David Crawford looks at technologies for better emergency medical service delivery. Emergency medical services (EMS) play key roles in transporting, or bringing treatment to, patients who become ill through medical emergencies or are injured in road traffic accidents (RTAs). But awareness has been rising steadily, in the US and elsewhere, of the extent to which EMS can generate their own emergencies. The most common cause is vehicles causing or becoming involved in RTAs, as a result of driving fast under pr
Meeting at the 6th ETSI workshop, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have confirmed that the basic set of standards for cooperative intelligence transport systems (C-ITS), as requested by the European Commission in 2009, have now been adopted and issued. The Release 1 specifications developed by CEN and ETSI will enable vehicles made by different manufacturers to communicate with each other and with the road infrastructure systems,
US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt at the Google Campus in California today where he discussed the budget and unveiled Beyond Traffic, a new US Department of Transportation (DOT) analysis outlining the trends that are likely to shape the needs of our transportation system over the next three decades. Beyond Traffic includes a strong focus on how ITS technologies, including vehicle-to-vehicle communication, vehicle automation and other new technologies are
