--- John S. Niles, President
A policy research and consulting firm that approaches opportunities and problems in individual, organizational, and community performance from a technology and policy perspective.
Our viewpoint encompasses both information and communications (ICT or telematics) as well as transportation (physical movement).
We do analysis, design, planning, presentations, and training for think tanks, government agencies, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, regional planning organizations, non-profit civic associations, new and established businesses, and many others.We have been in continuous operation under the name "Global Telematics" since 1986.
1-206-781-4475 in North America
http://www.globaltelematics.com
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A different "Global Telematics" joint venture based in Europe, begun in 1997 and unrelated to us, offers products serving the Intelligent Transportation System market. See http://www.global-telematics.com. There was also a firm in California with a similar name, with which we have never had a relationship.
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Global Telematics is working on quantifying high performance urban bus characteristics.
John Niles made a presentation on electronic shopping for the 2009 annual meeting of Transportation Research Board.
Global Telematics helped design the program for Meeting of the Minds in Portland, Oregon, July 2008.
John Niles comments on the low energy conservation impact of forcing more telecommuting.
Global Telematics works with Cascadia Center and Coalition for Effective Transportation Alternatives (CETA) in Seattle to promote cost-effective telematics-based solutions like Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) rather than multi-billion-dollar symbolism like Sound Transit's Central Link light rail, the most expensive light rail per-mile in world history.
Global Telematics works on fixing traffic congestion in urban locations. We participate in the Regional Traffic Operations Committee of Puget Sound Regional Council, and we have recently worked with Siemens ITS in Tukwila, Washington on regional signal synchronization. Our summary views on Traffic Operations Managment -- T-Ops -- are presented here.
Global Telematics is working with Lehman Associates to bring Travel Value ManagementTM concepts to 21st business travel.
Global Telematics is assisting in the education of Puget Sound civic leaders about road use fees that shift demand to non-congested periods by offering off-peak discounts. John Niles prepared a paper on this topic for a November 2003 conference held by Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington.
Global Telematics planned the agenda for the February 2005 Transportation Technology Conference from the Cascadia Center of the Discovery Institute held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. Agenda of this conference is here.
John Niles wrote a summary short essay on Fighting Traffic Congestion with Traffic Operations Management (T-Ops) for The Seattle Times..
ITS Benefits Summary presented at John Niles' September 2001 Discovery Institute Lecture in Seattle.
Telecommuting, Intelligent Transportation, and other aspects of how telecom affects transportation are covered in the Discovery Institute Inquiry report, Technology & Transportation: The Dynamic Relationship, September 2001 by John Niles. Download in PDF here.
Global Telematics was project manager for the King County Council's Tunnel Team looking at the performance implications of the policy choice between Bus Rapid Transit and Light Rail in the unique Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel.
Global Telematics in association with Integrated Transport Research, Inc., Washington State Department of Transportation, and Mineta Transportation Institute is developing new ways for state and regional government to measure and improve freight transportation. Look at the first report on the Regional Freight Logistics Profile.
Flexible instant ridesharing, as presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. A new approach to public transportation. Other web links provided.
Global Telematics has been part of the E-Safety Initiative in Washington State, in concert with The ComCARE Alliance and the Center to Bridge the Digital Divide.
John Niles participated during 2005 in a review of U.S. transportation planning sponsored by the Albany, NY area metropolitan planning organization, the State of New York, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Observations from him and others on the results were presented to the January 2006 meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
Is New Urbanism and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) an effective and efficient public policy approach to shaping urban land use and consumer travel behavior in the age of telematics? In partnership with Integrated Transport Research, Inc., we have been exploring this question since 1998 in a series of papers and presentations to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and American Planning Association (APA).
In July, 1999 we began an association with Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University to create a planning template for Transit Oriented Development. Project is described here. The final report, A New Planning Template for Transit-Oriented Development is now available.
Our work was featured in a series of El Pomar Policy Leadership Forums held in Colorado Springs. Sprawl and Congestion: Are Light Rail, High Density Living and “Transit-Oriented Development” the Answer? was held June 16-17, 1999. Agenda available here.
John Niles contributed to the preparation of the infrastructure chapter in Learning to Lead, an economic development leadership primer prepared by the Community Economic Assistance Center in Washington State.
Highlights of a presentation by John Niles to the Economic Development Administration Southwest Region Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas, June 3, 1999 "Community Approaches to Electronic Commerce."
"Adding Telecommunications to the Planning Mix: Modifying and Tuning Smart Growth," at the Cascadia Pacific - Heartland Forum, Bellingham, Washington, April 29, 1999. This talk by John Niles describes the linkage between Smart Growth and Smart Communities. Global Telematics is assisting the Cascadia Pacific Center to develop new visions and strategies to guide the development of the land between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia.
Overheads from Technology and Your Economy: Getting Wired for the Future, a presentation to the Inland Northwest Partners Spring Meeting in Pullman, Washington, March 18, 1999
Global Telematics was the outside evaluator for the Rural Coalition's
SuperMarket
project, which has designed a way for the Internet to enable small-scale farmers to access
the markets and services they need to be successful. As a result of this project,
initiated with the support of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Oxfam America, and others,
The Rural Coalition now offers a way for consumers to buy products directly from rural
communities through channels that maximize the economic returns to producers.
Global Telematics and Center for the New West in 1997 presented an El Pomar Forum, "Wired Communities, Smart States: Is Digital Infrastructure the New Public Works?"
John Niles presented a briefing on digital public works at the FARNET annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia in March, 1998. Earlier, we described a framework for thinking about digital infrastructure in an article for New Telecom Quarterly.
Last modified, July 07, 2009