Werner on Traffic.com “monopoly” and Mineta and Trimble Ethics Concern

Jerry Werner has been digging into the first topic for a while. His latest findings appeared last week in the Hawaii Reporter. For those new to the allegations:

(1) There’s been a long standing concern that Traffic.com (now owned by NAVTEQ) received a government contract to capture traffic data effectively creating a monopoly.

(2) Former Transportation Secretary Mineta’s allegedly failed to disclose the details of his capital gains income of up to $1 million in Trimble Navigation stock options back in 2000. At that time he was a proponent of location technology which may have benefitted the company.

“Werner has consulted in the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) field since 1991. From 1998 through 2005 he was a subcontractor to the USDOT and Editorial Director of the National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC).” So, while not an investigative reporter, he knows the biz. I encourage interested readers to trace his source materials noted in the article above and his blog.