Citation

Am. City Cty. 1997; 112(10): 2 p..

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Penton Media)

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Abstract

Two entrepreneurs have invested thousands of hours to bring about a network of digital FM micro radio stations beaming the latest local weather bulletins, road conditions, news, and local events to motorists. They hope to locate these micro radio transmitters at every interstate highway rest area in America, controlling and monitoring them from their mountain village via the Internet. It has been tested in Vermont for 2 years, performing more than 99 percent of the time in greatly varying climatic conditions. Plans call for installing the computer/transmitter package and Internet connectivity all along the eastern seaboard, providing the technology at below-market cost to the agency in each state responsible for rest area/travel information operations. This would enable each state to control a portion of the local broadcast message with the remaining airtime available to one or more travel-oriented corporate sponsors.