Tuesday, February 28, 2023

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

**25th Anniversary Year**

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - Cranford, New Jersey

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ELECTRONIC TOLLING

1) Maine Turnpike Authority Confirms Correlation Between ‘Cashless’ Toll Lanes, Violations

WGME-TV

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

2) First Phase Of Smart Traffic Management System Completed In Jammu, India

Press Trust of India

OTHER

3) Engineering A Career Path: Interview With Tim Lomax, Who Retired From TTI After 46 Years

Thinking Transportation podcast

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

4) Peninsula, Ohio Wants Speed Cameras, But Won’t Talk To Local TV Station

WJW-TV

RAILROADS

5) US Transportation Secretary Buttigieg To Class Is: Sign Up For Close-Call Reporting System

Progressive Railroading

ROADWAYS

6) Interstate Bridge Replacement Program: Engaging Communities And Working Across State DOTs With Greg Johnson

ITE Talks Transportation podcast

SAFETY / SECURITY

7) White House To Officially Ban TikTok From Government Devices Within 30 Days

FCW

8) Car Number Plates Becoming Too Easy To Clone, UK Government Warned In Report

Daily Telegraph

9) Arizona Licenses, IDs Getting New Look To Combat Fraud

Arizona Republic

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

10) AuSa Autorickshaw Ride Book App To Be Launched In March In Greater Kochi Area

The Hindu

TRANSIT

11) Chicago Transit Authority To Provide Livestreams Of Select Blue Line Platforms During Morning Rush

WLS-TV

12) Ugandan Public Transport Operators Want More Information On Digital Number Plates

KFM Radio

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

13) New Machine Learning Model Can Predict Traffic Activity

ScienceDaily

VEHICLES

14) Waymo’s Driverless Cars Were Involved In Two Crashes And 18 ‘Minor Contact Events’ Over 1 Million Miles

The Verge

News Releases

1) Amazon Will Spend $20 Million On Safety Technology Across Its Transportation Network In 2023

2) National Highways Launches HGV ‘Blind Spots’ Safety Campaign

3) Clemson University Joins Nation’s Frontline Defense Against Cyberattack On Transportation System

4) Colorado DOT, Partners Launch Distracted Driving Video Contest For High School Students

5) STM, Transit Test New Bus Detour Tool

6) TRL Software, Flare Announce Partnership To Enhance Data Offering For Road Safety Strategy

7) Miovision Acquires MicroTraffic

8) E-Scooter Safety Recommendations From European Transport Safety Council, UK Parliamentary Advisory Council For Transport Safety Include Lights, Indicators, Audible Warning Device

9) Delaware Crash Data Now Available To Public Through Open Data Portal

Tuesday Transportation Oddities

Why is there no J Street in Washington, DC?

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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.  

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Monday, February 27, 2023

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

**25th Anniversary Year**

Monday, February 27, 2023 - Long Hill Township, New Jersey

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**Dominican Republic Independence Day**

AVIATION

1) Hundreds Of Passengers Stranded At Gold Coast Airport Due To IT Outage

Australian Broadcasting Corp. News

2) Australia To Deploy Airspace Management System For Unmanned Aircraft

FlightGlobal

3) Welcome To Chula Vista, California, Where Police Drones Respond To 911 Calls

MIT Technology Review

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

4) Kansas Turnpike’s K-TAG, Florida’s SunPass Now Interoperable

KWCH-TV

5) How Toll Booth Thieves Are Getting Away With It

Sinclair Broadcast Group's The National Desk

GPS / NAVIGATION

 

6) Colorado Launches Tool To Improve Government Accessibility

Government Technology

7) For 30 Minutes, Volkswagen Tracking Service Wouldn’t Help Deputies Find Stolen Car With Toddler Inside

Chicago Sun-Times

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

8) ‘Smart’ Sensors On I-25 In Colorado Promise ‘Really Significant’ Traffic Improvements, Pilot Study Shows

Denver Post

MARITIME

9) Swarm Tech For Ferries

MarineLink

10) Trends And Innovations In Maritime IT

Safety4Sea

MOBILITY

11) Accessible Tech Points To Future Of Driverless Transport

Government News

OTHER

12) Connecticut Bill Would Require Officers To Explain Why They Stopped Drivers

Connecticut Mirror

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

13) How ‘15-Minute Cites’ Turned Into An International Conspiracy Theory

CNN

14) ‘Crafting An Illusion’: US Rail Firms’ Multimillion-Dollar PR Push

The Guardian

RAILROADS

15) Hot Box Detectors Didn’t Stop The East Palestine Derailment. Research Shows Another Technology Might Have

