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Transportation Communications Newsletter

Friday, March 12, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

AASHTO’s Daily Transportation Update provides a selection of links to transportation-related news stories and Federal Register notices on the Internet every weekday morning. The DTU helps you keep up with media coverage of the industry from across the country and federal transportation regulatory actions. Subscribe today at http://news.transportation.org/subscription/index.aspx.

AVIATION

1) Interview with NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman

Link to audio interview on AVweb:

http://www.avweb.com/podcast/podcast/AudioPodcast_NTSB_DeborarhHersman_202155-1.html

BICYCLES

2) Google Engineer Scott Shawcroft Explains Google’s Bike Map

Link to article on Streetsblog San Francisco:

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/03/10/streetscast-google-engineer-scott-shawcroft-explains-googles-bike-map/

3) Google Bike Maps: A Cynical Cyclist Speaks Out

Link to commentary in PCWorld:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/191310/google_bike_maps_a_cynical_cyclist_speaks_out.html

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

4) Connecticut Border Toll Proposal Calls for Camera System

Link to article in the Connecticut Post:

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Border-toll-proposal-calls-for-camera-system-402776.php

GPS / NAVIGATION

5) Will GPS Kill the Sign?

Link to article in Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2246108

MARITIME

6) Delays in Satellite Programs Push US Navy to Look Elsewhere for Communications

Link to article on NextGov:

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100311_9931.php

7) US National Transportation Safety Board Recommends that Commercial Vessels be Required to Carry Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacons

Link to safety recommendation from the NTSB:

http://www.ntsb.gov/Recs/letters/2010/M10_1.pdf

OTHER

Panelists at AASHTO Meeting Stress Need to Constantly Monitor 24-Hour News Cycle

Link to article in the AASHTO Journal:

http://www.aashtojournal.org/Pages/031210heard.aspx

SAFETY / SECURITY

9) Former TSA Employee Charged with Infecting Databases

Link to article in Government Computer News:

http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/12/tsa-employee-charged-infected-systems.aspx

10) Laptops Could be Key to an Earthquake Early-Warning System

Link to article in the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-quakecatchers12-2010mar12,0,3872363.story

TELEMATICS

11) Intelligent Vehicles Hit the Road in China

Link to article in China Daily:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-03/12/content_9580057.htm

TRANSIT

12) Closed-Door Report Tells DC Metro to Focus on Rail Safety, be Honest with Public

Transit advocates urge report be made public.

Link to article in The Examiner:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Closed-door-report-tells-Metro-to-focus-on-rail-safety_-be-honest-with-public-87402267.html

13) San Diego Transit Agency to Hunt for Sponsors

Link to column in The San Diego Union-Tribune:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/the-ride-transportation/2010/mar/11/transit-agency-hunt-sponsors/

14) BART Gets Official Augmented Reality App

Link to blog in Fast Company:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1579694/bart-gets-official-augmented-reality-app-couldnt-find-the-train-is-no-longer-a-viable-excuse

15) Cleveland RTA to Provide Information to Customers via E-mail, Text Message and Twitter

Link to article in The Plain Dealer:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/03/rta_plans_to_provide_informati.html

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

16) North Florida TPO Receives Additional Details on Proposed Regional Transportation Management Center

Link to article in the Financial News & Daily Record:

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=530483

17) Wellington, New Zealand Traffic Control – Playing Slot Cars for Real

Link to article in The Dominion Post:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/local/3443921/Wellington-traffic-control-playing-slot-cars-for-real

VEHICLES

18) Driving by the Numbers

Giving drivers and carmakers real-time access to data that’s being monitored could improve safety.

