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Featuring everything from company updates and what’s new with our non-profit, GIVESMART, to technical updates about our latest products and webinars, the FREAK SPEAK blog is your one-stop shop for everything GRIDSMART.
Connecting Cars and Everything Else
By Roger Lanctot, Director of Automotive Connected Mobility for Strategy Analytics Infrastructure is at the heart of the debate over the adoption and deployment of 802.11p-based V2X technology, otherwise referred to as dedicated short-range communications or DSRC, vs....
Big Data and ITS
By Daniel Benhammou, President & CEO of Acyclica Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is the present and future of transportation management in the U.S. and around the world. With spending expected to exceed $72 billion annually by 2022, the ITS market is...
Digging In The Dirt
By Kevin Borras, Editor-in-chief of Thinking Cities and Thinking Highways For as long as anyone can remember there’s been a degree of healthy competition between the U.S. and Europe, particularly with the UK, in terms of “who’s best” or “who’s most advanced.” Name a...
Fireside with bill
Fireside with Bill is filled with insights, updates, announcements, and personal stories from Bill Malkes, GRIDSMART Co-Founder and CEO.
Bridging the Innovation Gap
Newer, better, faster, stronger. That is the mantra of innovation that fuels most industries today, especially tech-related industries. Everyone is always focused on the challenges of tomorrow, the latest trends, and putting developments “on the fast track.” It’s a...
It Is Time To Get Our Hands Dirty
We heard it at INTERSECT17 and we get it. A world away from some very good competitors, my hands and toes, the CEO’s hands and toes, have felt the widespread numb of an installation in sub-zero, 5 a.m. Middle-Michigan cold. My shoulders and neck know the relentless...
Here’s Looking At You, 2018
250 million connected vehicles will transverse our roadways by 2020 according to Gartner. By 2040 it is anticipated that autonomous vehicles (AV) will represent 25% of all vehicle traffic. All of this will be supported by infrastructure that will accommodate...
Policysmart
POLICYSMART is a podcast dedicated to informing you on what’s happening in the world of intelligent transportation and the future of mobility, featuring GRIDSMART’s Senior VP of Global Public Policy, Regina Hopper.
POLICYSMART 27: All Things New Mobility with Catherine McCullough of Intelligent Car Coalition
The transportation industry is changing; automation, connectivity, data flow, electrification, and advancement of sensors are the future. In this week’s episode of POLICYSMART, Catherine McCullough, CEO of Intelligent Car Coalition, discusses how transportation is more than just a car moving people from point A to point B.
POLICYSMART 26: Semaphore and Re-skilling the Future Workforce with Elaina Farnsworth of The Next Education
Big news for the workforce out of the INTERSECT18 conference last week with the announcement of a new intelligent transportation certification process. Aptly named Semaphore, this course is meant to address the workforce knowledge issues needed to advance new mobility including connected and autonomous vehicles and connected infrastructure.
POLICYSMART 25: Setting an Example for Transportation Equity with Naomi Doerner, Seattle DOT’s Transportation Equity Program Manager
Seattle has made it official policy to provide equity in transportation as well as across other city services. Naomi Doerner, Seattle DOT's Transportation Equity Program Manager, left the private sector to help lead the effort and she so doing amazing things many...
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