Transportation Communications Newsletter: October 2015

Today's Friday Bonus comes from 1993. Back then I was the operations manager at TRANSCOM, a coalition of transportation agencies in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. Getting ready for one of the busiest travel days of the year, Good Morning America came by to do some live broadcasts. Here was what was state-of-the-art technology in the early '90s.

https://youtu.be/l13jN48PZRU

Upcoming Events

University Transportation Centers Spotlight Conference – November 4-5 – Washington, DC

http://www.cvent.com/events/connected-and-automated-vehicles-the-9th-university-transportation-centers-spotlight-conference/event-summary-72903771f52f4a1688240effb810be90.aspx

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

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CARTOGRAPHY

1) The Great Subway Map War of 1978, Revisited

Link to article on The Verge:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9630862/new-york-city-subway-maps-mta-google-gps

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

2) Rental Car Toll Fees Stir Backlash that Threatens Florida's Image

Link to article in the Tampa Bay Times:

http://home.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/rental-car-toll-fees-stir-backlash-that-threatens-floridas-image/2251759

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION

3) ITS Australia Newsletter – October 2015

Link to newsletter:

http://www.summitemarketing.com.au/t/ViewEmail/r/7B838E8E45ADCB402540EF23F30FEDED/04DE90B08ADBC906E663AB054A538FBA

PARKING

4) USDOT Announces $25 Million TIGER Grant for Regional Truck Parking Information and Management System

Link to news release:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pressroom/dot15104.cfm

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

5) Los Angeles Mayor Will Hire an Artist to Help Reduce Traffic Deaths on City Streets

Link to article in the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-la-mayor-will-hire-an-artist-to-help-reduce-traffic-deaths-20151026-story.html

Link to news release

6) Tasmania Government Creates Humorous PSA to Show Importance of Distance in Bike Safety

Link to article in Momentum:

https://momentummag.com/distance-makes-difference/

RAILROADS

7) Boeing Subsidiary Makes Drone Test Flights to Monitor Railway

Link to story on KUOW Radio

http://kuow.org/post/boeing-subsidiary-makes-drone-test-flights-monitor-railway

Link to news release

ROADWAYS

8) Smart Solutions for Managing Snow and Ice Removal

Link to article in American City & County:

http://americancityandcounty.com/roadways/smart-solutions

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

9) Flywheel Wants to Replace Taxi Meters with a Smartphone

Link to article on The Verge:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9636700/flywheel-vs-uber-lyft-ride-hailing-taxi-OS

10) Test-Riding Fasten, a Transportation App Gunning for Uber and Lyft in Boston

Link to column in The Boston Globe:

http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/10/28/test-riding-fasten-transportation-app-gunning-for-uber-and-lyft-in-boston/

TELEMATICS

11) Driving in Bad Weather Could See Your Insurance Go Up

Link to article in The Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3294414/Driving-rain-insurance-New-car-technology-penalise-motorists-regularly-road-bad-weather-conditions.html

TRANSIT

12) Colorado's Summit Stage Will Soon Introduce 'Smart Bus' System

Link to article in the Summit Daily:

http://www.summitdaily.com/news/18814843-113/summit-stage-will-soon-introduce-smart-bus-system

13) Commuter Armageddon Comes to Life in Video by Pro-Hudson River Rail Tunnel Group

Link to Bloomberg article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-28/commuter-armageddon-comes-to-life-in-video-by-pro-tunnel-group

VEHICLES

14) Bosch Developing Pedestrian Avoidance System

Link to article in The Engineer:

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/automotive/news/bosch-developing-pedestrian-avoidance-system/1021304.article

Link to news release

15) Watch Nissan's New Concept Car Tell Pedestrians When It's Safe to Cross

Link to article in The Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/10/28/watch-nissans-new-concept-car-tell-pedestrians-when-its-safe-to-cross/

Link to news release

News Releases

1) Airport Tech Executives Expect Budgets to Hit $8.7 Billion in 2015

2) GEWI to Speak on Social Media and Traffic Management at ITS Texas

3) Nissan Conducts First On-Road Test of Prototype Vehicle Featuring Piloted Drive on Highway and City/Urban Roads

4) Bosch Brings Automated Driving to Japan

5) New Traffic App and Disaster Prevention Technology Road Tested in Dublin

6) Cincinnati Metro Uses Bar Coasters to Get Streetcar Safety Message Out

7) Taken to Higher Levels with Queue Diagnostics Solution

8) ITS America President and CEO Regina Hopper Applauds US DOT For Focusing on Innovation and Encouraging Intelligent Transportation Solutions in Latest Round of TIGER Grants

Solicitations

- Request for Information – Potential Innovative Business Models for Connected Vehicle and V2I Deployment – Michigan DOT

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_RFI_SS_SMITH_504144_7.pdf

- Call for Papers – 2016 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium

http://iv2016.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IV16_1st_CFP.pdf

