The Federal Communications Commission has approved the 5.9 gigahertz bandwidth for dedicated short-range communications, which involves intelligent transportation systems.

Transportation companies employing the X12 messaging sets used by most American companies for electronic data interchange may face a change to the international Edifact messaging sets as multinational companies in the United States look to expand their horizons.

General Motors' ongoing switch to the Edifact EDI system could force many trucking companies to abandon the X12 messaging sets in favor of the new international system.

Taking a page from the U.S. Customs Service, Mexico will use X-ray equipment to examine cargo trucks at an interior checkpoint 16 miles north of its main truck crossing at Nuevo Laredo.

Taking a page from the U.S. Customs Service, Mexico will use X-ray equipment to examine cargo trucks at an interior checkpoint 16 miles north of its main truck crossing at Nuevo Laredo.

The Department of Transportation is under a congressional mandate to build an intelligent transportation system by 2001. DOT considers 17 standards to be essential to making it work.

The Department of Transportation is under a congressional mandate to come up with a list of protocols for building such a network by 2001. These 17 standards are considered essential in ensuring that the computer-based systems and the equipment that uses them are “interoperable” — that can be interconnected no matter where they are or who runs them.

The debate over on-highway electronic clearance of commercial trucks has broken down into two major turf wars: One battlefield pits the private vs. the public sector and the other arena is technology.

The debate over on-highway electronic clearance of commercial trucks has broken down into two major turf wars: One battlefield pits the private vs. the public sector, and the other arena is technology.

East Coast toll authorities are eager to develop a national system for electronic toll collection, but they face a long road ahead.