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Transportation Communications Newsletter
Monday, November 2, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1)
Wi-Fi Creates Challenges as Well as
Opportunities for Airlines
Link
to article in Travel Weekly:
http://www.travelweekly.com/article3_ektid205642.aspx
GPS / NAVIGATION
2)
GPS Satellite Beset by Permanent Signal
Problem
Link
to article on Spaceflight Now:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/02gps/
3)
NASA Space Map Uses Quasars to Guide GPS
Satnavs
Link
to article in The Telegraph:
OTHER
4)
States Scramble to Track Federal
Stimulus Bucks
Link
to article in Computerworld:
5)
Maryland is Tops at Tracking Stimulus
Spending
Link
to article in Computerworld:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/344670/Maryland_Leader_of_the_Pack
6)
Track Those Stimulus Tax Dollars in an ‘Augmented Reality’
Link
to story and audio report on NPR’s Morning Edition:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114359604
SAFETY / SECURITY
7)
Many in the US Want Texting at the Wheel
to be Illegal
Link
to article in The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/technology/02textingside.html
8)
US Army Show More than One Way to Look
Under a Car
Link
to article on CNET News:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10388439-42.html
9)
US Department of Homeland Security Expands IdeaFactory
Link
to article in Government Executive:
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/1109/110209ww.htm
TRANSIT
10)
San Antonio Hopes Wi-Fi Lures Riders to Buses
Link
to article in the San Antonio Express-News:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/VIA_testing_free_Internet_on_some_buses.html
11)
Boston MBTA Unveils Ads Warning About Pervs
Link
to article in the Boston Herald:
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091102mbta_unveils_ads_warning_about_pervs
TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
12)
Kansas DOT Warning Systems Put to Use
Link
to article in The Hays Daily News:
http://www.hdnews.net/printstory/wintry110209
13)
Massachusetts Transportation Agency Merger Faces a Few Snarls
Link
to article in The Boston Globe:
14)
Massachusetts Offers One-Stop Shopping for Traffic Webcams
Link
to article in The Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/10/state_offers_on.html
Link
to webcams: http://www.mass.gov/511/cameras
15)
Spanish and Basque Departments of
Transportation Agree to Share Traffic Information
Link
to EITB article:
16)
New Traveler Information Services
Association Specifications
Link
to article from ERTICO-ITS Europe:
http://www.ertico.com/en/news/ertico_newsroom/project_news_new_tisa_specifications.htm
News Releases
1)
Garmin’s
Touchscreen aera Series Takes Pilots from Runway to Roadway
3)
FCC
to Hold Broadband Field Hearing on Improving Public Safety Communications and
Emergency Response
4) Inrix Traffic Powers ALK’s
CoPilot Live Smartphone Navigation in North America
Upcoming Events
Webinar: TIMTC (Trucking Industry Mobility and
Technology Coalition) – November 16
http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/web_conf_learner_reg.aspx?webConfID=18682
Today in Transportation History
1959 **50th anniversary** - The first section of the M1
motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the UK, opened.
http://www.iht.org/motorway/m1m10m45.htm
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