Telecommunications > Reports

The reports below address current telecommunications issues:

• Telecommunications Overview: Successful Practices presents a general overview of telecommunications needs assessment.
  

• Digital Video for ITS: An Overview of How and Why addresses the question of why digital video technologies should be applied to ITS by reviewing the different digital video compression technologies applicable to ITS and recommending ways to transition into digital video deployment.

• A Regional CCTV Video Distribution Network: Using ATM and Internet Protocol Routing explains the digitized traffic camera system at work in San Diego, its fiber optics-based communications network, and its network management system.

• Raising Local Government I.Q. on Fiber-Optics Communications Systems provides a history of fiber optics, descriptions of the different types of fiber optics, and a comparison of fiber optics to other mediums of telecommunications.

• Design Choices in Fiber Optics ITS Telecommunications Networks offers suggestions for developing criterion for ITS telecommunications networks (i.e. maintainability and cost issues), describes numerous choices for network design, and compares five different network designs in terms of their corresponding costs.

• Network Management Architecture in ITS Telecommunications Networks discusses the history of the telephone industry and illustrates ways of applying network management tools and strategies to ITS user services (i.e. electronic toll collection, advanced traveler information systems, etc).

• Wireless Information Transmission Services for Intelligent Transportation Systems Applications compares the pros and cons of traditional and emerging wireless communication technologies.