Tuesday, October 5, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

1) Airlines Increase Fight Against Online Ticket Fraud

Link to article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2010-10-05-businesstravel05_ST_N.htm

GPS / NAVIGATION

2) Monitoring for Fatigue by GPS is ‘Dangerously Misguided’

Link to article in Supply Chain Review:

http://www.supplychainreview.com.au/news/articleid/70075.aspx

3) North Korea GPS Jamming Device ‘a New Security Threat’

Link to AFP article:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i068Bklyhb5SnQoiX_exXNpzDXmQ?docId=CNG.b4f78a36c7b572cde0d946ad2a4390fc.21

MARITIME

4) An Intelligent System for Maritime Surveillance has Been Created

Link to article from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid:

http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/actualidad_cientifica/noticias/maritime_surveillance

OTHER

5) Volpe Highlights – October 2010

Link to newsletter:

http://www.volpe.dot.gov/infosrc/highlts/10/oct/index.html

6) Latest Edition of Texas Transportation Researcher Online

Link to magazine:

http://tti.tamu.edu/publications/researcher/newsletter.htm?vol=46&issue=3&article=0

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

7) Taiwan Transport Ministry Launches Traffic Safety Quiz on Facebook

Link to CNA article:

http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201010050021&Type=aSOC

SAFETY / SECURITY

8) Devices Claim They’ll Help You Drive Safely While Texting, on the Phone

Link to article in the Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/article/20101005/NEWS09/10050370/1319/Devices-claim-theyll-help-you-drive-safely-while-texting-on-the-phone

TELEMATICS

9) CarTel Personalizes Commutes by Using Wi-Fi to Network Cars

Link to article from MIT:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/car-sensors-tt1008.html

TRANSIT

10) New York MTA Plans Digital Displays for Trains, Buses and Stops

Link to article in the New York Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mta_screen_play_14wb5SzpPjqSbZRHrhUwzM

11) Riders Like Wi-Fi on New Bay Area Light Rail Express Trains

Link to column in the San Jose Mercury News:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mr-roadshow/ci_16249129

VEHICLES

12) Toyota Shows Smart-Grid Technology for Its Plug-In

Link to AP article:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Toyota-shows-smartgrid-apf-3654683085.html?x=0&.v=2

13) Corporate Vanity Plates Under Study in Virginia

Link to article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/news/2010/oct/05/mcdo05-ar-542425/

14) Road to the Future

New automotive technologies, including photonics, are about to change how and what we drive.

Link to article from SPIE:

http://spie.org/x42365.xml?highlight=x2422&ArticleID=x42365

15) Auto Dealers Facing Facebook: Is It Worth the Trouble?

Link to blog in Automotive News:

http://www.autonews.com/article/20101005/BLOG06/101009937/-1

News Releases

1) Singapore Airlines to Launch In-flight Connectivity

Upcoming Events

Road Weather Policy Forum – November 8-9 – Washington, DC

http://webservices.camsys.com/RWMP/page.html

Today in Transportation History

1930 **80^th anniversary** The British airship R 101 crashed in France during its maiden voyage.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1930/untitled0%20-%201171.html

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Hmmm.. Individual agendas and petty partisan politics are often the biggest road blocks for progressive nation building in most democracies around the world and the U.S. not so immune to this trend. An article from today’s New York Times documents such a situation and dissects the issues facing the High-Speed Rail program in light of the upcoming elections.

Republican candidates for governor in some of the states that won the biggest stimulus rail awards are reaching for the emergency brake.

In Wisconsin, which got more than $810 million in federal stimulus money to build a train linebetween Milwaukee and Madison, Scott Walker, the Milwaukee County executive and Republican candidate for governor, has made his opposition to the project central to his campaign.

Mr. Walker, who worries that the state could be required to spend $7 million to $10 million a year to operate the trains once the line is built, started a Web site, www.NoTrain.com, and has run a television advertisement in which he calls the rail project a boondoggle.

….Similar concerns are threatening to stall many of the nation’s biggest train projects. In Ohio, the Republican candidate for governor, John Kasich, is vowing to kill a $400 million federal stimulus project to link Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati by rail. In Florida, Rick Scott, the Republican candidate for governor, has questioned whether the state should invest in the planned rail line from Orlando to Tampa. The state got $1.25 billion in federal stimulus money for the project, but it will cost at least twice that much to complete.

And the nation’s most ambitious high-speed rail project, California’s $45 billion plan to link Los Angeles and San Francisco with trains that would go up to 220 miles per hour, could be delayed if Meg Whitman, a Republican, is elected governor. “In the face of the state’s current fiscal crisis, Meg doesn’t believe we can afford the costs associated with new high-speed rail at this time,” said Tucker Bounds, a campaign spokesman.

