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- From: joshua@Veritas.COM (Joshua Levy)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Rail/MassTrans vs. Cars+IVHS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.220715.27896@Veritas.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 22:07:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.174859.22395@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <ljeosiINNac@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Organization: VERITAS Software
- Lines: 21
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- In article <ljeosiINNac@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> daa@northbrook.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
- >
- >I am fairly new to this group, so I was wondering if the recent
- >discussion of "Cars as "something better"" had considered the
- >potential impact of IVHS technology? Did it all start there?
-
- Personally, I consider IVHS type technology to be untested. This
- puts it behind cars, which we know work, but ahead of transit, which
- has not worked in the past. IVHS research is pretty cheap on a national
- level -- canceling BART would pay for all of it -- but no one knows
- how much it will cost to field a working system.
-
- I do think that all money to fund IVHS research should come out of gas
- taxes, and all money to fund IVHS fielding should come from gas taxes or
- user fees.
-
- In terms of "potential impact," no one knows. How expensive will IVHS
- be? How well will it work? What will it do? With basic facts like
- these unknown, it seems pointless to guess what the impact will be.
-
- Joshua Levy (joshua@veritas.com)
-