Transportation Communications Newsletter
Friday,
July 10, 2015 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1)
FAA to Drop Donald Trump-Related
Navigation Codes
Link
to article in The New York Times:
2)
Dining App 'AirGrub' Lets Travelers
Pre-Order Meals at Airports
Link
to article on iDigitalTimes:
CAMERAS
3)
New Jersey Transit Board to Vote on Buying
Train Cameras Recommended by NTSB
Link
to article in The Star-Ledger:
ELECTRONIC TOLLING
4)
South Africa's Sanral to Test Electronic
Toll Collection System
Link
to article on News24:
OTHER
5)
High-Tech Transportation: Can Congress
Regulate Technology That Doesn't Exist Yet?
Link
to article on Nextgov:
RAILROADS
6)
New Deadline Proposed for Positive Train
Control
Link
to article in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
7)
Canadian Pacific Railroad Refuses to
Release Bridge Inspection Report to City of Milwaukee
Link
to story on WISN-TV:
ROADWAYS
8)
Massachusetts DOT Ends Use of Electronic
Signs to Push Voting for Red Sox Player to All-Star Game
Link
to story on WCVB-TV:
SAFETY / SECURITY
9)
App Warns Drivers of Hazardous Spots on
Roadways
Link
to article on Autoblog:
10)
US Department of Homeland Security
Inspector General Urges TSA to Improve Security of Boarding Passes
Link
to article in USA Today:
TRANSIT
11)
France Gets Tough with Sexual Harassment
on Public Transport with Text Alert System and 'Fight' Against Sexist Ads
Link
to article in The Independent:
12)
AC Transit Partners with Google Maps to
Give Riders Real-Time Bus Data
Link
to Bay City News article:
Link
to news release
13)
Refurbished PATCO Trains Being
Reinspected After Shutdown; Riders Complain About Communications During Outage
Link
to article in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
VEHICLES
14)
Carmakers to Tech Partners: Keep Your
Hands Off Our Data
Link
to Reuters article:
15)
Senators Introduce Bill Requiring
Crash-Avoidance Technologies, Recall Warning Lights on Dashboards
Link
to article in The Detroit News:
Link
to news release
16)
With CarPlay, Apple Looks to Upend
Tradition
Link
to article in The New York Times:
17)
The Race to Connect Old Cars to the
Internet
Link
to story on Marketplace:
News Releases
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-
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