Bernie’s Transportation Communications Newsletter (TCN) – December 10, 2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

1) Coalition Fights to Allow Cell Phone Use on Planes

Link to article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2009-12-10-airplanephones10_ST_N.htm

Link to the Inflight Passenger Communications Coalition:

http://www.passengercommunications.com/

2) FAA: Overshot Flight Was on Canadian Frequency

Link to story on KCNC-TV:

http://cbs4denver.com/investigates/faa.norad.ntsb.2.1360871.html

OTHER

3) Pandora Targets In-Car Audience

Link to article on All Access:

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/68106/pandora-targets-in-car-audience?ref=mail_recap

RAILROADS

4) So Long, Solari

Travelers say they’ll miss clackety-clack of schedule board at New Haven’s Union Station.

Link to article and video in the New Haven Independent:

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/12/schedule_board.php

ROADWAYS

5) Wisconsin DOT Applies Lessons from 2008 Snowstorm Near Madison

Link to article in The Post-Crescent:

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20091210/APC0101/912100509/1979

SAFETY / SECURITY

6) US, Canada Will Publicize Options to Cross Border

Link to Gannett News Service article:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20091210/NEWS01/912100333/1002/NEWS/U.S.–Canada-will-publicize-options-to-cross-border

7) Transportation Worker Identification Credential

Progress made in enrolling workers and activating credentials but evaluation plan needed to help inform the implementation of card readers.

Link to US Government Accountability Office report:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1043.pdf

TRANSIT

8) Cell Phone Ban for Chicago Transit Authority Workers Leads to 11 Firings, Union Complaints of Overreaching

Link to article in the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-cta-cell-phone-ban_10dec10,0,4172545.story

9) New Site Lists Open Data Apps, Agencies

Link to Greater Greater Washington blog:

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=4302

Link to City-Go-Round: http://www.citygoround.org

10) Transcript and Presentations of Transit Operations Decision Support Systems (TODSS): A US DOT Pilot Expert System for Transit Bus Fleet Management T3 Webinar

Link to presentation and transcript from Research and Innovative Technology Administration:

http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s091021/s091021_transitops_intro.asp

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

11) Transcript and Presentations of Best Practices for Developing an Integrated and Effective Road Weather Information System (RWIS): Developing an RWIS Concept of Operations T3 Webinar

Link to presentation and transcript from Research and Innovative Technology Administration:

http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s091013/s091013_rwis_intro.asp

12) Transcript and Presentations of National ITS Architecture Update: New Features of the Latest Version of the National ITS Architecture (Version 6.1) T3 Webinar

Link to presentation and transcript from Research and Innovative Technology Administration:

http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s091027/s091027_arch_intro.asp

News Releases

1) EarthCam Announces New Work Zone Safety, Dredging Systems, Desert and Advanced Cameras

2) SESAR Joint Undertaking – Focus on: Interoperability

Solicitation

-  Call for Abstracts – National Rural ITS Conference

http://www.nritsconference.org/2010program.html

Upcoming Events

NW Transportation Conference – February 9-11 – Corvallis, Oregon

http://kiewit.oregonstate.edu/nwtc/

Today in Transportation History

1979 **30^th anniversary** – Stuntman Eddie Kidd makes an 80 foot jump over a river on a motorcycle.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/10/newsid_2544000/2544025.stm

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