Friday, August 24, 2007

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Friday, August 24, 2007 -- ISSN 1529-1057

1) Digital Billboard Plan Stirs Debate in Texas
Link to story in the Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5079900.html

2) Google May Start New York Transit Guide to Boost Ads
Link to Bloomberg story:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aslR2A2kKcuY&refer=news

3) Virginia DOT Studies Flashing LED Stop Signs and Optical Illusions
Link to story in TechJournal South:
http://www.techjournalsouth.com/news/article.html?item_id=3762

4) Innovation Needed to Replace Aging Bridges, Reduce Bay Area Traffic Congestion
Wi-fi on transit, virtual toll booths offered as potential answers.
Link to commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/24/EDF7RM13D.DTL

5) South Carolina Putting GPS Tracking on All School Buses
Link to story on WSPA-TV:
http://www.wspa.com/midatlantic/spa/news.apx.-content-articles-SPA-2007-08-24-0013.html

6) Smart Streets for Mesa, Arizona?
Link to story in The Arizona Republic:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0824mr-trans0824.html

7) Traffic Monitoring Data: Successful Strategies in Collection and Analysis
Link to article in the Transportation Research Circular:
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec120.pdf


News Releases

) Traffic Technologies, Inc. Develops Mobile E-ZPass Unit to Manage Great New York State Fair Parking
http://www.t-t-i.com/pdf/TTI_MEU_Release_20070824.pdf


Upcoming Events
From Data to Travel Information… How to Get There & Bringing Together Airport and Ground Transportation Information Systems – October 24-25 – Baltimore
http://i95coalition.org/PDF/Meetings/TIS/TISForum10-2007/From%20Data%20to%20Travel%20Information%20How%20to%20Get%20There%20notice%20and%20registration%20Oct%2007%20registration%2010%20Aug%2007.doc
http://i95coalition.org/PDF/Meetings/TIS/TISForum10-2007/Bringing%20Together%20Airport%20and%20Ground%20Transportation%20Information%20Systems-Oct%2007-registration%20010aug07.doc


Friday Bonus
If beer companies sponsored traffic reports, this is how the ads might sound.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9d03gH_cFfI


Today in Transportation History
1945 – The last M24 Chaffee light tank is built by Cadillac.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m24.htm

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