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Texas Department of Transportation officials are reminded of their mission daily. The five goals of the TxDOT Texas Plan are printed on their business cards.
 
* Reduce Congestion
* Enhance Safety
* Expand Economic Opportunity
* Improve Air Quality
* Preserve the Value of Transportation Assets

Note that the word security does not appear, although you don't have to look far to find familiar security equipment and apparatus supporting the Texas highway system.

For a grasp on the value proposition security convergence delivers, look no further than the transportation sector. At the Intelligent Transportation Society of America's annual meeting in Houston last week, surveillance cameras, video management, license plate recognition, smartcards, temperature sensors, RFID and PSIM were all there, but they were not front-and-center. That's because the users in this vertical--transportation planners in the public and private sector don't see security networks as an end in themselves, but as tools to support a broader purpose--namely to keep traffic moving.