CNN

SAFETY / SECURITY

16) Philadelphia Adds Gun-Detection Software To Public Transit

Security

17) Campaign To Make Merseyside Transport Safer For Women Extended To Wider Area

BBC News

SPACE

18) The Five Big Worries The US Department Of Commerce Has About Space Traffic Management

Breaking Defense

TELEMATICS

19) Understanding Value The First Step To Monetizing Vehicle Data

Diginomica contributed content

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

20) Proposed North Carolina Bill Would Create Civilian Traffic Crash Investigators

High Point Enterprise

TRANSIT

21) MBTA Won’t Roll Out $935 Million Automated Fare Payment System In 2024

Boston Herald

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

22) Predictive Traffic Tech Bound For Australia

GoAutoNews 

23) How Do Those Highway Signs Determine Estimated Travel Time?

Boston.com

VEHICLES

24) Autonomous Truck Startup Locomation To Close

Transport Topics

25) Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech, But There's A Need For Limits

Seattle Times

26) Tesla Pauses New Full Self-Driving Beta Installations Until Recall Is Addressed

The Verge

27) Soon, You Can Take Your Meetings In A Mercedes-Benz E Class

ZDNET

28) Connected Vehicle Data – Now And Tomorrow

The Transportation Podcast

News Releases

1) Federated Wireless Partners, Aura Network Systems Partner To Advance Autonomous Aviation With Spectrum Management In 450 MHz Band

2) Molly Boigon Joins Automotive News As Transportation And Mobility Reporter

3) Contract Signed For MyWay+, New Ticketing System For Transport Canberra

4) ConMet Unveils Emerging Technologies For The Commercial Vehicle Market

5) Changi Airport Prototypes Smart Tech To Transform Future Airport Operations

6) Airport Dimensions Identifies Various Types Of Travelers Based On The Type Of Experience They Seek

7) AT&T Chosen As Connectivity Provider For Lucid Motors EVs

8) Qualcomm Raises The Bar For Connected Car Technologies With Next Generation Snapdragon Automotive 5G Platform

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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.  

© 2023 Bernie Wagenblast Communications, LLC www.TransportationRadio.com  1 Aberdeen Ct., Cranford, NJ 07016

Friday, February 24, 2023

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

**25th Anniversary Year**

Friday, February 24, 2023 - Cranford, New Jersey

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**Estonia Independence Day**

AVIATION

1) Honolulu Airport Travelers ‘Just Guessing’ Where TSA PreCheck Line Is Due To Lack Of Signage

KHON-TV

CAMERAS

2) Louisiana DOTD Installing New Cameras, Sensors Along Deadly Stretch Of I-10

WBRZ-TV

3) Ford Debuts Digital Rearview Mirror For Transit Vans

Manufacturing Business Technology

MARITIME

4) What Are Cruise Ship Overboard Detection Systems And Why Doesn’t Every Ship Have Them?

USA Today

OTHER

5) North Jersey Transportation Planning Agency About More Than Just Funding

Cranford Radio

6) Report: Technology Is Reshaping The Insurance Industry

Repairer Driven News

PARKING

7) Shanghai To Launch 40 Parking Management Demonstration Projects

Shanghai Daily

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

8) University Of Southern California Students Create Traffic Safety Campaign

Daily Trojan

RAILROADS

9) A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews To Ignore Safety Alerts

ProPublica

SAFETY / SECURITY

10) US Department Of Homeland Security’s Biometric Rally Reveals Strong Capabilities Reliant On Camera Configuration

Nextgov

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

11) Data On Impact Of Paris 2024 Traffic Lanes ‘Ready By This Summer’

Inside the Games

12) UVS Traffic Control Room Projects Help Manage A Third Of England’s Major Roads

Burnley Express

VEHICLES

13) The Mercedes-Benz E-Class Is Getting A Giant Touchscreen, TikTok, And A Selfie Camera

The Verge

14) AASHTO Knowledge Session Discusses CAVs

AASHTO Journal

News Releases

1) Schiphol Airport, Axxicom Airport Caddy Testing Whill Autonomous Mobility Service

2) Memphis Area Transit Authority Completes $200,000 Upgrade To Dispatch Command Center

3) Indian Trails Launches National Bus-Ticketing System in US

4) Nexus Announces Plan To Improve Digital Connectivity On Tyne And Wear Metro

5) Aiden Automotive Disrupts Connected Services Market

6) MBTA Launches Online Safety Dashboard

Friday Bonus

I sometimes feel this is what it’s like on the highways I travel.

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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.  

© 2023 Bernie Wagenblast Communications, LLC www.TransportationRadio.com  1 Aberdeen Ct., Cranford, NJ 07016