Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 -- ISSN 1529-1057

1) Maryland Bridge Crash Report Lists Radio Problems
State agencies could not talk directly; efforts unaffected, they say.
Link to story in The Baltimore Sun:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.crash22aug22,0,4449519.story (free registration may be required)

2) Singapore Airlines Puts a PC in Every Seat
Link to IDG News Service story:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9032058&intsrc=news_ts_head

3) West Virginia Lawmakers Pass Income Tax Break for E-ZPass Users
Link to AP story:
http://www.timeswv.com/westvirginia/local_story_234004130.html

4) Airlines Lobby Passengers for Help with Congress
Carriers want private jet owners to ante up for air traffic control system.
Link to AP story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20381656/

5) Federal Communications Commission Accepts Build-Out Advice for National Wireless Broadband Network for First Responders
Link to story in Washington Technology:
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/online/1_1/31292-1.html

6) What’s Off the Record at NHTSA? Almost Everything
Link to story in The New York Times:
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/whats-off-the-record-at-nhtsa-almost-everything/ (free registration required)

7) Leading Air Carriers in Renewed Focus on In-Flight Entertainment
Link to story in Inflight:
http://www.shephard.co.uk/Inflight/Default.aspx?Action=-1000945703&ID=94368674-e102-4f1d-b31e-fa912ffae0a9

8) Verizon Quietly Disables BlackBerry GPS
Link to story in U.S. News & World Report:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/daves-download/2007/8/22/verizon-quietly-disables-blackberry-gps.html

9) Crash Test Videos Becoming a Consumer Tool on the Internet
Link to AP story:
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=6968191&nav=0RbQ

10) US Highway Signs Reveal a Different Mentality
Link to story in The Gazette:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/driving/story.html?id=c1a88bb8-13f6-4963-9036-fa3acf8f7b49

11) ITS Standards Advisory for Center-to-Field (C2F) Communications Profiles Now Available
Link to further information from US DOT:
http://www.standards.its.dot.gov/Documents/advisories/adv_c2f_bg.asp


Job Posting
- Director, Centre for Automotive Safety Research – University of Adelaide – Adelaide, Australia
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/current/3354/

Upcoming Events
2007 IBTTA 75th Annual Meeting & Exhibition – October 6-10 – Vienna, Austria
http://www.ibtta.org/Events/eventdetail.cfm?ItemNumber=2096


Today in Transportation History
1905 – The Portland & Seattle Railway is incorporated.
http://www.spshs.org/

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