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| Now Online: Summer 2009 Traffic Safety Center Newsletter: Q &A with incoming Director Simon Washington, ped safety training in Glendale, and an Eno Fellow reports from D.C. |
| Simon Washington to Assume TSC Leadership: ITS Director Samer Madanat announced that Simon Washington, currently professor of civil and environmental engineering at Arizona State University, has accepted the offer to join ITS as the next Director of the Traffic Safety Center (TSC). He will start on August 1. |
| California Center for Innovative Transportation Wins 2009 Tranny: The Mobile Century/Mobile Millennium Project has won the California Transportation Foundation’s 2009 Tranny Award for Traffic Operations/ITS Project of the Year. |
| ITS Library Catalog Now Online in OskiCat, the New Online Catalog of the UC Berkeley Library: Just open up OskiCat and select “Institute of Transportation Studies” from the drop-down window on the far right with the lable "entire collection." |
ITS Headline pick for July 2: By-the-mile road tax could replace by-the-gallon federal fuel tax: The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove — tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center.—Kansas City Star |
NewsBITS: the quarterly newsletter of ITS. Spring 2009 online. |
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