Friday, May 22, 2026

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

  Friday, May 22, 2026 - New York, New York

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**National Maritime Day**

AVIATION

1) FAA Administrator Pushes Back On ADS-B Fee Collection

AVweb

2) LaGuardia Runway Crash Highlights Importance Of Transponders On Airport Vehicles. So Why 

Aren’t They Everywhere?

WCBS-TV

3) Using Multisensory Design To Ease Passenger Trips Through Airports

Airport World (contributed content)

CAMERAS

4) How AI Cameras Are Changing Traffic Enforcement

Traffic Technology Today

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

5) Texas’ SH 130 Smart Corridor Pilot: AI Real-Time Traffic Tech

KXAN-TV

MARITIME

6) IMO Adopts First-Ever Global Rules For Autonomous Ships

gCaptain

MOBILITY

7) Transportation Modes, Data Converge To Make Mobility Efficient

Government Technology

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

8) NTSB Temporarily Pulls Public Docket System

AVweb

9) New FAA Site Aims To Track $12.5 Billion In Air Traffic Control System Upgrades

CBS News

TELEMATICS

10) One Life Saved, One Wasted Call-Out: The ‘Pros And Cons’ Of Phone Crash Alerts

Highways News

11) How IoT Connectivity And Telematics Are Being Used To Prevent E-Bike, E-Scooter Theft

IOT Insider

12) Apple Says CarPlay Ultra Coming To These Vehicle Brands

MacRumors

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

13) Dallas Drone As First Responder Program Takes To The Skies

Dallas Morning News

TRANSIT

14) Transit Technology Companies Launch New, Upgraded Software To Improve Transit Management Experience

Mass Transit

News Releases

1) Conduent Announces Agreement To Sell Its Public Transit Business To Modaxo For $164 Million

Friday Bonus  

New Jersey may have more angry drivers per square mile than other states and one man has made it his mission to document them.

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Thursday, May 21, 2026

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

  Thursday, May 21, 2026 - Cranford, New Jersey

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AUTOMATED & CONNECTED TRANSPORTATION

1) UK DfT Technology Official Pushes Open Standards Vision For Connected Vehicle Services

Highways News

AVIATION

2) Airlines Bet Big On Sports Sponsorships To Connect To Modern Consumers

Air Transport World

3) Inside Turkish Airlines’s Vision For Contextual, AI-Ready Retailing

Future Travel Experience

FREIGHT

4) Truckers Back To Paper Logs As FMCSA Removes 12 ELDs From List Of Approved Devices

CDLLife

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

5) ITS Nigeria Partners With China To Tackle Traffic Congestion

Punch

6) The Smart Transportation Dispatch - May 21, 2026

Carnegie Mellon University

OTHER

7) FCC Modernizes Disaster Information Reporting System

Federal Communications Commission

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

8) Dayton, Ohio Uses Citizens’ Assembly For Community Engagement

Route Fifty

RAILROADS

9) Irish Rail Has €50 Million Write-Off Of Failed IT Project

RTÉ

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

10) Nashville Prepares Traffic Management Plan For 2030 Super Bowl

WSMV-TV

11) AI-Based Traffic System To Curb Violations, Accidents In Patna, India

Times of India

TRANSIT

12) Explore Sound Transit Link Stations With GoodMaps

Sound Transit blog

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

13) Soon School Children To Man Traffic At Key Jaipur Intersections

Times of India

14) Colorado DOT Launches Language, Push Notification Features On COtrip Platforms

Colorado DOT

VEHICLES

15) Pirelli, Univrses Deal Will Incorporate 3DAI Technologies In Cyber Tyre System To Collect Road Info

ITS International

News Releases

1) Do More, Have More Fun With Next Generation Of Android In The Car

2) Orlando International Airport Opens ‘Flybrary’ For Young Readers

3) Solera Introduces AI-Powered Pedestrian Collision Warning System For Truck Fleets

4) Future Travel Experience Launches Podcast To Explore Realities Of Successful Innovation

5) Stellantis, Wayve Partner To Bring Hands-Free Door-To-Door Supervised Automated Driving At Scale

 

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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. Instagram: @cranford_radio 

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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

​  Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - Cranford, New Jersey

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**Texas A&M Aggies - NCAA Women’s Tennis Champions**

CAMERAS

1) City Of Las Vegas, Metro Considering Traffic Camera Pilot Program To Curb Dangerous Driving

KTNV-TV

2) AI Cameras Bring Positive Shift In Public Mindset Towards Traffic Law Compliance In Dhaka

BSS News

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

3) In Minnesota’s Express Toll Lanes, Scofflaws Nearly Outnumber E-ZPasses

Axios Twin Cities

MARITIME

4) New Whale Detection Network Launches In San Francisco Bay, Alerting Ships In Real Time

AP

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

5) Concerns Raised Around Sound Transit’s Ad Budget Amid $34.5 Billion ST3 Shortfall

The Center Square

6) Malaysian Highway Authority Partners With Media Prima To Boost Traffic Safety Outreach

New Straits Times

7) Allen, Texas’ Journey To YouTube Success

Governing

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

8) Scaling Real-Time Traffic Forecasting With A Graph-Aware Transformer

Uber Blog

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

9) North Carolina DOT’s Traveler Information Website Getting Major Overhaul

North Carolina DOT

News Releases

1) Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Given Samsara Connected Operations Award

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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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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

 Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - Cranford, New Jersey 🎾

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**University of Virginia Cavaliers - Men’s NCAA Tennis Champions**

AVIATION

1) LaGuardia Airport Launches Hologram Ambassador

Airport Experience News

2) South Sudan Inaugurates Country’s First Air Traffic Management Control System

Africanews

3) Miami-Dade County Mayor Unveils Plans For First Airport-Wide Digital Monitoring Hub

Airside

FREIGHT

4) IAG Cargo Launches ‘Virtual Work Experience’ Program

Air Cargo Week

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

5) Israeli Tech Companies See Growing Cooperation With China In Smart Mobility Technologies

Xinhua

MARITIME

6) Documentary On History Of SS Badger Makes Debut in Ludington, Michigan

Ludington Daily News

PRIVACY

7) US Department Of Justice Demanding Apple, Google Identify Over 100,000 Users Of EZ Lynk App

Forbes

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

8) How Much Was Donated To Sean Duffy’s Family Road Trip? Most Sponsors Still Won’t Say.

Forbes

RAILROADS

9) US House Transportation Bill Would Require Amtrak To Make Public Plans For Restructuring

Trains

10) BNSF, CPKC Say Problems With UP-NS Data Are Interfering With Ability To Assess Merger

Trains

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

11) Wyoming DOT 511 Map Tools

Wyoming DOT video

News Releases

1) Ericsson, Met Feasa To Deliver Maritime Connectivity With 4G, 5G, Agentic AI

2) ITS UK Launches Campaign ‘Stuck On Red’ To Tackle Decline In Traffic Signal Infrastructure

3) Here Technologies Unveils Location Reasoning, Redefining Geospatial Grounding For Real-World AI Decisions

4) North Dakota DOT Creates Over 20 Career Profiles In Compass

5) “Hey Google, Can I Park Here?”

Tuesday Transportation Oddities

Being a TSA officer can be a tough job. You’re on your feet for hours, you’re dealing with passengers who are usually not thrilled to be going through security and you have to be alert for potential threats which could kill people. Given these pressures, and more, a 90-year-old man putting on the blue uniform every day is a remarkable achievement.

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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.  

© 2026 Bernie Wagenblast Communications, LLC www.TransportationRadio.com  1 Aberdeen Ct., Cranford, NJ 07016