Sustainable transport

The cost structure of motor carriers is fixed versus variable cost components whereas in the railroad industry, there are three types of cost structure: fixed costs, semivariable costs, and variable costs. The railroad industry has a larger portion of direct and indirect fixed costs than variable cost like the motor carrier industry. This is due to the fact that the railroad industry owns and maintains their own network and terminals and operate their own rolling stock. The railroad industry…

It was a cool autumn morning as I ran around the neighborhood. I tried to run as fast as I could because I knew there were tasty, chocolate donuts waiting for me. I ran by my best friend ,Harley,who was working out like always. I came home and I knew to never cheat like those desperate people who want to win, but to always be honest “Raymond!! You’re finally old enough for the Halo Race!” screamed Squeaky running down the stairs. “I know, I can’t wait for you to train Harley and me”, I replied…

Unknown “Okay officer I’ll tell you everything that I remember” I said. It was the year 2017. I was walking home from school with my two best friends Macy and Andy. We were on the way to my house to finish a project that was due at 12 that night, which gave us more than enough time to finish it. To get home from the school we had to cut through a huge woods called the “Unknown”. The woods was over 1000 acres large! There was many rumors about the “Unknown”, like people…

The fun and exciting world of car shopping, or so I thought. I was young, determined, and on a mission. I didn’t stop to consider words like value and depreciation, let alone the possible electronic, mechanical, and physical issues that might occur. Purchasing my Jeep Patriot will forever be one major event I wish I could go back and change. From the time I received my driver’s license until a significant time after I graduated high school I drove a 1998 Honda Accord. When the opportunity arose…

I walked through the door with you, the air was cold, But something 'bout it felt like home somehow and I Left my scarf there at your sister's house, And you still got it in your drawer even now. Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze. We're singing in the car, getting lost upstate. The Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, And I can picture it after all these days. And I know it's long gone, And that magic's not here no more, And I might be okay, But I'm not fine at all.…

road. This website also went over the CRAAP test well also, it provided all information defining what road rage is, how it starts, who gets road rage usually and how to prevent it. For another person's experience with violent road rage I found a news article of a teen getting up to 100 years prison in road-rage killing. Christian Hillman, 19 years old, after beating a 64-year-old to death in a church parking lot during a road rage incident. Then I had asked a teacher/driving instructor from…

It was a dark, gloomy, summer evening, rain was in the forecast. I was on my usual bike strolls through the woods as I heard screams of women echoing through the mysterious forest. I went off my usually route to go check out what happened. The forest had trees the size of the Eiffel Tower and I started hearing creepy owl noises. As I got deeper and deeper to the center of the woods the noise intensified. I felt like I was being watched. I investigated the areas and looked for signs of abductions…

Do you ever wander what you could do to be more careful around railroad crossings? Railroad crossings can be dangerous if you don’t look out for the warning signs. There are many warnings you need to look out for so you can be safe around railroad crossings. There are a lot of things that we need to know about trains, their warning signals, and what we can do to stay safe around railroad crossings. In the article “25 interesting facts about trains” the author wrote, “There is an abandoned subway…

There are other aspects that would allow a driver to refuse to driver if the driver thought that the weather was bad enough to not be able to drive safely. In the case of TransAm Trucking Inc v. Alphonse Maddin (Shumaker, 2016) the issue was the temperature and the type of mechanical issue that Mr. Maddin experienced. In January 2009 Mr. Maddin was driving in Illinois on Interstate 88 when he stopped while looking for a fuel stop at 11 pm. He was low on fuel and when he stopped the brakes on his…

My proposed topic has to do with driverless cars, and whose fault it is when they get into accidents, primarily level three autonomy and above. There has been a fair bit of controversy when it comes to whose fault is is when an autonomous vehicle gets into an accident. As autonomous cars and partially autonomous features become more and more popular in the modern automobile, it makes sense to take a closer look at and determine who is at fault if an autonomous car happens to get into an accident…