Wednesday, January 29, 2025

 

Transportation Communications Newsletter

  Wednesday, January 29, 2025 -  Cranford, New Jersey

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**Happy Lunar New Year**

AVIATION

1) JetBlue Becomes First Airline To Accept Venmo For Payment

ZDNET

CAMERAS

2) New Tennessee Legislation Would Let Police Use Interstate Cameras To Investigate Some Crimes

Axios

3) Mounting Issues With Traffic Fines In Cyprus As Database Chaos Leaves 100,000 Undelivered

Philenews

MARITIME

4) US Navy To Deploy Unmanned Vehicles On Maritime Domain Awareness, Counter-Drug Operations

Baird Maritime

5) Digital Twin Helps Texas Port Track Operations, Plan Ahead

Route Fifty

OTHER

6) An Interview With Karen Aspelin, The New ITE International President

ITE Talks Transportation

7) US Coast Guard Suspends Its Anti-Harassment Policy

Federal News Network

8) A Number Of Transportation Facilities Proposed To Be Named After President Trump

Politico commentary

PARKING

9) Arizona DOT Launches I-10 Truck Parking Availability System Near Rest Areas

Arizona DOT

PRIVACY

10) Navigating Emerging Privacy Laws: A Call To Action For Service Providers In Mass Transit

Metro blog

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION / INVOLVEMENT

11) Winners Named In TRB’s Communicating Concepts With The Public Competition

TRB Committee on Public Engagement and Communications

SPACE

12) Sen Streams 4K Live Views From International Space Station

Electronics Weekly

TAXIS / RIDESHARING

13) Uber's CEO Says Drivers Have About 10 Years Left Before They Will Be Replaced

Entrepreneur

TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

14) Los Angeles Residents Say They Were In The Dark As Fire Spread With No Evacuation Order

AP

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

15) Bengaluru Traffic Police Develop App Which Includes Real-Time Traffic Updates, Reporting of Incidents And Payment Of Traffic Fines

Times of India

16) Kansas DOT’s KanDrive App Now Live On CarPlay, Android Auto

autoevolution

17) Globacom, Oyo State Partner To Unveil Digital Traffic Initiative In Nigeria

Punch

VEHICLES

18) Waymo Coming To Los Angeles Freeways, Company Announces

KTTV-TV

News Releases

1) TSA Expands Acceptance Of Digital IDs To Virginia

2) Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport Unveils New Brand Ahead Of Super Bowl

3) MBTA Successfully Completes Installation Of Positive Train Control/Automatic Train Control On All Commuter Rail Lines

4) Moovit, Distribusion Technologies Partner To Streamline Intercity Transport Planning, Ticketing Across Europe

 

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