• May 23, 2016

    PacTrans Director, Dr. Yinhai Wang, Speaks at Gigabit City Summit

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    This last week Tuesday, May 17, Dr. Yinhai Wang traveled to Kansas City to speak at the second annual Gigabit City Summit. The summit is a three-day learning and networking opportunity exclusively designed for leaders in current and emerging Gigabit Cities. A Gigabit City is a city with gigabit internet. “…what is gigabit internet? It’s a fiber-optic cable internet connection offering speeds of 1,000 megabits per second. That kind of connectivity, according to Google, allows for the downloading of a high-definition movie in about 30 seconds. Or streaming five HD movies at once without so much as a hiccup. Or transferring data over the web faster than is possible over a thumb drive.”

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    As vehicle to vehicle (v2v) and vehicle to infrastructure (v2i) communication technologies advance, as larger and larger amounts of data are collected and processed in real time, and as our transportation systems get smarter, gigabit internet will play a crucial role. Kansas City is a great venue to discuss these subjects as they are one of only a handful of IEEEs designated smart cities as well as a finalist for the USDOT smart cities challenge grant. They also happen to be a gigabit city. Dr. Wang was there representing the IEEE Smart Cities, as one of the co-chairs of their first conference held in Guadalajara Mexico this past October.

    PacTrans is excited to see momentum growing in this space as we are well equipped to help make significant strides toward a smarter transportation system.