[TCN] Thursday, April 16, 2026

Transportation Communications Newsletter

📞  Thursday, April 16, 2026 - Cranford, New Jersey 🎙️

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**National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week**

AUTOMATED & CONNECTED TRANSPORTATION

1) Aurora Petitions FMCSA For Extended Warning-Device Exemption

Commercial Carrier Journal

AVIATION

2) Ben-Gurion Airport Employee Fired For Photographing US Military Planes - Report

Jerusalem Post

CAMERAS

3) New Virginia Law Adds Guardrails For Speed Camera Programs

WVEC-TV

4) 20,000 Traffic Cameras Planned Across Kyrgyzstan To Detect Violations - Interior Ministry

AKIpress

EQUITY

5) Port Authority Of New York & New Jersey Rolling Out American Sign Language Interpretation At Facilities

Gothamist

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

6) IEEE Intelligent Transportation Society Newsletter - April 2026

IEEE

7) The Smart Transportation Dispatch - April 16, 2026

Carnegie Mellon University

OTHER

8) Kentucky Launching New Driver Licensing System, Online Portal In June

WDRB-TV

9) An Idaho Transportation Department Letter Asking Immigrants For Status Records Is Worrying Attorneys And Their Clients

Spokesman-Review

10) Mileage-Based User Fee Newsletter - April 2026

Eastern Transportation Coalition

PRIVACY

11) Montana Attorney General Investigates Ford, Stellantis Over Selling Customer Data Claims

KFBB-TV

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

12) Shipper Groups Ask STB To Make Key UP-NS Merger Agreement Documents Public

Trains

13) Connecticut DOT To Host 2026 Transportation Showcase On April 28

Connecticut DOT

14) Report: Agencies Getting Better Communicating With Public, But Progress Remains

Route Fifty

ROADWAYS

15) Alberta Looks To Replace Highway Welcome Signs With Province-Shaped Placards

Canadian Press

SAFETY / SECURITY

16) TSA Expands Digital ID Technology For Faster Travel

Columbia Missourian

TRANSIT

17) Android Auto Users Say Gemini Won’t Stop Talking, And It’s Not Even Getting Things Right

Android Authority

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

18) NOCoE Newsletter - April 16, 2026

National Operations Center of Excellence

News Releases

1) Texas DOT Adds Wildflower Layer To State Planning Map

2) Capital District Transportation Authority, Moovit Launch Enhanced Real-Time Arrival System In App

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[TCN] Wednesday, April 15, 2026



Transportation Communications Newsletter

💰 Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - South Orange, New Jersey 💵

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**US Tax Day**

AUTOMATED & CONNECTED TRANSPORTATION

1) Tesla Gamifies The Advanced Driver-Assistance Software It Wrongly Calls 'Full Self-Driving' 

Jalopnik

CAMERAS

2) Los Angeles Plans To Install Over 100 New Speed Cameras

Annenberg Media

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

3) Pennsylvania Turnpike To Text Drivers About Unpaid Tolls

KDKA-TV

EQUITY

4) People Who Stutter Now Able To Request Driver’s License Designation Under Expanded Tennessee Law

WZTV-TV

FREIGHT

5) Why Ignoring Logistics Data Costs Fleets Millions

Commercial Carrier Journal (contributed content)

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

6) Swarco CEO Michael Schuch Guest On Highways Voices Podcast

Highway Voices podcast

OTHER

7) UK Department For Transport Shows How Its AI System Avoids Bias From Public Consultations

Computer Weekly

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

8) How Public Records Requests Could Help ‘Fight AI With AI’

Route Fifty

RAILROADS

9) Short Line Safety Institute To Launch ‘Safety Train’ Next Year

Progressive Railroading

TRANSIT

10) Inez Evans Benson On Rethinking Transit Through Customer Experience

Metro

News Releases

1) All Aboard Alliance Launches Project To Help Maritime Industry Better Address Sexual Misconduct At Sea

2) ‘Second Line Transit’ Selected As New Name Of Mobile, Alabama’s Public Transit System

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[TCN] Tuesday, April 14, 2026



Transportation Communications Newsletter

🧩  Tuesday, April 14, 2026 - South Orange, New Jersey 🧩

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**Autism Awareness Month**

AVIATION

) Where Next For US ATM Modernization?

