Thursday, July 4, 2019

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Transportation Communications Newsletter

🇺🇸 Thursday, July 4, 2019 - Cranford, New Jersey 🇺🇸


AVIATION

1) Heathrow Airport Placed Pride Ads Near Royal Brunei Airlines Check-In To Protest Gay Death Penalty

2) Air Pilots ‘Flying Blind’ In Nigeria’s Airspace 200 Miles From Any Airport

BICYCLES / PEDESTRIANS

3) Renewed Calls In Australia For Pedestrians To Be Fined $200 For Looking At Their Phones While Crossing Road

CARTOGRAPHY

4) St. Petersburg, Florida Launches Transportation Map To Provide In-Depth Look At Neighborhoods

GPS / NAVIGATION

5) NASA Developing GPS For Navigation On The Moon

6) Ben Gurion Airport Incident Exposes West’s Vulnerability To GPS Disruption

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

7) Smart Transportation Dispatch - July 4, 2019

OTHER

8) Former Transit Bus Converted Into Mobile Workstation To Help Unemployed, Homeless

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

9) Massachusetts DOT Secretary Is The Master Of Explaining Transportation Disaster

10) Southwest Virginia Officers Recognized For Work On Seat Belt Safety Videos

RAILROADS

11) Fishtech Group Develops App To Predict When Trains Will Come

12) Improving Passenger Information With Real-Time Displays

SAFETY / SECURITY

13) Bus PASS: Testing Pedestrian Collision Avoidance Technology

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

14) Israel’s Transportation Ministry Goes After Taxi-Hailing Company Yango

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

15) Kansas, Missouri DOTs Partner On Driver Alert Technology Pilot Program

TRANSIT

16) After Complaints From Blind Riders, DC Metro To Offer Help During Shutdown

17) Interview With Howard Collins, CEO: Sydney Trains, NSW TrainLink

VEHICLES

18) EU Opens Road To 5G Connected Cars In Boost To BMW, Qualcomm

19) Ride A Robot Bus To The Beach In Helsinki, One Of The World’s Most Active Test Cities For Robot Buses


Upcoming Events

=========================================================================
The Transportation Communications Newsletter (ISSN 1529-1057) is published electronically Monday through Friday.   For a free subscription or to unsubscribe, or for comments or questions, please contact me at bernie@transportationradio.com. TCN archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications    
Follow me on Twitter @TransportComm.  
© 2019 Bernie Wagenblast Communications, LLC www.TransportationRadio.com  1 Aberdeen Ct., Cranford, NJ 07016