Monday, October 4, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

1) Undersold Ad Space Undercuts Atlanta’s Airport

Link to article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

http://www.ajc.com/business/ajc-investigation-undersold-ad-653664.html

CAMERAS

2) Stop Sign Cameras Catch California Drivers Off Guard

Link to AP article:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g6D64gik2o96hMXuBpzAOn3ZbdkQD9IK1IOG0?docId=D9IK1IOG0

3) If You’re on an Abu Dhabi Street, You’re on Camera

Hundreds of advanced security cameras deployed in a fresh bid to curb reckless driving.

Link to article on Emirates 24|7:

http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/if-you-re-on-an-abu-dhabi-street-you-re-on-camera-2010-10-04-1.298949

4) AccessKenya Launches Traffic Cameras

Link to story on Capital FM:

http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/Kenyabusiness/AccessKenya-launches-traffic-cameras-4767.html

Link to cameras: http://www.home.co.ke/index.php/traffic-cameras

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

5) Toll Transponder Discounts Not ‘Discriminatory’ – US Court of Appeals 3^rd Circuit

Link to article in TOLLROADSnews:

http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/4922

6) RFID Puts Salt Lake City Drivers in the Fast Lane

Link to article in the RFID Journal:

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/7907/1/1/

OTHER

7) State DOTs: A Word from Our Sponsor

Link to story on Fox News:

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/10/04/state-dots-a-word-from-our-sponsor/

8) The Magic of TaxiMagic

App allows you to call for a cab and track its arrival.

Link to transcript and video report on PBS’s Nightly Business Report:

http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/the_magic_of_taximagic_100928/

9) Florida DOT’s SunGuide Disseminator – October 2010

Link to newsletter:

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/TrafficOperations/Newsletters/2010/2010-010-Oct.pdf

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

10) Washington State DOT Wins National Award for North Cascades Highway E-newsletter

Link to article in The Bellingham Herald:

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/10/04/1647773/wsdot-wins-national-award-for.html

ROADWAYS

11) More Cities Turn to Solar Power for Traffic Signs

Link to article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2010-10-04-solarsigns04_ST_N.htm

SAFETY / SECURITY

12) Report Calls Tsunami Detection System Unreliable; Buoys on West Coast Often Fail

Link to article in The Bellingham Herald:

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/10/03/1647751/report-calls-tsunami-detection.html

13) Pipeline Control Room Workers Focus of Safety Concerns

Link to article in the San Jose Mercury News:

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_16230206

TRANSIT

14) Metrolink Moves to Implement Collision-Prevention Technology

Link to story on KPCC Radio:

http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/10/02/metrolink-moves-implement-collision-prevention-tec/

15) AT&T, T-Mobile to Offer Service in New York Subway Stations

Link to article from Bloomberg:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-01/at-t-says-it-will-offer-mobile-phone-service-on-new-york-subway-platforms.html

16) Maryland Transit Administration Now Posts MARC Performance Results

Link to blog in The Baltimore Sun:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/2010/10/congratulations_to_the_marylan.html

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

17) To Avoid Commonwealth Games Traffic, Log On Here

Link to Press Trust of India article:

http://www.ndtv.com/article/commonwealth%20games/to-avoid-cwg-traffic-log-on-here-56953

Link to site: http://www.delhitrafficpolice.nic.in/CWG2010.htm

18) New Service in Dubai to Navigate Car Users in Real-Time

Link to article in Gulf News and audio report from Radio 2:

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/traffic-transport/new-service-in-dubai-to-navigate-car-users-in-real-time-1.690953

19) Tracking Dubai with Dalili

New roadway traveler information system praised by newspaper.

Link to editorial in the Khaleej Times:

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/editorial/2010/October/editorial_October9.xml&section=editorial

20) Ohio’s New Traffic Monitoring System Plays Havoc with Radar Detectors

Link to column in The Plain Dealer:

http://www.cleveland.com/roadrant/index.ssf/2010/10/ohios_new_traffic_monitoring_s.html

VEHICLES

21) Delaware DMV Launches Senior Driver Day, Web Site

Link to story and audio report on WDEL Radio:

http://www.wdel.com/story.php?id=793134276613

Link to site: http://seniordriver.dmv.de.gov

22) Information Overload for Truck Drivers? Volvo’s DIS Will Help You Decide What’s the Most Important Task

Link to blog on BigLorryBlog:

http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2010/10/information-overload-for-truck.html

23) Andy Rooney on Gadgets in Our Cars

Link to commentary and video on CBS News’ 60 Minutes:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/30/60minutes/rooney/main6915786.shtml

News Releases

1) Washington State Groups Working to Get Traffic Moving After Collisions

2) Belfast City Airport Offers App with Live Information on Arrivals and Departures

3) All Chicago Transit Authority Bus Stops Now Feature Bus Tracker Texting Information

4) Taxi Magic Launches Industry’s Most Advanced Passenger Information Monitor for Taxis

