Delivering IVHS to the marketplace: A provider´s perspective

The US market potential for enhanced mobile communications and intelligent vehicle highway system (IVHS) services is projected to be vast. PacTel Teletrac, a US provider of wireless location, information and communications services, believes that the wireless computing and the communications industries will converge with IVHS services. Rather than developing closed-architecture IVHS systems which require expensive dedicated hardware and software, Teletrac is designing a menu of IVHS services to be fully compatible with most types of mobile computing devices. It is believed that consumers will be quick to adopt IVHS services if they can access these services from a single piece of hardware that is not technologically limited, but offers all-in-one computing, communications and IVHS solutions.