.GLOBAL TELEMATICS

Operating Divisions

The Telecommunications Policy Division works with government agencies, service delivery companies, and civic interests to synthesize and articulate effective policy responses to the interaction of telecommunications, transportation, and economic development.

The Telework Division of Global Telematics offers seminars and a management consulting program to assure that the use of telecommuting and teleworking ("moving information instead of people") contributes to an organization's performance, long-run strategy, and social responsibility.

The Global Telematics Mobility Innovations Division provides assistance to partnerships of public transportation agencies and information technology companies that are seeking to facilitate more use of high-occupancy vehicles via Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). This work is part of an international, government-sponsored effort to implement new uses of computers and telecommunications to increase the safety and people-moving capacity of highways.

The Community Development Strategy Division works with community leaders to develop public-private partnership strategies for community and economic development that exploit telecommunications infrastructure and applications for public purposes.

The Learning Networks Division of Global Telematics provides technical and management assistance for implementing education, training, and information-retrieval applications.

Organizations Assisted

Staff Resources

In addition to company president John Niles, Global Telematics manages an extensive talent bank of affiliated professionals.

Examples of Project Experience

• Metropolitan King County Council Transportation Committee (Seattle): Analysis of bus and rail operations in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel owned and operated by King County

• Discovery Institute (Seattle): Research and education on the impact of telecom technology on transportation.

• Mineta Transportation Institute (San Jose State University): Research on the transportation planning for transit and for freight.

• Center for the New West (Denver): Planning and carrying out an El Pomar Forum event on the role of state and local governments in building and operating telecommunications infrastructure.

• National Business Travel Association (Washington, DC): Definition of a research program to understand the value of business travel in comparison with non-travel alternatives. This work carried out in partnership with Lehman Associates.

• Center for Civic Networking: Assistance to the Executive Director in the design, operation, and evaluation of the Public WebMarket, a community economic development initiative that operates a marketing channel for microenterprises on the Internet.

• GTE Telephone Operations, and its successor, Verizon: Technical assistance and training services in support of the company's national economic development program.

• Comtek International: Design of program sessions for Telecommuting World, an educational conference on telecommuting from an innovative conference and trade show firm.

• Southern California Association of Governments: Project management for planning and launching a public-private initiative to accelerate the deployment of telecommuting and other travel-saving applications of telecommunications in the six-county greater Los Angeles region.

• Puget Sound Regional Council: Project management for an assessment of the effects of telecommuting and other telecommunications applications on travel demand in the four-county greater Seattle region.

• U.S. Department of Energy: Principal investigators for a National Telecommuting Study, expanded to cover the entire relationship between transportation and telecommunications.

• Northwest TeleCenter Partners: Site selection and planning for telecommunications-based economic development in rural eastern Washington State.