Link to commentary in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/opinion/12chase.html

WEATHER

19) Congress Debates New Satellite Plan

Link to article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-11-satellite_N.htm

News Releases

1) Expanding in ITS: Gannett Fleming Acquires Vanus

2) FCC to Hold Technical Panel on 700 MHz Nationwide Interoperable Public Safety Wireless Broadband Network

3) Telematics Shapes Future of Taiwan’s ICT Industry

Upcoming Events

Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition Conference and Annual Meeting – April 27-29 – Cincinnati, Ohio

http://www.mississippivalleyfreight.org/2010meeting.html

Friday Bonus

Another sign that didn’t make the cut in the most recent MUTCD update.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3705747.html

Today in Transportation History

1930 **80^th anniversary** – Canadian World War I ace, Billy Barker, died in an airplane crash.

http://www.constable.ca/caah/barker.htm

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The Transportation Communications Newsletter is published electronically Monday through Friday.

To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit:

http://groups.google.com/group/tcnl/subscribe

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Questions, comments about the TCN? Please write the editor, Bernie Wagenblast at i95berniew@aol.com.

© 2010 Bernie Wagenblast www.bwcommunications.net

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Friday, March 12, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

AASHTO’s Daily Transportation Update provides a selection of links to transportation-related news stories and Federal Register notices on the Internet every weekday morning. The DTU helps you keep up with media coverage of the industry from across the country and federal transportation regulatory actions. Subscribe today at http://news.transportation.org/subscription/index.aspx.

AVIATION

1) Interview with NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman

Link to audio interview on AVweb:

http://www.avweb.com/podcast/podcast/AudioPodcast_NTSB_DeborarhHersman_202155-1.html

BICYCLES

2) Google Engineer Scott Shawcroft Explains Google’s Bike Map

Link to article on Streetsblog San Francisco:

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/03/10/streetscast-google-engineer-scott-shawcroft-explains-googles-bike-map/

3) Google Bike Maps: A Cynical Cyclist Speaks Out

Link to commentary in PCWorld:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/191310/google_bike_maps_a_cynical_cyclist_speaks_out.html

ELECTRONIC TOLLING

4) Connecticut Border Toll Proposal Calls for Camera System

Link to article in the Connecticut Post:

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Border-toll-proposal-calls-for-camera-system-402776.php

GPS / NAVIGATION

5) Will GPS Kill the Sign?

Link to article in Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2246108

MARITIME

6) Delays in Satellite Programs Push US Navy to Look Elsewhere for Communications

Link to article on NextGov:

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100311_9931.php

7) US National Transportation Safety Board Recommends that Commercial Vessels be Required to Carry Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacons

Link to safety recommendation from the NTSB:

http://www.ntsb.gov/Recs/letters/2010/M10_1.pdf

OTHER

Panelists at AASHTO Meeting Stress Need to Constantly Monitor 24-Hour News Cycle

Link to article in the AASHTO Journal:

http://www.aashtojournal.org/Pages/031210heard.aspx

SAFETY / SECURITY

9) Former TSA Employee Charged with Infecting Databases

Link to article in Government Computer News:

http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/12/tsa-employee-charged-infected-systems.aspx

10) Laptops Could be Key to an Earthquake Early-Warning System

Link to article in the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-quakecatchers12-2010mar12,0,3872363.story

TELEMATICS

11) Intelligent Vehicles Hit the Road in China

Link to article in China Daily:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-03/12/content_9580057.htm

TRANSIT

12) Closed-Door Report Tells DC Metro to Focus on Rail Safety, be Honest with Public

Transit advocates urge report be made public.

Link to article in The Examiner:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Closed-door-report-tells-Metro-to-focus-on-rail-safety_-be-honest-with-public-87402267.html

13) San Diego Transit Agency to Hunt for Sponsors

Link to column in The San Diego Union-Tribune:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/the-ride-transportation/2010/mar/11/transit-agency-hunt-sponsors/

14) BART Gets Official Augmented Reality App

Link to blog in Fast Company:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1579694/bart-gets-official-augmented-reality-app-couldnt-find-the-train-is-no-longer-a-viable-excuse

15) Cleveland RTA to Provide Information to Customers via E-mail, Text Message and Twitter

Link to article in The Plain Dealer:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/03/rta_plans_to_provide_informati.html

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

16) North Florida TPO Receives Additional Details on Proposed Regional Transportation Management Center

Link to article in the Financial News & Daily Record:

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=530483

17) Wellington, New Zealand Traffic Control – Playing Slot Cars for Real

Link to article in The Dominion Post:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/local/3443921/Wellington-traffic-control-playing-slot-cars-for-real

VEHICLES

18) Driving by the Numbers

Giving drivers and carmakers real-time access to data that’s being monitored could improve safety.

