Bernie’s Transportation Communications Newsletter (TCN) – October 12, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1) Non-Radar Air-Traffic System Debuts
Link to article in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-10-12-air-traffic_N.htm
2) Low-Cost Airlines All a-Twitter with Customers
Link to AP article:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Lowcost-airlines-all-aTwitter-apf-629994216.html?x=0&.v=2
3) EU-US Air Traffic Management Talks
Hope to ensure interoperability between the European air traffic management program SESAR and its American equivalent NextGen.
Link to article on Europolitics:
http://www.europolitics.info/external-policies/eu-us-air-traffic-managment-talks-art250850-44.html
ROADWAYS
4) Shanghai Roads Renamed as Part of Nationwide Initiative to Create a Unified Naming System for Highways
Link to article in the Shanghai Daily:
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200910/20091012/article_416026.htm
SAFETY / SECURITY
5) In the Lab, Cooking Up Bomb Detectors
Link to article in the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bomb-lab12-2009oct12,0,1662647.story
6) Seeking Criminals, FBI Scanning Driver-License Photos
Link to AP article:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCDKSGZjGw3GMFUml4LQLlWzNOuQD9B9O5B80
TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
7) Colorado DOT: Technology Key to Managing I-70 Traffic
Link to article in the Summit Daily News:
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20091012/NEWS/910119988/1078&ParentProfile=1055
News Releases
1) Smart Phone Apps Battle Spreads to Car Market
2) Norfolk Southern E-commerce Offers ‘Railcar Event – Text Message Alerts’ and Live Chat Support
3) All New Toyota Genuine FollowMe Makes In-Car Navigation Portable
4) Berg Insight Says 3.5 Million Cars in Europe have a Telematics Device
5) Know Before You Go with ‘Traffic Text’ from O2 and iTraffic
6) Study to Examine Vehicle Safety Warnings Aimed at Detecting Distracted Drivers
Upcoming Events
Telematics @ China 2009 – December 8-9 – Shanghai
http://www.telematics-china.com.cn/
Today in Transportation History
1964 **45th anniversary** – Voskhod 1, the first spacecraft to carry more than one person, was launched.
http://www.astronautix.com/flights/voskhod1.htm
======================================================================
The Transportation Communications Newsletter is published electronically Monday through Friday.
To subscribe send an e-mail to: i95berniew@aol.com
To unsubscribe send an e-mail to: TCNL-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
TCN archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications
Questions, comments about the TCN? Please write the editor, Bernie Wagenblast at i95berniew@aol.com.
© 2009 Bernie Wagenblast