If this proposal is adopted by the General Conference, it would represent zero nominal growth from the current biennium.

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It is ironic, then, that South Korea's traffic setup was adopted from the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System, an ITS forefather pushed by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration in the early 1990s.

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Case in point is Windows Phone, as Microsoft has just announced that it's adopted traffic information from Nokia into the Maps app of its mobile OS. In addition to providing Windows Phone users in the US with more detailed overviews of traffic flows and congestion, the functionality will soon become available for many cities across the globe.

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But presently, it is far from clear that the Obama administration recognizes that these are the consequences of the policies it adopted.

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The programme is due to be adopted by the government on January 27th, but already it is in danger of being watered down, after opposition from trade unions and others.

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