Department of Transportation: Following the Rule (or lack thereof)
According to a source at the Department of Transportation, the DoT has numerous RFID-related initiatives, including:
<>Federal Highway Administration: The Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) has supported the use of RFID technologies for electronic toll collection. EZ-Pass is perhaps the largest implementation of this system.
<>Federal Transit Administration: In collaboration with the ITS JPO, FTA has supported local transit use of RFID technologies for transit payment.
<>Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: They are testing the installation of RFID tags for use in electronic clearance of tractor trailers at automated weigh and safety stations.
<>There is also a program to develop methods of integrating technologies such as GPS and RFID devices.
Though the Department of Transportation has been participating in the Interagency Working Group within the Federal government, and is planning to develop its own internal Working Group within in the near future, as of now, their RFID initiatives have yet to be conducted in a coordinated way the promotes interoperability or consistency. This example is just one of many within the Federal Government at this stage. The rule, not the exception.
