[TCN] Monday, July 7, 2008

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

 

 

Monday, July 7, 2008 -- ISSN 1529-1057

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ITS Connections: Saving Time.  Saving Lives

 

Registration is open for the 15^th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems featuring ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting.  This combined event is expected to attract 10,000 transportation, technology, and other business professionals from more than 40 countries. Held from November 16-20 at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center the World Congress on ITS is this year's best chance to have access to a program featuring nearly 300 sessions featuring more than 700 industry experts covering a broad range of ITS issues that are important to you; take unprecedented technical tours to ITS facilities in and around New York City; participate in live demonstrations of active VII-based safety systems and other dynamic ITS applications along the streets and highways of New York; attend a grand-scale exhibition hall with almost 300,000 square feet of exhibits featuring the latest technologies, products and services; and connect with an international audience in a world-class city of beauty, culture and fun. For more information, including online registration, visit www.itsworldcongress.org.

 

AVIATION

 

1) FAA Says It Wants to Update Radar, Air Travel

Link to story in The Press of Atlantic City:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/179/story/199832.html

 

2) Five Questions for Mary E. Peters, US Secretary of Transportation

Link to interview from Congressional Quarterly Weekly:

http://www.airportbusiness.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=21021

 

3) A Plane? More Like a Flying Magazine

Link to column in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/travel/06pracads.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

 

4) Plane Spotters Try to Thwart Changes on Flight Paths

Link to story in The Advocate:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/localnews/ci_9805182

 

5) Fly SUX: Sioux City, Iowa Embraces Its Snicker-Inducing Airport ID Code

Link to story in the Los Angeles Times:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-airportcodes-2008jul06

 

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

 

6) My Topsy-Turvy Tangle with Texas Toll Roads

Link to commentary in The Dallas Morning News:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-westhoff_06edi.ART.State.Edition1.4dff9a5.html

 

MARITIME

 

7) In Search of Safe Harbor

The complexities of port facilities make maritime domain awareness one of the biggest challenges in homeland security.

Link to story in Federal Computer Week:

http://www.fcw.com/print/22_20/features/153039-1.html

 

ROADWAYS

 

8) Eco-Ads Offer Cash for Public Space

Governments see money from messages, but some worry about road clutter.

Link to story in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080705/NEWS/807040598/-1/newssitemap

 

SAFETY / SECURITY

 

9) Illinois State Police's Video Surveillance Cutting Down on Traffic Deaths

Link to story in The Pantagraph:

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/07/05/news/doc48700c9173e64658957661.txt

 

TELEMATICS

 

10) The Coming of the Car-Bot

In the near future, autonomous driving will lead to safer roads and great fuel-efficiency.

Link to story in BusinessWeek:

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/jul2008/bw2008073_910062.htm

 

TRANSIT

 

11) Wi-Fi Provider Bids for BART

Link to audio report on NPR's Morning Edition:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92278862&ft=1&f=1001

 

12) A Primer on Smart Cards

Link to column in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue-email.html

 

13) Berkeley, California Rapid Bus Plan Faces Uphill Battle
Link to story in the San Francisco Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/07/BAGR11JS8U.DTL

 

14) BART Riders Get Onboard with Near Field Communication

Link to story in ContactlessNews:

http://www.contactlessnews.com/library/2008/07/07/bart-riders-get-on-board-with-nfc/

 

15) Subway Sketchers Create an Online Community

Link to story in the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-subwaysketcher4-2008jul04%2C0%2C3609362.story

 

 

News Releases

1) Old Dominion Unveils New Web-based Service to Track Shipments

2) Asia-Pacific Will Overtake Europe and North America as Largest Personal Navigation Market in 2012, Says ABI Research

3) Parks Canada Tests GPS Technology in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

4) AirIQ Provides Update on Patent Infringement Claim

 

 

Upcoming Events

AASHTO Annual Meeting – October 16-20 – Hartford, Connecticut

http://www.transportation.org/meetings/93.aspx

 

 

Today in Transportation History

1946 – The XF-11, a prototype reconnaissance plane flown by Howard Hughes, crashed in Beverly Hills, California.

http://www.theaviatorhh.com/xf-11.htm

 

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