Transportation Radio

ITS New Jersey, was one of the winners of the State Chapters Awards from ITS America at their annual meeting in Pittsburgh. Rizwan Baig, of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, and Second Vice President of ITS New Jersey, received the award on behalf of the chapter. He later spoke with Bernie Wagenblast about the recognition.

Gregory Winfree serves as the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology in the US Department of Transportation. This week he's in Pittsburgh at the ITS America annual meeting and he sat down to talk with Transportation Radio.

The public had their first opportunity to ride refurbished PATCO cars on Thursday.

What started as a means for friends to stay-in-touch has grown to be much more. Today, many transportation agencies and private-sector companies, are using social media and apps to change the face of transportation. ITS New Jersey hosted a forum Monday that examined what's being done and what lies ahead. Solomon Caviness of the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority talked to Transportation Radio about the event.

The leadership of the ITS state chapters in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey held their first coordination meeting last week at the World Trade Center in New York City. The gathering, hosted by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, provided an opportunity to look at what the three state chapters are already doing and opportunities for future collaboration.

One of the biggest state transportation conferences in the nation will be held in Atlantic City in April. Frank Reilly is the long-time chairman of the New Jersey TransAction Conference and he spoke with Transportation Radio about the event.

A project underway in France hopes to demonstrate how LTE technology can be used for both critical and non-critical communications. Alcatel-Lucent is serving as manager of the project which will initially be deployed on Paris Metro Line 14. I spoke with Alcatel-Lucent's Niren Choudhury at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey to learn more about the project and started with the basics, asking, "What is SYSTUF?"

The history of transportation is a history of innovation. In recent decades it seems the pace of innovation has increased exponentially. California's Valley Transportation Authority recently opened the VTA Innovation Center to serve as a place where a variety of groups can come together to collaborate on projects. Transportation Radio spoke with Gary Miskell, the Chief Information and Technology Officer of the VTA, to learn more about the Innovation Center.

This is a 10-minute sample of Colorado DOT's I-70 Mountain Travel Radio from Sunday morning, February 15, 2015.

Most winter weekends the I-70 corridor between Denver and the mountain resorts to the west is crowded with drivers heading for the ski slopes. In January, Colorado DOT launched a unique online broadcast service to inform and guide motorists. Amy Ford, the Director of Communications for the Colorado DOT, talked to Transportation Radio about I-70 Mountain Travel Radio.