What are the key elements of this complex system and what factors determine how different
transportation systems take shape in different parts of the world?
Bike
transportation systems take work.
Not exact matches
One year earlier, in 1961, Clarke also published Dial F for Frankenstein, a short story of an interconnected telephone network that spontaneously acts like a newborn baby and leads to global chaos as it
takes over financial,
transportation, and military
systems.
The U.S. air
transportation system flies high on some indicators, mostly involving capacity to
take to the air, but lands low on others, mostly involving...
In his paper, the co-founder of PayPal encouraged anyone to
take up the mantle of building the
system, and indeed, Hyperloop
Transportation Technologies is a private company with no affiliation to Musk.
Along with Vaughn, Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch have also been linked to starring roles in True Detective season two, which will
take place in California and may or may not be about the «secret occult history of the U.S.
transportation system»...
Given the sad state of our highways, public
transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational
system, increased government spending in these areas could
take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.
Let me lust list some areas that will require government action and planning: rejuvenating the centers of big cities, providing mass
transportation systems, controlling pollution, maintaining open spaces and recreational areas,
taking care of future energy needs, making health care available to all.
Whether you drive your vehicle a lot or
take public
transportation, the baby travel
system you choose will depend on which style will accommodate your situation the best.
After a New Jersey Transit train derailed Thursday morning in Hoboken — the latest in a series of train derailments to afflict the greater New York
transportation system — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said citizens could
take some solace in at least one thing: the two of them work well together in times of crisis.
The two fought bitterly last year when the governor leaned on the city to cough up several billion more to finance the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority — which resulted in Mr. de Blasio capitulating to
take an additional $ 2.5 billion for the transit
system onto the city's ledgers.
John Liu, who was
transportation chair in the aftermath of September 11,
took the M.T.A. to task for failing to improve its security
systems with due haste.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said that if the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority doesn't fix the problems plaguing New York City's subway
system, he'd prefer that the city
take over responsibility of it — and called on both the MTA and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to present a plan to the city to address the «mounting» delays, disruptions and public complaints.
Puerto Rican scientists are still
taking stock of the magnitude of the wreckage nearly two weeks after the hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20 as Category 4 winds propelled trees into buildings, knocked out power
systems, left residents without fuel for generators and
transportation and diminished access to drinking water and food supplies.
«At the end of the day, what's going to truly decarbonize the
transportation system is when we move to low - carbon fuel or completely battery - powered vehicles,» which will
take decades to see widespread adoption, said Stepp.
NASA added that it is also committed to designing «a new and powerful
transportation»
system involving solar electric propulsion, which will use the sun's energy to
take spacecraft deeper into space.
The Act struck a compromise between allowing the Obama Administration to proceed with its plan to turn crew
transportation to low Earth orbit (LEO) over to the private sector and Congress's desire to keep NASA in the human spaceflight business by building «beyond LEO»
systems — SLS and Orion — to
take astronauts further into space.
NASA held a press conference today with its Commercial Crew
Transportation Capability (CCtCAP) partners Boeing and SpaceX today to highlight progress on developing U.S.
systems to
take astronauts to space.
Taken internally, it helps support all of the fluid
transportation in your body and works with the lymph
system.
The CSO would be a regulatory body ensuring that schools have funding, facilities, and
transportation and
taking care of work best handled centrally, such as enrollment
systems and expulsion policies.
Additionally, the school funding
system should
take into account varying classroom and district sizes, districts in geographically isolated areas and differing
transportation costs.
The study concluded that Michigan's school funding
system also must
take into account district size, districts in geographically isolated areas, and differing
transportation costs.
Last month, during a hearing before California lawmakers on the need to reform remedial education — the
system that aims to ready underprepared students for college - level work — a student testified that because his test scores required him to
take one year's worth of remedial education, he would have to scramble to figure out how to pay another year's rent, school fees, and
transportation.
In all of the above, thousands of small but significant human interactions
take place in physical group settings that just can not be duplicated virtually, i.e: when a teacher
takes a group of students on an important field trip, the group is not just gathering information; they may learn how to negotiate a public
transportation system, how to behave properly in public, help a fellow classmate who has difficulty with new situations, etc. etc. etc..
They are adamant about the need to improve the enrollment
system to
take into account distance that children have to travel because of
transportation and the need for siblings to attend the same school.
-- Each commuter authority shall designate the key stations in its commuter rail
transportation system, in consultation with individuals with disabilities and organizations representing such individuals,
taking into consideration such factors as high ridership and whether such station serves as a transfer or feeder station.
U.S.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland today
took a first look at new Driver Alcohol Detection
System for Safety (DADSS) technology being developed to prevent alcohol - impaired drivers from operating their vehicles while under the influence.
Boston's accessible public
transportation system, the «T,» has helped ensure that the majority of commuters — just over 60 % —
take public
transportation, and some of the routes to the city give drivers incentive to carpool.
