A new year and a new decade. As 2010 unfurls, the traffic engineering industry and the technology that surrounds it is inevitably going to see some changes. Although the economy was the most discussed, and inescapable, topic in 2009, it was a year in which there were many interesting trends. Susan Smith at AECcafe noted some of the top trends were BIM, cloud computing, social media, 3D modeling and visualization, in addition to multi-core workstations just to name a few. But, what about this year? Will it be a continuation of the a fore mentioned trends? Is it be the beginning of the age of roundabouts and diverging diamond interchanges? Is there going to be migration towards mobile workstations?
Leave us your comments about what you think the top trends in Transportation Engineering for 2010 will be.
Lightweight technologies like Gadgets and Widgets have become increasingly popular on the public web. In 2010, enterprises will more intently use them to build tactical solutions ("quick wins") and then slowly migrate to more strategic options. So portal vendors will not only support these frameworks but also will start providing a roadmap for moving from Gadgets to Portlets, and vice-versa.
Posted by: alex | 01/27/2010 at 12:24 AM