Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Wednesday, August 8, 2007 -- ISSN 1529-1057

1) Beijing Works on Olympic Traffic Problem
Link to story and video report on China Central Television:
http://www.cctv.com/english/20070808/103480.shtml

2) High-Tech Expected to Guarantee Success for Beijing Games
Link to story in the China Daily:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-08/08/content_5449140.htm

3) Bumper to Bumper: Predicting Traffic Flow
Link to National Public Radio story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12565413

4) With Technology, Vehicles Could Communicate
Link to story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=643996

5) Hard Driving Car Infotainment
Automotive hard disk drive shipments to rise by nearly a factor of five by 2013, vehicle infotainment survey shows.
Link to story in Engineer:
http://staging.engineerlive.com/news/18473/hard-driving-car-infotainment.thtml

6) GPS-Like Device Offers Yosemite Visitors Self-Guided Tours
Link to story in the Visalia Times-Delta:
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/NEWS01/70808002


Upcoming Events
Virginia Hazardous Materials Conference and Expo – October 15-19 – Hampton, Virginia
http://www.virginiahazmat.org/displayconvention.cfm


Today in Transportation History
1991 – Astronaut James Irwin, a crewmember on Apollo 15, died of a heart attack.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/irwin-jb.html

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