Tuesday, January 12, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

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Unspeakable Truths: Is Transforming Transportation A Key To Solving America’s Economic Crisis?

In his fourth book in four years, Professor Joseph M. Giglio argues that our thinking about Transforming Transportation in America must evolve to reflect how the Financial Meltdown and Economic Crisis have changed our world.

To help understand why, his book begins by reviewing how the Current Economic Crisis came about and what impact it’s likely to have on life in America.  He provides clear, detailed explanations of the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008, the whys and wherefores of subjects like Oil Price Volatility, the Crazy World of Financial Derivatives, and the Housing and Mortgage Mess. Plus the down-and-dirty realities of Markets in the 21^st Century.  Finally, he explores some of the things we’ll have to do to Make It Big in the much changed world of the 21^st Century, such as transforming our Transportation Systems into Serious Economic Growth Generators.  The book is available on Amazon and from the publisher, the Hudson Institute.

AVIATION

1) Newark Airport Radio System Down During Crash Land

Link to article in the New York Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/radio_the_cock_pits_vZIUsejP744k9RTefnAbUL

2) ADS-B Goes Live in the Gulf of Mexico

Link to article in Air Transport Intelligence:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/01/12/337053/ads-b-goes-live-in-the-gulf-of-mexico.html

Link to news release from the FAA:

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=11103

3) EZ Tag Airport Parking May End in Houston

Link to article in the Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6810470.html

OTHER

4) January Edition of IEEE ITS Society Newsletter

Link to newsletter:

http://www.ieeeitss.org/v12n1.pdf

RAILROADS

5) Federal Railroad Administration Issues Rule on Train Control Systems

Link to article in The Journal of Commerce:

http://www.joc.com/node/415919

Link to news release from the Federal Railroad Administration:

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=11103

6) Amtrak Adding Free Wi-Fi on Acela Express Trains

Link to AP article:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2010-01-11-amtrak-acela-express-wifi_N.htm

SAFETY / SECURITY

7) Body Scanners Can Store, Send Images, Group Says

Link to CNN story:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/11/body.scanners/

8) Newark Airport’s Security Cameras Draw Fire

Link to article in The Star-Ledger:

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-15/1263261907276860.xml&coll=1

9) New Group Will Fight Drivers’ Cell Phone Use

Link to article in The New York Times:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/new-group-will-fight-drivers-cellphone-use/

10) Public Safety Officials Seek Additional Spectrum for First Responders

Link to article in NextGov:

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100111_8068.php

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

11) Springfield, Missouri’s New Transportation Management Center Breaks Ground

Link to article in the News-Times:

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100112/BREAKING01/100112060/1007/NEWS01/Area+s+new+Transportation+Management+Center+breaks+ground

VEHICLES

12) Philippine Supreme Court Stops RFID Project

Link to article in the Manila Bulletin:

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/238227/sc-stops-rfid-project

Upcoming Events

Low Cost Airline World Asia Pacific 2010 – January 27-29 – Singapore

http://www.terrapinn.com/2010/lca/

Today in Transportation History

2005 **5^th anniversary** – Deep Impact was launched from the Kennedy Space Center.  Its mission was to impact Comet Tempel 1 in July 2005.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/deepimpact/index.cfm

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