Friday, July 10, 2009

Transportation Communications Newsletter Friday, July 10, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057 AVIATION 1) Air France Pilots Blame Safety Agencies for Crash of Flight 447 Union says French and European agencies ignored a history of dangerous failures in Airbus speed probes. Link to story in The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6675343.ece 2) FAA Updating Flight Crew Alerting Standards Rules would limit the use of red, yellow and amber on the flight deck. Link to story in Occupational Health & Safety: http://ohsonline.com/articles/2009/07/10/faa-updating-flight-crew-alerting-standards.aspx 3) Airlines in Love with Versatile Version of Bar Code Link to story in The Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/portal/business/ci_12805878 ELECTRONIC TOLLING 4) Men Bests Delaware River Port Authority in Battle Over Privacy Link to story in the Courier-Post: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090710/NEWS01/907100338/1006/news01 GPS / NAVIGATION 5) First Look: AT&T’s Turn-by-Turn Navigation iPhone App Link to review on FoxBusiness: http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/personal-finance/lifestyle-money/personal-technology/look-atts-turn-turn-navigation-iphone-app/ MARITIME 6) US Senator John Rockefeller Wants Full Disclosure of Maritime Security Violations and Flubs Link to story in Government Security News: http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/features/news-analysis/2307.html 7) Washington State Ferries Wireless-Connection High-Speed Data Project Link to report from the Federal Transit Administration: http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/WashingtonStateFerriesDataConnectionProject.pdf OTHER 8) Drivers Asked to Test Alternative to Fuel Tax Link to AP story: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jYNPi3-EttcOOLkKFxgDJbvNRaVAD99AHA6G0 9) New Bills in US Congress Would Make RF Spectrum Inventories Open to Public Link to story in Federal Computer Week: http://fcw.com/articles/2009/07/10/radio-frequency-spectrum-inventories-legislation.aspx 10) Telecommuting and the Broadband Superhighway Link to story on Newgeography: http://www.newgeography.com/content/00885-telecommuting-and-the-broadband-superhighway 11) July Issue of IEEE ITS Society Newsletter Online Link to newsletter: http://www.ieeeitss.org/v11n3.pdf SAFETY / SECURITY 12) Taking Eyes Off Road Ups Accidents Link to story in The Hawk Eye: http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/Texting-070809 TELEMATICS 13) Toyota, Lexus Get New Telematics System Link to story in Consumer Reports: http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2009/07/toyota-safety-connect-lexus-enform-new-telematics-systems.html News Releases 1) Traffax Inc. Conducts July 4 Study of Vehicle and Pedestrian Traffic Flows with DC Department of Transportation 2) Missouri DOT’s Communications System Wins International Award Upcoming Events 2009 Virginia Hazardous Materials Conference – October 19-23 – Hampton, Virginia http://www.virginiahazmat.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=85 Friday Bonus Here’s one more way to keep the passengers’ attention during the airline safety announcements. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/business/30air.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all Today in Transportation History 1789 **220th anniversary** - Alexander Mackenzie discovered the river in Canada which would later bear his name. http://www.pbs.org/empireofthebay/profiles/mackenzie.html ================================================================================ 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 ati95berniew@aol.com. © 2009 Bernie Wagenblast