Transportation Communications Newsletter
Friday,
October 12, 2012 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1)
FAA to Test Data-Communication
Innovations with Federal Express, United and Delta Airlines
Link
to article on Avionics Intelligence:
2)
Articles from Airport World
 - 
Special Report: Marketing &
Communications
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0c6223e3#/0c6223e3/33
(continues through page 61)
 - 
The Power of Communication
 - 
Airports Must Become Tech Savvy or
Get Left Behind
3)
Pub Near Dulles Airport Lets Patrons
Listen In as Air-Traffic Controllers Talk to Pilots
Link
to article in The Washington Post:
BICYCLES
4)
Bike-Counter Installed at Seattle's
Fremont Bridge
Link
to article on seattlepi:
CAMERAS
5)
Washington State DOT Camera Spots More
Than Just Traffic 
Link
to story on KOMO-TV:
GPS / NAVIGATION
6)
Two Satellites Launched from French
Guiana for Europe's Galileo Navigation System
Link
to AP article:
7)
GPS Apps That Fight Obsolescence
Link
to article in The New York Times:
OTHER
8)
Some Pennsylvania DOT Centers Providing
Wrong Information About State's Voter ID Law
Link
to article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION
9)
FHWA Launches New Information-Sharing
Initiative to Help Local Public Agencies Manage Their Federal-Aid Projects
Link
to article in Public Roads:
10)
Blue Scholars Team with Sound Transit on
Train Safety Video
Link
to blog in the Seattle Daily Journal of
Commerce:
ROADWAYS
11)
New Jersey Agri-Tourism Signing Program
Ramping Up
Link
to story on WKXW Radio:
TRANSIT
12)
Topeka Metro Offering More High-Tech
Services
Link
to article in The Capital-Journal:
13)
How the Chicago Transit Authority
Leverages Twitter, Social Media
Link
to blog in Urgent Communications:
VEHICLES
14)
Nissan's New Safety Tech Knows When You
Hit the Gas By Mistake
Link
to article on The Car Connection:
News Releases
Upcoming Events
National Business Aviation Association
Annual Meeting & Convention – October 30-November 1 – Orlando
Friday Bonus   
Perhaps
this could revive the idea of drive-in movies.
Today in Transportation
History    
1962
**50th anniversary** 
The
Bridge of the Americas opened over the Panama Canal.
The
Columbus Day Storm hit the North American west coast.  
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Transportation Communications Newsletter
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comments about the TCN?  Please
write the editor, Bernie Wagenblast at bernie@bwcommunications.net.      
 
 

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