It also has an intricate public transit
system consisting of cable car trolleys and busses, which results in fewer residents commuting by car — almost two - thirds of commuters either carpool or
take public
transportation.
The 2.6 percent of you who decided to
take advantage of Riverside's public
transportation system are feeling some relief when it's time to hit the road, but many of you have not only have the pressure of braving the freeway traffic but your Riverside insurance quotes might make you squeal.
For room service, island
transportation, or to simply be left alone to
take an afternoon nap, the island's signature driftwood flagpole
system is a simple way to communicate with our attentive staff.
The
transportation system is easy to use, and will happily
take you from A to B. Prague is a bustling city with many people (both tourists and locals) most days, so you will never be alone despite travelling solo.
Ahead of the BioShock Infinite release date of March 26, the latest trailer shows Booker DeWitt
taking on enemies and using the floating city of Columbia's Sky - Line
transportation system as he bids to rescue Elizabeth.
Bracketed chronologically by Rosler's well - known photo - text work The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive
systems (1974/75) and her highly influential essay In, around and afterthoughts (on documentary photography)(1981), this series
takes its place alongside Rosler's photographs of airports, roads, shop windows, and public
transportation as part of a career - long photographic practice.
In light of these matters, why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and
take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy /
transportation / agriculture
systems followed by a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal from the oceans and / or atmosphere to push the needle back down under 400 ppm in a decade or two at most?
: Re sunshades, yes, what LG said at 14, plus, the shades do nothing to reduce the ocean acidification... why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and
take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy /
transportation / agriculture
systems **** concurrent with, and achieved by the same means, *** a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal... and... under *** 300 ppm *** in 20 — 100 years, at most?
# 30 mike said: Re sunshades, yes, what LG said at 14, plus, the shades do nothing to reduce the ocean acidification... why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and
take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy /
transportation / agriculture
systems **** followed by *** a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal... and... under *** 400 ppm *** in *** a decade or *** two at most?
First up, a look at what Obama's got in store for US
transportation — like more funding for a massive high speed rail
system and ideas for a controversial tax that will charge car owners a fee for every mile they drive.The proposed budget would
take effect in the fiscal year 2010 (which begins October 1st, 2009 — hey, I don't make the rules.
Instead of building a fully funded and approved light rail
transportation system with 25 stops that might have generated billions in Transit - oriented development, Mayor Tory rigorously pushed through a $ 3 billion dollar subway with exactly one stop (down from the 3 in illustration), because the previous crackhead mayor of Toronto believed that LRTs are trolleys running down the middle of the road and blocked cars, and you can't block cars in Toronto or
take away their lanes.
«It is a great corporate decision to
take a look at where the
transportation system isn't meeting the
My first EcoChallenge was to
take on the hyperlocavore 100 mile diet, and since then I've thought about food, food
transportation and the import / export
systems nearly every time I grocery shop.
In its place, the work of innovation to decrease energy consumption is
taken up by researchers and startups with many promising solutions like biofuel paved future roads that are cheaper than petroleum, sustainable and environmental friendly, or the creation of high speed
system of
transportation that runs on air and electricity, made by a company called HyperLoop.
I am clearly just scrapping the surface here in terms of what forms disruptive
systems would
take in terms of sustainable
transportation.
For historical reasons, wireless
systems for use in the
transportation sector have
taken a separate path for technology development.
Cities are long - lived durable capital and it
takes «time to build» the infrastructure necessary for a city ranging from housing, commercial buildings,
transportation infrastructure, sewer
systems, electricity generation.
Many societies have
taken measures to cope with historical weather extremes, but new, more intense extremes have the potential to overwhelm existing human
systems and structures.18 More frequent and more severe extreme weather events are more likely to destabilize ecosystems and cripple essential components of human livelihood, such as food production,
transportation infrastructure, and water management.
Take a small example: Moving away from internal - combustion automobiles and trucks means more than just swapping in electric vehicles and expanding public transit; it also means building the infrastructure to support the new
transportation system (chargers, added bus lines, additional electric power plants), retraining the people whose livelihoods were based on maintaining conventional vehicles, changing how cities are laid out and much more.
The Hubway bicycle share
system has
taken off in Boston in its first two seasons.By Bret SilverbergBoston's popular three - season bicycle share
system has done more than provide residents with a quick, cheap mode of
transportation, it's
taken a few cars off the road in the process.Nicole Freedman, director of bicycle programs for the city of -LSB-...]
The students must also address the fact that the energy
system is complex in that emissions reductions
take time as we renew factories, buildings and vehicles, and that costs differ depending on energy forms (fossil fuels, renewables) and energy uses (electricity generation,
transportation, buildings).
Most of the power to fuel this electrified
transportation system of the future is expected to come from large hydro dams, however, where the consumption of land, and the resulting environmental damage,
takes an even greater toll.