Thursday, March 18, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

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CAMERAS

1) Ticket Cameras Banned on New Mexico State Highways

Link to story on KRQE-TV:

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/politics/ticket-cameras-banned-on-state-highways

CARTOGRAPHY

2) Bing Maps Adds a Telescopic Lens

Link to column on CNET News:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20000620-56.html

3) Google Completes UK Street View Coverage: What Next?

Link to article in GPS Business News:

http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/Google-Completes-UK-Street-View-Coverage-What-Next_a2129.html

OTHER

4) IBM Will No Longer Give Out US Headcount

Link to article in The Journal News:

http://www.lohud.com/article/20100318/BUSINESS01/3180363/1066/BUSINESS01/IBM-will-no-longer-give-out-U.S.-headcount

5) New York City Cabs Being Equipped with New Fare-Setting Alert

Link to story and video on NY1 News:

http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/top_stories/115385/tlc-equips-cabs-with-new-fare-setting-alert

6) US DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration Launches Transportation Research Collaboration Pilot Web Site

Link to site:

http://www.transportationresearch.gov/

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

7) US DOT Group Reaches Out to Truckers with Health Information

Link to story in the News Sentinel:

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/mar/18/truckin-for-good-health/

RAILROADS

8) French Railway SNCF in Train ‘Explosion’ Blunder

Link to BBC News story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8570685.stm

ROADWAYS

9) New, Easier to Understand Weight Limit Signs to be Posted on Mississippi Bridges

Link to AP article:

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=montgomeryadvertiser&sParam=33055473.story

SAFETY / SECURITY

10) US Public Safety Fee for Broadband Will be Less than $1 a Month

Link to article in Computerworld:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9172338/Public_safety_fee_for_broadband_will_be_less_than_1_a_month_

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

11) Maryland State Highway Administration to Keep Travel Time Signs Up, Will Review Them

Link to column in The Baltimore Sun:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/2010/03/sha_to_keep_travel_time_signs.html

VEHICLES

12) Creating Apps Just for Cars

Link to article in Technology Review:

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/24824/

13) Can Ford Solve the Internet’s ‘Last Inch’ Problem?

Link to blog on Seeking Alpha:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/194358-can-ford-solve-the-internet-s-last-inch-problem

14) The Pandora App for Ford Sync in Action

Link to story and video on The Car Connection:

http://www.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1043542_video-the-pandora-app-for-ford-sync-in-action

News Releases

1) US DOT Announces Challenge to Researchers to Improve Road Safety Through New Weather Data

Job Postings

–  ITS Standards and IntelliDrive Program Candidates – Noblis – Various Locations

http://www.noblis.org/Careers/Pages/CurrentOpenings.aspx

Upcoming Events

Maritime and Navigation Risk Conference 2010 – April 7-8 – Montreal

http://www.passeportmaritime.com/en/events/mnrc2010

Today in Transportation History

1910 **100^th anniversary** Four-wheel automobile brakes were patented by Henri Perrot and John Meredith Rubury of Argyll Motors.

http://www.scotiaweb.co.uk/argyll/page1/page1.html

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