Tuesday, February 1, 2022

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - Cranford, New Jersey  

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**Happy Lunar New Year**

AVIATION

1) Australia Picks Four Competitors For Drone Air Traffic Management Prototype System

DroneDJ

2) 5G Debacle Shows How Poor Governance Threatens Aviation Innovation

The Hill commentary

CAMERAS

3) Are Washington State Traffic Cameras Reducing Dangerous Driving Or Making It Worse?

Crosscut

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

4) Changes Coming To Ohio Turnpike Toll Stations

Sandusky Register

5) State’s Pursuit Of Tolls Leaving Massachusetts Drivers Angry, Frustrated

WCVB-TV

GPS / NAVIGATION

6) Russia Refuses Israeli Demand To Stop Jamming GPS Of Flights Into Tel Aviv

Middle East Monitor

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

7) Cities Adopt Cloud Computing, IoT For Smarter Transportation

StateTech

8) Smart Street Lighting Company Telensa Acquired By Signify

Global Legal Chronicle

PRIVACY

9) Securitas Data Leak Exposes IDs Of South American Airport Security Workers 

Infosecurity Magazine

10) Vulnerability In Swiss PostBus Public Transport Platform Exposed Customer Data

Daily Swig

11) Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Decision On Private And Personal Redactions Under FOIA

JD Supra

12) Teenager Asks Elon Musk For $50,000 To Delete Twitter Account Tracking His Private Jet

Sky News

 

ROADWAYS

13) Automatic Truck Tonnage Sensors To Prevent Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Collapse Due To Arrive At Year End

Brownstoner

SAFETY / SECURITY

14) New Collaborative At Atlanta Airport To Bring Attention To Human Trafficking In Region

WAGA-TV

15) Facial Scans Catch ‘Impostors’ At US Border As Agencies Embrace Use

Bloomberg Government

VEHICLES

16) Tesla Recalls Autos Over Software That Allows Them To Roll Through Stop Signs

AP

17) Driver Monitoring Is Necessary When Cars Add Automation, AAA Says

Consumer Reports

18) Tesla Launches TeslaMic, A Microphone For In-Car Karaoke

Electrek

News Releases

1) Wisconsin DOT Providing Improved Winter Road Condition Information on 511wi.gov

2) Leonardo, Aeroporti Di Roma Sign Partnership On Cyber Security For Airports

3) Inmarsat Ferry Open Innovation Challenge Invites Entries From Next Generation Digital Solutions For Crew Training And Entertainment

4) Portland State University Uses GoodMaps To Map Buildings In Detail, Provide Wayfinding

5) Toll Insight, Martin Stone Consulting Offering Business of Tolling – Overview Course

6) MTC Selects Passport For Its Mobile Pay Parking, Digital Monthly Permits At New Commuter Parking Lots

7) USDOT Working Group Releases Work Zone Data Exchange Version 4.0

8) Skyway Technologies, TruWeather Solutions Partner On Air Navigation Systems

9) Traffic Lights Controlled Using Artificial Intelligence

Tuesday Transportation Oddities

Gotta couple of minutes? That’s all you’ll need to fly the world’s shortest commercial airline flights. Loganair flights LM0711 and LM0709 will take you between Westray and Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands, a distance of 1.7 miles (2.7 km). 

Upcoming Events

Rekor Webinar: How To Maximize Federal Funding for Intelligent Infrastructure - February 8

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