Government Bids for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Transportation and Highways • Jun 30, 2015

Effective transportation systems and infrastructure are paramount to the sustainable success of any society, economy, … Understanding that, more and more public sector entities are increasing their analysis of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) with a corresponding growth in number of government bids and government RFPs submitted. In concert, our analysis of this broad industry has continued.

As we noted in our Mar 9th, 2015 analysis, ‘Parking Going Tech…’, “In their Jun 9th, 2014 article, and as compiled by IHS Automotive, the Los Angeles Times published that in 2014 there were 253 million cars and trucks on the roads in the United States. There are more vehicles now. For 2014, Statistics Canada detailed that there were close to 32 million total vehicle registrations throughout Canada.”

Pulled from Wikipedia, Intelligent Transportation Systems covers a far ranging spread of systems and solutions, “Intelligent transport systems vary in technologies applied, from basic management systems such as car navigation; traffic signal control systems; container management systems; variable message signs; automatic number plate recognition or speed cameras to monitor applications, such as security CCTV systems; and to more advanced applications that integrate live data and feedback from a number of other sources, such as parking guidance and information systems; weather information; bridge de-icing (US deicing) systems; and the like. Additionally, predictive techniques are being developed to allow advanced modelling and comparison with historical baseline data. …”

Related blog: See our Mar 23rd, 2015, specific subject matter study of Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR).

A look at some of the relevant data we compiled.