Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - Cranford, New Jersey


AVIATION

1) New York State Police to Begin Flying Drones to Reconstruct Motor Vehicle Crashes
Governor Andrew Cuomo news release

2) Bush, Hobby Airports Have ‘Smart Bathrooms’

3) A Brief History of Airport Chapels

BICYCLES / PEDESTRIANS

4) Can ‘Bicycle-to-Vehicle’ Communication Help Make Cycling Safer?

5) Lithuania Police Handing Out Candles to Pedestrians and Cyclists Without Clothing Reflectors

CAMERAS

6) Dallas Area Rapid Transit Plans More Cameras on Its Trains

CARTOGRAPHY

7) Interactive Crowdsourced Atlas Plots Vanished Railroad Lines

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

8) ERTICO Newsletter

MARITIME

9) Port of San Francisco: New Drones Could Help Inspect Pier Damage After Earthquakes

10) Pilot Program of DrayQ App at Washington Ports Scrapped
Northwest Seaport Alliance news release

OTHER

11) Report: Trump Administration Scrubbed Mentions of Climate Change from USDOT and Other Websites

12) How I Learned to Drive in a VR Traffic School

13) Latest Issue of Texas Transportation Researcher

SAFETY / SECURITY

14) Cellphone Use Dramatically Increases Crash Risk, New AAA Study Says

15) Michigan DOT to Equip More Snow Plows with Green Lights

16) Tougher Texting-While-Driving Ban Moves in Florida House
Florida House Bill 33

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

17) Moscow Taxi Users Facing Inflated Fares Due to Navigation System Errors

TELEMATICS

18) Amazon Alexa Coming to Toyota Cars

19) Alexa, Hey Google and Your Car Radio

TRANSIT

20) Microtransit: How Cities Are, and Aren’t, Adapting Transit Technology

21) DC Metro and Its Union Spar Over Meetings on Transit Agency Property

22) Sneakers Will Serve as Free 2018 Transit Pass on Berlin Transit

23) Chinese ‘Smart’ Buses Bring Safe, Comfortable Transport to Cambodia

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

24) New Traffic System Will Help Dallas Ease Congestion

VEHICLES

25) Net Neutrality and the Driverless Future


News Releases


Solicitation


Upcoming Events

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