Friday, October 4, 2013

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Friday, October 4, 2013 – ISSN 1529-1057

---

AVIATION

1) European Air-Traffic Controllers Call Off October 10 Strike

Link to Reuters article:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/European_air_traffic_controllers_call_off_October_10_strike.html?cid=37048506

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION

2) Tanzania Advised to Install ITS to Ease Dar es Salaam Traffic Jams

Link to article from The Guardian:

http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=60016

3) India and Japan Sign ICT Agreement Which Includes ITS

Link to article in FutureGov:

http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2013/oct/04/india-and-japan-sign-ict-agreement/

OTHER

4) TIDE (Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe) Newsletter – October 2013

Link to newsletter:

http://tide-innovation.eu/en/upload/Newsletter/TIDE-newsletter-2-FINAL.pdf

PARKING

5) The Parking Revolution Will be Digitized

Link to article in Government Technology:

http://www.govtech.com/transportation/The-Parking-Revolution-Will-Be-Digitized.html

ROADWAYS

6) Extending the Service Life of Pavement Markings: Iowa Applies Innovation and Technology to Reduce Costs, Increase Safety

Link to article from the Transportation Research Board:

http://trb.org/Main/Blurbs/169551.aspx

TRANSIT

7) Chicago Transit Authority Moves Ahead on Upgrading Subway Wireless to 4G

Link to article in the Chicago Sun-Times:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/22943303-418/cta-moving-ahead-with-subway-wireless-upgrade-to-4g.html

Link to news release: http://goo.gl/H8Rxqj

8) Coming to Manhattan: Finding Your Bus by Phone

Link to article on Transportation Nation:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/coming-manhattan-finding-your-bus-phone/

9) Delaware County (Pennsylvania) Transportation Management Association Creates Travel Instruction Video for People with Disabilities

Link to video:

http://www.dctma.org/2013/09/26/introducing-dctmas-travel-instruction-video/

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

10) Indonesian Police Launch Tablet-Based Traffic Management

Link to article in The Jakarta Post:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/10/04/police-launch-tablet-based-traffic-management.html

News Releases

1) Egis: A First Toll Interoperability Contract in the US

2) New University of Florida Transportation Institute to Focus on Interdisciplinary Research

3) California DOT Making State Route 12 and I-5 Safer and Smarter

Friday Bonus

A time-lapse video shows what happened when a ship broke loose from its moorings in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

http://youtu.be/WNs9a5SZgrY

Upcoming Events

Workshop & Webinar: Connected Vehicle Applications for Speed Harmonization with Queue Warning – October 22-23 – Romulus, Michigan

http://www.itsa.org/infloworkshop2013

Today in Transportation History    

1983 **30^th anniversary** Richard Noble set a land-speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019.47 kmh).

http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/news/thrust-2-30

======================================================================

The Transportation Communications Newsletter is published electronically Monday through Friday. 

To subscribe (for free) or unsubscribe, please contact me at bernie@bwcommunications.net.

TCN archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications  

Become a TCN fan on Facebook and follow on Twitter @TransportComm.

Questions, comments about the TCN?  Please write the editor, Bernie Wagenblast at bernie@bwcommunications.net.     

© 2013 Bernie Wagenblast Communications, LLC www.bwcommunications.net