Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 -- ISSN 1529-1057

Registration for IBTTA’s 76th Annual Meeting and Exhibition Now Open – Baltimore, MD USA, September 21-24, 2008

Join IBTTA for the most significant gathering of toll industry professionals and business partners in the world. More than 1,000 delegates from 25 countries on six continents will converge on Baltimore’s Waterfront to examine best practices and critical innovations in toll industry finance, marketing, technology, customer service, environmental stewardship, operations, maintenance, and related issues. This meeting is hosted by the Maryland Transportation Authority. Registration cut-off for this meeting is September 5, 2008. For more information, visit IBTTA’s website and register online today! www.IBTTA.org.


AVIATION

1) The ‘Plane’ Truth About Airline Close Calls
Link to story and video report on WFOR-TV:
http://cbs4.com/iteam/runway.incursion.planes.2.781942.html

OTHER

2) July Issue of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Newsletter Online
Link to newsletter:
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/tc/its/v10n3.pdf

3) Summer Issue of the National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education’s CFIRE Newsletter
- Community Maps Pilot Site (page 3)
- CFIRE, MVFC Truck Parking & Bottlenecks Surveying Moving Ahead at Trucker Shows (page 4)
http://www.wistrans.org/cfire/newsletter/Summer08.pdf

4) Articles from Latest Issue of Florida’s Turnpike Pike’s Peek
- Explosive Growth in Intelligent Transportation System (page 2)
- Sawgrass Expressway’s ‘Smart Highways’ Project (page 2)
- In Search of a Better Way – Turnpike looks for ways to better monitor visibility and share information with customers (page1)
http://www.floridasturnpike.com/TurnpikeNewsletters/06134-PikesPeekSpringSumme08FINAL.pdf

ROADWAYS

5) ‘Traffic’ Writer Reads the Road Signals to Explain Drivers’ Behavior
Link to story in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-07-28-traffic-vanderbilt_N.htm
Link to interview on WNYC Radio’s Leonard Lopate Show:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/07/29

SAFETY / SECURITY

6) Accident Modification Factors for Traffic Engineering and ITS Improvements
Link to publication from the Transportation Research Board:
http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8965

VEHICLES

7) Car Stereo Sales Hit a Distressing Low Note
Link to story in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-07-28-car-stereos_N.htm


News Releases
1) New Book: Thinking Continentally: Terrorism and Transportation
2) Traffic Technologies, Inc. Continues Staff Expansion
3) MSN Direct Enables Web Sites to Deliver Location Information to GPS Navigation Devices


Upcoming Events
Teens in the Driver Seat Summit – October 24-25 – San Antonio, Texas
http://tti.tamu.edu/conferences/tds08/


Today in Transportation History
1958 **50th anniversary** - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created.
http://www.nasa.gov/50th

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