The tracking devices have been recommended by FAA and were highlighted by NTSB in its preliminary report on the crash between an Air Canada plane and a Port Authority fire truck.
Port Authority will expand their use after testing them at Newark Liberty International Airport last year.
When Port Authority Police Department Truck 1 entered the runway at LaGuardia Airport at the time of the crash, the NTSB said the airport's ground surveillance system - the Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X, or ASDE-X - did not generate an alert warning because the vehicle did not have a tracking device.
Experts say a tracking device could have prevented the crash.
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