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Newsby StaffJune 6, 2017

ITS America forms transportation-focused cybersecurity task force

The new group aims to address key issues in transportation such as technological challenges; legal and liability issues; and policy, regulation, and legislation.

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Newsby StaffJune 5, 2017

Seon launches new line of HD surveillance systems

The new systems include the TH4, TH4C, and TH6 digital video recorders and the HD1 and HD3 interior dome and outdoor wedge cameras.

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Newsby StaffJune 5, 2017

ABA supports FMCSA withdrawal of insurance ANPRM for motorcoaches

After reviewing all public comments to the ANPRM, FMCSA determined it has insufficient data or information to support moving forward with a rulemaking proposal, at this time.

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Newsby StaffJune 2, 2017

Q'Straint to host 'Emerging Trends in Wheelchair Transportation' webinar

Presentation will explore developing ridership and securement dilemmas facing transit providers, and examine how emerging technologies and recent regulatory changes are addressing the previous short comings of primitive securement applications.

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Newsby StaffJune 2, 2017

Outreach teams to offer services to homeless throughout L.A. Metro

Members of the teams included nurses, mental health clinicians, substance abuse counselors, and former homeless individuals, among others, who sought to help the homeless population in Los Angeles.

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Newsby StaffMay 31, 2017

Pittsburgh BRT to connect 30,000 people over 24 neighborhoods

Downtown Pittsburgh will link to Uptown, Oakland, Wilkinsburg via the East Busway, Squirrel Hill, and Highland Park.

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Newsby StaffMay 31, 2017

AECOM's first TV commercial shows infrastructure's power to connect communities

Filmed by acclaimed director John Singleton and created by the L.A. advertising agency Battery, the ad is part of a new AECOM campaign.

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NewsMay 31, 2017

Profile: Joel Volinski, Director, National Center for Transportation Research

When Joel Volinski accepted a job as the interim director of Florida’s Broward County Transit Agency in 1983, he had never ridden on a public transit bus. “Here I was, the person who knew less about the subject than anyone, and suddenly I was directing the biggest agency in county government,” he tells me, leaning back in his leather chair. “So you have to have a sense of humor, and you have to be kind of a quick study.”

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Newsby StaffMay 31, 2017

Hill International to assist Jacobs with N.Y. Canarsie Tunnel construction work

The storm surge from 2012's Superstorm Sandy damaged the tunnel, leaving it in need of extensive repairs. The tunnel was flooded with seven million gallons of salt water leaving two adjacent 7,100-foot-long sections of the tunnel with significant damage.

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Newsby StaffMay 31, 2017

$197M in federal grants awarded for PTC implementation

The FRA was responsible for the selection of the grant recipients, and the FTA will award and administer the grants during Fiscal Year 2017.

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