accidents across the country in the 'Public Data' section of its website..."
Added: 17 June 2010;
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- Utah.gov Launches the Driver License Division's Online Scheduler to Speed up Service
- Helps Citizens Reduce Office Wait Times. Market Watch, Salt Lake City, March 22, 2010 (Business Wire) -- "In response to citizen needs, the Utah Driver License Division announced today the launch of the new Online Scheduler that allows citizens to schedule appointments to obtain, renew, and change driver licenses. This free online tool helps speed up the service by allowing citizens to arrange a convenient time to take care of their driver license needs..."
Added: 25 March 2010;
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