Public transport

The nation's economy depends on the transport of goods, and the trucking industry serves a vital role in this function. However, their services should not occur at the expense of the public's safety. Laws and regulations exist to protect the public on our roads yet serious truck accidents occur every year that injure and kill both truckers and other motorists alike. Almost all of these accidents are directly or indirectly caused by the truck drivers, the trucking companies, or the actions of…

Self-driving cars What is a self-driving car? A self-driving car is a car that can drive it self from place to place without a person there at operate it. Self-driving cars were invented on August 1961 by William Bertelsen. We won’t notice self-driving cars on the road until 2020. What makes a self-driving car work A self-driving car is a combination of a bunch of sensors and advanced computers Vision systems that make it work. Many of the cars use a lidar. A lidar is a Light Detection…

for a better economy the developing world has resorted to acquiring faster means of transporting people and goods. Increasing number of vehicles coupled with haphazard city planning and unscientific road designs has resulted in making the general public vulnerable to road accidents every year. Accident is an event, occurring suddenly, unexpectedly and inadvertently under unforeseen…

Piece by Piece: The End of Walking Antonia Malchik, wife, mother, privileged American, confronts the American people on their laziness, privilege, and ignorance to the act of walking. Malchik believes that the age of walking has been overtaken by people in cars and strives to convince the people of America too pen their eyes and see what we’re becoming. “Walking is the first legacy of our post-ape genes”, she says, “H. sapiens came only after H. erectus” (par. 5). The average human was created…

The growing population of the Americas, westward expansion became more inevitable. The soil in the east wasn’t able to keep up with the increasing crowded population, and the rich westward soil peaked many farmers interested. However, before the transportation revolution there was no way to get there. We can watch as the new transportation technologies grow, the westward expansion does as well. The new transportation technologies such as the canals, steamboats, and early railroads the bound the…

a vehicle. Even if the vehicle is not available for a day due to various reasons, people find it extremely difficult to commute to their work place and back. Especially if you are used to cars, you will find it next to impossible to use public modes of transport even for a few days. It is therefore very essential to maintain your car. Car maintenance does not come cheap, though. In case of repairs, you will have to shell out a huge amount of money depending on the parts that have to be…

clock, dual task, tracking, spatial memory search, symbol digit test, grammatical test and memory search test. A total of 39 participants partook in this study, which 37 of them were male and two were female. 30 of the subjects volunteered from a transport company and nine from the Australian army. The study was conducted over a three day period with participants doing both alcohol and sleep deprivation tests; day one used for practice, day two for alcohol and day three for sleep deprivation.…

more advanced people are beginning to rely more and more on technology. Traveling is only done in vehicles now. People no longer have the energy or time to go for a simple walk in the park or even walk two blocks away from their homes. With cheap transport which is also accessible to all then most people have turned to living lifestyles that are harmful to them. Diseases like arthritis and cardiovascular conditions are common today because most people have eating disorders and do not like…

BART Bay Area Rapid Transit, known by the acronym BART, is the main rail transportation system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It was envisioned as early as 1946 but the construction of the original system began in the 1960s. Origins and planning The idea of an underwater electric rail tube was first proposed in the early 1900s by Francis "Borax" Smith. There were also plans for a third-rail powered subway line (Twin Peaks Tunnel) under Market Street in the 1910s. Much of BART's current…

The transportation industry has a rich history of regulation in the United States surrounding the railroads that most grade school students learn about. The legacy of the transportation industry is rife with antitrust cases and the struggle of the government to protect consumers across state lines. Within transportation lies the automotive industry; which has dealerships in nearly every city and state in the country making regulation not only a national issue but a state and municipal category.…