Transportation Communications Newsletter
Monday,
December 9, 2013 – ISSN 1529-1057
Only One Month Left to Submit Your Special Interest Session
Proposals and Scientific and Technical Papers for the 2014 ITS World Congress
The 21st World
Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems & ITS
America Annual Meeting will be held Sept. 7-11,
2014 in Detroit, Michigan. If you have undertaken research on an advanced
topic in Intelligent Transportation Systems, the World Congress International
Program Committee encourages you to submit your findings in the form of a paper
or proposal for a Special Interest Session.
The deadline for submissions
is January 15, 2014, leaving you with just over a month to get your
suggestions in. Approved submissions will be presented at the ITS World
Congress in Detroit and automatically be considered for publication in one of
three noted ITS journals, namely: The
Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, IET
Intelligent Transport Systems, or the International
Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Learn more about
World Congress Program Submissions here, and
by visiting www.itsworldcongress.org, or
contact ITS America’s Program Coordinator Morgan Ouellette at mouellette@itsa.org. #ITSWC14
AVIATION
1)
Collaborative Decision-Making Important
to Enhance Passenger Experience
Link
to article in Airport World:
2)
Putting the Intelligence into Airports
Link
to blog in Gulf Business:
CAMERAS
3) Washtenaw County (Michigan)
Road Commission Traffic Cameras Could Soon Be Used By Law Enforcement
Link to
article on The Ann Arbor News:
INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION
4)
Florida DOT District Four ITS Quarterly
Newsletter – December 2013
Link
to newsletter:
OTHER
5)
Gulf Traffic Expo Kicks Off in Dubai
Link
to article on Trade Arabia:
PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION
6)
George Washington Bridge Manager
Testifies He Was Ordered Not to Tell Fort Lee of Unannounced Lane Closures
Link
to article on PolitickerNJ:
RAILROADS
7)
US Senators Call for Cameras Pointed at
Railroad Tracks, Engineers
Link
to AP article:
8)
Metro-North to Enhance
Engineer/Conductor Communications, Add New Signal Protection
Link
to news release:
9)
Time-Lapse Video of Track Repairs at
Metro-North Derailment Site
Link
to video:
SAFETY / SECURITY
10)
India to Launch Panic Button on Public
Transport, Mobiles
Link
to article on ZDNet:
11)
Thai Public Buses, Vans to Add GPS
Link
to article in the Bangkok Post:
12)
Apps Try to Monitor, Tame Texting
Drivers
Link
to article in The Boston Globe:
13)
Safetynet – Fall 2013
-
Technology Can Help Create Safer
Roads (page 3)
-
2013 Traffic Safety Conference
Draws Upon Multiple Perspectives (page 5)
TRANSIT
14)
Ottawa Plans to Use QR Code Transfer
Slips
Link
to article in the Ottawa Sun:
TRAVELER INFORMATION /
TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
15)
Cebu City, Philippines Traffic
Management Wants Schedule of Brownouts
Link
to article in the Sun.Star:
VEHICLES
16)
Bill Ford on the New Golden Age of
Automotive Innovation
Link
to article on GigaOM:
News Releases
Upcoming Events
Webinar: Managed Lane Access Issues –
December 17
Today in Transportation
History
1508
**505th anniversary** Gemma Frisius, a Flemish cartographer and
mathematician, was born in Dokkum, Friesland. He was the first to use triangulation for map-making.
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