Stimulus Bill * USA - Funds Intelligent Transportation Systems
Money from the stimulus bill is being utilized by municipalities in St. Cloud, Minn., and elsewhere to fund intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
Folsom,CAL,USA -Government Technology, by Andy Opsahl -23 March 2009: -- ... Traffic signals within St. Cloud are owned by all three entities, which means that they share access and control of the lighting regulation system... Mn/DOT district traffic engineer Tom Dumont says that the implementation of the traffic-monitoring software was stepped up with the stimulus money, which could have helped save jobs... On the other hand, Redfield points out that the three agencies involved intended to upgrade the software anyway because the vendor announced that it would halt maintenance service for the existing software in 2011. "It was [a matter of], 'Do we continue the maintenance contract on the old system that we know isn't going to be supported in a couple years, or do we upgrade the system right now?' " says Dumont...
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