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Prof. Jacob Ziv
Transportation is not my field of expertise, but as a
consumer of the transportation system services, I am familiar with
its chronic weaknesses. In spite of the huge effort and resources
invested in law enforcement and technological improvements, we have
not witnessed a substantial improvement so far.
Therefore, I wish to express my interest with regard to the
“Automated Transport System” concept. It presents a principal
all-embracing solution to the nowadays transportation problems, yet
it is relatively easy to implement, since it is based on simple and
well-known technologies.
Furthermore, there seems to be a potential in integrating the system
with or into a digital wide-band wireless communication system, thus
increasing the benefit that might be drawn from the realization of
this concept.
I firmly encourage the initiators to bring the project to fruition
as soon as possible by setting up a pilot project in order to
demonstrate its promising potential. Being aware of their past
performance as initiators of very successful high-tech initiatives,
I am sure of their ability to do so.
Prof. Ziv is currently a Distinguished Professor at the
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion Institute of
Technology, Haifa Israel. Former President of the Israeli National
Academy of Sciences. Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of
Engineering. Awarded the Israel Prize in Exact Sciences (Engineering
and Technology). He has twice been the recipient of the
IEEE---Information Theory Best Paper Award (for 1977 and 1979).
Recipient of the 1995 International Marconi Award and the 1995 IEEE
Richard W.~Hamming Medal.
Dr. Joel Zaphir
I strongly
believe that the ATS project has a very high potential to solve in
an efficient way the pressing problems in the areas of traffic
control, congestion reduction, accidents prevention and, at the
same time, to significantly improve and enhance the overall quality
of road travel.
Its implementation is based on well established technologies in the
fields of vehicle construction, communications and computers and
requires only slight modifications in road construction.
The investment required to develop, test and build the system seems
to be very reasonable in view of the extensive benefits expected to
be achieved.
The inherent modularity of the system design will permit to proceed
with its implementation gradually pending funding availability.
Dr. Zaphir was the head of the Electronics Division and Vice
President of Rafael - Israeli Ministry of Defence Systems
Development Authority, Israeli Defense Award Laureate and
Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Washington University,
USA.
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