Transportation Communications Newsletter
Monday, July 5, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1) Near-Collisions on Rise in Washington Area's Skies Amid Influx of Inexperienced Controllers
Link to article in The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/04/AR2010070404538.html
2) UK Air Traffic Chief Voices Concerns of Government Selling Stake
Link to article in the Financial Times:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b9d79f3e-87aa-11df-9f37-00144feabdc0.html
3) FAA, Provo Begin Work on Airport Radar
Link to article in The Salt Lake Tribune:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/49848818-76/radar-provo-airport-lake.html.csp
4) Improving Airport Experience via Real-Time Ratings, Reviews and Photos
An interview with GateGuru's CEO Daniel Gellert.
Link to interview on m-Travel.com:
BICYCLES
5) Are Blue Bike Lanes Better than Black?
Link to article on TreeHugger:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/blue-bikelanes-better-than-black.php
CAMERAS
6) 'Big Brother' Traffic Cameras Must be Regulated, Orders UK Home Secretary
Link to article in The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/04/anpr-surveillance-numberplate-recognition
7) Red Light Camera Companies Become a Lobbying Force in Texas Capital
Link to article in The Dallas Morning News:
8) Red Light Cameras Spark Debate in Texas Cities
Link to article in The Dallas Morning News:
9) Camera System's Flaws Cost North Texas Tollway Authority Millions
Link to article in The Dallas Morning News:
GPS / NAVIGATION
10) GPS Data New Tool in Reading Tropical Storms
Link to article in The Spokesman-Review:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jul/04/gps-data-new-tool-in-reading-tropical-storms/
OTHER
11) TSA to Block Web Sites with 'Controversial Opinion' on Its Computers
Link to CBS News story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20009642-10391695.html
PEDESTRIANS
12) Tech Firms Aim to Keep Wayward Walkers on Path
Link to AP article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/05/AR2010070501057.html
PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION
13) Pennsylvania DOT Needs to Focus on Driving Tips
Rather than including tourism and health information with registration mailings, agency should insert driving tips.
Link to editorial in the Pocono Record:
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100705/NEWS04/7050308
ROADWAYS
14) New Road Signs for Abu Dhabi
Emirate plans to use portable message signs while permanent VMS and ITS are installed.
Link to article in Emirates Business 24|7:
http://www.business24-7.ae/news/national/new-road-signs-for-abu-dhabi-2010-07-04-1.262762
15) Pennsylvania Joins California and Florida in Asking Feds to Allow Ads on Electronic Signs
Link to AP article:
http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_15435365
SAFETY / SECURITY
16) Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Uses CCTV, Text Hotline vs. Wangwang
Link to GMA News story:
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/195114/mmda-uses-cctv-text-hotline-vs-wangwang
SPACE
17) New US Satellite to Monitor Debris in Earth Orbit
Link to AP article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/03/AR2010070301160.html
TELEMATICS
18) UK Road Safety Charity, Brake, Calls for Increased Telematics Use
Link to article in BusinessCar:
http://www.businesscar.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=6232
TRANSIT
19) The Future is Hear: MTA
New York agency says new Second Avenue subway stations will be designed by acoustical engineers.
Link to article and video in the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/the_future_is_hear_mta_gxQwszOXV2iMapigatNuzL#ixzz0sibmSygB
TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
20) New Massachusetts Traffic Information System Continues to Befuddle Drivers Who Miss the Old 511
Link to column in The Boston Globe:
21) Voice of Vietnam's Traffic Information to be Televised at Rush Hours
Link to story on VOV:
22) Get Rid of Those Gulls and Give Us Real Information
Columnist says Maryland's Bay Bridge should make traffic information easier to find on its Web site.
Link to column in The Baltimore Sun:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/2010/07/get_rid_of_those_gulls_and_giv.html
VEHICLES
23) Quiet Hybrids: An End to Their Sounds of Silence?
Link to AP article:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Quiet-hybrids-An-end-to-their-apf-994519890.html?x=0&.v=2
24) Car-Sharing Gets Personal, with Private Vehicles for Hire
Link to blog on BNET:
http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10005473/car-sharing-gets-personal-with-private-vehicles-for-hire/
25) Driving While Blind? Maybe, with New High-Tech Vehicle
Link to AP article:
http://www.thekansan.com/newsnow/x1328226943/Driving-while-blind-Maybe-with-new-high-tech-vehicle
26) Toyota's PR Machine has Improved: Analyst
Link to video report on CNBC:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?play=1&video=1537396972
News Releases
1) Making Transport Smarter – European Parliament Looking at ITS
Upcoming Events
Mid-Continent Transportation Research Forum 2010 – August 19-20 – Madison, Wisconsin
http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/Courses/Course.lasso?myCourseChoice=L268
Today in Transportation History
1610 **400th anniversary** A group of colonists led by John and Philip Guy, left England to establish the first English colony in Newfoundland.
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=329
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