[TCN] Wednesday, November 6, 2013

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

 

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

 

1) JFK Airport Customs Kiosks Pay Off in Shorter Wait Times

Link to Bloomberg article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-06/jfk-airport-customs-kiosks-pay-off-in-shorter-wait-times.html

 

BICYCLES / PEDESTRIANS

 

2) Washington, DC DOT Takes to Twitter in New Bike Lane Enforcement

Link to story on WRC-TV:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DDOT-Takes-to-Twitter-in-New-Bike-Lane-Enforcement-230676201.html

 

3) Tool Compares Travel Times of DC's Capital Bikeshare with Other Modes

Link to blog on DCist:

http://dcist.com/2013/11/bikeshare_trip_timer_bus_car.php

Link to The Bikeshare Trip Timer: http://rausnitz.com/bikesharetimer/

 

GPS / NAVIGATION

 

4) New GPS Navigation System Tells Drivers When to Change Lanes, Aims to Prevent Traffic Jams

Link to AFP article:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/new-gps-navigation-system-tells-drivers-when-to-change-lanes-aims-to-prevent-traffic-jams/story-fni0xs63-1226754602218

 

MARITIME

 

5) Port of Baltimore Ready Against Threat of Cyber Attack, Officials Say

Link to article in the Baltimore Business Journal:

http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/blog/cyberbizblog/2013/11/port-of-baltimore-ready-against-threat.html

 

6) Google Says Floating Barge for Showing Off New Tech

Link to article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/11/06/google-barge-new-technology/3456031/

 

OTHER

 

7) Federal Judge Rules Utah DOT Curbed Marchers' Free-Speech Rights

Link to article in The Salt Lake Tribune:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57087953-78/udot-state-insurance-permit.html.csp

 

8) Long-Time Chicago Traffic Reporter TJ Andrew Dies

Link to article in the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-tj-andrews-obit-20131106,0,6276584.story

 

9) Transit Access, Information Helps Keep Seniors Mobile

Link to US DOT's Fast Lane blog:

http://www.dot.gov/fastlane/aging-well-transit-access

 

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

 

10) LinkedIn: Quite Possibly the Most Overlooked Social Media Tool

Link to Talking Transportation blog:

http://talkingtransportation.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/linkedin-quite-possibly-the-most-overlooked-social-media-tool/

 

11) What NASA Can Teach the Rest of Government About Using Social Media

Link to Excellence in Government podcast:

http://www.govexec.com/excellence/promising-practices/2013/11/what-nasa-can-teach-rest-government-about-using-social-media/71918

 

RAILROADS

 

12) Denmark's European Railway Traffic Management System Rolls Out

Link to article in the rail engineer:

http://www.therailengineer.com/2013/11/06/biting-the-bullet-the-danish-ertms-roll-out/

 

SAFETY / SECURITY

 

13) Montana's Highway 'Markers' Remind Drivers to Be Safe

Link to story on MTN News:

http://www.ktvq.com/news/montana-s-highway-markers-remind-drivers-to-be-safe/#_

 

14) eCall: Saves Time to Save Lives, What is Taking So Long?

Link to blog on European Public Affairs.eu:

http://www.europeanpublicaffairs.eu/ecall-saves-time-to-save-lives-what-is-taking-so-long

 

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

 

15) US Government Wants In on Car-Sharing, Too

Link to blog on The Atlantic Cities:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/11/federal-government-wants-car-sharing-too/7498/

 

TRANSIT

 

16) How Melbourne is Fast-Tracking Smart Transit Using Big Data

Link to blog from IBM:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-advani/ibm-how-melbourne-is-fast-_b_4178465.html

 

17) City Moves: Seven Public Transport Innovations

Link to blog on Worldcrunch:

http://www.worldcrunch.com/impact-smarter-cities/city-moves-7-public-transport-innovations/public-transport-trains-buses-trams-smart-cities-/c15s13987/#.UnoZapRoT2w

 

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

 

18) Inrix Working on Real-Time Express Lanes Versus General Lanes Traffic Data

Link to article on TOLLROADSnews:

http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/6811

 

19) Waze Finally Shows Up in Desktop Google Maps

Link to article on CNET:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57611145-93/waze-finally-shows-up-in-desktop-google-maps/

 

20) IBM Nairobi Lab's First Offering is a Traffic-Dodging Mobile App

Link to article in IEEE Spectrum:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/ibm-nairobi-labs-first-offering-is-a-trafficdodging-mobile-app

 

21) Mandaue, Philippines to Bid Out Traffic Management to Private Sector

Link to Philippine News Agency article:

http://www.interaksyon.com/business/74224/mandaue-to-bid-out-traffic-management-to-private-sector

 

VEHICLES

 

22) GM's New Customer-Service Guru Faces Big Task

Link to Reuters article:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gms-customer-guru-faces-big-185029830.html

 

23) Blurring the Line Between Cars and Consumer Electronics

Link to podcast on Telematics Update:

http://analysis.telematicsupdate.com/infotainment/podcasts/podcast-blurring-line-between-cars-and-consumers-electronics

 

 

News Releases

1) Roadway Safety Foundation and FHWA Honor Innovative, Lifesaving Highway Safety Programs

2) Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. Acquire New York Office of Howard/Stein-Hudson, Associates

3) Amtrak Launches Multicultural Microsites

4) Operation Lifesaver President and Vice President Describe Innovations in Rail Safety Education

5) Rave Mobile Safety Demonstrates Real-Time Delivery of Vehicle Crash Telematics Data to King County, Washington 911

 

 

Upcoming Events

Connecting America Through Travel – November 19-20 – Washington, DC

http://www.ustravel.org/events/connecting-america-through-travel

 

 

Today in Transportation History    

1528 **485^th anniversary** Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first European known to have arrived in present day Texas.

http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/cabeza.htm

 

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