Roads and Highways
“The promise of GPS technology for increasing safety and security, reducing congestion, and improving efficiency are limitless. Quite simply, GPS has become the enabling technology for transportation.”
Jeffrey N. Shane, Former under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation
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GPS is used widely on roads and highways by many different parties (i.e. civilians for directions, tracking, maps, etc.). This allows for everyone using transportation to be safer higher mobility. This is also through transportation services (ex. TTC, GO Bus, etc.) who use GPS to have more accurate position determination so that they have greater passenger information (i.e. crowded locations). This information from GPS can also help create better transit systems to suit the needs of its users. It also allows for more effective and productive monitoring so that schedule adherence is ensured. One of the biggest advantages may be that there is better location information with electronic maps for drivers. This allows for in-vehicle navigation systems, such as Google Maps! Lastly, it allows for reduced costs in surveying roads.
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GPS and Kinematics by Simarjeet Singh Thind is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.gps.gov/.