- Call for Presentations – 2016 AASHTO GIS for Transportation Symposium

http://www.gis-t.org/call-for-presentations/

Upcoming Events

ITS Texas Annual Meeting – November 11-13 – Sugar Land, Texas

http://itstexas.org/2015%20Annual%20Meeting

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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HERE Receives ITS World Congress Hall of Fame Award

Congratulations to HERE for receiving the Industry Hall of Fame Award at the ITS World Congress in Bordeaux. The Industry Award was granted to HERE for (1) developing and deploying a significant new innovative product, (2) developing a product that played a key role in accelerating development and deployment of ITS, and (3) being a company that plays a leading role in the ITS Community. ITS International says: “Here envisions a highly precise living map of our cities and road networks, with ‘location’ acting as the bond that unites data flowing from all these different sources. Such a living map is vital if cities, governments and automakers want to move towards greater automation in transportation and mobility.” To read more about HERE’s product innovation, click here.

AVIATION

1) Memphis Airport Launches New Website, Shows Off New Tony Allen Promos

Link to article in the Memphis Business Journal:

http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/2015/10/memphis-airport-launches-new-website-show-off-new.html

Link to news release

BICYCLES / PEDESTRIANS

2) BeeLine Brings Easy GPS Navigation to Your Bike

Link to article on Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/28/beeline-simple-bike-navigation/

CAMERAS

3) New Mexico DOT Considering Recording Traffic Cameras in Wake of Shooting Death

Link to story on KOAT-TV:

http://www.koat.com/news/nmdot-reviewing-traffic-camera-system-in-wake-of-lillys-death/36088048

GPS / NAVIGATION

4) GPS Safety Campaign Rolled Out in France

Link to article on More About Advertising:

http://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2015/10/ogilvy-paris-unveils-gps-safety-campaign-for-allianz/

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION

5) Colorado DOT Unveils $20 Million Tech Program to Make Roads Safer, Faster

Link to article in the Denver Business Journal:

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2015/10/colorado-unveils-20-million-transportation.html

6) Nokia Greenlights Intelligent Transportation System that Uses Drivers' Smartphones

Link to article on ZDNet:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/buckle-up-nokia-greenlights-intelligent-transportation-system-that-uses-drivers-smartphones/

MARITIME

7) Online Petition Launched to Help Save Port of Los Angeles Archives

Link to article in the Daily Breeze:

http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/20151027/online-petition-launched-to-help-save-port-of-los-angeles-archives

OTHER

8) Detroit Windsor Tunnel Prepares for 85^th Anniversary

Link to story on CTV News Windsor:

http://windsor.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=735645 (part 1)

http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=736548 (part 2)

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

9) Opponents of I-66 Tolls in Virginia Upset About Location of Meeting to Approve Plan

Link to story on WTTG-TV:

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/39919936-story

10) Billboard Campaign Asks Los Angeles Motorists to Stay at Scene of Crashes

Link to article in the Los Angeles Daily News:

http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20151028/billboard-campaign-asks-la-motorists-to-stay-at-scene-of-crashes

RAILROADS

11) Senate Approves Extension for PTC

Link to article in The Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/senate-approves-short-term-transportation-funding-bill/2015/10/28/1068443c-7db1-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html

Link to Association of American Railroads news release

12) Does New Law on Hazardous Rail Cargo Info Make Maine Safer?

Link to article in the Bangor Daily News:

https://bangordailynews.com/2015/10/28/the-point/does-new-law-on-hazardous-rail-cargo-info-make-maine-safer/

ROADWAYS

13) What Does California's State Highway Shield Symbolize?

Link to story on KCET-TV:

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/what-does-californias-state-highway-shield-symbolize.html

14) Traffic Control Devices

Link to Transportation Research Record:

http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/173357.aspx

TRANSIT

15) Seoul's Interactive Bus Information System

Link to article in AV Magazine:

http://www.avinteractive.com/news/digital-signage/seouls-interactive-bus-information-system-28-10-2015/

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

16) Pope Francis Left Us with a Lesson in Traffic Management

Link to column in The Washington Post:

https://goo.gl/m2Uhlh

VEHICLES

17) US Copyright Office: Car Owners Can Modify Vehicle Software

Link to Reuters article:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/car-owners-modify-vehicle-software-185727460.html

Link to Library of Congress Final Rule

Link to Electronic Frontier Foundation news release

18) USDOT Releases New Fact Sheet on Connected Vehicle Safety Applications

Link to further information from ITS Joint Program Office:

http://goo.gl/ECAuke

News Releases

1) Mitsubishi Electric Develops Machine-Learning Technology That Detects Cognitive Distractions in Drivers

2) ITS World Congress Proceedings Now Available

3) IBM Plans to Acquire The Weather Company's Product and Technology Businesses

Upcoming Events

Virtual Panel Discussion: How the World Beats Traffic – November 2

http://ecofiscal.ca/events/how-the-world-beats-traffic/

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