Since the 1980s, the world’s burgeoning population has forced many governments to realize that they must build more efficient transportation systems or fail to meet the needs of a modern citizenry. The problem is simply defined: you can only cram so much activity into a transportation system without exponentially increasing the inherent dangers.The solution is to make a smarter system that moves more people, faster without sacrificing safety. And it’s to that end that photonic technologies are finding a wide range of primary and supporting roles in the quest to develop a cost effective intelligent transportation systems (ITS)…