Friday, December 18, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057

1) SkyToll Sees No Obstacle to January 1 Launch of E-Toll System in Slovakia

Link to story on Radio Slovakia International:

http://www.rozhlas.sk/inetportal/rsi/pages/printClanok.php?clanokID=24015&lang=2

OTHER

2) Washington State GIS Transportation Repository Takes Long Road

Link to article in Government Technology:

http://www.govtech.com/gt/718602?topic=290184

SAFETY / SECURITY

3) TSA Tests Capability of Nuclear-Detection Devices at Denver International Airport

Link to article in The Denver Post:

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14022529

4) New Rule for New York City Cabbies: No Devices in the Ear

Link to article in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/nyregion/18taxi.html

TELEMATICS

5) Telematics Industry to be Taiwan’s Next Trillion-Dollar Industry

Link to article in The China Post:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/asia/b-taiwan/2009/12/18/237061/Telematics-industry.htm

TRANSIT

6) Is Big Brother Watching Your ORCA Card?

Link to article in The Seattle Times:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010537022_orcacard18m.html

7) Worth the Wait?

How advertisers have transformed the drab city transit stop.

Link to column in The New York Times:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/worth-the-wait/

Upcoming Events

Galileo Application Days – March 3-5 – Brussels

http://www.application-days.eu/

Friday Bonus

As part of US efforts to encourage exercise, pedestrians can burn extra calories by using a hula hoop while crossing the street.

http://www.seattlepi.com/dayart/20091019/210hula.jpg

Today in Transportation History

1999 **10^th anniversary** – NASA launched Terra, a multi-nation scientific research satellite.

http://terra.nasa.gov/

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