Friday, October 22, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

1) Future Airport – Latest Issue Online

–  On the Same Wavelength – How NextGen will benefit airports and how delivery is progressing

http://viewer.zmags.co.uk/publication/e0b4f83d#/e0b4f83d/10

–  Log On, Check In and Fly Out – Ryanair tells how the airline has slashed use of terminal resources

http://viewer.zmags.co.uk/publication/e0b4f83d#/e0b4f83d/74

BICYCLES

2) A Smarter Model for Bicycle Sharing

Link to column in Next American City:

http://americancity.org/columns/entry/2687/

CARTOGRAPHY

3) Google: 244,000 Germans Say ‘No’ to Street View

Link to article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-21-google-germany_N.htm

4) China Unveils Own Mapping Service

Link to BBC News story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11605940

Link to Map World: http://www.tianditu.cn/

OTHER

5) Raymond deKozan, Founder of Cubic Transportation Systems, Dies

Link to article in Crain’s New York Business:

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20101022/FREE/101029939/0/REAL_ESTATE

6) Muscovites to Submit Transport Ideas to New Mayor on Web Site

Link to ITAR-TASS article:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15614161&PageNum=0

7) IEEE ITS Society Newsletter – October 2010

Link to newsletter:

http://herget.biz/ieeeitss/v12n4.pdf

PARKING

8) New iPhone App Could Solve Tel Aviv Dwellers’ Parking Woes

Link to article in Haaretz:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/new-iphone-app-could-solve-tel-aviv-dwellers-parking-woes-1.320506

ROADWAYS

9) Planning and Deploying Transit Signal Priority in Small and Medium-Sized Cities: Burlington, Vermont Case Study

Link to article in the Journal of Public Transportation:

http://www.nctr.usf.edu/jpt/pdf/JPT13-3Vlachou.pdf

SPACE

10) Astronaut Posts First Foursquare Check-In from Space

Link to article in PC Magazine:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371303,00.asp

TRANSIT

11) Software Glitch Costs DC Metro $500,000 in Revenue

Link to article in The Examiner:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Software-glitch-costs-transit-agency-_500k-in-revenue-1292797-105478778.html

12) Bangalore Transit System Launching In-Bus Entertainment System

Link to article on SiliconIndia:

http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/BMTCs_cool_internet_service_on_wheels-nid-73009-cid-1.html

VEHICLES

13) Pandora’s Tim Westergren Goes After Radio Where It Matters Most: The Car

Link to blog in the Los Angeles Times:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/10/pandora-goes-after-radio-where-it-matters-most-the-car.html

14) Designing Infotainment Systems for the Connected Generation

Link to article in Automotive Industries:

http://www.ai-online.com/Adv/Previous/show_issue.php?id=3729

News Releases

1) TASC, Inc. Wins $827 Million SE-2020 Contract to Support FAA’s NextGen Program

2) Truckers Challenge Electronic On-Board Recorder Regulation

Upcoming Events

Webinar: ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program Outreach to University and Other Learning Providers – November 17

http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/webmeeting/register.asp

Friday Bonus

Music in the subways?  Here’s a live performance with some rather unusual instruments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAllFWSl998

Today in Transportation History

1910 **100^th anniversary** The Aéronautique Militaire, predecessor to the French Air Force, was formed.

http://www.defense.gouv.fr/air

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