Transportation Communications Newsletter
Thursday, April 26, 2012 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1) FAA Chief Outlines NextGen Test Program
Link to article in Air Traffic Management:
http://www.airtrafficmanagement.net/2012/04/faa-chief-outlines-nextgen-test-programme/
CAMERAS
2) Traffic Camera Company Sues Mississippi Over Law Prohibiting Enforcement Cams
Link to article in The Clarion-Ledger:
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120426/NEWS/120426028/Traffic-camera-company-sues-Mississippi
OTHER
3) States Aim to Launch More Mobile Apps
Link to article in Government Technology:
http://www.govtech.com/policy-management/States-Aim-to-Launch-More-Mobile-Apps.html
4) News from ERTICO
- Instant Mobility Stakeholder Workshop
http://www.ertico.com/instant-mobility-stakeholder-workshop-3/
- Instant Mobility Multimodal Services Acceptability Study Delivers Its Preliminary Results
- InfoMobility Projects and 'Smart Cities' Workshop Held in Turin
http://www.ertico.com/infomobility-projects-and-smart-cities-workshop-held-in-turin/
5) Mesmerizing Visualization Maps Every Surface Transportation Route on Earth
Link to article on Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2012/04/26/anthropocene-video/
PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION
6) One DOT's Approach to Road Delays – Animating Summer Construction
Link to Talking Transportation blog:
7) National Work Zone Awareness Week
Examples of public information and outreach.
Link to further information from US DOT:
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/outreach/wz_awareness.htm
ROADWAYS
8) Florida Criminal Probe of Tree Poisoning Spotlights Billboard Industry Drive to Keep Signs in View
Link to article on FairWarning:
9) Knitting Guy Given 10 Days to Remove Stop Sign Flowers
Link to article in San Diego CityBeat:
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/blog-875-knitting-guy-given-1.html
SAFETY / SECURITY
10) Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Account in Control System Code
Link to blog in Wired:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/ruggedcom-backdoor/
Link to statement from RuggedCom: http://goo.gl/UIULo
TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
11) Decoding the Mysteries of Bay Area Traffic
Link to story on KALW Radio:
http://www.kalw.org/post/decoding-mysteries-bay-area-traffic
12) More Electronic Traffic Signs Planned for Halifax Region
Link to article in Metro:
http://metronews.ca/news/halifax/119618/more-electronic-traffic-signs-planned-for-halifax-region/
VEHICLES
13) NHTSA Considers Rules on Car-to-Car Networking
Link to article in The Detroit News:
14) American Trucking Associations Rallies Support for Electronic On-Board Recorders
Link to article in Truck News:
http://www.trucknews.com/news/ata-rallies-up-support-for-eobrs/1001104392/
15) Bad Labels Force Another Recall of Nissan Titan, Armada
Link to article in USA Today:
16) Honda Pioneers Technology Aimed at Preventing Traffic Jams
Link to article on Motor Authority:
Link to news release: http://goo.gl/aPNN7
17) UK Automotive Testing Facility is the Most Advanced in the World
Link to article on Torque News:
http://www.torquenews.com/1070/uk-automotive-testing-facility-most-advanced-world-video
18) Chevy Volt OnStar 4G LTE Research Vehicle is Networked to the Gills
Link to blog on AOL Autos:
http://green.autoblog.com/2012/04/26/sae-congress-chevy-volt-onstar-4g-lte-research-vehicle/
WEATHER
19) Use of Social Media During Weather Events
Link to transcript and recording of NTOC webcast:
http://www.ntoctalks.com/web_casts_archive.php
News Releases
1) Amtrak Creates New Emergency Management and Corporate Security Department
3) Poetry in Motion Expands to New York City Taxi Fleet
4) Stantec Signs Letters of Intent to Acquire ABMB Engineers and PHB Group
6) Provantage and Airports Company South Africa Launch Airport.tv
Upcoming Events
T3 Webinar: Beyond Scheduling: Transit Scheduling and Operations IT - Lessons Learned – May 31
http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s120531_largescale.asp
Today in Transportation History
1937 **75th anniversary** The Spanish city of Guernica was bombed by German and Italian planes during the Spanish Civil War.
http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/glevel_1/1_bombing.html
1962 **50th anniversary** The automobile brand, Packard, was eliminated at a stockholders meeting of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation.
http://www.stude100.com/stu/Pg4/pg4.php
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