Connected Corridors Digest #2

February 1, 2013

Connected Corridors Digest #2

February 1, 2013

In this issue: PATH/UCB Research, Corridors, Operations & TMCs, Mapping/Routing, Traveler Info, Apps/Parking, Transit, Freight, Ideas/Costs/Policy, Govt & Agencies, Trades/Newsletters, Conferences/Seminars, Funding/Jobs/Opportunities, Links

PATH / UC BERKELEY RESEARCH

Berkeley Transportation Letter | ITS.Berkeley.edu

Top Reasons People Stop Using Public Transit- UCB Research

UC B Research Paper: Passengers' Perception of and Behavioral Adaptation to Unreliability in Public Transportation

SafeTREC e-alert: Transit Fares & Obese Drivers - January 25, 2013

Corridors

Move LA -- Transportation Organization in LA

Port Of Long Beach Approves Billion-Dollar Harbor Project | USC News

Caltrans Making Moves to Ease 10 Freeway Gridlock - Palm Desert, CA Patch

Programming a smoother commute - Toronto - CBC News

I-15 transit hub promised in Sabre Springs | UTSanDiego.com

Operations & TMCs

TRB: Methodologies to Measure and Quantify Transportation Management Center Benefits: Final Synthesis Report

TRB: Understanding the Contributions of Operations, Technology, and Design to Meeting Highway Capacity Needs

IBM News room - 2013-01-17 City of Cologne Completes Smarter Traffic Pilot with IBM - United States

TRB Comms Awards: Gamification as a Communication Tool Part of Innovative Public Outreach Campaigns | Talking Transportation

Mapping/Routing

Network RTK for Intelligent Vehicles | GPS World

Side-by-Side Router Compares Driving, Walking, Biking, and Transit — Mobility Lab

TRB:  Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, and Advanced Computing 2012

Traveler Info

TRB: Deployment, Use, and Effect of Real-Time Traveler Information Systems

Apps/Parking

Univ. of Minnesota Better World Project | DriveScribe Safety App  Jan 2013

New York Scraps Privatizing Parking Meters - WSJ.com

Car-Sharing Services Grow, and Expand Options - NYTimes.com

Mercedes-Benz tech warns wrong-way drivers - MSN Autos

Transit

Omnitrans Launches Live Bus PredictionTechnology | Omnitrans Public Transit News for the San Bernardino Valley

York Region Transit Implements Google's Live Transit Updates

Freight

TRB Freight Demand Modeling and Data Improvement

TRB Freight Facts and Figures 2012

Ideas/Costs/Policy

Freakonomics » An End to the Gas Tax?

In Oregon, Pushing Ahead With Road Use Fees - The Atlantic Cities

Mileage-Based User Fees for Transportation Funding: A Primer for State and Local Decisionmakers | RAND

A Pay-Per-Mile Road Tax Could Target Transpo Funding — But It’s Years Away | Transportation Nation

TRB: Mileage-Based User Fees for Transportation Funding: A Primer for State and Local Decision Makers

TRB: Funding Important Transportation Infrastructure in a Fiscally Constrained Environment

WSJ.com - Opinion: Travis Kalanick: The Transportation Trustbuster

Snagging tax-saving transportation benefits - MarketWatch

Could These Crazy Intersections Make Us Safer? - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

Unions to Obama: Replace LaHood with transportation funding defender - The Hill's Transportation Report

Government & Agencies

RITA - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Dynamic Mobility Applications

TRB: SAFETY IIHS Status Report, December 2012

TRB: Best Practices in the Use of Hybrid-Static Dynamic Signs

TRB: Review of the Highway Trust Fund: The Viability of Mileage Fees for Certain Vehicles

TRB: Literature Review on Recent International Activity in Cooperative Vehicle–Highway Automation Systems

TRB: Committee on Implementing the Research Results of the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Letter Report: January 23, 2013

TRB: Practitioner’s Guide to Incorporating Greenhouse Gas Emissions into the Collaborative Decision-Making Framework

TradeS/Newsletters

TRB TR News November-December 2012: From Vision to Practice: Productive Models

AASHTO Journal - January 25, 2013 - Concern Mounts over 5.9 GHz Band Spectrum Sharing, Future of Connected Vehicle Program

Traffic Technology Today

RITA - Intelligent Transportation Systems Newsletter

Public Roads -Federal Highway Administration Magazine

Volpe News, National Transportation Center Publication

TRB: Transportation Research Record: Transit 2012, Volume 3

ERTICO eMagazine: January 2013

Conferences/Seminars

Smart Parking Symposium at Berkeley

Intelligent Transportation Society of California - Incorporating Greenhouse Gas Emissions  into the Collaborative Decision-Making  Process

RITA - Intelligent Transportation Systems AEREIS Webinar

TRB: 2014 Transportation Planning, Land Use and Air Quality Conference

TRB: 14th TRB National Transportation Planning Applications Conference

AGENDA - 2013 NRITS Conference

ITS WORLD CONGRESS TOKYO 2013

ITS America 2013 Annual Meeting and Exposition

Funding/Jobs/Opportunities

TRB RFI: NCHRP FY 2013: Synthesis Study Topics Sought

TRB RFP: Guidelines for Implementing Managed Lanes

Call for Papers - 17th International Road Federation  World Meeting & Exhibition

Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley Connected Embedded Systems Concentration Offered Through the Software Engineering Graduate Program - SFGate

FHWA New Exploratory Advanced Research Request for Proposals (Deadline 3/15/13)

Links

RITA - Intelligent Transportation Systems