Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - Cranford, New Jersey


AVIATION

1) Orlando International Airport Officials Work to Improve Emergency Communications Following Battery Explosion Scare

2) Aviation Group Calls on FAA to Temporarily Halt Instrument Approach Decommissioning

CAMERAS

3) Red-Light Camera Tickets Would Cost Ohio Cities Money Under New Bill

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

4) Florida Facility Seeks to Boost Tolling and Automated Driving Technology
Florida Polytechnic University news release

5) Kansas Turnpike Toll Plaza Near Bonner Springs Set to Convert to Gate-less Tolling Soon

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

6) High-Tech System Will Help Congestion During Michigan Bridge Construction
Michigan DOT news release

7) India, Canada to Boost Ties in Field of Science and Technology, Including ITS

8) New York City Smart City Projects Focus on User Experience, Transportation

PLANNING

9) Louisville Uses Waze Data for Better Transportation Outcomes

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

10) Colorado DOT: More Than Half of State’s Marijuana Users Think It’s OK to Drive High. Changing That Could Be an Uphill Battle

RAILROADS

11) Germany’s ‘Train of the Future’ Includes Spin Bikes and Big-Screen TVs

ROADWAYS

12) Street Signs in Four Languages Popping Up in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

13) Amid Stress of Los Angeles Traffic, Fake Street Signs Aim to Help People Chill Out and Get Zen

SAFETY / SECURITY

14) Communication Issues Complicated Emergency Transportation in Miami-Dade for Hurricane Evacuees

15) Electronic Frontier Foundation Says TSA Facial Recognition Proposal Part of Dangerous Overreach

16) California Wildfires Highlighted Need to Modernize Emergency Alerts

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

17) Uber Now Tells You How Much a Scheduled Ride Will Cost

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

18) Minnesota Super Bowl Officials Push Transit, Hubs, Parking Apps in Planning for the Week

19) National Traffic Incident Response Week Highlights Teamwork

TRANSIT

20) HART Reveals Details on Driverless Shuttle Coming to Downtown Tampa

21) Tickets? Puh-leez. There Are Lots of New Ways to Pay Bus and Train Fares.

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

22) Innovative App to Reduce Congestion in Coventry, England
Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership news release

VEHICLES

23) Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority Shows off Cars that Talk to Each Other

24) California Clears the Way for Testing of Fully-Driverless Cars. Local, Federal Interests Have Concerns

25) Wisconsin DOT Studying Possibility of Driverless Vehicle Lanes on I-94

26) North Carolina DOT Official Looks at What’s Next for Autonomous Vehicles

27) Autonomous Shuttle Demonstrations at University of Wisconsin-Madison Derailed After Crash in Las Vegas

28) Move Over Uber -- the US Army’s Testing Driverless Vehicles

29) Uber Plans Self-Driving, Long-Haul Trucks on the Road ‘in the Near Future’


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