Transportation Communications Newsletter
Thursday, December 10, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1) Coalition Fights to Allow Cell Phone Use on Planes
Link to article in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2009-12-10-airplanephones10_ST_N.htm
Link to the Inflight Passenger Communications Coalition:
http://www.passengercommunications.com/
2) FAA: Overshot Flight Was on Canadian Frequency
Link to story on KCNC-TV:
http://cbs4denver.com/investigates/faa.norad.ntsb.2.1360871.html
OTHER
3) Pandora Targets In-Car Audience
Link to article on All Access:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/68106/pandora-targets-in-car-audience?ref=mail_recap
RAILROADS
4) So Long, Solari
Travelers say they’ll miss clackety-clack of schedule board at New Haven’s Union Station.
Link to article and video in the New Haven Independent:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/12/schedule_board.php
ROADWAYS
5) Wisconsin DOT Applies Lessons from 2008 Snowstorm Near Madison
Link to article in The Post-Crescent:
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20091210/APC0101/912100509/1979
SAFETY / SECURITY
6) US, Canada Will Publicize Options to Cross Border
Link to Gannett News Service article:
7) Transportation Worker Identification Credential
Progress made in enrolling workers and activating credentials but evaluation plan needed to help inform the implementation of card readers.
Link to US Government Accountability Office report:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1043.pdf
TRANSIT
8) Cell Phone Ban for Chicago Transit Authority Workers Leads to 11 Firings, Union Complaints of Overreaching
Link to article in the Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-cta-cell-phone-ban_10dec10,0,4172545.story
9) New Site Lists Open Data Apps, Agencies
Link to Greater Greater Washington blog:
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=4302
Link to City-Go-Round: http://www.citygoround.org
10) Transcript and Presentations of Transit Operations Decision Support Systems (TODSS): A US DOT Pilot Expert System for Transit Bus Fleet Management T3 Webinar
Link to presentation and transcript from Research and Innovative Technology Administration:
http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s091021/s091021_transitops_intro.asp
TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
11) Transcript and Presentations of Best Practices for Developing an Integrated and Effective Road Weather Information System (RWIS): Developing an RWIS Concept of Operations T3 Webinar
Link to presentation and transcript from Research and Innovative Technology Administration:
http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s091013/s091013_rwis_intro.asp
12) Transcript and Presentations of National ITS Architecture Update: New Features of the Latest Version of the National ITS Architecture (Version 6.1) T3 Webinar
Link to presentation and transcript from Research and Innovative Technology Administration:
http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s091027/s091027_arch_intro.asp
News Releases
1) EarthCam Announces New Work Zone Safety, Dredging Systems, Desert and Advanced Cameras
2) SESAR Joint Undertaking – Focus on: Interoperability
Solicitation
- Call for Abstracts – National Rural ITS Conference
http://www.nritsconference.org/2010program.html
Upcoming Events
NW Transportation Conference – February 9-11 – Corvallis, Oregon
http://kiewit.oregonstate.edu/nwtc/
Today in Transportation History
1979 **30th anniversary** - Stuntman Eddie Kidd makes an 80 foot jump over a river on a motorcycle.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/10/newsid_2544000/2544025.stm
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