The State of Smart Transportation (with Bill Pugh)

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Smart transportation is closely tied with smart city initiatives. What happens when vehicle travels from a smart city to one that might not be so smart? Will autonomous vehicles bridge the intelligent transportation divide or will autonomous vehicles rely on a smart infrastructure to support functions critical to improving public safety, traffic efficiency, and sustainability?  Bill Pugh, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Smart Connections Consulting LLC  joins neXt Curve's Leonard Lee to discuss the following:

* Why does transportation need to be smarter?
*  What are the prevailing challenges that “smart transportation” has faced in the past and today
* What kind of mindset change is need to clear the current bottlenecks that are in the way of smart transportation
* What are the things that the tech and "IoT" industry and governments need to do to make transportation in urban and rural areas smarter and better for society and the environment using digital technologies?