[TCN] Thursday, October 30, 2014

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

 

Thursday, October 30, 2014 – ISSN 1529-1057

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BICYCLES / PEDESTRIANS

 

1) Seattle DOT's 'Hilarious' Video Promotes Second Avenue Bike Lane and Rules

Link to blog on SeattlePI:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/SDOT-s-hilarious-video-promotes-Second-Avenue-5856060.php

 

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION

 

2) Japan Offers to Assist India on ITS

Link to article in The Economic Times:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/infrastructure/japan-offers-to-assist-india-on-intelligent-transport-systems/articleshow/44984058.cms

 

3) IEEE ITS Society Newsletter – October 2014

Link to newsletter:

http://sites.ieee.org/itss/files/2014/10/v16n4Oct2014.pdf

 

OTHER

 

4) US Embassy: American Firms Keen to be Partners in Building Smart Cities in India

Link to article in The Economic Times:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/infrastructure/us-firms-keen-to-be-partners-in-building-smart-cities-embassy/articleshow/44986454.cms  

 

5) Chevrolet Turns World Series Hiccup Into Home Run

Link to story on Fox Business:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2014/10/30/chevrolet-turns-world-series-hiccup-into-home-run/

Link to video

 

6) How the Cloud is Boosting Global Travel and Trade

Link to blog from IBM:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ibm/2014/10/30/a-more-connected-world-how-the-cloud-is-boosting-global-travel-and-trade/

 

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

 

7) Air Marshall Whistleblower Gets High Court Hearing Over Leaks to Media

Link to story on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/29/justice/supreme-court-air-marshal/

 

8) AAA Goes Back to Court in Bid to Get Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Documents Related to 2011 Toll Increases

Link to AP article:

http://www.tribtown.com/view/story/0929e7b67bf14bf8ba9b2a6546ff3ee3/NJ--Toll-Increases-Lawsuit

 

ROADWAYS

 

9) Digital Highway Signs in Ottawa Likely to be Operational by Mid-November After Oversight Issue Resolved

Link to story on CFRA Radio:

http://www.cfra.com/news/2014/10/30/digital-highway-signs-likely-to-be-operational-by-midnovember

 

SAFETY / SECURITY

 

10) New Signs in Downtown St. Louis Aim to Prevent Drunken Driving

Link to story on KWMU Radio:

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/new-signs-aim-prevent-drunken-driving-downtown-st-louis

 

11) US Forest Service Video, 'Avoiding Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions' Wins Telly Award

Link to video:

http://youtu.be/eJsCfadbl4M

 

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

 

12) Arizona DOT, DPS Partner to Reduce Crashes, Congestion on Freeways

Link to article in The Arizona Republic:

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2014/10/29/adot-dps-partner-to-reduce-crashes-congestion-on-arizona-freeways/18130957/

 

13) Traffic Fix: Technology, Parking or Money? No Consensus in Washington State

Link to story on KING-TV:

http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2014/10/29/traffic-seattle-reducing-congestion-fix/18114089/

 

VEHICLES

 

14) Execs Pitch FCC on Connected Cars

Link to article in The Hill:

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/222277-execs-pitch-fcc-on-connected-cars

 

15) Sweden's Self-Driving Cars for Sustainable Mobility

Link to article in EE Times:

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1324383&

 

16) Heads in the Cloud with BMW's Latest Innovations

Link to article in The National:

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/motoring/heads-in-the-cloud-with-bmws-latest-innovations#full

 

 

News Releases

1) Tennessee Agencies Celebrate Nation's First Traffic Incident Management Training Facility

2) Survey: Self-Driving Vehicles Generate Enthusiasm, Concerns Worldwide

3) Dash Launches Free Location-Based Transit Alert App

4) OTREC is Now TREC, the Transportation Center for Portland State University

5) Astrata Acquires China-Based Yamei from Trimble

6) Union Pacific Railroad Converts Boxcar into Mobile Classroom for Emergency Responder Training

7) Britain Gets Lost as Six-Out-of-Ten Road Users Can't Read a Map

8) Ohio DOT to Launch New State Farm Safety Patrol Fleet

 

 

Upcoming Events

1^st International Road Federation Asia Regional Congress – November 17-19 – Bali, Indonesia

http://www.irfnews.org/event/1st-asia-regional-congress/

 

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