Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057

Join IBTTA in Chicago for the Transformation of Transportation!

IBTTA's 77th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 13-16, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, is the most significant gathering of toll industry professionals in the world. Attend this meeting and interact with the most influential experts and decision makers from around the globe and discuss ideas and solutions about transportation financing strategies, the future of tolling and paying for mobility, AET and Interoperability, new ideas for the new economy and sustainable transportation. Register by August 14 and receive a $100 discount off your registration fee. This meeting is hosted by the Illinois Tollway and will be held at the Hyatt Regency. For information on registration, hotel reservations, exhibiting or sponsorship, visit IBTTA's website at www.ibtta.org. Register today!

AVIATION

1) UK Airports Deploy New Technology to Monitor Passenger Movement

System anonymously tracks cell phone signals as passengers move through terminals.

Link to story on Airport Technology:

http://www.airport-technology.com/news/news60000.html?WT.mc_id=DN_News

2) Airport Maps iPhone App: Does It Really Help You Navigate Your Way Around North American Airports?

Link to review on Examiner:

http://www.examiner.com/x-14813-iPhone-Apps-Examiner~y2009m7d20-Airport-Maps-iPhone-app-does-it-really-help-you-navigate-your-way-around-North-American-airports

3) The Race to Provide Wi-Fi While Flying

Link to story in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/business/21road.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

4) EZ Tags Pull Double Duty as Traffic Monitors

Link to story in the Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6537163.html

PARKING

5) Are Even Higher Meter Prices in Your Future? Report Says They Should be

Report recommends higher rush hour parking rates, technology improvements to ease San Francisco's pervasive parking problems.

Link to story in the SFAppeal:

http://sfappeal.com/alley/2009/07/are-even-higher-meter-prices-in-your-future-report-says-they-should-be.php

SAFETY / SECURITY

6) US Withheld Data Showing Cell Phone Driving Risks

Link to story in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/technology/21distracted.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all


7) The Color of Safety

An expert symposium, cosponsored by FHWA, looked at the use of color in conveying safety messages.

Link to story in Public Roads:

http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/09julaug/02.htm

TELEMATICS

8) New OnStar Tech Keeps Stolen Vehicles from Starting

Link to review from CNET News:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10291032-48.html

TRANSIT

9) Maryland Transit Authority Reins in Audio Surveillance Proposal

Link to story in The Baltimore Sun:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/commuting/bal-md.mta21jul21,0,7383941.story

VEHICLES

10) Before Creating the Car, Ford Designs the Driver

Link to story in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/automobiles/19design.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

News Releases

1) Inrix Delivers Real-Time Traffic Flow Services for Europe

2) In-Vehicle Text-by-Voice Application Introduced by ATX to Automotive Market

3) Port of Long Beach, California to Test Emergency Public Address System

Job Posting

- Supervisory, Engineering Psychologist, Operations Research Analyst, or Industrial Engineer – Volpe National Transportation Systems Center – Cambridge, Massachusetts

http://jobview.usajobs.gov/getjob.aspx?jobid=82315153

Upcoming Events

15th Annual Central Europe/North America Airport Issues Conference – October 18-20 – Dubrovnik, Croatia

http://events.aaae.org/sites/091003/

Today in Transportation History

1919 **90th anniversary** - The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express caught fire and crashed into a building in Chicago. Thirteen people died, including ten on the ground.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Wingfoot-Air-Express---The-First-Airship-Disaster&id=1014840

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Monday, July 20, 2009

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Monday, July 20, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057

AVIATION

1) House Panel Reviews FAA’s Proposed NWS Av Weather Reorganization

Link to story on Aero-News:

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=9953efce-469b-4062-b951-2595e3687253

2) St. Louis Airport Eyes Sponsors

Link to story in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-07-19-terminals-flights-airports_N.htm

BICYCLING

3) Twitter Take the Tour de France on New Course

Link to story on CNET News:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10289028-93.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

CAMERAS

4) St. Louis Ignored Own Law Warning Motorists About Red-Light Cameras

Link to story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/4A7A895104A40AD7862575F7007DA178?OpenDocument

MARITIME

5) US Coast Guard Urges Boaters to Check Beacon Numbers

Link to AP story:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gwt1OWpWWFPmV7392jV096PGnC8QD99FL7SO2

6) New Tacoma Narrows Foghorns Have Lost Their Appeal for Many

Link to story in The News Tribune:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/815850.html

OTHER

7) Site Maps Stimulus Spending

Link to story in Federal Computer Week:

http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/07/17/Recovery-Web-site-debuts-new-maps.aspx

Link to maps: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/maps

8) Two Wisconsin Agencies Won’t Give Out Names

Wisconsin DOT one agency that won’t release names of those on opt-out list.
Link to AP story:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-privateinformatio,0,2321674.story

PARKING

9) Parking Dispo Ranked 35 in the Top 50 iPhone Apps

Program provides 1,400 car park addresses around France and real-time information on parking in Paris.

