Wednesday, July 2, 2025

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

  Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - Cranford, New Jersey

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AVIATION

1) Senate Passes $12.5 Billion Plan To Fix America’s Air Traffic Control System

USA Today

2) France Asks Airlines To Reduce Flights At Paris Airports Due To Planned Air Traffic Controller Strike

Reuters

CAMERAS

3) Baghdad’s New Era Of Traffic Enforcement: Smart Cameras Now Active

IraqiNews

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

4) Massachusetts E-ZPass Website Overloaded With Applications Ahead Of All-Electronic Tolling

iBerkshires

FREIGHT

5) 40 Truckers Now Out-Of-Service For Lack Of English Proficiency, Mexican Officials Say

CDLLife

MARITIME

6) Germany, Sweden Join In Crackdown On Shadow Fleet Vessels In Baltic

Maritime Executive

PRIVACY

7) Out-Of-State Cops Had Access To Denver License Plate Data For Immigration Cases For Months

Denverite

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

8) Trump Administration Wants To Give Texas DOT More Authority – Require Less Transparency – On Roadway Projects

Austin American-Statesman

9) Seattle DOT Unveils Traffic Incident Dashboard

Westside Seattle

10) Florida’s New Spectrum Alert System Aims To Enhance Training, Locate A Missing Person With Autism

WPEC-TV

RESEARCH

11) Articles From Scientific Reports 15

 -  Effective Deep Learning-Aided Vehicle Classification Approaching Using Seismic Data

 -  A Multi-Stage Deep Learning Approach For Real-Time Vehicle Detection, Tracking, Speed Measurement In ITS

 -  Impacts Of Autonomous Vehicles On Freeway With Conditional Isolated And Dedicated Lanes

 -  Cross-Domain Transformer Spatial-Temporal Fusion Network For Traffic Flow Forecasting

 -  Life Cycle Cost Of Communication Towers: Identification And Hierarchical Classification Of Influencing Factors

ROADWAYS

12) Duffy To Governors: Roads Are For Safety, Not Politics

FHWA

SPACE

13) Interstellar Navigation And New Horizons Spacecraft

NPR’s All Things Considered

TRANSIT

14) Clipper Card Outage Results In Free Rides

San Francisco Standard

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

15) Islamabad Traffic Police Deploys Drones To Monitor Highways, Enforce Road Laws

Arab News

16) Mayo County Council Criticized For Not Allowing Signage To Advise Drivers Of Athletic Events

Western People

News Releases

1) Beep Begins Operating US’s First Fully Autonomous Public Transit System In Jacksonville

2) When Irregularity Is The Norm: AI For Efficient Transportation

3) New Interactive Tool Helps Travelers Avoid TSA, Customs Issues With Medications

4) Union Pacific Unveils Modernized Website

5) NHTSA Announces Anti-Speeding Campaign Ahead Of Holiday Weekend

6) Vision Zero Hawaiʻi Campaign Raises Awareness About Hawaiʻi’s Commitment To Eliminate Traffic Deaths

7) Transforming Real-Time Traffic Data Into Life-Saving Alerts For Commercial Drivers

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