Link to commentary in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/opinion/12chase.html

WEATHER

19) Congress Debates New Satellite Plan

Link to article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-11-satellite_N.htm

News Releases

1) Expanding in ITS: Gannett Fleming Acquires Vanus

2) FCC to Hold Technical Panel on 700 MHz Nationwide Interoperable Public Safety Wireless Broadband Network

3) Telematics Shapes Future of Taiwan’s ICT Industry

Upcoming Events

Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition Conference and Annual Meeting – April 27-29 – Cincinnati, Ohio

http://www.mississippivalleyfreight.org/2010meeting.html

Friday Bonus

Another sign that didn’t make the cut in the most recent MUTCD update.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3705747.html

Today in Transportation History

1930 **80^th anniversary** – Canadian World War I ace, Billy Barker, died in an airplane crash.

http://www.constable.ca/caah/barker.htm

======================================================================

The Transportation Communications Newsletter is published electronically Monday through Friday.

To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit:

http://groups.google.com/group/tcnl/subscribe

If you have any difficulties please contact me at i95berniew@aol.com.

TCN archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications

Questions, comments about the TCN? Please write the editor, Bernie Wagenblast at i95berniew@aol.com.

© 2010 Bernie Wagenblast www.bwcommunications.net

Numerous people sent me links to this story involving public schools in Kansas City.

Please consider Kansas City Closing 26 Public Schools

Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.

Administrators say the closures are necessary to keep the district from plowing through what little is left of the $2 billion it received as part of a groundbreaking desegregation case.

The Kansas City school board narrowly approved the plan to close 29 out of 61 schools Wednesday night at a meeting packed with angry parents. The schools will close before the fall.

Emotional board member Duane Kelly told the crowd of more than 200 people Wednesday night, “This is the most painful vote I have ever cast” in 10 years on the board. Some chanted for the removal of the superintendent, while one woman asked the crowd, “Is anyone else ready to homeschool their children?”

Under the approved plan, teachers at six other low-performing schools will be required to reapply for their jobs, and the district will try to sell its downtown central office. It also is expected to cut about 700 of the district’s 3,000 jobs, including about 285 teachers.

District officials face dozens of issues as they begin the massive job of downsizing the district — reworking school bus routes, figuring out what to do with vacant buildings and slashing its payroll.

Superintendent John Covington has stressed that the district’s buildings are only half-full as its population has plummeted amid political squabbling and chronically abysmal test scores. The district’s enrollment of fewer than 18,000 students is about half of what the schools had a decade ago and just a quarter of its peak in the late 1960s.

Simple Question

This problem did not happen overnight. School enrollment is half what it was 10 years ago. So why did it take 10 years for the district to do something?

Please note that Covington took the job in July 2009 according to Wikipedia. On that basis he can be commended for doing a job long neglected for 10 years.

Flashback March 16, 1998

Inquiring minds are reading Money And School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment.

Executive Summary

For decades critics of the public schools have been saying, “You can’t solve educational problems by throwing money at them.” The education establishment and its supporters have replied, “No one’s ever tried.” In Kansas City they did try. To improve the education of black students and encourage desegregation, a federal judge invited the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to come up with a cost-is-no-object educational plan and ordered local and state taxpayers to find the money to pay for it.

Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil–more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers’ salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.

The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.

The Kansas City experiment suggests that, indeed, educational problems can’t be solved by throwing money at them, that the structural problems of our current educational system are far more important than a lack of material resources, and that the focus on desegregation diverted attention from the real problem, low achievement.

