Transportation Communications Newsletter
Thursday,
August 16, 2012 – ISSN 1529-1057
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AVIATION
1)
Breakthrough Radar System Helps Pilots
Avoid Rough Turbulence
Link
to story on ABC News' Nightline:
Link
to video: http://soc.li/yT3LVK
2)
FAA Rules Wind Turbines Off Cape Cod
Will Not Affect Air Traffic
Link
to article in The Boston Globe:
3)
Cyberwars Reach a New Frontier: the
Airport
Link
to article in Bloomberg Businessweek:
4)
Designing an Open Source Geospatial
Solution to Manage Airport Noise and Operations
Link
to Farallon Geographics' GIS & Geospatial Blog:
http://www.fargeo.com/blog/open-source-geospatial-solution-to-manage-airport-noise-and-operations
(part 1)
http://www.fargeo.com/blog/flight-tracking-and-noise-management-using-open-source-gis-tools-part-2
(part 2)
CAMERAS
5) Covered Pedestrian
Signals at Woodbridge, New Jersey Red-Light Camera Intersections Raise Questions
Link to article on
Woodbridge Patch:
GPS / NAVIGATION
6)
Massachusetts Reverses Call on Uber Flap
Will
let car service operate after shutdown over GPS device.
Link
to article in the Boston Herald:
MARITIME
7)
NOAA: Ship Noise Cutting Whale
Communication
Link
to article in USA Today:
Link
to abstract in Conservation Biology:
OTHER
8)
Articles from Georgia DOT's Milepost Newsletter – Summer 2012
-
GeoTRAQS Improves Tracking and
Information Gathering (page 4)
- Creative Traffic Management on GA 400 (page 6)
-
District Office Ready for 'Action'
in Support of Film Industry (page 9)
-
Anatomy of a HERO and His Truck
(page 10)
PARKING
9)
Video Helps Beijing Police Punish
Illegal Parking
Link
to story on China Radio International:
SAFETY / SECURITY
10)
Nigeria Turns to Technology in Attempt
to Cut Road Deaths
Link
to article in The Guardian:
TELEMATICS
11)
Big Brother Takes the Wheel
Your
insurance company wants to install a device in your car to track your every
decision and move. Be afraid.
Link
to commentary in Salon:
12)
Kia: 'Mobile Carriers Will Play a Major
Role in Telematics'
Link
to article on Telecoms.com:
13)
Telematics in Brazil: Security for Cars
and Cargo, Part I
Link
to article on Telematics Update:
TRANSIT
14)
Google Maps Now Features Schedules for
Over 1 Million Transit Stops Worldwide
Link
to blog from Google:
VEHICLES
15)
Studying the Connected Car on Two
Continents
Link
to article in Wired:
16)
GM's Alicia Boler-Davis: Be the 'Best
Company' in Customer Experience
Link
to video on Automotive News TV:
News Releases
Upcoming Events
Local Transportation Asset Management
Virtual Conference & Innovation Showcase – September 18-20
Today in Transportation
History
1927
**85th anniversary** The Dole Derby began with eight airplanes
taking off from Oakland, California.
Only two of the planes made it to Hawaii.
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