Transportation Communications Newsletter

Friday, July 10, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057

AVIATION

1) Air France Pilots Blame Safety Agencies for Crash of Flight 447

Union says French and European agencies ignored a history of dangerous failures in Airbus speed probes.

Link to story in The Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6675343.ece

2) FAA Updating Flight Crew Alerting Standards

Rules would limit the use of red, yellow and amber on the flight deck.

Link to story in Occupational Health & Safety:

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2009/07/10/faa-updating-flight-crew-alerting-standards.aspx

3) Airlines in Love with Versatile Version of Bar Code

Link to story in The Denver Post:

http://www.denverpost.com/portal/business/ci_12805878

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

4) Men Bests Delaware River Port Authority in Battle Over Privacy

Link to story in the Courier-Post:

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090710/NEWS01/907100338/1006/news01

GPS / NAVIGATION

5) First Look: AT&T’s Turn-by-Turn Navigation iPhone App

Link to review on FoxBusiness:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/personal-finance/lifestyle-money/personal-technology/look-atts-turn-turn-navigation-iphone-app/

MARITIME

6) US Senator John Rockefeller Wants Full Disclosure of Maritime Security Violations and Flubs

Link to story in Government Security News:

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/features/news-analysis/2307.html

7) Washington State Ferries Wireless-Connection High-Speed Data Project

Link to report from the Federal Transit Administration: 

http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/WashingtonStateFerriesDataConnectionProject.pdf

OTHER

8) Drivers Asked to Test Alternative to Fuel Tax

Link to AP story:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jYNPi3-EttcOOLkKFxgDJbvNRaVAD99AHA6G0

9) New Bills in US Congress Would Make RF Spectrum Inventories Open to Public

Link to story in Federal Computer Week:

http://fcw.com/articles/2009/07/10/radio-frequency-spectrum-inventories-legislation.aspx

10) Telecommuting and the Broadband Superhighway

Link to story on Newgeography:

http://www.newgeography.com/content/00885-telecommuting-and-the-broadband-superhighway

11) July Issue of IEEE ITS Society Newsletter Online

Link to newsletter:

http://www.ieeeitss.org/v11n3.pdf

SAFETY / SECURITY

12) Taking Eyes Off Road Ups Accidents

Link to story in The Hawk Eye:

http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/Texting-070809

TELEMATICS

13) Toyota, Lexus Get New Telematics System

Link to story in Consumer Reports:

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2009/07/toyota-safety-connect-lexus-enform-new-telematics-systems.html

News Releases

1) Traffax Inc. Conducts July 4 Study of Vehicle and Pedestrian Traffic Flows with DC Department of Transportation

2) Missouri DOT’s Communications System Wins International Award

Upcoming Events

2009 Virginia Hazardous Materials Conference – October 19-23 – Hampton, Virginia

http://www.virginiahazmat.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=85

Friday Bonus

Here’s one more way to keep the passengers’ attention during the airline safety announcements.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/business/30air.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Today in Transportation History

1789 **220^th anniversary** - Alexander Mackenzie discovered the river in Canada which would later bear his name.

http://www.pbs.org/empireofthebay/profiles/mackenzie.html

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