Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Wednesday, August 15, 2007 -- ISSN 1529-1057

1) Georgia Unveils New 511 Traffic Hotline
Link to AP story:
http://www.macon.com/220/story/113244.html
Link to news release from the Georgia Governor’s Office:
http://www.gov.state.ga.us/press/2007/press1510.shtml

2) Tackle Metro Atlanta Traffic with Innovation, Group Effort
Link to commentary in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2007/08/15/traffic_0815.html

3) North Texas Tollway Authority to Go All-Electronic by 2010
Link to AP story:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5056903.html

4) Illinois OKs Red-Light Cameras Outside Chicago
Link to story in the Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-redlight_15aug15,1,4853224.story

5) Airport Screening Raises Privacy Issue
Link to story in The Christian Science Monitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p03s03-usju.htm

6) New Deaths Put Focus Back on Texting, Driving in Arizona
Link to story in The Arizona Republic:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/peoria/articles/0815fatal0815.html

7) Downtown Orlando Traffic Takes High-Tech Turn
Link to story in the Orlando Sentinel:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-trafficplan1507aug15,0,34341.story

8) Honeywell/Sensis Trial Brings Runway Conflict Alerts to Cockpit
Link to story on ATW Daily News:
http://www.atwonline.com/news/story.html?storyID=9886

9) Los Angeles Airport Outage is Blamed on a Single Computer
Link to story in the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lax15aug15,1,7788308.story

10) Panel: Aviation Safety in Israel is Severely Neglected, May Deteriorate
Concerns include outdated air traffic control systems and severe interference from pirate radio stations.
Link to story in Haaretz:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/893874.html

11) Drive Time
DARPA goes downtown for its robotic-vehicle challenge, with soldiers’ safety in mind.
Link to story in Government Computer News:
http://www.gcn.com/print/26_20/44802-1.html

12) GPS Use Not that High, Survey Shows
17% of US adults use the technology.
Link to story in Computerworld:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9030739&intsrc=news_ts_head

13) Quality Control Procedures for Archived Operations Traffic Data: Synthesis of Practice and Recommendations
Link to further information from the Federal Highway Administration:
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/travel/qc/index.htm


Upcoming Events
MTS/IEEE Oceans 2007 – September 29-October 4 – Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.oceans07mtsieeevancouver.org/


Today in Transportation History
1914 – The Panama Canal opens to shipping.
http://www.canalmuseum.com/photos/panamacanalphoto043.htm

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