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*    
*        I want 75 of our largest metropolitan areas outfitted with a complete
*   Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure in 10 years.  And let us make a
*   similar commitment to upgrading technology in 450 other communities, our
*   rural roads, and interstates, as the need warrants...
*   
*   The vehicles of the future, whether cars, planes, or trains, will have
*   state-of-the-art communications systems.  We must ensure that our roads
*   and highways and transit systems are able to keep pace with them.
*    
*   Today, I'm announcing the award of five contracts to standards development
*   organizations to begin fast tracking the development of those standards.
*   They are:  AASHTO, IEEE, ITE, ASTM, and SAE. [So the standards of hardware
*   and information are interchangeable and global.]

Yep.

#   Subject:      ---> Big Bro and the Intelligent Transportation System <---
#   From:         99@spies.com (Extremely Right)
#   Date:         1997/06/03
#   
#   If you live in a big city you will find that there is an interesting
#   proliferation of cameras pointed at the freeway. Do you know what they
#   are, what they can do, and what is their potential for abuse?
#    
#   The System is called the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and you
#   may find it everywhere on the net. The cameras are linked to a city
#   control room, who are supposed to use them to improve traffic flow. The
#   cameras are "uplinked" to the net, to satellites, and I suppose to the
#   United States Transportation Command at Scott AFB or some other
#   centralized information storage base. Software is being harmonized so that
#   on the net you may find many countries adopting a GLOBAL ITS. The toys
#   being developed by the various planners including MIT will be able to
#   track your travel, monitor your vehicle emissions, determine if you ha