Happy new year to everyone!
How could we possibly have a better start for the new year than with a new edition of the ITSPodcast? As you may see, we don’t stop for Holidays! Here you have a still warm new episode with Professor Samy El-Tawab, from James Madison University, in Virginia, US. We have had a very interesting chat about a refreshing new Traffic Incidents reporting architecture they have recently published at the IEEE ITS Magazine.
We also have a new volunteer for our show, Dr. Maryam Kaveshgar, who has contributed with a extremely interesting News Minisection. Please go and check it out!
Mehran Shirazi will be talking about the history of traffic accidents in his Transportation in History minisection.
Finally, we have a very important call in the middle of this episode’s interview. We are launching a “Follower-get-a-follower” campaign to better disseminate this publication and extending our subscribers email list.
If you are interested, you may even win an i-Pad by convincing your friends and colleagues to join in! Please listen to the details in the middle cut, or visit https://itspodcast.com/?p=610. Thank you!
For those willing to jump straight to the Prof. El-Tawab’s interview, it starts at 6′:51″.
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Prof. Samy El-Tawab
News Minisection
GATEWAY Self- Drive passenger shuttle in Greenwich
Milton Keynes is set to begin tests of the Lutz self-driving pods next year (CATAPAULT)
sources:
- www.bbc.com
- www.bristol.gov.uk
- www.trl.co.uk
- ts.catapult.org.uk
Transportation in History
A photograph of the original Benz Patent-Motorwagen, first built in 1885 and awarded the patent for the concept (Wikipedia commons)
Glasgow-Paisley Steam Carriage (1834) (Wikipedia Commons)
The first “automobile accident”? (Wikipedia Commons)
First fatal automobile accident. 19th century artwork of the explosion of a steam stagecoach in Paisley, Scotland, on 29 July 1834. One of the wheels collapsed, rupturing the boiler which exploded, killing 5 people. (BMWFanatics)
Sources:
- Wikipedia.org
- offalyhistory.com
- jalopnik.com
- mentalfloss.com
- drivesteady.com
- todayifoundout.com
Excellent Work DR. Samy El-Tawab
Thank you Dr. Ramadan, Hope everything is good on your side.