Friday, August 3, 2018

Friday, August 3, 2018

Transportation Communications Newsletter


Friday, August 3, 2018 - Cranford, New Jersey




AVIATION


1) Kiosk at Akron-Canton Airport Offers Free Short Stories for Travelers


BICYCLES / PEDESTRIANS


2) Transport for London Wins Deal with Hong Kong for New Walking Signage


CAMERAS


3) Ohio DOT Delays Speed-Camera Directive


CARTOGRAPHY


4) Google Maps Location Sharing Adds Phone Battery Status


FREIGHT


5) Conversational Analytics to Alter Port Paradigm


PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION


6) North Carolina DOT Develops New Method to Hear Resident Feedback on Controversial Project


ROADWAYS


7) Road Sign Backlash Prompts North Carolina DOT Review


SAFETY / SECURITY


8) Some Auto Safety Features Give Car Shoppers Pause


TELEMATICS


9) Mercedes to Launch Telematics Service Connect Business in 4th Quarter


TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT


10) Two Years to Go: Transport Providers Gearing Up for Tokyo Olympic Games


TRANSIT


11) Teen’s Bus-Tracking App a Hit Among Bengaluru Commuters


12) Voice of Ottawa Transit Wants Seth Rogen to Stay in His Lane


13) Kochi, India Gets Ghalo App for Live Tracking of Buses, Ferries


TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT


14) Consortium to Build New Traffic Management System for Austria’s Tolled-Motorway Network


VEHICLES


15) 5G for Car Manufacturing: Audi and Ericsson Announce Partnership


16) Elon Musk Says Tesla AI Chip Project If ‘Finally Coming to Fruition’


17) RideOS Raises $25 Million to Become the Traffic Control Center for Self-Driving Cars

News Releases

Friday Bonus
In this week’s Friday Bonus I want to make a personal note. On Saturday I’ll be retiring from what is now a small but still important part of my career. I’ll be doing my final radio traffic reports. That was how I landed in the transportation business and although I never took a transportation course, reporting on traffic was a good education in and of itself. These days I’m only on-air for four hours a week. Just enough to keep a hand in the business. The TCN and my other newsletters will continue, as will my voiceover work and podcasts. I began as a traffic reporter in 1979 with my first report on legendary station WABC. After five years as a traffic reporter I spent the next 23 working in both the private and public sectors in transportation. I came back to radio in 2009. If you have SiriusXM you can listen to those last reports between noon and 4 pm EDT on Channel 133.

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