Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 -- ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

1) Airlines to Begin Selling Ads on Boarding Passes
Link to AP story:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080715/boarding_pass_ads.html?.v=2
Link to sample boarding pass from Sojern:
http://www.sojern.com/about/sojern_sample_boarding_pass.html

2) FAA Taking Steps to Lower Odds of Runway Collisions
Link to McClatchy Newspapers story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008051826_faarunway15.html

3) Telemetry Issues Affects Boeing 777 Freighter Test
Link to AP story:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_boeing_test.html

4) Aviation Security: TSA May Face Resource and Other Challenges in Developing a System to Screen All Cargo Transported on Passenger Aircraft
Link to testimony from the US Government Accountability Office:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08959t.pdf

5) National Airspace System: DOT and FAA Actions Will Likely Have a Limited Effect on Reducing Delays During Summer 2008 Travel Season
Link to testimony from the US Government Accountability Office:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08934t.pdf

GPS / NAVIGATION

6) Using GPS, Governments and Businesses Save on Fuel
Link to story in Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/tuesday/news/ny-ligps145763994jul15,0,804710.story

OTHER

7) California Considers Pay-as-You-Drive Auto Insurance
Link to story in the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-carinsure15-2008jul15,0,1541839.story

8) June/July Issue of FHWA’s Highways for Life Innovator Online
- Surveys Help DOTs Build Customer Satisfaction
- Q&A with Kelly Damron: Transforming a DOT
- ‘Best Solutions’ Workshop Resonates in North Carolina
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hfl/innovator/issue07.cfm

ROADWAYS

9) Criticized I-75 HOV Exit Sign in Metro Atlanta to be Replaced
Site of fatal bus accident last year.
Link to story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/15/HOV_exit_sign.html

10) Film Crew Documents Utah DOT's I-80 Bridge Move
Agency is hoping to learn from watching a documentary of its own construction on I-80.
Link to story and audio report on KSL Radio:
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3758689

TRANSIT

11) Electronic Ticketing in Sofia Public Transport to Go Live on September 1
Link to story in the Sofia Echo:
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/electronic-ticketing-in-sofia-public-transport-to-go-live-on-september-1/id_30541/catid_66

12) Anti-Groping Posters Rub New York MTA Wrong
Link to story in the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07152008/news/regionalnews/posters_rub_mta_wrong_119935.htm

13) Led Astray by Diabolical Subway Notices
Link to story in The New York Times:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/led-astray-by-diabolical-subway-notices/?hp

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

14) Getting the 411 on I-75 Traffic in Florida Means Calling 511
Link to story in the Naples Daily News:
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/jul/14/getting-411-i-75-traffic-means-calling-511/

15) How Long Before I Get to My Exit
How the new travel time system on I-595 in Florida works.
Link to column in The Palm Beach Post:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/conezone/entries/2008/07/15/how_long_before_i_get_to_my_ex.html


News Releases
1) First Edition of MTA New York City Transit's Subway Gazette Rolls off Press
2) No Alcohol Advertising on Tasmanian Buses
3) Networkcar Introduces Activity Alerts for Near Real-Time Vehicle Event Notification
4) Nortel Speeds Algerian Wireless Railway Communications with New GSM-R Contracts
5) CCTV-based Smoke Detection Solution from D-Tec Installed for the Palm Jumeirah Tunnel in Dubai


**CORRECTION**
Story number 9 in yesterday’s newsletter should have read:
Slides Putting Washington State Highways in Danger


Solicitation
- NYSERDA Seeks Proposals to Reduce VMT in New York State
http://www.nyserda.org/funding/1239pon.asp


Upcoming Events
Use of ITS in Airport Environments Workshop – August 25-26 – Los Angeles
http://www.itsa.org/itsconference.html


Today in Transportation History
1933 **75th anniversary** - Transmountain Road, later renamed Going-to-the-Sun Road, was dedicated in Montana’s Glacier National Park.
http://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/gtsr75.htm

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