Thursday, July 10, 2025

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

  Thursday, July 10, 2025 - Cranford, New Jersey

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CAMERAS

1) Are Speed Cameras For Safety Or Profit?

Traffic Technology Today

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

2) Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Japan International Cooperation Agency To Ease Traffic Via Improved ITS

Philippine News Agency

3) The Smart Transportation Dispatch - July 10, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University

OTHER

4) CAR Inc. Launches Self-Driving Car Rental Service In China

China Daily

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

5) Denver RTD’s New Online Dashboard Gives Public Access To Monthly Safety And Security Metrics

Mass Transit

ROADWAYS

6) Newton, Massachusetts Paints Over Italian Flag Traffic Stripes In Place Since 1935

Boston.com

SAFETY / SECURITY

7) Arizona Launches Turquoise Alert System To Help Find Missing People

KGUN-TV

SPACE

8) US Space Force Opposes Cut To Commerce Department’s Space Traffic Management Program

Air & Space Forces Magazine

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

9) California’s Fire Protection Agency Made An AI Chatbot. Don’t Ask It About Evacuation Orders

The Markup

TRANSIT

10) New App Expected To Make ETHRA, Oak Ridge Transit Services More Efficient

Oak Ridger

VEHICLES

11) Research Institutes Of Sweden Opens 6G Proving Ground

ITS International

12) Autonomous Buses Are On The Horizon

Metro

WEATHER

13) RiverAware App Alerts Users To Rising Rivers, Streams

Seven Days

News Releases

1) 15below Acquires Airport AI To Build First Connected Communications Solution For Air Travel

2) 5G Network Deployed At Ports Of Felixstowe, Harwich

3) Audi, Tolltickets Offer Electronic Toll Boxes To Pay Tolls Throughout Europe 

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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

  Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - Cranford, New Jersey

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CAMERAS

1) I-83 Cameras In Baltimore Issue Over $18 Million In Fines, But About 80% Of Revenue Goes To Camera Vendor

Baltimore Sun

OTHER

2) New York City Mom Whose Teen Son Died While Subway Surfing Can Sue TikTok, Instagram, Judge Says

Gothamist

3) Where Are Mobile Driver’s Licenses Taking Off? A Data Dive.

Government Technology

4) 911 Looks To AI To Filter Out Non-Emergency Calls

Route Fifty

5) How AI Integration And Smart Agents Are Redefining Global Mobility

Relocate Global

PRIVACY

6) Nebraska Sues GM, OnStar Over Alleged Sale Of Driver Data

The Hill

RAILROADS

7) Amtrak Offers Tickets On Amazon Prime Day For First Time

AOL

SAFETY / SECURITY

8) California Court Ruling Says Looking At Your Phone For Navigation While Holding It Is Distracted Driving

KSBY-TV

9) Wrong-Way Driving Systems: From Alert Fatigue To Actionable Intelligence

SmartBrief (contributed content)

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

10) Could Emergency Response Systems Save Lives On Gridlocked Irish Roads?

Dublin City University

TRANSIT

11) Muni Says It’s Ready To Modernize San Francisco’s Subway By Tossing The Floppy Disks That Control It

San Francisco Chronicle

12) Lincoln, Nebraska Receives AARP Grant To Boost Public Transit Access For Older Adults, Non-English Speakers

Lincoln Journal Star

13) Woman Believes Her Cloned Voice Being Used For ScotRail’s AI-Generated Announcements

BBC Scotland News

14) MBTA Service Delivery Policy Annual Report

Massachusetts Office of Performance Management and Innovation

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

15) New South Wales To House Drones Permanently At Traffic Hotspots

iTnews

16) Knoxville’s First Advanced Traffic Management System Approved By City Council

WATE-TV

17) Large Language Models Predict Traffic Impact From Incident Reports

Quantum Zeitgeist

VEHICLES

18) General Motors Repurposes Robotaxi Fleet To Test Tech It Plans For Your Car

Detroit Free Press

19) Autonomous Truck Rules Turned Back At Statehouses

Land Line

20) Connected Cars And 5G: Transforming Vehicles Into Smart, Interactive Devices

Programming Insider

News Releases

1) Volkswagen’s ADMT Tests Bee Maps Mapping, PUDO Precision For Autonomous Mobility

2) Moonware To Test Ground Traffic Control Technology With Japan Airlines 

At Tokyo International Airport 

3) Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership Helps Operationalize Drone Traffic Management System

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The Transportation Communications Newsletter (ISSN 1529-1057) is published electronically Monday through Friday.   For a free subscription or to unsubscribe, or for comments or questions, please contact me at bernie@transportationradio.com.  

© 2025 Bernie Wagenblast Communications, LLC www.TransportationRadio.com  1 Aberdeen Ct., Cranford, NJ 07016

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

  Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - Cranford, New Jersey

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INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

1) Dubai’s Smart Commute: How RTA’s AI Is Changing The City’s Roads

Gulf Business

MARITIME

2) Spoofed, Jammed, Blind: Why Ships Now Need Digital Eyes

Maritime Fairtrade (contributed content)

TRANSIT

3) Lawrence Transit Poet Laureate Program To Kick Off 2026 With Workshop Led By Local Poet

Lawrence Times

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

4) Traffic Monitoring System on Ho Chi Minh City’s Ring Road 3 To Be Synchronized

SGGP

VEHICLES

5) Survey Suggests Decline In Consumer Interest For Connected Car Services Amid Privacy, Pricing Concerns

Highways News

WEATHER

6) Kern County, Texas, Where Campers Died, Was Denied Money By State To Boost Warning System

USA Today

News Releases

1) Janesville Transit Launches Real-Time Bus-Tracking Program

2) How Inrix Accelerates Transportation Planning With Amazon Bedrock

3) New York City DOT Expands Accessible Pedestrian Signals

4) Flow Labs Deploys AI-Powered Traffic Signal Software Across 2,500 North Carolina Intersections

Tuesday Transportation Oddities

In Basel, Switzerland it’s not don’t walk/walk, it’s don’t walk/kick.

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The Transportation Communications Newsletter (ISSN 1529-1057) is published electronically Monday through Friday.   For a free subscription or to unsubscribe, or for comments or questions, please contact me at bernie@transportationradio.com.  

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