Rockwell, Others Win ‘Intelligent’ Highway Award

Rockwell International Corp. and a team of state agencies, universities and consultants won a $2.7-million award from the Federal Highway Administration to design a control system for a so-called “intelligent” highway.

Rockwell and three other groups that also got awards will be studying how to make computers in cars from one part of the country “talk” to computers in another part of the nation that take tolls, direct traffic and otherwise run intelligent highway systems.

Rockwell recently won two other government research awards for intelligent highways, one for $624,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the other a $427,000 study for the Michigan Department of Transportation.