Monday, October 11, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

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AVIATION

1) New Runway Lights Seen as Safety Boost at Boston’s Logan Airport

Link to article in The Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/10/new_runway_ligh.html

2) What You’ll Pay for In-Flight Wi-Fi

Link to article in PCWorld:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/207193/what_youll_pay_for_inflight_wifi.html

3) ‘Pushing Tin’ Puts South African Air Traffic Controller on Cloud Nine

Link to article in the Weekend Post:

http://www.weekendpost.co.za/article.aspx?id=613810

GPS / NAVIGATION

4) Finding Your Way Through the Mall or the Airport, with a Cellphone Map

Link to article in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/technology/11interior.html?src=busln

OTHER

5) Kentucky Group Sues Over Nixed ‘In God We Trust’ License Plate

Link to story on Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/07/kentucky-group-sues-rejection-god-trust-license-plate/

RAILROADS

6) LTE for Railways

Link to blog in Mass Transit:

http://www.masstransitmag.com/interactive/2010/10/07/lte-for-railways/

SAFETY / SECURITY

7) Ears Provide New Way of Identifying People in Airports

Link to article in The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8052887/Ears-provide-new-way-of-identifying-people-in-airports.html

TRANSIT

8) Clipper Transit Fare Card to Gain Chinese Name

Link to article in the San Francisco Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/08/BALL1FQDOG.DTL

9) Service, Smiles

Boston T customer service agent always has the right answer.

Link to article in the Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/10/service_smiles/?p1=Upbox_links

10) DC Metro Prepping Map for Makeover

Link to story on WTOP Radio:

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2070606

11) The App Trap

DC is awash in real-time transit information and it’s driving us nuts.

Link to commentary and video in the Washington City Paper:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/39865/the-app-trap/

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

12) MapMyIndia Pilots Traffic Updates in India; Starts with Delhi

Link to article on MediaNama:

http://www.medianama.com/2010/10/223-mapmyindia-pilots-traffic-updates-in-india-starts-with-delhi/

13) Closed Circuit TV Cameras, Message Boards Being Installed Along West Virginia Turnpike

Link to story on MetroNews:

http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=40060

14) Smart Lights Speed Traffic in Brevard County, Florida

Link to article in Florida Today:

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20101010/NEWS01/10100318/1006/Smart+lights+speed+traffic

VEHICLES

15) Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

Link to article in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html

16) States Test Wireless Emissions Data Systems

Link to article in Light & Medium Truck:

http://www.lmtruck.com/articles/petemplate.aspx?storyid=1043

News Releases

1) Median Man Radio PSA Wins National Award

2) Tennessee 511 Receives Three Millionth Call

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Today in Transportation History

1910 **100^th anniversary** Former US president Theodore Roosevelt, became the first American president to fly in an airplane.

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