Bernie’s Transportation Communications Newsletter (TCN) – October 13, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – ISSN 1529-1057
AVIATION
1) Lufthansa to Launch In-flight Web, Phone System
Link to AP article:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-10-12-lufthansa-in-flight-phone-interenet_N.htm
CARTOGRAPHY
2) Google Uses Own Database for Google Maps in the US
Link to article on TheWhereBusiness:
http://social.thewherebusiness.com/content/google-uses-own-database-google-maps-us
ELECTRONIC TOLLING
3) Slovakia’s Electronic Toll Collection Devices to be Compatible with New EU System
Link to article in The Slovak Spectator:
4) Another Upside to E-ZPass: Healthier Babies
Link to article in The Wall Street Journal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/10/13/another-upside-to-e-zpass-healthier-babies/
GPS / NAVIGATION
5) Red Light GPS Device Lacks GPS Navigation
Link to review in Mobile Magazine:
http://www.mobilemag.com/2009/10/13/red-light-gps-device-lacks-gps-navigation/
RAILROADS
6) Saving the Union (Pacific)
Communication upgrades will improve safety and fuel efficiency.
Link to article in Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/11/union-pacific-railroad-business-logistics-union-pacific.html
ROADWAYS
7) Wider London Road-User Charges Denied
Link to article in the Financial Times:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32c956f8-b763-11de-9812-00144feab49a.html
SAFETY / SECURITY
8) Are Wii Balance Boards the Future of Airport Security?
Link article in Popular Science:
9) Tickets Might be Helping DC Cell Phone Law Sink In
Link to article in The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202965.html
TELEMATICS
10) Ford Seeks High-Tech Solutions from University Partnership
Link to article in The Detroit News:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009910130327
Link to news release from Ford:
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS165766+13-Oct-2009+PRN20091013
TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
11) Seattle Looks to Technology to Serve Its Citizens
Link to article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/411090_citytech13.html
12) Cities Turn to High-Tech for Curbing Traffic, Crime
Link to article on EurActiv:
http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/cities-turn-high-tech-curbing-traffic-crime/article-186296
13) Not so Up-to-the-Minute Traffic Updates
Highway advisory radio station in Las Vegas area broadcasts information several months out-of-date.
Link to story and video report on KVBC-TV:
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=11304060
14) Company to Provide Statewide Traffic Data to South Carolina Department of Transportation
Contract with Inrix part of I-95 Corridor Coalition’s Vehicle Probe Project.
Link to article in the Charleston Regional Business Journal:
Link to news release from Inrix:
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS90610+13-Oct-2009+PRN20091013
15) West Virginia Firm Helps Build Mobile Weather-Data System
Vehicle would collect weather data near critical transportation infrastructure.
Link to AP article:
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11304599
VEHICLES
16) Who Needs a Key? IPhone App Unlocks and Starts Car
Link to article in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2009-10-12-iphone-app-unlocks-car_N.htm
17) E-Car R&D Drives Chip Sales, Infineon’s CEO Says
Link to article in EE Times Deutschland:
http://eetimes.eu/germany/220600567
News Releases
1) FlightView Advances Airport Web Sites
2) ERTICO and ITS Russia at Stockholm
Upcoming Events
3rd Annual Future of Business Jets Conference – November 4-5 – London
http://www.quaynote.com/ankiti/www/?code=Jets09&f=home&conf=9c9211372d9410be07402a4be8db0302
Today in Transportation History
1884 **125th anniversary** – During an international conference, Greenwich, England was chosen as the Prime Meridian.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayintech_1013
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