Bernie’s Transportation Communications Newsletter (TCN) – July 5, 2010

July 6, 2010 at 12:01 pm

Monday, July 5, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

AVIATION

1) Near-Collisions on Rise in Washington Area’s Skies Amid Influx of Inexperienced Controllers

Link to article in The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/04/AR2010070404538.html

2) UK Air Traffic Chief Voices Concerns of Government Selling Stake

Link to article in the Financial Times:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b9d79f3e-87aa-11df-9f37-00144feabdc0.html

3) FAA, Provo Begin Work on Airport Radar

Link to article in The Salt Lake Tribune:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/49848818-76/radar-provo-airport-lake.html.csp

4) Improving Airport Experience via Real-Time Ratings, Reviews and Photos

An interview with GateGuru’s CEO Daniel Gellert.

Link to interview on m-Travel.com:

http://www.m-travel.com/news/2010/07/improving-airport-experience-via-real-time-ratings-reviews-and-photos.html

BICYCLES

5) Are Blue Bike Lanes Better than Black?

Link to article on TreeHugger:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/blue-bikelanes-better-than-black.php

CAMERAS

6) ‘Big Brother’ Traffic Cameras Must be Regulated, Orders UK Home Secretary

Link to article in The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/04/anpr-surveillance-numberplate-recognition

7) Red Light Camera Companies Become a Lobbying Force in Texas Capital

Link to article in The Dallas Morning News:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-redlightsside_05met.ART.State.Edition1.297cfac.html

8) Red Light Cameras Spark Debate in Texas Cities

Link to article in The Dallas Morning News:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/070510dnmetredlights.22ec8cc.html

9) Camera System’s Flaws Cost North Texas Tollway Authority Millions

Link to article in The Dallas Morning News:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/DN-freeride_03met.ART0.State.Edition2.297c836.html

GPS / NAVIGATION

10) GPS Data New Tool in Reading Tropical Storms

Link to article in The Spokesman-Review:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jul/04/gps-data-new-tool-in-reading-tropical-storms/

OTHER

11) TSA to Block Web Sites with ‘Controversial Opinion’ on Its Computers

Link to CBS News story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20009642-10391695.html

PEDESTRIANS

12) Tech Firms Aim to Keep Wayward Walkers on Path

Link to AP article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/05/AR2010070501057.html

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

13) Pennsylvania DOT Needs to Focus on Driving Tips

Rather than including tourism and health information with registration mailings, agency should insert driving tips.

Link to editorial in the Pocono Record:

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100705/NEWS04/7050308

ROADWAYS

14) New Road Signs for Abu Dhabi

Emirate plans to use portable message signs while permanent VMS and ITS are installed.

Link to article in Emirates Business 24|7:

http://www.business24-7.ae/news/national/new-road-signs-for-abu-dhabi-2010-07-04-1.262762

15) Pennsylvania Joins California and Florida in Asking Feds to Allow Ads on Electronic Signs

Link to AP article:

http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_15435365

SAFETY / SECURITY

16) Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Uses CCTV, Text Hotline vs. Wangwang

Link to GMA News story:

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/195114/mmda-uses-cctv-text-hotline-vs-wangwang

SPACE

17) New US Satellite to Monitor Debris in Earth Orbit

Link to AP article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/03/AR2010070301160.html

TELEMATICS

18) UK Road Safety Charity, Brake, Calls for Increased Telematics Use

Link to article in BusinessCar:

http://www.businesscar.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=6232

TRANSIT

19) The Future is Hear: MTA

New York agency says new Second Avenue subway stations will be designed by acoustical engineers.

Link to article and video in the New York Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/the_future_is_hear_mta_gxQwszOXV2iMapigatNuzL#ixzz0sibmSygB

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

20) New Massachusetts Traffic Information System Continues to Befuddle Drivers Who Miss the Old 511

Link to column in The Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/07/04/new_traffic_information_system_continues_to_befuddle_drivers/

21) Voice of Vietnam’s Traffic Information to be Televised at Rush Hours

Link to story on VOV:

http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/VOVs-traffic-information-to-be-televised-at-rush-hours/20107/117168.vov

22) Get Rid of Those Gulls and Give Us Real Information

Columnist says Maryland’s Bay Bridge should make traffic information easier to find on its Web site.

Link to column in The Baltimore Sun:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/2010/07/get_rid_of_those_gulls_and_giv.html

VEHICLES

23) Quiet Hybrids: An End to Their Sounds of Silence?

Link to AP article:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Quiet-hybrids-An-end-to-their-apf-994519890.html?x=0&.v=2

24) Car-Sharing Gets Personal, with Private Vehicles for Hire

Link to blog on BNET:

http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10005473/car-sharing-gets-personal-with-private-vehicles-for-hire/

25) Driving While Blind? Maybe, with New High-Tech Vehicle

Link to AP article:

http://www.thekansan.com/newsnow/x1328226943/Driving-while-blind-Maybe-with-new-high-tech-vehicle

26) Toyota’s PR Machine has Improved: Analyst

Link to video report on CNBC:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?play=1&video=1537396972

News Releases

1) Making Transport Smarter – European Parliament Looking at ITS

Upcoming Events

Mid-Continent Transportation Research Forum 2010 – August 19-20 – Madison, Wisconsin

http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/Courses/Course.lasso?myCourseChoice=L268

Today in Transportation History

1610 **400th anniversary** A group of colonists led by John and Philip Guy, left England to establish the first English colony in Newfoundland.

http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=329

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