2007 August 21. The first
operational MeTrIS
tracking device was
installed this afternoon in a port drayage truck (confidentiality
provisions prohibit disclosure of the motor carrier or driver details).
2007 July 25. Principal
Investigator Mike
Goodchild has been awarded the Prix Vautrin Lud, regarded by many as
Geography’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The presentation is to be on
October 4 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France. Details.
Separately, Mike and our long time Steering Committee member Don Cooke
are both to be inducted into the URISA Hall of Fame at their
August 20-23 annual conference.
2007 July 13. The U.S. Department of Transportation
has
re-started the NCRST program, creating 7 national university-led
consortia to develop applications of space-based technologies in
transportation (details). The Freight
Congestion Mitigation research agenda on this site, centered on MeTrIS,
reflects the new direction of the program. In the previous round of
NCRST, the UCSB-based Consortium focused on Infrastructure Management.