The Kansas City Story

In 1985 a federal district judge took partial control over the troubled Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) on the grounds that it was an unconstitutionally segregated district with dilapidated facilities and students who performed poorly. In an effort to bring the district into compliance with his liberal interpretation of federal law, the judge ordered the state and district to spend nearly $2 billion over the next 12 years to build new schools, integrate classrooms, and bring student test scores up to national norms.

It didn’t work. When the judge, in March 1997, finally agreed to let the state stop making desegregation payments to the district after 1999, there was little to show for all the money spent. Although the students enjoyed perhaps the best school facilities in the country, the percentage of black students in the largely black district had continued to increase, black students’ achievement hadn’t improved at all, and the black-white achievement gap was unchanged.(1) …..

Every Child Left Behind For Decades

Throwing money at the problem wasted $2 billion. Now the district faces bankruptcy, and is forced to abandon now decaying schools bought with wasted taxpayer money.

In Kansas City, as in Detroit, every child was left behind … for decades.

Closing schools is the correct decision. Moreover, Superintendent Covington needs to fire every hopeless school administrator as well, which may in fact be almost all of them.

Mike “Mish” Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List

Mike “Mish” Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.
Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

Numerous people sent me links to this story involving public schools in Kansas City.

Please consider Kansas City Closing 26 Public Schools

Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.

Administrators say the closures are necessary to keep the district from plowing through what little is left of the $2 billion it received as part of a groundbreaking desegregation case.

The Kansas City school board narrowly approved the plan to close 29 out of 61 schools Wednesday night at a meeting packed with angry parents. The schools will close before the fall.

Emotional board member Duane Kelly told the crowd of more than 200 people Wednesday night, “This is the most painful vote I have ever cast” in 10 years on the board. Some chanted for the removal of the superintendent, while one woman asked the crowd, “Is anyone else ready to homeschool their children?”

Under the approved plan, teachers at six other low-performing schools will be required to reapply for their jobs, and the district will try to sell its downtown central office. It also is expected to cut about 700 of the district’s 3,000 jobs, including about 285 teachers.

District officials face dozens of issues as they begin the massive job of downsizing the district — reworking school bus routes, figuring out what to do with vacant buildings and slashing its payroll.

Superintendent John Covington has stressed that the district’s buildings are only half-full as its population has plummeted amid political squabbling and chronically abysmal test scores. The district’s enrollment of fewer than 18,000 students is about half of what the schools had a decade ago and just a quarter of its peak in the late 1960s.

Simple Question

This problem did not happen overnight. School enrollment is half what it was 10 years ago. So why did it take 10 years for the district to do something?

Please note that Covington took the job in July 2009 according to Wikipedia. On that basis he can be commended for doing a job long neglected for 10 years.

Flashback March 16, 1998

Inquiring minds are reading Money And School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment.

Executive Summary

For decades critics of the public schools have been saying, “You can’t solve educational problems by throwing money at them.” The education establishment and its supporters have replied, “No one’s ever tried.” In Kansas City they did try. To improve the education of black students and encourage desegregation, a federal judge invited the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to come up with a cost-is-no-object educational plan and ordered local and state taxpayers to find the money to pay for it.

Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil–more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers’ salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.

The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.

The Kansas City experiment suggests that, indeed, educational problems can’t be solved by throwing money at them, that the structural problems of our current educational system are far more important than a lack of material resources, and that the focus on desegregation diverted attention from the real problem, low achievement.

The Kansas City Story

In 1985 a federal district judge took partial control over the troubled Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) on the grounds that it was an unconstitutionally segregated district with dilapidated facilities and students who performed poorly. In an effort to bring the district into compliance with his liberal interpretation of federal law, the judge ordered the state and district to spend nearly $2 billion over the next 12 years to build new schools, integrate classrooms, and bring student test scores up to national norms.

It didn’t work. When the judge, in March 1997, finally agreed to let the state stop making desegregation payments to the district after 1999, there was little to show for all the money spent. Although the students enjoyed perhaps the best school facilities in the country, the percentage of black students in the largely black district had continued to increase, black students’ achievement hadn’t improved at all, and the black-white achievement gap was unchanged.(1) …..

