Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Tuesday, December 31, 2019 - Cranford, New Jersey 🕛



CAMERAS

1) Pennsylvania DOT Adding Traffic Cams, Message Boards To Routes 30, 283

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

2) Ontario’s Highway 407 To Charge More In Summer Than Spring, Winter

3) Mackinac Bridge Rolling Out New Format For MacPass

MOBILITY

4) Smartphones Are Introducing Tech That Makes The World More Accessible For People With Disabilities

OTHER

5) The Design Firm Responsible For Familiar Signage At Transit Hubs Around The World

RAILROADS

6) Dutch Railways Will Conduct New Round Of Automatic Train Operation Tests

7) Nearly 1,000 Train Carriages With GPS, Wi-Fi, TV To Be Added To UK Rail Network In 2020

8) Empowering Railroad Customers One API At A Time

TRANSIT

9) Public Transit Users Can Now Ask Amazon’s Alexa, ‘Where’s My Bus?’

10) Denver RTD Debuts Rider Alert System

11) Interview With David Franks, CEO, Keolis Downer

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

12) Colorado DOT Creates Operations Center To Manage 18-Mile Construction Zone

13) No Respite From Traffic Snarls At Ganj, India As Control Room Continues To Be Defunct

VEHICLES

14) Baidu Secures Licenses To Test Self-Driving Cars In Beijing

15) Transport Scotland Publishes Driverless Vehicle Plan

WEATHER

16) Social Media And Severe Weather Communication


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Monday, December 30, 2019

Monday, December 30, 2019

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Monday, December 30, 2019 - Burlington, Vermont



AVIATION

1) World’s First Airport With Completely Remote ATC Just Opened In Sweden

2) Reno-Tahoe Airport Asking Passengers For Their New Year’s Resolutions

CAMERAS

3) Croatian State Roads To Get Traffic Cameras

CARTOGRAPHY

4) Revamped Apple Maps Expands To Southeast, Central US, Completing Rollout

MARITIME

5) US Coast Guard Discloses Ryuk Ransomware Infection At Maritime Facility

TRANSIT

6) Use Of Big Data To Improve Public Transport Discussed In Dubai

7) Hong Kong Mobile Payments To Be Accepted On Guangzhou Public Transport

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

8) Road Sensors May Help Georgia DOT, Cities Prevent Another ‘Snowmageddon’

9) Arkansas DOT Embraces Tech To Aid Drivers

VEHICLES

10) Tesla’s New Data Pipeline And Deep Learning Patent Paves Way For Quicker Autonomous Driving Improvements 

11) Scotland ‘Open For Business’ In Pioneering Driverless Vehicles


News Releases


Upcoming Events

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Friday, December 27, 2019

Friday, December 27, 2019

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Friday, December 27, 2019 - Long Hill, New Jersey



AVIATION

1) Marlee Matlin Calls Out Delta’s Accessibility Problems For Deaf, Airline Responds

2) Aviation Publishing Stalwart Murray Smith Dies

3) Satellite Constellations And ADS-B

CARTOGRAPHY

4) HD Maps To Be Basis For Local Dynamic Maps in Taiwan

GPS / NAVIGATION

5) China Says It Will Complete Its Competitor To GPS In First Half Of 2020

6) Virginia Bill Would Require All Big Rigs To Be Equipped With GPS

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

7) Lucknow And Indian Institute Of Management, Indore May Collaborate On Smart Traffic Management System

8) Intelligent Mobility: The Future Challenges In Transportation

OTHER

9) Civil Engineering Communications

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

10) Seattle Police Release PSA Video Of Man Doing Cocaine During A Traffic Stop

ROADWAYS

11) Washington Supreme Court: Drivers Must Use Turn Signals To Turn, Change Lanes

12) Utah DOT To Study New Tech In Hopes Of Catching Express Lanes Cheaters

SAFETY / SECURITY

13) Car Camera System Could Help Keep Drivers Awake At The Wheel


News Releases


Friday Bonus


Upcoming Events

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Thursday, December 26, 2019

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Thursday, December 26, 2019 - Cranford, New Jersey


** Happy Kwanzaa / Happy Boxing Day **

AVIATION

1) FAA: New Rule Creates Network Of Trackable Drones

CARTOGRAPHY

2) South Africa Gets Live EV Charge Map

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

3) Company Buying Bay City, Michigan’s Drawbridges Discusses Tolls And Transponders

4) New York City Creeps Ahead On Congestion Fees, Raising Doubts On Deadline

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

5) Smart Transportation Dispatch - December 26, 2019

OTHER

6) New Tech Speeds Collection Of Evidence From Truck Accidents

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

7) Silly Missouri Road Signs Convey Important Information

ROADWAYS

8) In Struggle Against Traffic-Safety Scofflaws, OurStreets App Is Set To Let DC Users Report Violations

SAFETY / SECURITY

9) Noida, India Transport Launches Drive To Paste Reflectors On Vehicles

TRANSIT

10) Delhi Buses To Get CCTV, Panic Buttons, GPS To Ensure Women’s Safety

11) How Interactive Kiosks, Digital Signage Empower Transit Riders

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

12) Amarillo, Texas Installing Third Phase Of New Traffic Management System

13) TSM&O Disseminator - November/December 2019

14) Indian Police Official Writes Book On Traffic Management In Metropolitan Cities

VEHICLES

15) Driverless Tech Navigates Challenging Course


Solicitation


Upcoming Events

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Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Transportation Communications Newsletter

🎅 Wednesday, December 25, 2019 - Cranford, New Jersey


**Merry Christmas**

AVIATION

1) Airlines Trading Watch Towers For Virtual Screens To Control Taxiway Traffic

2) FAA Releases New Video For ADS-B ADAPT Program

FREIGHT

3) Is Self-Driving Technology The Future Of Trucking?

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

4) Video Analytics Paves Way For Smart Cities

OTHER

5) California Bans Per-Minute Billing: Tesla Superchargers Will Need Displays

6) How Syracuse Helped Make The Term ‘Jaywalking’ Famous

ROADWAYS

7) Who Writes The Holiday Messages On The Highway Info Boards? Curious Texas Takes A Ride.

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

8) Meet The Men Who Spend Christmas Day Driving Up And Down The Motorway

TRANSIT

9) New York Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Train Public Transportation Workers To Spot Human Trafficking

VEHICLES

10) Tesla’s Neural Net Can Now Identify Red And Green Traffic Lights, Garbage Cans and Detailed Road Markings

WEATHER

11) Integrating Big Data And The Weather

12) 5G Is Going To Screw Up Weather Forecasts, Meteorologists Warn


News Releases


Upcoming Events

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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. Follow me on Twitter @TransportComm.  
© 2019 Bernie Wagenblast Communications, LLC www.TransportationRadio.com  1 Aberdeen Ct., Cranford, NJ 07016