Transportation Communications Newsletter
Monday, February 15, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057
Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition (May 3-5, 2010, Houston, Texas)
- Be sure to register by March 1 and save money! Public sector and first-time attendees qualify for special discounts. Save time and register through our website. And remember to make your hotel reservations here.
- Exhibit space is still available. Be a sponsor!
- Take a walk on the virtual side. Check out more than 100 exhibitors. Click on their names; see what’s in store for you in May!
- Listen, look, stop. For the first time ever, ITS America Forums feature exhibit hall theater briefings on safety, sustainability, personal mobility, commercial operations and cross-cutting issues, followed by topic-specific, guided tours of the exhibit hall.
AVIATION
1) Airlines Cancel Flights Before Storms Arrive, and E-mail the Passengers
Link to article in The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/business/13cancel.html
RAILROADS
2) Eurostar Falls Short on Emergency Plans
Information provided to passengers one of the areas faulted.
Link to article in the Financial Times:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f7ed766-17d0-11df-a74d-00144feab49a.html
Link to report: http://www.eurostarindependentreview.org/pdf/Eurostar%20Independent%20Review.pdf
ROADWAYS
3) Online Map Launched to Aid London Street Cleaning Teams
Link to BBC News story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8514930.stm
4) Most Adirondack Park Signage to Remain Unchanged
Link to article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise:
http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/511311.html?nav=5008
TELEMATICS
5) Smart Roads: Driving Technology Accelerates
Link to article in the Deseret News:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700009394/Smart-roads-Driving-technology-accelerates.html
TRANSIT
6) SEPTA Moving to Drop Rail-Line Initials
Some say designations are too confusing.
Link to article in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/84275512.html?cmpid=15585797
7) Metra Considers Selling Naming Rights for Routes, Stations
Link to article in the Chicago Sun-Times:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/transportation/2045805,CST-NWS-metra13.article
8) Catching a Bus in Chicago? There’s an App for That
Link to article in the Chicago Flame:
9) Boston Commuters, Call and Get the Inside Track on Bus Schedule
Link to column in The Boston Globe:
TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
10) Smart Sensors Start Going to Work
Link to article in The New York Times:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/smarter-sensors-start-going-to-work/
News Releases
1) The PBSJ Corporation 2009 Project Awards Presented
2) Navteq Announces Real-Time Traffic in the UK
3) Qualcomm and Audi to Make the Connected Car a Reality in 2010
4) Traffic Alerts on Your Phone – UK Highways Agency Tunes Into Latest Technology
Upcoming Events
Railway Engineering 2010 – March 25-26 – Paris
http://www.groupeactis.com/spip.php?rubrique48
Today in Transportation History
1935 **75th anniversary** - Roger Chaffee, an astronaut who died in a fire on Apollo 1, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
http://www11.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chaffee-rb.html
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