[TCN] Friday, October 10, 2014

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

 

Friday, October 10, 2014 – ISSN 1529-1057

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Counting the Current and Future Cost of Gridlock – Learn More about the Implications

 

New research reveals the combined annual average cost of gridlock in Europe and the US will soar nearly 50 percent between now and 2030 to an estimated $293.1 billion – costing households on average nearly $3,000 a year.  This is the first study of its kind to forecast the projected increases in these costs in these countries and their most congested cities between 2013 and 2030.

 

Join our webinar to uncover the key findings and implications of this growing issue, Thursday, October 16, 2014 @ 11:00am EDT

 

 

AVIATION

 

1) Flight Attendants Fight Use of Electronics During Takeoff and Landing

Link to AP article:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/faa-flight-attendants-square-off-over-phones-electronics/

 

2) Forget E-Tickets, Alaska Air Mulling E-Thumb for Boarding

Link to Bloomberg article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-09/forget-e-tickets-alaska-air-mulling-e-thumb-for-boarding.html

 

3) Indianapolis Airport Rolls Out New Robot Employee

Link to story on WRTV-TV:

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/indy-airport-rolls-out-new-robot-employee

 

4) Ebola 'Joke' on Flight to Dominican Republic Sparks Full-Scale Alert

Link to article in The Philadelphia Inquirer:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20141010_Ebola__joke__gets_man_escorted_off_US_Airways_plane.html

 

5) JetBlue Says Woman Thrown Off Flight for Causing 'Verbal Disturbance,' Not for Tweets

Link to article in the New Hampshire Union Leader:

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20141009/NEWS07/141019989&source=RSS

 

6) How San Francisco International Airport is Using Technology to Overhaul the Passenger Experience

Link to article on Tnooz:

http://www.tnooz.com/article/airport-technology-overhaul-passenger-experience

 

7) Why Virgin America's Ex-CEO Hates Airline Websites

Link to article in Bloomberg Businessweek:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-10/why-virgin-americas-ex-ceo-hates-airline-websites

 

OTHER

 

8) Goals, Communication in Sights for Western Arkansas Regional Intermodal Transportation Authority

Link to article in the Times Record:

http://swtimes.com/business/goals-communication-sights-regional-transportation-panel  

 

9) Transportation Groups Create Communicators Forum in Nation's Capital

Link to article in the AASHTO Journal:

http://www.aashtojournal.org/Pages/101014DCcomm.aspx

 

RAILROADS

 

10) Norfolk Southern Fails to Tell City of Warsaw, Indiana About Crossings Closure

Link to story on WSJV-TV:

http://www.fox28.com/story/26748540/2014/10/09/norfolk-southern-warsaw-closings

 

SAFETY / SECURITY

 

11) Drive Safe, Score Well: App is a Driving 'Report Card'

Link to story on WBUR Radio:

http://www.wbur.org/2014/10/09/safe-driving-app

 

TELEMATICS

 

12) New Jersey Lawmakers Want to Restrict Who Can See Cars' Black Box Data

Link to article on Ars Technica:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/new-jersey-lawmakers-want-to-restrict-who-can-see-cars-black-box-data/

 

TRANSIT

 

13) Buses and Trains Wrapped in Ads Pay Off Big for Minnesota's Metro Transit

Link to story on Minnesota Public Radio:

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/10/09/metro-transit-ads

 

VEHICLES

 

14) Tesla Unveils All-Wheel Drive Model S, 'Autopilot' Features

Link to Reuters article:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-unveils-wheel-drive-model-043933137.html

 

15) The Tech that Drives the New Tesla Mode S, Explained

Link to blog on Kinja:

http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/the-tech-that-drives-the-new-tesla-model-s-explained-1644801610

 

16) Robot Gets a Driving Lesson for DARPA Challenge

Link to article in Computerworld:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2824224/robot-gets-a-driving-lesson-for-darpa-challenge.html

 

 

News Releases

1) BC Transit Previewing New Mobile-Friendly Website

2) Colorado DOT Upgrading Variable Message Signs

3) GEWI Newsletter-The Navigation Issue – September/October 2014

 

 

Friday Bonus

Remember Pong? Now you can play it while you wait for the light to change.

http://youtu.be/C3Ozz6_pdMI

 

 

Solicitation

 -  Nominations Sought – 2015 Transportation Development Hall of Fame Class – American Road & Transportation Builders Association

http://www.artba.org/transportation-development-hall-of-fame/nominate/

 

 

Upcoming Events

CBTC World Congress – November 4-6 – London

http://globaltransportforum.com/cbtc-world-congress/

 

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