Link to story on Navx:

http://blog.navx.com/navx/2009/07/parking-dispo-ranked-35-in-the-top-50-iphone-apps.html

ROADWAYS

10) Signs Could Tell UK Drivers to Take the Train

Link to story in the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/5852206/Signs-could-tell-drivers-to-take-the-train.html

11) Texas Litterbugs Beware: Other Drivers Watching You

Link to story in the Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6537168.html

12) Signs of Change: How a New Font Called ‘Clearview’ is Changing America’s Highways

Link to story and video on The Hardest Year:

http://thehardestyear.com/2009/07/signs-of-change-how-a-new-font-called-clearview-is-changing-americas-highways/

13) Newfoundland Tourism Operators Criticize New Highway Sign Law

Link to story in The Western Star:

http://www.thewesternstar.com/index.cfm?sid=270799&sc=26

SAFETY / SECURITY

14) On Virtual Roads, Crashes are Educational

Link to story in The National:

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090719/NATIONAL/707189850/1042/PAGETHREE

15) Drivers and Legislators Dismiss Cell Phone Risks

Link to story in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/technology/19distracted.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

16) Dallas Cowboys Stadium Passes Traffic Test

Link to story in The Dallas Morning News:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-stadiumtest_20met.ART0.State.Edition1.4bd6f59.html

17) Futuristic Lamp-posts to Manage UK Traffic Jams

Link to story on TechRadar UK:
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/futuristic-lampposts-to-manage-uk-traffic-jams-618091

18) A World Without Traffic

Can GPS startup company Waze map the perfect commute?

Link to story in The Big Money:

http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/0s-1s-and-s/2009/07/20/world-without-traffic

News Releases

1) New FAA Safety Culture Reflected in Operational Error Reporting

2) Newark Liberty Airport Uses New Runway Safety System

Upcoming Events

Transportation Association of Canada Annual Conference and Exhibition – October 18-21 – Vancouver, British Columbia

http://www.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/exhibition/

Today in Transportation History

1969 **40th anniversary** - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to land and walk on the Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwaA-hbvYF8

(This link was selected not only because it showcases the lunar landing, but because it highlights Walter Cronkite. Cronkite, who died this past Friday, and was the person many followed during these momentous events.)

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Friday, July 17, 2009

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Friday, July 17, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057

RAILROADS

1) Key BC Rail E-Mails May Have Been Deleted in May

Government messages sought in corruption case.

Link to CBC News story:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/07/16/bc-bc-rail-emails.html

ROADWAYS

2) Missouri Road Signs to Become Fluorescent

Link to AP story:

http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2009/07/17/news_state/167state32modot.txt

Link to news release from the Missouri Department of Transportation:

http://www.modot.org/newsandinfo/District0News.shtml?action=displaySSI&newsId=34341

3) $155,000 Sign Welcomes Motorists to Orange County, California

Link to story in The Orange County Register:

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/freeway-county-buena-2495618-project-orange

SAFETY / SECURITY

4) Transportation’s Real Mover

Coolly, Deborah Hersman is National Transportation Safety Board’s very face of safety.

Link to profile in The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604222.html

TELEMATICS

5) Two Ways to Profit from the New Wave of Motoring Technology

Link to story in MoneyWeek:

http://www.moneyweek.com/investment-advice/share-tips-two-ways-to-profit-from-the-new-wave-of-motoring-technology-14961.aspx

TRANSIT

6) DC Metro is Meeting with Vendors about Train Control Backup

Link to story in The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/07/14/ST2009071403568.html?sid=ST2009071403568

7) Citizen Journalists on Prowl for Train and Bus Operators Asleep at Wheel

Link to Fox News story:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533460,00.html

8) TriMet’s Open Source Heaven: The Five Best Transit-Rider Apps

Link to story in The Oregonian:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2009/07/open_source_heaven_the_5_best.html

Link to TriMet App Center: http://trimet.org/apps/

News Releases

1) Sydney Metro Airports Launch Filming Studios – Designed to show the possibilities of airports as filming locations

2) National Transportation Atlas Database Released

Upcoming Events

Talking Freight - Highway Networks and Their Relationship to Freight – August 19

https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/web_conf_learner_reg.aspx?webConfID=17162

Friday Bonus

This brings distracted driving to a whole new level.

http://www.saveborrowspend.co.uk/articles/news/2391-trucker-showers-whilst-driving

Today in Transportation History

1934 **75th anniversary** - The Federal Communications Commission issued Order No. 1 which created three divisions; Broadcasting, Telegraph and Telephone.

