[TCN] Wednesday, February 11, 2009

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

 

 

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 -- ISSN 1529-1057

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Regional Managers – Imago North America

 

Imago North America (formerly ADDCO) is hiring Regional Managers to help grow its Fixed Dynamic Message Sign Business in the USA. Experienced transportation sales & business development individuals should submit resumes to jobs@addco.com.  Candidates should thrive in a fast-paced, professional global company.  For more information on Imago, please visit www.imagoscreens.com. 

 

AVIATION

 

1) Southwest Airlines to Begin Testing In-Flight Wi-Fi

Link to story in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-02-10-swa-in-flight-wifi_N.htm

Link to news release from Southwest Airlines:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=92562&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1255071&highlight

 

2) National Airspace System: FAA Reauthorization Issues are Critical to System Transformation and Operations

Link to US Government Accountability report:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09377t.pdf

 

BUSES

 

3) Catching Bus in Pittsburgh Just Text Message Away

Link to story on WPXI-TV:

http://www.wpxi.com/news/18686615/detail.html

Link to further information on RouteShout:  http://www.routeshout.com/

 

CAMERAS

 

4) Cameras to Replace Police on Chennai Roads

Link to story in The Times of India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennai/Cameras_to_replace_police_on_roads/articleshow/4108799.cms

 

CARTOGRAPHY

 

5) Google Maps, MapQuest Neck and Neck

Link to CNET News story:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10161767-2.html

 

GPS / NAVIGATION

 

6) Navigation Companies Crowdsource Maps, Traffic Services

Link to story in Wired:

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/user-generated.html

Link to news release from Tele Atlas:

http://www.teleatlas.com/WhyTeleAtlas/Pressroom/PressReleases/TA_CT023824

 

7) Alignment of a Portable Navigation System

Link to story in GPS World:

http://techtalk.sidt.gpsworld.com/?p=269

 

ROADWAYS

 

8) Fog Signs Ready to Go on California Freeway

Link to story in The Selma Enterprise:

http://www.selmaenterprise.com/articles/2009/02/11/news/doc49931a9f11061856842388.txt

 

9) Cook County, Illinois Road Signs Raise Eyebrows

County spending $120,000 to put up arcane road markers that are of little use to motorists.

Link to column in the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/transportation/chi-cook-route-signs-11-feb11,0,5578824.story

 

SAFETY / SECURITY

 

10) US Transportation Security Administration to Test Encrypted Flight Boarding Passes

Link to story in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-02-10-boarding_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

 

11) Foes Spy Security Holes in Massachusetts Governor's Tax Plan

Privacy concerns over chip that may be used for mileage fee.

Link to story in the Boston Herald:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2009_02_11_Foes_spy_security_holes_in_tax_plan:_Car_chip_steers_debate/

 

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

 

12) South Africa Broadcasting Corp. Launches Telephone Traffic Update Service

Link to story on Bizcommunity:

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/15/32495.html

 

13) Singapore Citizens to Get Road Info on Mobile Phones

Link to story in FutureGov:

http://www.futuregov.net/articles/2009/feb/11/singapore-citizens-get-road-info-mobile-phones/

 

14) Chennai Traffic Police to Launch New Web Site

Link to story in The Times of India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennai/Traffic_police_to_launch_new_websitr_from_tomorrow/articleshow/4108742.cms

Link to site:  http://www.chennaicitytrafficpolice.com/

 

15) Transportation Information Will Soon be at Your Fingertips in Central Coastal California

511 to debut this summer.

Link to story on KSBY-TV:

http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=9821147

 

 

News Releases

1) CSR and SiRF Combine Forces for Bluetooth and GPS Market Leadership

2) Charlottesville (Virginia) Transit Service Announces Online Trip Planning with Google Transit

3) Bus Left You Waiting in the Cold? Use Your Cell Phone to Track It Down

4) Jaguar Affirms State-of-the-Art Digital Technology Leadership with Adoption of HD Radio Technology Standard Across 2010 Line

 

 

Upcoming Events

AASHTO National Transportation Management Conferences – April 5-10 – San Antonio, Texas

http://www.transportation.org/meetings/218.aspx

 

 

Today in Transportation History

1809 **200^th anniversary** - Robert Fulton takes out his first patent for improvements in navigation by steam.

http://www.todayinsci.com/F/Fulton_Robert/FultonPatents.htm

 

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