- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway
Administration is working with four companies to develop new radio-frequency
identification technology for roadways. Officials see RFID as a way to
warn drivers of, for instance, impending intersection collisions and vehicle
rollovers.
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- Specifically, the government and vendors are investigating
technology called dedicated short-range communications, which is related
to RFID. The vendors are Mark IV Industries, Raytheon, Sirit, and TransCore.
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- A prototype system co-developed by the quartet is expected
to be ready for testing in about 18 months. The Federal Communications
Commission has assigned a block of high-bandwidth radio spectrum for dedicated-communications
products--5.850 to 5.925 GHz.
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