Monday, December 17, 2018

Monday, December 17, 2018

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Monday, December 17, 2018 - Cranford, New Jersey

Eberle Design, Inc.’s iCITE® Data Aggregator DA-400x™ Offers Real-Time Traffic & Arterial Data with Cabinet Monitoring

From the award-winning Intelligent Cabinet Interface to Traffic Equipment (iCITE®) suite of products, the iCITE® Data Aggregator DA-400x™ accesses real-time intersection and arterial traffic data from any traffic cabinet, via high-speed internal or external communications devices, regardless of the traffic controller or central ITS system. In cooperation with any iCITE Ready® data analytics partner, the DA-400x™ can provide turning movement counts, amber/red actuations, arrivals on red, detector failures, preemption details, communications and power failures/alerts, split and interval timing data, and the Purdue Coordination Diagram, based upon high resolution data, all tailored to provide automated traffic signal performance measures via a Cloud-based user-friendly interface. For more information, contact Eberle Design, Inc. Sales Director John Shearer at jshearer@editraffic.com.


AVIATION

1) Air Carriers Experiment with Biometric Scanning to Speed Up Lines

2) Airports Want You to Shop, Not Drop, Using Technology

BICYCLES / PEDESTRIANS

3) Report: China Installing Tracking Devices on Electric Bicycles

CAMERAS

4) New Device to Enhance Airport Security Cameras

CARTOGRAPHY

5) Worries About Overlapping Map Technology Used by New Zealand Councils and Driverless Cars

6) Google Maps Gets Auto Rickshaw Public Transport Mode in Delhi

GPS / NAVIGATION

7) US Air Force Set to Launch Its First Next-Generation GPS Satellite Tuesday

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

8) Las Vegas Partners with NTT to Study IoT Impact on Transportation

9) German and US Researchers Exchange Ideas on Smart Transportation

10) Exploring Data and Privacy Regulation in Smart Cities

11) Thinking Cities at Meeting of the Minds 2018

MARITIME

12) Indian Government to Allow Calls, Internet Access During Ship Voyages, Air Travel

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

13) Two Climate Change Pages Removed from USDOT’s Website

14) Greater Susquehanna Valley Chamber Members Want to Be Better Informed by Pennsylvania DOT on Traffic Backups

15) Black Hawk County (Iowa) MPO Wants Advice on Public Input

16) Louisiana Pastor Says Railroad Not Communicating About Road Construction

RAILROADS

17) Amtrak Chief Safety Officer Lays Groundwork for a New Safety Management System

ROADWAYS

18) Safety Concerns Over Smart Motorways in UK

SAFETY / SECURITY

19) New Report Examines if ‘See Something, Say Something’ is Working

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

20) Lyft’s Latest App Update is Part of Its Product Diversification Plan

TRANSIT

21) WMATA Improves Rider-Alert System

22) Music Will Be Returning to DC Metro Stations

23) Harvard Business School Students Pay Visit to MBTA Operations Center

24) Assemblyman Says Legislation Will Make New Jersey Transit More Transparent

25) ATRA Pulse - December 2018

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

26) Seattle May Resort to On-the-Fly Traffic Light Changes to Cope with Alaskan Way Viaduct Closure


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