Every Child Left Behind For Decades

Throwing money at the problem wasted $2 billion. Now the district faces bankruptcy, and is forced to abandon now decaying schools bought with wasted taxpayer money.

In Kansas City, as in Detroit, every child was left behind … for decades.

Closing schools is the correct decision. Moreover, Superintendent Covington needs to fire every hopeless school administrator as well, which may in fact be almost all of them.

Mike “Mish” Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List

Mike “Mish” Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.
Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

AASHTO Daily Transportation Update

AASHTO’s Daily Transportation Update provides a selection of links to transportation-related news stories and Federal Register notices on the Internet every weekday morning. The DTU helps you keep up with media coverage of the industry from across the country and federal transportation regulatory actions. Subscribe today at http://news.transportation.org/subscription/index.aspx.

AVIATION

1) US Weighs Aiding Airlines with Air Traffic Upgrades

Link to Reuters article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62902B20100310

2) FAA Renames General Aviation Magazine, Readies Stand Down

Link to article in Occupational Health & Safety:

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/03/10/faa-readies-stand-down.aspx

3) Palo Alto Airport Hopes to Improve Communication with Community Following Crash

Link to article on Palo Alto Online:

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=16044

BICYCLES

4) Google Maps to Add Bike Maps, Directions

Link to CNET News article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10466313-265.html

CAMERAS

5) ‘Intelligent Video is Replacing Reactive Video’

Link to interview in InformationWeek:

http://www.informationweek.in/Security/10-03-10/‘Intelligent_video_is_replacing_reactive_video’.aspx

CARTOGRAPHY

6) Virtually Every Road in the UK Will Appear on Google’s Street View

Link to article in the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1256838/Google-Street-View-All-UK-streets-appear-map-tool-tomorrow.html

GPS / NAVIGATION

7) DARPA Plans Lightning-Based GPS for Underground Warfighters

Link to article in Popular Science:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/darpa-hopes-underground-warfighters-can-use-lightning-based-gps

RAILROADS

Amtrak Set to Rail About This or That on Twitter

Link to blog on Tnooz:

http://www.tnooz.com/2010/03/10/news/all-aboard-amtrak-set-to-rail-about-this-or-that-on-twitter/

SAFETY / SECURITY

9) US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Fields Aviation Security Questions Posed on Facebook and Twitter

Link to article in Government Security News:

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/20294/napolitano_fields_aviation_security_questions_pose

10) Texting While Driving: Put the Thumbs Away

Link to story and audio report on NPR’s Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124081093

News Releases

1) NTSB Study Shows Introduction of ‘Glass Cockpits’ in General Aviation Airplanes has Not Led to Expected Safety Improvements

2) New Web Site Shows Amtrak Connections to National Park Sites

3) National GPS Usage Data Reveals Walmart is Nation’s Most Searched for Destination While on the Road

Upcoming Events

American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Annual Conference – April 26-30 – San Diego

http://www.asprs.org/SanDiego2010/index.html

Today in Transportation History

1910 **100^th anniversary** Emil Aubrun made the first night flight in an airplane.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/442?size=_original

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The Transportation Communications Newsletter is published electronically Monday through Friday.

To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit:

http://groups.google.com/group/tcnl/subscribe

If you have any difficulties please contact me at i95berniew@aol.com.

TCN archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications

Questions, comments about the TCN? Please write the editor, Bernie Wagenblast at i95berniew@aol.com.

© 2010 Bernie Wagenblast www.bwcommunications.net

Transportation in Hamilton – Hamilton Civic League Speaker Series

* Date: March 22, 2010
* Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
* Location: Volunteer Hamilton
* Address: 267 King Street East (Google Maps)
* Email: HamiltonCivicLeague@gmail.com

On March 22nd the Hamilton Civic League presents the second installment of its monthly Speaker Series entitled “Transportation in Hamilton: Challenges, Goals and Possibilities.”