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/assemble?docno=340717

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Thursday, July 16, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057

Join IBTTA in Chicago for the Transformation of Transportation!

IBTTA's 77th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 13-16, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, is the most significant gathering of toll industry professionals in the world. Attend this meeting and interact with the most influential experts and decision makers from around the globe and discuss ideas and solutions about transportation financing strategies, the future of tolling and paying for mobility, AET and Interoperability, new ideas for the new economy and sustainable transportation. Register by August 14 and receive a $100 discount off your registration fee. This meeting is hosted by the Illinois Tollway and will be held at the Hyatt Regency. For information on registration, hotel reservations, exhibiting or sponsorship, visit IBTTA's website at www.ibtta.org. Register today!

AVIATION

1) Clay Lacy Aviation to Install Wireless Internet on Private Jets

Link to story in Private Jet Daily:

http://www.privatejetdaily.com/index.php/20090714526/Latest/Clay-Lacy-Aviation-to-install-wireless-internet-on-private-jets.html

2) Free Wi-Fi Coming to Atlanta Airport, but Not Yet

Link to story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

http://www.ajc.com/business/free-91956.html

3) FAA and the National Weather Service are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, But Face Significant Challenges

Link to US Government Accountability Office testimony:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09887t.pdf

MARITIME

4) Port of Los Angeles Sonar Devices Aid Ocean Searches

Link to story in the Daily Breeze:

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_12845460

OTHER

5) Intelligent Transportation Systems Strategic Planning Group Charter

Link to document from US DOT:

http://www.its.dot.gov/spg/index.htm

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

6) Seattle Transportation Department Unveils New, ‘Open’ Web Site

Link to story in the West Seattle Herald:

http://www.westseattleherald.com/2009/07/15/news/transportation-department-unveils-new-open-web-site

Link to site: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/

ROADWAYS

7) Texas Opts Not to Spend Stimulus Funds on Road Signs

Link to story in The Dallas Morning News:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/transportation/stories/DN-signs_16tex.ART.State.Edition1.4c00123.html

SAFETY / SECURITY

8) US Homeland Security Chief Promotes Cheaper, Secure Driver’s Licenses

Link to AP story:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-15-napolitano-drivers-licenses_N.htm

9) Calling ‘How’s My Driving’ Numbers Actually Improves Traffic Safety

Link to story in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:

http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_12844511

10) Music to Soothe the Savage Driver

CD designed to relax drivers yet help them stay alert.

Link to story in The San Bernardino County Sun:

http://www.sbsun.com/living/ci_12846983

Link to further information and samples:

http://www.innerpeacemusic.com/albumdetail.asp?pid=94

TRANSIT

11) Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority General Manager Says He’s Reachable

Link to story in The Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/16/mbta_general_manager_says_hes_reachable/

News Releases

1) Inrix Announces Historical Traffic Speeds for Europe

2) Maritime Satellite Communication Market to Reach $27 Billion in 2013, Finds Frost & Sullivan

3) Pennsylvania DOT Introduces E-PennDOT Digest

4) FRA Issues NPRM on Technology to Prevent Train Collisions

5) Lockheed Martin Submits Phase B Proposal for Advanced Control Segment of GPS

Job Posting

- Sales Representative – Citilog – North America

http://www.citilog.com/pdfs/Citilog%20-%20Job%20opportunity%20-%20US%20Sales%20Rep%20-%20Jul2009.pdf

Solicitation

- RFP – Customer Service – E-470 Public Highway Authority

http://www.e-470.com/Default.aspx?pn=Requests%20For%20Proposals

Upcoming Events

Webinar: Using the Newly Released Version of the Roadway Safety+ Training Program - August 6

http://www.workzonesafety.org/training/record/9748

Today in Transportation History

1969 **40th anniversary** - Apollo 11 was launched for the first manned mission to the Moon.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5722827024646179220

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