Exhibit 99.1


                  DRI Corporation Encourages Use of
            Public Transit to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gases

   DRI's Products Help the Environment by Increasing Public Transit
    Ridership Through Use of Products Designed to Improve Mobility

    DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 16, 2007--DRI Corporation (DRI)
(NASDAQ: TBUS), a digital communications technology leader in the
domestic and international surface transportation and transit security
markets, noted today that, according to a recent study conducted on
behalf of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the
use of public transit reduces greenhouse gases.

    "We encourage the use of public transit as a means of reducing the
deadly greenhouse gases that are harming our environment. We're doing
our part to help improve the environment by making it easier to use
public transit. Our Digital Recorders(R), TwinVision(R) and Mobitec(R)
products - which are used by public transportation systems around the
globe - increase passenger mobility and enhance passenger and transit
fleet security. If it's easier to ride public transit, we believe more
people will do so. As public transit ridership increases, damaging
carbon dioxide (CO2) levels may be reduced and our environment may be
better preserved for future generations. Further, as public transit
ridership increases, the demand for our products may also increase,"
David L. Turney, the Company's Chairman, President, and Chief
Executive Officer, said.

    The study, "Public Transportation's Contribution to Greenhouse Gas
Reduction," was conducted for APTA by the Science Applications
International Corporation.

    Among the study's findings and conclusions:

    --  U.S. greenhouse gases from transportation represent 33 percent
        of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

    --  U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from mobile sources have grown
        29 percent from 1990 to 2004.

    --  CO2 represents more than 95 percent of total greenhouse gas
        emissions from mobile transportation.

    --  U.S. public transportation reduces CO2 emissions by 6.9
        million metric tonnes annually.

    --  The average American household carbon footprint is 22 metric
        tonnes per year, compared to a European household of 10 metric
        tonnes per year. Of this, approximately 38 percent (one-car
        household) to 55 percent (two-car household) of total
        household CO2 emissions are transportation related.

    --  An individual switching to public transportation can reduce
        his or her CO2 emissions by 20 pounds a day, or more than
        4,800 pounds a year -- about 10 percent of a two-car family
        household's carbon footprint of 22 metric tonnes per year.

    --  Switching to public transportation reduces a family's carbon
        footprint more than replacing five incandescent bulbs to lower
        wattage compact fluorescent lamps (445 pounds of CO2 per year)
        or replacing an older refrigerator freezer (335 pounds of CO2
        per year).

    --  Eliminating one vehicle and using public transit can reduce a
        two-car household's carbon footprint approximately 25 percent
        to 30 percent. A two-car household switching all travel to
        public transit can reduce their carbon footprint by up to 55
        percent.

    ABOUT APTA

    APTA is a nonprofit international association of more than 1,500
member organizations including public transportation systems;
planning, design, construction and finance firms; product and service
providers; academic institutions; and state associations and
departments of transportation. APTA members serve the public interest
by providing safe, efficient and economical public transportation
services and products. APTA members serve more than 90 percent of
persons using public transportation in the United States and Canada.

    ABOUT THE COMPANY

    DRI is a digital communications technology leader in the domestic
and international public transportation and transit security markets.
Our products include: TwinVision(R) and Mobitec(R) electronic
destination sign systems, Talking Bus(R) voice announcement systems,
Digital Recorders(R) Internet-based passenger information and
automatic vehicle location/monitoring systems, and VacTell(TM) video
actionable intelligence systems. Our products help increase the
mobility, flow, safety, and security of people who rely upon
transportation infrastructure around the globe. Using proprietary
hardware and software applications, our products provide
easy-to-understand, real-time information that assists users and
operators of transit bus and rail vehicles in locating, identifying,
boarding, tracking, scheduling, and managing those vehicles. Our
products also aid transit vehicle operators in their quest to increase
ridership and reduce fuel consumption, as well as to identify and
mitigate security risks on transit vehicles. Positioned not only to
serve and address mobility, energy conservation, and environmental
concerns, our products also serve the growing U.S. Homeland Security
market. For more information about the Company and its operations
worldwide, go to www.digrec.com.

    FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

    This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
In particular, statements which draw conclusions from or base
predictions on the study prepared on behalf of APTA by Science
Applications International Corporation, such as the prediction that
the Company's products help increase public transit ridership and
thereby reduce greenhouse gases which in turn can improve the
environment, and statements that increases in public transit ridership
may increase the demand for the Company's products, as well as any
statement, express or implied, concerning future events or
expectations or those which use words such as "expect," "fully
expect," "expected," "appears," "believe," "plan," "anticipate,"
"would," "goal," "potential," "potentially," "range," "pursuit," "run
rate," "stronger," "preliminarily," etc., are forward-looking
statements. These forward looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties, including: the risk that the Company has drawn
incorrect conclusions or made inaccurate predictions based on the
study prepared on behalf of APTA by Science Applications International
Corporation, risk that increased public transit ridership may have no
impact on greenhouse gases or otherwise improve the environment ;
risks that our products do not contribute to increased public transit
ridership; as well as other risks and uncertainties set forth in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K filed March 28, 2007, particularly those
identified in Risk Factors Affecting Our Business. There can be no
assurance that any expectation, express or implied, in a
forward-looking statement will prove correct or that the contemplated
event or result will occur as anticipated.


    CONTACT: Veronica B. Marks
             Manager, Corporate Communications
             DRI Corporation
             Phone: (214) 378-4776
             Fax: (214) 378-8437
             E-Mail: veronicam@digrec.com