Talking Headways Podcast: The ‘Intelligent’ Transportation Future
This week, we talk about how technology can reduce collisions, how we should spend infrastructure money, and, what else, policy.
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Jeff Wood
7:28 AM EDT on June 13, 2019
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This week, we’re joined by Shailen Bhatt, president and CEO of ITS America. He talks about how we can use technology to reduce collisions, how we should spend infrastructure money, and what policy should focus on and change from a transportation and technology standpoint. He also talks about the problems with the communications spectrum and how conflicts are arising as technology improves vehicle communications.
Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.
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