Transportation Communications Newsletter
Wednesday,
October 12, 2016 – Boonton, New Jersey
BICYCLES / PEDESTRIANS
1)
Pittsburgh Using Technology to Get
Pedestrians to Look Up from Their Phones While Crossing Streets
Link
to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article
2)
Palos Verdes Estates, California Council
Votes Against Bicycle Signs
Link
to Daily Breeze article
CARTOGRAPHY
3)
As Self-Driving Cars Arrive, Google Maps
Looks for Its Place
Link
to San Francisco Chronicle article
INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION
4)
Here's Alphabet's Pitch to 'Smarti'-ify
Your City
Link
to BuzzFeed article
5)
Daily News from ITS World Congress
Link
to news updates
MARITIME
6)
Maritime Cyberattacks Rising
Link
to Port Technology article
OTHER
7)
The 'Green Book' Was a Travel Guide Just
for Black Motorists in US
Link
to NBC News story
RAILROADS
8)
Train Braking: USDOT's Rulemaking on
Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brakes Could Benefit from Additional Data
and Transparency
Link
to GAO report
SAFETY / SECURITY
9)
Boston's Safe Driving App Seeing Quick
Results
Link
to WFXT-TV story
10)
Sensors Will Detect Students Falling
Under School Buses
Link
to WSAZ-TV story
TRANSIT
11)
Report: Apple Hoping to Bring Apple Pay
to More Transit Systems
Link
to AppleInsider article
12)
This Seamless, Simple Transit App Wants
to Plan and Pay for All Your Trips
Link
to Curbed article
13)
Downtown Burlington, Vermont Transit
Center to Offer Gigabit Wi-Fi Hotspot
Link
to Vermont Business Magazine article
http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/october/downtown-transit-center-offer-gigabit-wifi-hotspot-burlington
TRAVELER INFORMATION /
TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
14)
Nearly $8 Million Slated for Improved
Traffic Management, Information at Western New York Border Crossings
Link
to AP article
VEHICLES
15)
Toyota Has Issues with California's
Plans for Self-Driving Safety Check List
Link
to Reuters article
16)
How Self-Driving Cars Could Become Weapons
of Terror
Link
to San Francisco Chronicle article
17)
Waze and Esri Make App-to-Infrastructure
Possible
Link
to TechCrunch article
18)
New Technologies of Heavy Vehicle
Enforcement
Link
to ATN article
News Releases
Solicitation
-
Presentation Abstracts Sought –
Secure Rail Conference – Progressive Railroading
Upcoming Events
Intelligent Transport
Systems: a Tool or a Toy? – November 22-23 - Žilina, Slovakia
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The
Transportation Communications Newsletter
(ISSN 1529-1057) is published
electronically Monday through Friday.
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comments about the TCN? Please
write the editor, Bernie Wagenblast at bernie@transportationradio.com.
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