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Creating the Future of Transport
Dr Alan Stevens
Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Dr Alan Stevens, TRL, Editor-in-Chief of IET Intelligent Transport Systems
11 July 2007 Research seminars
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What the presentation will outline: • What are intelligent transport systems? • ITS and strategic transport issues • Safety issues • Congestion issues • Environmental issues • Social issues
About the speaker
Alan Stevens BSc PhD MBA FIET is the Chief Research Scientist and Research Director, Transportation at TRL (The UK Transport Research Laboratory) where he has been working on the application of new technology to transport for nearly 20 years. After training as a physicist and research work on medical image processing, he worked for the UK Home Office as part of the team developing the first vehicle numberplate readers. Later, for a commercial geographic information systems company, he developed machine vision equipment for digitisation of paper maps and for automatic generation of 3-D terrain maps from satellite images.
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