Effect of Telecommunications Deregulation on the Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems in Texas and at the Texas-Mexico Border: Summary Report
Author(s):
M.L. Pincus
Publication Date:
June 1997
Abstract:
In 1996, the U.S. and Mexico passed legislation to deregulate their telecommunications industries. In both countries, telecommunications deregulation dramatically changed the nature of the competitive relationships between telecommunications service and equipment providers, as well as the changing nature of the market in general. These changes will affect the development and use of individual telecommunications technologies, and will also affect the nature of public-private partnerships for the research, development, and deployment of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), particularly at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Regulatory changes in the telecommunications sector will affect many of the technologies that form the foundation of ITS, and will also change the nature of the market for telecommunications services and equipment. This study explores in a nontechnical fashion the major provisions of each Telecommunications Act and how deregulation may affect the research and eventual deployment of ITS at the national and state level. This study also specifically addresses how deployment of ITS in the U.S.-Mexico border region may be affected by the interaction of two simultaneously changing telecommunications markets.
Report Number:
RCE-97/03
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