Thursday, June 7, 2012

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Thursday, June 7, 2012 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

1) FAA Will Deliver Equipage Incentives: Huerta

Link to article in Air Traffic Management:

http://www.airtrafficmanagement.net/2012/06/faa-will-deliver-equipage-incentives-huerta/

GPS / NAVIGATION

2) Satnavs Accused of Distracting Drivers

Link to article in The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9314524/Satnavs-accused-of-distracting-drivers.html

Link to news release form Royal Holloway College: http://goo.gl/NvfYw

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

3) Should Governments Invest in Video Technology?

Link to article in Government Technology:

http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Should-Governments-Invest-in-Video-Technology.html

SAFETY / SECURITY

4) US Government Steps Up Effort to Combat Distracted Driving

Link to AP article:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jSbe1XIm0lw4s4xSsiXljUIIyumQ?docId=b7cd3deefe374a02a4f998cd2ec5ec3f

Link to news release from US DOT: http://goo.gl/UpKIm

TAXIS

5) New York City Seeks Proposals for Taxi Payment App

Link to story on NY1:

http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/transit/162559/city-seeks-proposals-for-taxi-payment-app

TRANSIT

6) RTA Riders in Cleveland Can Soon Track Arrivals of Buses and Trains

Link to article in The Plain Dealer:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/06/post_26.html

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

7) Nepal Traffic Police Launch FM Station

Link to article in The Himalayan:

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Traffic+police+launches+95.6+MHz+FM+station+&NewsID=335177

VEHICLES

8) Is Detroit Buying Verizon's LTE-Connected-Car Vision?

Link to article on GigaOM:

http://gigaom.com/mobile/is-detroit-buying-verizons-lte-connected-car-vision/

9) Security for Cars Enters New Age

Link to article in The Detroit News:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120607/AUTO01/206070355/1148/auto01/Security-cars-enters-new-age

News Releases

1) American Road Technologies Deploys Freedom Pass Mobile – Allows Travelers to Pay Tolls Via Smartphone

2) GEWI Newsletter – May/June 2012

3) Rockwell Collins Advocates for NextGen Public-Private Partnerships

4) BART Police Enhance Crisis Intervention Outreach Program

5) 80% of Electric Vehicles Will Include Advanced Telematics Systems by 2017

6) Glympse and Mercedes-Benz Announce Partnership to Provide Real-Time Location Sharing While Driving

Upcoming Events

Train Communications Systems 2012 – June 13-14 – London

http://www.traincomms2012.com/

Today in Transportation History    

1892 **120^th anniversary** Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave a white-only rail car in Louisiana.  He was the plaintiff in the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case in which the US Supreme Court upheld 'separate but equal' state segregation laws.

http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/537/case.html

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