Monday, May 25, 2009

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Monday, May 25, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057

Open Roads’ RTIMIS: A Real-Time System Management Information Program Solution

RTIMIS is a software product from Open Roads Consulting that generates comprehensive real-time transportation information by fusing system information gleaned from existing stakeholder systems. By collecting data from 911 CAD systems, traffic signal systems, freeway management systems, and others, RTIMIS creates a common operational picture of transportation across a region, a state, or a multi-state corridor. This common operational picture enables improved incident response, increased responder and traveler safety, enhanced mobility, and represents a cost-effective means of achieving compliance with the requirements stated in section 1201 of the SAFETEA-LU legislation. Open Roads will be demonstrating RTIMIS at ITS America at booth #840. For appointments and customized demos, please call 757-546-3401 or email Steve Beckwith at slbeckwith@openroadsconsulting.com. You can also visit us online at www.openroadsconsulting.com.

AVIATION

1) Can Airport Technology Halt a Pandemic?
Link to story in New Scientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227095.900-can-airport-technology-halt-a-pandemic.html

2) New Web Program Aims to Reduce Fatigue-Related Aviation Accidents
Link to American Forces Press Service story:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=54456

SAFETY / SECURITY

3) New York City Goes Wireless
Wireless network supports transfers of large files, such as fingerprints, maps and full-motion streaming video.
Link to story in Government Computer News:
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/05/21/nyc-mobile-data-network.aspx

TRANSIT

4) New York City Transit Authority Feeling the Pain from a Crippled Advertising Market
Link to story in The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/nyregion/25ads.html?_r=1&ref=media


Upcoming Events
Low Cost Airlines World Americas – June 29-July 1 – Coral Gables, Florida
http://www.terrapinn.com/2009/americas


Today in Transportation History
1979 **30th anniversary** - American Airlines Flight 191 crashed on takeoff in Chicago, killing 273 people. It is deadliest single plane crash on US soil.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19790525-2

=============================================================================================
The Transportation Communications Newsletter is published electronically Monday through Friday.
To subscribe send an e-mail to: TCNL-subscribe@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe send an e-mail to: TCNL-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
TCN archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications

Questions, comments about the TCN? Please write the editor, Bernie Wagenblast at i95berniew@aol.com.
© 2009 Bernie Wagenblast