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Issue 44: Sep 26 - Oct 2, 2008
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ITS REPORT NEWS
COMMUNICATIONS
GPS 'spoofing' could threaten national security (MSNBC, Oct 2): "Scientists at Cornell University and Virginia Tech are now warning about the dangers of 'spoofing', or hacking into the Global Positioning System (GPS) that controls everything from car navigation to national power grids." Read more
California outlaws RFID card skimming (Computer World, Oct 2): "California lawmakers this week passed a bill that makes it illegal to surreptitiously read someone else's radio frequency identification (RFID) card." Read more
FREIGHT AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS
DriverTech and McLeod Imaging Announce Full Integration of In-Cab Scanning and Document Management (Layover.com, Oct 1): "The integrated technologies can benefit carriers by reducing DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) and costs associated with overhead and business processes." Read more.
Rand McNally Commercial Transportation Launches New Software (Layover.com, Oct 1): "Rand McNally's new IntelliRoute® Dock2Dock solution is the first in the commercial transportation industry to provide truck-attributed dock-to-dock navigation on city and inter-neighborhood streets." Read more
HOT/HOV LANES
HOT Lanes Advance In Houston On I-10 "Katy Freeway" (Cascadia Prospectus, Oct 1): "Working with federal, state and regional partners, the Harris County Tollway Authority this fall will begin the final stages of implementing a plan for a total of four fully-operational High Occupancy and Toll (HOT) lanes, on both sides of a 12-mile stretch of the I-10 Katy Expressway." Read more
IN-VEHICLE SYSTEMS
Ambulances And Cop Cars Ready To Rumble (Wired, Oct 1): "Enter the Rumbler Intersection Clearing System, which can grab the attention of drivers oblivious to the flashing lights and blaring sirens of police cars and ambulances. It generates a low-level vibration all but guaranteed to get the attention of even the most brain-dead motorists so emergency vehicles waste less time slicing through traffic." Read more
LOCATION BASED SERVICES
Broadcom Upgrades Location-based Services with WiFi Positioning from Skyhook Wireless (TMC Net, Oct 2): "Broadcom will integrate the Skyhook solution with its chipsets and LBS solutions to enable hybrid location positioning." Read more
PARKING SYSTEMS
Integrated Parking Solutions, Inc. in Cooperation with NYCDOT, Parking Carma and Econolite will provide a Real-time Smart Parking Application Demonstration (Market Watch, Oct 2): "The Smart Parking demonstration will show how real-time parking availability information can be delivered to the consumer, thus enabling metropolitan congestion management incentives and advanced consumer benefits, such as, integration with mapping systems, available parking assistance, reserved parking and pay by phone or Internet features." Read more
TRAFFIC INFORMATION
GPS taxis as information source for traffic information system from Siemens (Fin Channel, Oct 1): "According to Siemens, the system uses the positional data of taxis transmitted via GPS to obtain information on the current traffic situation." Read more
Orange to provide road traffic data based on GSM signal (GPS Business News, Oct 2): "Wireless operator Orange today unveiled at the Paris Motor Show a platform to generate road traffic data based on signal events in its wireless network." Read more
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
Sensys wins Caltrans sale (East Bay Business Times, Oct 1) "Sensys Networks Inc. said Wednesday that Caltrans will install its wireless traffic sensors in more than 800 traffic detection stations." Read more
TRANSIT ITS
California train smash driver sent text seconds before disaster (The Register, Oct 2): "The driver of a Los Angeles commuter train that crashed into an oncoming freight locomotive last month, killing 25, was texting seconds before the impact, investigators confirmed today." Read more
VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE AND VEHICLE-TO-INFRASTRUCTURE
Motorola takes big step towards the connected car (CNET, Sep 26): "Motorola took a significant step towards commercializing WiMax for vehicles with the introduction of its X24 WiMax module. WiMax would also allow a vehicle-to-vehicle communication network, where, for example, a disabled car can send out a message to approaching vehicles that it is stopped in a freeway lane." Read more
ITS REPORT EXTRAS
ITS JOBS
4 new ITS job postings (Nevada, Texas) have been added on our website this week.
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