Window Seat Podcast

CAMERAS

) New Dulles Toll Road Traffic Cams Not For Catching Toll Cheats, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Says

WRC-TV

GPS / NAVIGATION

) The Future Of GPS Satellites With Fang Qian Of Lockheed Martin

Space Minds podcast

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

) ITS UK Sets Out Key Asks For Scotland, Wales Ahead Of Elections

ITS UK

MARITIME

) How AI Is Reshaping Psychological Risk In The Maritime Workforce

Safety4Sea

TRANSIT

) First Look At NJ Transit’s New Multi-Level Trains, New Buses Show High-Tech Upgrades

WCBS-TV

) Move By Sioux City Transit To Mobile App Payments Causes Challenges For People Without Modern Tech

KWIT Radio

VEHICLES

) Nissan Announces New Global Strategy, Will Focus On Intelligent Mobility

autoevolution

News Releases

1) Amazon Leo Introduces Gigabit-Speed Antenna For Commercial Aviation

2) Boulder, Colorado Launches ‘Share The Path’ Courtesy Campaign

3) Mesa County, Colorado Debuts Dashboard To Help Residents Understand, Improve Road Safety

4) Victoria Sheehan To Lead HDR’s Global Highways And Roads Program

Tuesday Transportation Oddities

Why are California’s highway signs spade shaped?

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[TCN] Monday, April 13, 2026

Transportation Communications Newsletter

  Monday, April 13, 2026 - Cranford, New Jersey 🎳

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**Jacksonville State Gamecocks - Women’s NCAA Bowling Champions**

AUTOMATED & CONNECTED TRANSPORTATION

1) Tesla Owners Approved To Use Self-Driving Features In Netherlands, A First For Europe

CBS News/AFP

2) UK Lawyers Group Calls For Legal Reform To Access Driverless Vehicle Date In Injury Claims

Highways News

CARTOGRAPHY

3) How A New Mapping Tool Helps Florida Planners Protect Wildlife Corridors As The State Grows

The Conversation

GPS / NAVIGATION

4) China Develops Crystal That Could Enable GPS-Free Navigation For Submarines, Missiles

Interesting Engineering

5) Taking GPS To The Next Level: MIT Researchers Building App To Estimate More Accurate Travel Times

WFXT-TV

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

6) South Korea To Test AI-Base Smart City Tech In Southeast Asia

Korea Times

7) South Korea Launches C-ITS Industry Council To Advance Smart Mobility

The Elec

OTHER

8) Florida To Include Citizenship Status On Driver Licenses

WINK-TV

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

9) Community Outreach Helps ITD Recruit Future Port Of Entry Leaders

Idaho Transportation Department

10) Progressive Railroading Senior Editor Julie Sneider Retires

Progressive Railroading (column)

ROADWAYS

11) Alaska DOT Has New Portal To Report Potholes On State Roads

KTUU-TV

SAFETY / SECURITY

12) From Transit To TV Signals: How Hackers Could Disrupt The World Cup

Politico

13) Can This Tool Predict Where Your City’s Next Car Crash Will Happen?

Streetsblog USA

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

14) Kenya National Highways Authority Didn’t ‘Partner’ With Waze: Debunking The Latest Government PR Spin

Tech-ish

VEHICLES

15) Car Buyers Don't Like Subscriptions. Car Companies Are Pushing Them For Driver-Assistance Tech Anyway.

InsideEVs

News Releases

1) Arup: How Can AI Ease Southeast Asia’s Road Traffic Congestion?

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[TCN] Friday, April 10, 2026

Transportation Communications Newsletter

👭  Friday, April 10, 2026 - Cranford, New Jersey 👬🏽

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**Happy Siblings Day**

AVIATION

1) The Role Of Airports In Smart City Developments

Airport Industry-News

2) Las Vegas Airport Unveils Real-Time TSA Wait Feature Online

KLAS-TV

3) FAA Plans April 18 Changeover To New NOTAM System

National Business Aviation Association

4) Understanding The Revolution In Inflight Connectivity

Aviation Week’s Check 6 podcast

CAMERAS

5) AI-Powered Traffic Cameras Set To Transform Law Enforcement In South Africa

East Coast Radio

MARITIME

6) Maritime Authority Of Jamaica Flags Digital Gap As Safety Risk

Splash Tech

7) Maritime Passport Pushes Digital ID Shift

Digital Ship

OTHER

8) How Tech Is Helping Improve Avalanche Forecasting

Route Fifty

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

9) Auckland Transport Turns To Hip-Hop, AI Pokémon To Launch Bus Service

Little Black Book

ROADWAYS

10) Waymo, Waze Turn Driver Data Into Pothole Repairs

CNET

TRANSIT

11) Printed Railroad Timetables Disappearing

Railway Age (commentary)

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

12) Colorado DOT Updates COTrip App With Push Notifications, Spanish And Vietnamese Language Options

Vail Daily

News Releases

1) TomTom Launches Unified Speed Restrictions For Higher-Precision Speed Data 

Friday Bonus  

The Pittsburgh Pirates have started a new trend following wins. It could have an effect on traffic management.

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