ERIC ED171247: Telecommunications for Metropolitan Areas: Near-Term Needs and Opportunities
This study, conducted by the Metropolitan Communications Steering Committee for the Board on Telecommunications-Computer Applications of the National Research Council, identifies telecommunications technologies that could provide useful services for homes, businesses, and governments up to the year 1980. The present state of telecommunication needs and opportunities in metropolitan areas and potential urban applications of telecommunications were examined in light of rapidly evolving technologies and the relative economy of telecommunications. Four major advances in technology were identified as likely to lead in the near future to significant changes in metropolitan telecommunications: increasingly capable terminals, software controlled networks, cellular mobile communications, and fiber-optic cables. Telecommunications applications are considered in such areas as business aids, reference sources, entertainment, government administration, the environment, health, education, welfare, emergency and mobile services, and citizen safety. Within each of these areas telecommunications were reviewed in their capacity to improve efficiency and reduce costs, increase timeliness and accessibility of information, and facilitate public access. (Author/RAO)
ERIC ED171248: Telecommunications for Metropolitan Areas: Opportunities for the 1980's
This report intended for officials responsible for solving metropolitan problems identifies ways that telecommunications could improve the delivery of public services to metropolitan communities during the 1980's. Areas included in this study are delivery of public services to the home, operation of mobile public services, personal security networks, and energy conservation and management. Major recommendations include the establishment of a pilot program to demonstrate the ways in which telecommunications can help deliver public services to the home and the nationwide implementation of 911 service, by legislation if necessary. Because the uses of mobile radio for delivering public services are many and varied, it is deemed unlikely that any single mobile system approach will provide a universally appropriate solution; however, it is recommended that some preliminary experiments with community security telecommunications networks be carried out. Several peripheral but potentially significant applications of telecommunications in energy conservation and management are indicated: substitution for travel, transmitting demand and providing information between consumers and utilities, and facilitating the marketing and transfer of bulk power. A list of references is included. (Author/RAO)
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