Monday, March 21, 2016

Monday, March 21, 2016


Transportation Communications Newsletter

Monday, March 21, 2016 – ISSN 1529-1057


Register Soon for EDI’s iCITE™ Data Aggregator® DA-300 Webinar

Join Eberle Design Inc. on Tuesday, March 29th at 8 a.m. PDT for an informative, free 45-minute webinar, “iCITE™ Data Aggregator DA-300™: Real-Time Traffic & Arterial Data with Cabinet Monitoring.” Presented by iCITE™ Technical Product Manager Tim McCall, this webinar will show traffic operations technicians and traffic engineers how the iCITE™ Data Aggregator® DA-300 monitors and reports on mission critical traffic cabinet or intersection faults via SMS or email. Webinar attendees will also learn how the iCITE™ Data Aggregator® DA-300 provides Cloud-based remote access to real-time performance measures and traffic data from isolated or networked intersections or arterial roadways with cabinet monitoring functioning. To register, go to http://bit.ly/1QLUisB.


AVIATION

1) British Plane Spotters Jailed in Kenya for Taking Airport Photos
Link to BBC News story

2) Anchorage Air Traffic Controllers Avert Disaster By Guiding Low-on-Fuel Jet to Airport
Link to Alaska Dispatch News article

CAMERAS

3) Arizona Attorney General Says Red-Light Camera Companies Need Private Investigator License
Link to KSAZ-TV story
Link to opinion

CARTOGRAPHY

4) How a National Transit Map Could Connect 'Transit Deserts' to the Grid
Link to Washington Post article

INFRASTRUCTURE

5) Carnegie Mellon Researching How Smartphones Can Aid Infrastructure Data Collection
Link to The Tartan article

6) New Book: 'The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure'
Link to New York Times review

OTHER

7) Bengaluru Traffic Police Launch App for Auto and Cab Commuters
Link to The Hindu article

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

8) An Interview with the Realist Social Media Managers in Public Transportation
Link to The Verge article

RAILROADS

9) Freight Railroads Elevating Efforts to Collect, Analyze and Merge Information from Many Sources
Link to Progressive Railroading article

ROADWAYS

10) MIT: Red Lights Could Someday Be a Thing of the Past
Link to Computerworld article
Link to news release

11) Confusing Ramps Lead Fort Worth Drivers Onto Toll Lanes
Link to Star-Telegram article

TRANSIT

12) Florida International University May Get Driverless Shuttle in State Test of New Tech
Link to Miami Herald article

13) Noida Relies on Tech to Make Bus Service User-Friendly
Link to Times of India article

14) How We Found (and Lost) the Dream of Personal Rapid Transit
Link to The Verge article

VEHICLES

15) Why the Self-Driving Revolution is Close at Hand
Link to Transportation Technology Today story

16) US Recall Stats for 2015 Tell a Chilling Tale
Link to Strategy Analytics blog


News Releases


Upcoming Events
EUROCAE Symposium and General Assembly – April 28-29 – Vienna

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