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...
Why You Should Hire More Entitled Millennials
By Gabrielle Bosché, Founder and President of The Millennial Solution If you’re a Millennial, you may want to keep it to yourself. That is, if you even consider yourself a Millennial. A recent study found that only 40% of adults under 36 years old would consider...
Radical Neighborliness in the Rust Belt
By Drew Philp, Author of A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City With spring blooming in Detroit, the wildflowers are about to return to the Motor City. Ten years ago, I bought an abandoned house in the East side of Detroit. The...
PennDOT is putting in the work to stay ahead of mobility issues
By Regina Hopper, Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy at GRIDSMART Technologies, Inc. In recording the POLICYSMART podcasts, I have the opportunity to hear interesting stories that never get fully developed during the episode. In a recent interview with Leslie...
Cut the Red Tape: Get Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Moving
By Teddy Vagias, Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Advocate You’ve probably heard the very old saying, “When one person dies, it’s a tragedy. When a million die, it’s a statistic.” According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 1.3 million people die...
Transforming Transportation with Contra Costa Transportation Authority
By Randy Iwasaki, Executive Director, Contra Costa Transportation Authority As our hyper-connected world continues to advance in all areas of mobility — from the solo traveler seeking an on-demand bicycle to the autonomous shuttle — it is more critical than ever that...
Why Reskilling is so Important to the ITS Industry
By Elaina Farnsworth, President & CEO of The NEXT Education There are few times in history when advancements in technology and information have caused such an upheaval in the workforce as to require an overhaul in the way workers are trained. Never has the transition...
The Importance Behind the “V” Acronyms
By Shailen Bhatt, President & CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America Let’s face it — we all use too many acronyms in general… BTW, I’ll BRB, gotta send the ICYMI. And it’s certainly alphabet soup time for intelligent transportation — starting with...
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