Featuring guest panelists from: Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee ; Transit Users Group ; McMaster Institute for Transportation & Logistics ; Transportation for Liveable Communities.

Join us for a frank and wide-ranging discussion of Hamilton’s transportation systems and road network. Voice your opinion on what specific considerations should inform City planning and policy in this area. What issues MUST be part of the campaign discourse in this election year?

Posted by davidvanbeveren

Transportation Communications Newsletter

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057

AASHTO Daily Transportation Update

AASHTO’s Daily Transportation Update provides a selection of links to transportation-related news stories and Federal Register notices on the Internet every weekday morning. The DTU helps you keep up with media coverage of the industry from across the country and federal transportation regulatory actions. Subscribe today at http://news.transportation.org/subscription/index.aspx.

AVIATION

1) US Weighs Aiding Airlines with Air Traffic Upgrades

Link to Reuters article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62902B20100310

2) FAA Renames General Aviation Magazine, Readies Stand Down

Link to article in Occupational Health & Safety:

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/03/10/faa-readies-stand-down.aspx

3) Palo Alto Airport Hopes to Improve Communication with Community Following Crash

Link to article on Palo Alto Online:

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=16044

BICYCLES

4) Google Maps to Add Bike Maps, Directions

Link to CNET News article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10466313-265.html

CAMERAS

5) ‘Intelligent Video is Replacing Reactive Video’

Link to interview in InformationWeek:

http://www.informationweek.in/Security/10-03-10/‘Intelligent_video_is_replacing_reactive_video’.aspx

CARTOGRAPHY

6) Virtually Every Road in the UK Will Appear on Google’s Street View

Link to article in the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1256838/Google-Street-View-All-UK-streets-appear-map-tool-tomorrow.html

GPS / NAVIGATION

7) DARPA Plans Lightning-Based GPS for Underground Warfighters

Link to article in Popular Science:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/darpa-hopes-underground-warfighters-can-use-lightning-based-gps

RAILROADS

Amtrak Set to Rail About This or That on Twitter

Link to blog on Tnooz:

http://www.tnooz.com/2010/03/10/news/all-aboard-amtrak-set-to-rail-about-this-or-that-on-twitter/

SAFETY / SECURITY

9) US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Fields Aviation Security Questions Posed on Facebook and Twitter

Link to article in Government Security News:

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/20294/napolitano_fields_aviation_security_questions_pose

10) Texting While Driving: Put the Thumbs Away

Link to story and audio report on NPR’s Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124081093

News Releases

1) NTSB Study Shows Introduction of ‘Glass Cockpits’ in General Aviation Airplanes has Not Led to Expected Safety Improvements

2) New Web Site Shows Amtrak Connections to National Park Sites

3) National GPS Usage Data Reveals Walmart is Nation’s Most Searched for Destination While on the Road

Upcoming Events

American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Annual Conference – April 26-30 – San Diego

http://www.asprs.org/SanDiego2010/index.html

Today in Transportation History

1910 **100^th anniversary** Emil Aubrun made the first night flight in an airplane.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/442?size=_original

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The Transportation Communications Newsletter is published electronically Monday through Friday.

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Transportation in Hamilton – Hamilton Civic League Speaker Series

* Date: March 22, 2010
* Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
* Location: Volunteer Hamilton
* Address: 267 King Street East (Google Maps)
* Email: HamiltonCivicLeague@gmail.com

On March 22nd the Hamilton Civic League presents the second installment of its monthly Speaker Series entitled “Transportation in Hamilton: Challenges, Goals and Possibilities.”

Featuring guest panelists from: Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee ; Transit Users Group ; McMaster Institute for Transportation & Logistics ; Transportation for Liveable Communities.

Join us for a frank and wide-ranging discussion of Hamilton’s transportation systems and road network. Voice your opinion on what specific considerations should inform City planning and policy in this area. What issues MUST be part of the campaign discourse in this election year?

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