Road transport

“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads,” Professor Smith said as he viewed his abstract blueprint. “This new community will provide simple transportation for all citizens once they have their license, and it will not require roads since the vehicles will hover over the ground.” “Ok, but where will this new community be, and how will we transfer every human from Earth to there?” Julie Ford questioned while heading towards the blueprint. “Will these citizens be happy in this community or…

transformed our lives, to the extent that we take for granted how it can also save our lives. In the developed world, we simply dial 911 and emergency services arrive quickly, sometimes in minutes. But consider what technologies that timeliness requires; roads, vehicles, and/or aircraft. Unfortunately for many, such equipment is too expensive and will remain so for the foreseeable future. But there is a new twist on an old idea coming to fruition: solar-electric airships. Solar Ship Inc. is a…

Community Development and Planning graduate class, we discussed the importance of understanding physical and symbolic boundaries (i.e. edges) of a space, as a way to comprehend a location. A road can be both a physical edge as well as a symbolic one, as is the intersection of Downing Street and Florence Street. The road is an obvious edge, or boundary for both cars and pedestrians but also a symbolic one because it is the edge of Clark's campus and the beginning of the Worcester community. At…

Also another issue with having older drivers is that they have issues seeing signs on the road, which you could probably guess why that would be an issue. Is could very possibly be a danger to miss a stop sign or a railroad crossing sign. Another issue is that some older people have difficulty seeing objects up close like their road maps and dashboard. They also have difficulties judging distances and speeds. You may be thinking that that the very basis of driving…

the transportation industry forever. Lets face it humans are horrible drivers and we are limited by our biology. We can only react so fast, or take in so much information at a time. An autonomous system could out perform us in almost any category. Road crashes cost the United States $230,600,000,000 per year! Self driving cars could cut that number down substantially. Remember a time when you sat behind a traffic light and when it turned green you didn’t get to move up until it was red again?…

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road demonstrates the limitless mobility for white American men during the Long Fifties. Kerouac establishes this idea through his characters and adds those of another race and ethnicity to illustrate their freedom or otherwise (lack of freedom) as a Mexican migrant workers. It is unconventional that Sal finds comfort in his encounters with Mexican migrant workers that he meets throughout his western travels. Although it appears to be a carefree and untroubled life,…

on to talk about how the driver less car sees and recognizes everything in the roads and yields to anything it doesn 't recognize. This car is such a good idea because the driver less car program would be safer than a human driving even with a driver assistance program because the car yields to anything it doesn 't recognize , unlike humans , and the car is created to recognize almost all of what goes on, on the road. Driver less cars are just genuinely safer because in Cars of Tomorrow - Still…

grammatical test and memory search test. The DV was measured using computer simulated tests of those listed above. A total of 39 participants partook in this study which 37 of them were male and two were female. Thirty of the subjects volunteered from a transport company and nine from the Australian army.…

Autonomous vehicles are becoming more of a reality in cities across the country. The most recognizable of these new breed of vehicles are the Google cars that traverse city streets, rural roads and highways alike. However, passenger vehicles aren't the only ones targeted for autonomous operation. Semi-truck industry news outlets are talking about new guidelines published by the government regarding the manufacture and use of autonomous semi-trucks. Proponents of this move say that trucking…

crosswind after being shielded by the bridge tower. This force, if strong enough, could cause the car to flip over or spin. From the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Bin Wang, You-Lin Xu, Le-Dong Zhu and Yong-Le Li investigated the crosswind effect on road vehicles passing by bridge towers by using a wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics simulations to analyze the aerospace forces on the vehicle. The major goal of this paper was to assess the danger crosswind flow around bridge towers…