[TCN] Monday, December 5, 2011

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

 

Monday, December 5, 2011 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

 

1) E-gates to Open at Taiwan's Major Airports Starting January 1

Link to article on Taiwan Today:

http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=181778&ctNode=445

 

2) Nano Paint Could Make Airplanes Invisible to Radar

Link to article in Technology Review:

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/39238/?p1=A2

 

MARITIME

 

3) US Coast Guard Will Use Mardi Gras Float as a Recruiting Tool

Link to article in Government Security News:

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/25156?c=maritime_port_security

 

OTHER

 

4) Is Smarter Transportation a Slippery Slope to Public Transit?

Link to article on Digital Communities:

http://www.digitalcommunities.com/articles/Is-Smarter-Transportation-a-Slippery-Slope-to-Public-Transit.html

 

5) CONDUITS Newsletter – November 2011

Evaluating the impact of ITS in urban areas.

Link to newsletter:

http://www.polisnetwork.eu/uploads/Modules/PublicDocuments/conduits-newsletter-5.pdf

 

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

 

6) California High-Speed Rail Authority Spends Millions to Polish Image

Link to article in The Sacramento Bee:

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/04/4098202/california-high-speed-rail-authority.html

 

7) VHB/Eng-Wong, Taub and PB: Building Client Relationships with Social Media

Link to article in Engineering News-Record:

http://enr.construction.com/technology/information_technology/2011/1018-FirmsUseSocialMediatoBuildClientRelationships.asp

 

RAILROADS

 

8) Earphones are Cited in Many Railroad Deaths

Link to article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/westmoreland/s_770431.html

 

ROADWAYS

 

9) Chicago Aims to Brush Up Street Markings

Link to column in the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/traffic/ct-met-getting-around-1205-20111205,0,4768836.column

 

SAFETY / SECURITY

 

10) New Emergency Maps to Help Fire, Floods, Road Accidents in Victoria

Link to article in The Courier:

http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/news/general/new-emergency-maps-to-help-fire-floods-road-accidents/2382193.aspx

Link to news release:

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/NewsRoom/News+Releases/Newwebsitemapsoutroadsclosedduetofloodsfiresandotheremergencies.htm

Link to site: http://alerts.vicroads.vic.gov.au/

 

11) App Helps Emergency Crews ID Toxic Chemicals

Link to article in Government Computer News:

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/12/05/agg-chemm-ist-chemical-exposure-tool.aspx

Link to CHEMM-IST from the US Department of Health & Human Services:

http://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/chemmist.htm

 

TELEMATICS

 

12) GM's OnStar is Looking a Lot Like a Stand-Alone Business

Link to article in Forbes:

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/05/onstar/

 

13) Why Ford Just Became a Software Company

Link to article in InformationWeek:

http://informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/231902920

 

14) Qualcomm Warns OEMs are Aiming for Cut of In-Cab Electronics Market

Link to article in Transport Topics:

http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=28215

 

15) Towers Watson: Technology to Become Important for Motor Insurers' Competitiveness

Link to article on Insurance Business Review:

http://technology.insurance-business-review.com/news/technology-to-become-important-for-motor-insurers-competitiveness-towers-watson-051211

 

TRANSIT

 

16) FCC to Review San Francisco Cell Service Shutdown Rules

Link to CNET News article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57336075-245/fcc-to-review-sf-subway-cell-service-shutdown-rules

Link to statement from FCC chairman:

http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-chairman-julius-genachowskis-statement-bart-policy-adoption

 

17) New York MTA Wants Apps on Getting Around, but Key Data Still Hidden

Link to article on Transportation Nation:

http://transportationnation.org/2011/12/05/mta-wants-apps-on-getting-around-but-key-data-still-hidden/

 

18) Trying to Understand 'The Weekender' from the New York MTA

Reporter recounts his difficulties using the agency's guide to weekend subway disruptions.

Link to article in the Daily News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/i-fought-battle-blinking-dots-i-struggled-understand-weekender-mta-article-1.983383

Link to The Weekender: http://www.mta.info/weekender.html

 

19) One More Thing Goes on the Web: Subway Ogling

Link to article in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/fashion/tubecrushnet-and-subwaycrushnet.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Link to TubeCrush.net: http://tubecrush.net/

 

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

 

20) Much-Awaited Traffic and Transit Management Center Opened in Banashankari, India

Link to Express News Service article:

http://www.ndtv.com/article/karnataka/much-awaited-banashankari-traffic-and-transit-management-centre-inaugurated-155469

 

VEHICLES

 

21) Your Car to You: 'Ice Ahead. Change Routes'

Sensors on Minnesota DOT plows could help develop high-tech 'decision support' system.

Link to article in the Star Tribune:

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/134945358.html

 

22) How Healthy is Your Car? New Website CarMD Offers Help

Link to story on CNBC:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45554359

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

 

23) Articles from Commercial Carrier Journal

 -  Five Ways Consumer Tech is Impacting the Trucking Industry

http://www.ccjdigital.com/wired-to-roll-2/

 -  Taking the Message on the Road – Fleet Graphics

http://www.ccjdigital.com/taking-the-message-on-the-road/

 

 

News Releases

1) Real-Time Traffic Information Providers Industry Will Soar, as GPS-Enabled Cars and Phones Take Off

2) Public Vote on European Electronic Journey Planners Now Open

3) Illinois Tollway Launches Redesigned Website

4) NextGen Tel Selects Aptilo Networks for Deployment of Wi-Fi Services at All Airports in Norway

5) Cross Country Automotive Services and ATX Group Combine to Form Agero

 

 

Upcoming Events

Webinar: Crisis in Airport Credentialing – December 8

https://cc.callinfo.com/cc/s/showReg?udc=1h0ncrjhzs83s

 

 

Today in Transportation History    

1911 **100^th anniversary** A patent was granted for the aileron, which controls the rolling and turning of an aircraft.  Among those listed as inventors on the patent application were Alexander Graham Bell and Glenn Curtis.

http://ip.com/patent/US1011106

 

1921 **90^th anniversary** Two Reading Railroad passenger trains collided in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania killing 27 people.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/my_town/hamptons/nine-decades-later-train-disaster-still-resonates-with-railroad-historians/article_31749ef8-e873-5195-a82e-959b52d65af9.html

 

1961 **50^th anniversary** Harry Deterling, a train engineer, drove a train across the East Berlin border, allowing 24 people to escape to the West.

http://www.newspaperarchive.com/SiteMap/FreePdfPreview.aspx?img=102571226

 

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