Monday, September 17, 2007

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Monday, September 17, 2007 -- ISSN 1529-1057

1) US Terrorist Watch List Hobbled by Data Errors
Link to story in Government Computer News:
http://www.gcn.com/print/26_24/45029-1.html

2) Wikis, the Semantic Web Head to the Streets
Wiki technology takes real-time, user-generated data from mobile phones to create maps for pedestrians and other travelers making their way across a city.
Link to IDG News Service story:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/17/Wikis-Semantic-Web-head-to-streets_1.html

3) Navigation Devices Set to Take Mass-Market Route
Link to Reuters story:
http://www.news.com/Navigation+devices+set+to+take+mass-market+route/2100-1041_3-6208246.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc

4) Truckers May See Cowbells Make a Comeback in Massachusetts
Devices warn of low overpasses.
Link to story in The Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/09/15/truckers_may_see_cowbells_make_a_comeback_in_mass/

5) Delaware Pays to Spread Word
DelDOT and Office of Highway Safety use outside help for advertising and marketing.
Link to story in the Delaware State News:
http://www.newszap.com/articles/2007/09/15/dm/sussex_county/dsn02.txt

6) I-40 Traffic Cameras in North Carolina Regularly Out of Order
Link to story in the Asheville Citizen-Times:
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770915026

7) Internet to Help Beat Traffic Jams in Leeds
Link to story in the Yorkshire Post:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Internet-to-help-beat-city.3206258.jp

8) Life of a Traffic Engineer is Always Stop and Go
Link to story in the Green Bay Press-Gazette:
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070916/GPG03/709160403/1247/GPGbusiness

9) Device Would Warn News Crew Copters
Link to story in the East Valley Tribune:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/97541

10) Air France to Test Fingerprint Cards
Will permit registered travelers to bypass general boarding on shuttle flights between Paris and Amsterdam.
Link to story in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2007-09-16-checkin_N.htm

11) September Issue of IEEE ITS Society Newsletter Online
Link to newsletter:
http://www.its.washington.edu/itsc/v9n3.pdf


News Releases

1) Intelligent Cars: European Commission Leads the Drive for Safer, Greener and Smarter Cars
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/1342&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en


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http://www.coachandbuslive.com/


Today in Transportation History
1976 – The US Space Shuttle Enterprise is publicly unveiled in Palmdale, California.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html

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