TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY

The Impact of Transportation Technology

The Impact of Transportation Technology

Introduction

This paper will present Society and Technological Change within “U.S. Department of Transportation,  USA. The paper presents a brief overview of the transportation sector, the impact of technology, history and/or evolution of the technology on the U.S. Department of Transportation, Social and ethical ramifications of technology that the U.S. Department of Transportation may be propagating.

About U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S DOT)

The U.S Department of Transportation assigned to the Administrative Vice President ensures the provision of transport services to the community with security, accountability and efficiency, by structuring policies and measures administrative and operational, in this sense, we subtract handle ongoing maintenance service to each of the bus drivers and automotive fleets, perform and ensure compliance with Schedules and Programming provision of transportation services for field work, outreach, sports, culture and academics to contribute to the operational capacity of the institution (Conroy, 2000, p.13).

Objectives

Provide a courier service, safe and efficient transportation to the different classes that make up the University.

Keep in good condition (mechanical and aesthetic) the department's vehicle fleet through workshops and private University.

Ensure transportation service to students, teachers, administrators and researchers.

Achieving high-level conditions of operation in workshops that allow the University to offer an optimal service and repair for official and private vehicles.

Functions

To provide an efficient transport service for mobilizing official, officials, mail, messaging, materials, equipment and furniture within the metropolitan area, as well as mobilization of staff to the Regional Centers.

Keeps track of vehicle documentation of the institution for purposes of policy procedures, reviewed and achieve official plates.

Maintains a continuing program of preventive and corrective maintenance of official vehicles of the institution (Van, 1997).

Prepare requisitions for fuel, according to the schedule made and existing balances for vehicles in the metropolitan area of ??the University.

Keeps track of deposits and control, office and existence of the fuel and lubricants.

Problem of the Study

This paper will be discussing the technological advances in transport system which is being monitored by the U.S department of Transport. Nowadays urban traffic is complicated in most metropolitan areas in developed countries where congestion has become a daily problem difficult to solve. It is an issue that causes undesirable effects on the mobility of drivers and pedestrians (Conroy, 2000). Failure of public transport schedules, increased travel time by public transport and private, air pollution and noise levels intolerable that they affect health are seriously some of these effects.

Evolution of the Technology

One of the most efficient answers to the problem of congestion is in the intensive use of computer systems and telecommunications applied to traffic management (Guston, 2002). Indeed, the so-called “Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)”, are becoming an efficient support for citizens and public institutions in an attempt to alleviate the congestion problems and inter-urban transport, not only helping to improve their mobility, but making more sustainable (Claramunt & Jiang, 2000). A brief statement of the issue of these systems in regard to new contributions developed in recent years and its main applications will be the focus of this ...