Transportation Communications Newsletter
Friday, October 22, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1) Future Airport – Latest Issue Online
- On the Same Wavelength – How NextGen will benefit airports and how delivery is progressing
http://viewer.zmags.co.uk/publication/e0b4f83d#/e0b4f83d/10
- Log On, Check In and Fly Out – Ryanair tells how the airline has slashed use of terminal resources
http://viewer.zmags.co.uk/publication/e0b4f83d#/e0b4f83d/74
BICYCLES
2) A Smarter Model for Bicycle Sharing
Link to column in Next American City:
http://americancity.org/columns/entry/2687/
CARTOGRAPHY
3) Google: 244,000 Germans Say 'No' to Street View
Link to article in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-21-google-germany_N.htm
4) China Unveils Own Mapping Service
Link to BBC News story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11605940
Link to Map World: http://www.tianditu.cn/
OTHER
5) Raymond deKozan, Founder of Cubic Transportation Systems, Dies
Link to article in Crain's New York Business:
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20101022/FREE/101029939/0/REAL_ESTATE
6) Muscovites to Submit Transport Ideas to New Mayor on Web Site
Link to ITAR-TASS article:
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15614161&PageNum=0
7) IEEE ITS Society Newsletter – October 2010
Link to newsletter:
http://herget.biz/ieeeitss/v12n4.pdf
PARKING
8) New iPhone App Could Solve Tel Aviv Dwellers' Parking Woes
Link to article in Haaretz:
ROADWAYS
9) Planning and Deploying Transit Signal Priority in Small and Medium-Sized Cities: Burlington, Vermont Case Study
Link to article in the Journal of Public Transportation:
http://www.nctr.usf.edu/jpt/pdf/JPT13-3Vlachou.pdf
SPACE
10) Astronaut Posts First Foursquare Check-In from Space
Link to article in PC Magazine:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371303,00.asp
TRANSIT
11) Software Glitch Costs DC Metro $500,000 in Revenue
Link to article in The Examiner:
12) Bangalore Transit System Launching In-Bus Entertainment System
Link to article on SiliconIndia:
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/BMTCs_cool_internet_service_on_wheels-nid-73009-cid-1.html
VEHICLES
13) Pandora's Tim Westergren Goes After Radio Where It Matters Most: The Car
Link to blog in the Los Angeles Times:
14) Designing Infotainment Systems for the Connected Generation
Link to article in Automotive Industries:
http://www.ai-online.com/Adv/Previous/show_issue.php?id=3729
News Releases
1) TASC, Inc. Wins $827 Million SE-2020 Contract to Support FAA's NextGen Program
2) Truckers Challenge Electronic On-Board Recorder Regulation
Upcoming Events
Webinar: ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program Outreach to University and Other Learning Providers – November 17
http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/webmeeting/register.asp
Friday Bonus
Music in the subways? Here's a live performance with some rather unusual instruments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAllFWSl998
Today in Transportation History
1910 **100th anniversary** The Aéronautique Militaire, predecessor to the French Air Force, was formed.
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/air
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