Friday, May 14, 2010

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Friday, May 14, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

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Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety System (IVBSS) Field Operation Ends April 30, 2010: Over 800,000 Miles of Naturalistic Driving Data Collected

The IVBSS program is a cooperative research agreement between the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) to conduct field tests of advanced integrated safety systems on passenger vehicles and heavy-duty trucks.  The prototype crash warning systems included forward collision, lane departure, lane change, and curve speed warnings and were tested using a fleet of 16 passenger cars and 10 heavy-duty trucks. 

The heavy truck final report will be publicly available in July. More information and current reports are available at http://www.its.dot.gov/ivbss/index.htm

AVIATION

1) Coming Soon to Air Travel: the iPad

Link to CNET News article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20004998-17.html

GPS / NAVIGATION

2) NOAA Reports that Modernizing Positioning System is Vital

Link to article in GPS World:

http://www.gpsworld.com/gps/news/noaa-reports-modernizing-positioning-system-vital-9940

OTHER

3) Bangalore School Buses to Turn Into High-Tech Nannies

Link to article in Mid Day:

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/may/130510-School-Buses-Bangalore-Mahindra-Telematics.htm

4) With My iPhone Alone, I'm Apped to Travel

Link to article in The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/13/AR2010051305136.html

SAFETY / SECURITY

5) 'Smart' Security Gates Open at Manchester, UK Airport

Link to article in the Manchester Evening News:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1239783_smart_security_gates_open_at_airport

SPACE

6) Chaotic Space Traffic Needs Rules: US General

Link to AFP article:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iXC0gGbQ1dF3navsVE-QkRB3MY9w

TRANSIT

7) Myki Mess: Big Guns Paid to Mop Up

Victorian government hires advisers to fix smartcard issues.

Link to article in The Age:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/myki-mess-big-guns-paid-to-mop-up-20100512-uy4l.html

VEHICLES

8) Cars' Computer Systems Called at Risk to Hackers

Link to article in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/science/14hack.html

9) McMaster University Working with IBM on Intelligent Cars

Link to article in The Gazette:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/McMaster+working+with+intelligent+cars/3028443/story.html

Upcoming Events

Joint Council on Transit Wireless Communications Meeting – May 27 – Long Beach, California

http://www.npstc.org/transitCommunity.jsp

Friday Bonus

And you thought electronic billboards were distracting.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/05/03/2160813/man-on-sign-stops-traffic.html

Today in Transportation History    

1860 **150^th anniversary** The first official delegation from Japan arrived in Washington, DC aboard the USSPowhatan.

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_publications/publications_documents/whitehousehistory_12.pdf

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