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INFRASTRUCTURES * USA - Telvent to Help Implement Open Road Tolling System in Washington
The project will relieve congestion and increase drivers’ safety
Seattle,WASH,USA -Telvent (PR) -June 23, 2010: -- Telvent, announced today the award of a contract from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to help implement an Open Road Tolling system on the SR 520 bridge in Seattle... Telvent will provide the toll collection system for the program. The goal of the system is to improve traffic conditions and increase drivers' safety, while assuring WSDOT´s ability to accurately and reliably collect toll revenue... The project is part of the Lake Washington Congestion Management Program, a series of projects to explore innovative ways make the roadways smarter on I-90 and SR 520. The program is supported by federal funding as part of The Lake Washington Urban Partnership Agreement (UPA), a collaborative effort between WSDOT, the U.S. Department of Transportation, King County, and the Puget Sound Regional Council, and includes four key strategies, known as the four T's: Tolling, Technology, Transit and Telecommuting... (Photo from wsdot.wa.gov: SR 520 west approach enlarged)
* Electrified I-5 planned for Washington
Seattle,WASH,USA -Fleet Owner -Jul 1, 2010: -- Washington State’s electric vehicle infrastructure efforts will be getting $1.32 million in Federal Recovery Act funding, according to an announcement by Gov. Christine Gregoire. The state’s transportation and commerce departments are working together to develop an “electric highway,” an initial network of public-access electric vehicle (EV) recharging locations along Interstate 5... Once implemented, Washington expects to have the first border-to-border major highway to offer fast charge technology for electric vehicles. The infrastructure is intended to enable electric vehicle drivers to travel the length of the state along the 276 miles of I-5 between Washington’s borders with Oregon and Canada... The project also supports the West Coast Green Highway initiative, a tri-state program to promote the use of cleaner fuels along the 1,350 miles of I-5 from British Columbia, Canada to Baja CA. According to the governor, Washington’s network of electric vehicle charging infrastructure could jump start the development of a regional electric vehicle network spreading across the entire length of I-5, connecting three states and three countries and serving the two million electric vehicles anticipated on the west coast... (Map from i5washington)
* Solar highways: Oregon Department of Transportation travels a long road to power highway lights with renewable energy
Porland,ORE,USA -Rebuilding Americas' Infrastructure, by John Ochwat -June 2010: -- Oregon Department of Transportation chose a site south of Portland at the junction of two freeways, which offered good southern exposure for the 540-foot-long array of solar panels... Allison Hamilton, a project director with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), she noticed solar panels on the German Autobahn... 
Nineteen months after the light bulb went on over Hamilton’s head, ODOT commissioned the nation’s first solar highway project on Dec. 19, 2008, putting renewable energy into the grid to power lights on Interstate 5. By all measures, the 104-kilowatt solar array located at a freeway interchange 15 miles south of Portland is a success. Even so, the project showed some of the bumps on the long road that will exist until renewable energy is widely adopted on U.S. freeways... (Photo Below: Artist’s conception shows a solar array installed next to a highway to provide power for lighting)Labels: infrastructures
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