[TCN] Monday, August 8, 2016

 

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Monday, August 8, 2016 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

 

1) Passengers Stranded After Delta Flights Grounded Worldwide

Link to USA Today article

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/08/08/passengers-stranded-after-all-delta-flights-grounded/88385034/

Link to Delta news release

 

2) Boingo Adds Major Cell Carrier to Make Wi-Fi Faster at US Airports

Link to Skift article

https://skift.com/2016/08/05/boingo-adds-major-u-s-cell-carrier-to-make-wi-fi-faster-at-u-s-airports/

 

3) Controversy Over Removal of Same-Sex Kissing Scenes from Movie on Delta Flights

Link to Entertainment Weekly article

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/05/carol-same-sex-kiss-delta-airlines-flight?iid=sr-link2

 

GPS / NAVIGATION

 

4) GPS Under Attack as Crooks, Rogue Workers Wage Electronic War

Link to NBC News story

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gps-under-attack-crooks-rogue-workers-wage-electronic-war-n618761

 

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION

 

5) ITS Glasgow Congress Summary Now Available

Link to summary

http://erticonetwork.com/congress-summary-now-available/

 

MARITIME

 

6) Inside the Port of Los Angeles' Cyber Command Center

Link to PC Magazine article

http://www.pcmag.com/news/346779/inside-the-port-of-los-angeless-cyber-command-center

 

OTHER

 

7) Smartphones Bring More Mobility to the Rental Car Business

Link to New York Times article

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/automobiles/smartphones-bring-more-mobility-to-the-rental-car-business.html  

 

RAILROADS

 

8) CBTC vs Conventional Signaling – Which Is Safer?

Link to RaillyNews article

http://www.raillynews.com/2016/cbtc-vs-conventional-signalling-safer/

 

TRANSIT

 

9) A Platform-Centric Map of Montreal's Green Line Metro

Link to CityLab article

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/montreal-green-line-platform-map-nicolas-kruchten/494702/

 

10) City Transit Systems and Their Fonts

Link to Economist blog

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/06/design

 

VEHICLES

 

11) Google's Self-Driving Car CTO Chris Urmson Departs

Link to New York Times article

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/technology/alphabet-google-autonomous-car-chris-urmson.html

 

12) Hamburg to Become Testing Ground for Self-Driving Cars

Link to ERTICO article

http://erticonetwork.com/hamburg-become-testing-ground-self-driving-cars/

 

13) Singapore Launches New Autonomous Vehicle Testing Center

Link to Traffic Technology Today article

http://www.traffictechnologytoday.com/news.php?NewsID=80892

 

 

News Releases

1) GEWI to Attend DATEX II User Forum

2) Colorado DOT Launches Spanish-Language DUI Campaign

3) SpeedCast Partners with DH-INTERCOM to Provide Broadband Connectivity to a 50-Vessel Fleet Globally

 

 

Upcoming Events

TransportationCamp NYC 2016 – September 24 – New York City

http://transportationcamp.org/events/nyc-2016/

 

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