[TCN] Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Transportation Communications Newsletter

🛤️ Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - Cranford, New Jersey 🚆

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**Rail Safety Week**

AVIATION

1) Drone Fleet To Monitor Italy's Brenner Motorway

Trans.info

GPS / NAVIGATION

2) Could You Live Without GPS? It's OK, The Economy Can't Either

NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money

MOBILITY

3) Wayne State University's AI For Mobility Project Seeks To Improve Detroit's Public Transit System

WTVS-TV

PRIVACY

4) Vulnerabilities In GPS Smartphone Technology Could Let Hackers Map Home Interiors

China Daily

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

5) Nashville DOT Launches New Campaign To Reduce Traffic Deaths

WSMV-TV

6) New York City Adds, Simplifies Data Sets In Annual Open Data Report

Government Technology

RAILROADS

7) New Tech Will Help Milwaukee Firefighters Avoid Blocked Railroad Crossings

WITI-TV video

8) GPS Coordinates At All Canadian Rail Crossings Can Provide Valuable Information

Discover Weyburn

ROADWAYS

9) Smarter Curbs Are Just The Start For Smarter Cities

Government Technology

SAFETY / SECURITY

10) Report Outlines How Bad Distracted Driving Is

Land Line Now podcast

TRANSIT

11) Digital Maps For The Visually Impaired, Under-Train And Vehicle Surveillance Systems: New York City Transit Tech Lab Releases 2024 Project Results

StateScoop

VEHICLES

12) Mercedes Hands-Free, Eyes-Off Drive Pilot Feature Will Now Support Speeds Up To 95 Km/H (59 MPH)

The Verge

News Releases

1) Calstart Launches ZET Ahead Dashboard: A New Tool For Tracking The Transition To Zero-Emission Trucks, Buses

2) TRL, Australia's National Transport Research Organisation Partner To Launch iROADS In South Pacific Region

3) RAC, Continental Automotive Launch Telematics Partnership For Fleet, Business Vehicles

4) HAAS Alert's Safety Cloud In Mercedes-Benz Emergency Vehicle Alert Beta Program

5) Bobit Business Media, Publisher Of Several Transportation-Related Titles, Under New Ownership

6) New York MTA To Host First Open Data Challenge

7) Kennesaw State University C-V2X Research Aims To Reduce Motor Vehicle Accidents

8) New National Highways Technology Trial Reduces Delays For Drivers, Cuts Cost Of Roadworks

9) Virginia DMV Unveils New Pedestrian Safety Campaign: 'You're Not A Duck'

10) Siemens Mobility Introduces Signaling X. Will Integrate Signaling Systems Into One Cloud Platform

11) Idaho Transportation Department Communicators Recognized With National Awards From AASHTO

12) Cheryl Cadue Selected As Kansas DOT's Chief For Public Information

 

Tuesday Transportation Oddities

Sidewalk space in a city is valuable real estate. You might find benches, bike racks and even newsstands. In the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, you would have found a goldfish pond until recently.

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