5) GE Capital Fleet Services Launches New Intelligent Ops Telematics Solution

6) TransCore Receives US Patent for RFID Design Innovation

Upcoming Events

Telematics Munich 2010 – November 3-4 – Munich

http://www.telematicsupdate.com/munich/

Today in Transportation History

1960 **50^th anniversary** Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 crashed shortly take-off at Boston’s Logan International Airport.  Sixty-two of the 67 people aboard were killed.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895003,00.html

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Friday, October 1, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

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U.S. DOT to Host Conference to Discuss Major Vehicle Safety Research Results

There is still time to register for the Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) public meeting that will be held in the metropolitan Detroit area on October 20, 2010. Members of the industry and U.S. DOT project team will discuss test results from the one-year field operational test (FOT) in which 10 heavy trucks and 16 passenger vehicles accumulated 900,000 miles of driving data. The meeting will also include a discussion of the FOT data system and how it might be accessed for future research. The Heavy Truck FOT Key Findings report is now available.

Click here for registration and additional information. Online registration deadline is October 15.

AVIATION

1) October Edition of APEX (Airline Passenger Experience Association) Newsletter Online

Includes articles on in-flight and airport communications and entertainment.

Link to newsletter:

http://apex.aero/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Gzimhx%2fncyc%3d&tabid=37&mid=573

CAMERAS

2) Judge Suspends New Orleans’ Traffic Camera Program

Link to story on WDSU-TV:

http://www.wdsu.com/r/25242506/detail.html

3) Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Chattanooga, Red Bank Traffic Cameras

Link to article in The Chattanoogan:

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_185161.asp

GPS / NAVIGATION

4) A Report on NaviForum Shanghai 2010

Link to article in Inside GNSS:

http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2306

PEDESTRIANS

5) Fluorescent Traffic Signs Help Taipei Pedestrians

Link to article in The China Post:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2010/09/30/274500/Fluorescent-traffic.htm

ROADWAYS

6) Buckley and Drury, UK Residents Worried About ‘Misleading’ Bridge Signs

Link to article in The Flintshire Chronicle:

http://www.flintshirechronicle.co.uk/flintshire-news/local-flintshire-news/2010/09/30/buckley-and-drury-residents-worried-about-misleading-bridge-signs-51352-27366219/

SAFETY / SECURITY

7) Should Public Safety Network be Public/Private?

Link to article in Government Computer News:

http://gcn.com/articles/2010/10/04/update-1-public-safety-network.aspx

TRANSIT

8) Cleveland RTA Launches Ridership Campaign on Facebook

Link to article in Metro:

http://www.metro-magazine.com/News/Story/2010/09/Cleveland-RTA-launches-ridership-campaign-with-Facebook-page.aspx

9) TriMet Launches ‘Making a Difference’ Web Site to Highlight Positive Stories About Employees

Link to blog in The Oregonian:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2010/09/trimet_launches_making_a_diffe.html

Link to site: http://trimet.org/difference

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

10) Boston T Begins Posting Data on Trains Today

Link to article in The Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/01/t_to_begin_posting_data_on_trains_today/

Link to news release from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority:

http://www.mbta.com/about_the_mbta/news_events/?id=20321

11) Researchers Argue for Smarter Traffic Lights

Link to IDG News article:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/206742/researchers_argue_for_smarter_traffic_lights.html

Link to study:

http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/10-09-019.pdf

12) Traffic Cams Help Make Commute Easier in Orange, California

Link to article in The Orange County Register:

http://www.ocregister.com/news/traffic-269118-city-cameras.html

13) Synthesis of Active Traffic Management Experiences in Europe and the United States

Link to report from FHWA:

http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/news/news_detail.asp?ID=678

VEHICLES

14) Auto Supplier Visteon Emerges from Bankruptcy

Link to AP article:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Auto-supplier-Visteon-emerges-apf-2311334898.html?x=0&.v=2

News Releases

1) Iconosys Announces a New Lifesaving Solution for Drivers with Collision Watch

2) Upgrading the Airport Experience: Airside Mobile Platform and App Launches with Mobile Boarding Pass Capability for Five Major US Airlines

3) FEMA Announces Adoption of New Standard for Emergency Alerts

4) Survey Reveals Youth Market is Ready to Use Their Mobile Phones as a Wallet

5) NavFree: iPhone & iPad Turn-by-Turn Navigation – No Cost

6) Transport NSW Adds Twitter Updates for Real-Time Public Transport Information

Upcoming Events

The Western High-Speed Rail Alliance Conference 2010 – October 13-15 – Las Vegas

http://www.whsra.com/railahead/

Friday Bonus

One of the lesser-known villains from Gotham City.

http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2010/06/16

Today in Transportation History

1940 **70^th anniversary** The original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, between Irwin and Carlisle, opened.

http://www.paturnpike.com/news/americasDreamHighway.aspx

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