Thursday, April 17, 2014

Thursday, April 17, 2014


Transportation Communications Newsletter

Thursday, April 17, 2014 – ISSN 1529-1057


AVIATION

1) Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Urged to Offer Free Wi-Fi in Airports
Link to article in Crain's New York Business:

2) 'Stealthy Building' Built Near Runway Without Affecting Landing System
Link to article in Airport Industry Review:

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

3) Virginia Doing Away with E-ZPass Fee
Link to article in The Washington Post:

FREIGHT

4) Sweden Trials Australian Transport Intelligence
Link to article on Transport & Logistics News:

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION

5) Singapore Uses Big Data Analytics to Optimize Transport Management
Link to article in FutureGov:

MARITIME

6) Connecticut DOT Again Sends False Tweets About Catastrophic Ferry Incidents
Link to article in the New Haven Register:

OTHER

7) West Virginia DMV Expanding Its Online Services
Link to story on WOWK-TV:

RAILROADS

8) Freight Train Industry to Miss Deadline for Positive Train Control, Blames FCC Delays
Link to AP article:
Link to news release

ROADWAYS

9) Maine Governor Signs Bill to Reduce Number of Signs on State's Highways
Link to article in the Sun Journal:

SAFETY / SECURITY

10) Facial Recognition Technology Helps Iowa DOT Catch 40-Year Fugitive
Link to story on WHO-TV:

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

11) MIT and Stanford Researchers Show Robotaxis Could Replace Private Cars and Public Transit
Link to article in Forbes:

TRANSIT

12) Predictive Analytics Aboard the London Underground?
Link to article in Government Technology:

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

13) Sacramento Traffic Monitoring Center Not Ready in Time for 'Fix 50' Project
Link to story on KTXL-TV:

VEHICLES

14) University of Michigan is Turning Ann Arbor Into World's Largest Lab for Wireless Vehicle Communication
Link to article in The Ann Arbor News:

15) BMW Updates Navigation Data Via Mobile Radio
Link to article in Microwave Engineering Europe:
Link to news release


News Releases


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Today in Transportation History    
1964 **50th anniversary** The Ford Mustang was officially unveiled at the New York World's Fair.

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