Virginia PROGRESS: the Virginia Department of Transportation's Intelligent Vehicle-highway Systems Strategic Plan
Virginia PROGRESS: the Virginia Department of Transportation's Intelligent Vehicle-highway Systems Strategic Plan

Author: Brian L. Smith

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13:

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The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is committed to Virginia PROGRESS, which is a program for Intelligent Vehicle-Highway System (IVHS) research, development, and deployment. This document, VDOT's IVHS Strategic Plan, will guide the Department in Virginia PROGRESS. It is organized in the following chapters: (1) Strategic Assessment; (2) IVHS Overview; and (3) Strategic Plan. Chapter 1 discusses IVHS solutions to surface transportation needs and ongoing IVHS activities in VDOT. Chapter 2 examines the five functional areas of IVHS that have emerged in recent years. These areas are: Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS), Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS), Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS), Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS), and Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO). Finally, Chapter 3 provides details of the Strategic Plan.

Handbook of Strategic Management, Second Edition,
Handbook of Strategic Management, Second Edition,

Author: Jack Rabin

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2000-05-16

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 9780824703394

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Revised and updated for the second edition, the Handbook of Strategic Management provides a set of broad-based bibliographic essays on strategic management. It covers synoptic approaches, complexity theory, organizational capacity, financing strategy, networks, and chaos theory and offers an in-depth look the use of strategic management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The National Institute of Personnel Management called this book "...the most comprehensive single-source treatment of strategic management." New topics discuss the role of strategic management in political decision making, uncertainty, the absence of strategy, productivity, teamwork, leadership, and change.

Surveillance as Social Sorting
Surveillance as Social Sorting

Author: David Lyon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-19

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1134469039

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Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police activities and intelligence gathering, now it is an unavoidable feature of everyday life. Surveillance as Social Sorting proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary threat to individual freedom, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcing long-term social differences. As practiced today, it is actually a form of social sorting - a means of verifying identities but also of assessing risks and assigning worth. Questions of how categories are constructed therefore become significant ethical and political questions. Bringing together contributions from North America and Europe, Surveillance as Social Sorting offers an innovative approach to the interaction between societies and their technologies. It looks at a number of examples in depth and will be an appropriate source of reference for a wide variety of courses.