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    Introduction Transit oriented development (TOD) is an urban development approach that focus on the effective use of the transit system, that is the public transport system. TOD maximizes the efficiency of the transit systems by developing in high-density, and in a way that integrates different land use into a single location. TOD makes use of high-capacity, highly efficient mass transit systems such as heavy railway, streetcars and buses to achieve an efficient and sustainable urban development.…

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    Ferny Grove, a sustainable community What do sustainable cities look like? Sustainable cities minimise the required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution and water pollution. There are many plants and trees and the community is a friendly area. The people of the community leave a small ecological footprint, which means they do not impact the environment as much. An example of a sustainable city is Brighton. They use LED lights as normal lights and renewable…

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    Ridesharing services like Lyft and Uber are changing the way we move throughout the country. They’re also making it difficult for policy makers to claim that the industry’s growth needs to be monitored in order to, for example, lower traffic congestion or protect profits. That being said, if for some reason ridesharing puts the public in danger, that could be a legitimate reason to start imposing further regulations. Over the recent years, however, ride-sharing has started to revolutionized the…

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    street. 2. Connectivity : There should be good interconnected street grid network so that traffic can be dispersed without causing a congestion on streets and providing a free walking passage on street for pedestrians. There should be a high quality pedestrian network providing a hierarchy of narrow lanes and making walking more pleasurable for the…

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    provide large health benefits, including reduced traffic crashes and pollution emissions, increased physical fitness, improved mental health, improved basic access to medical care and healthy food and increased affordability which reduces financial stress to lower-income households. •Traffic casualty rates tend to decline as public transit travel increases in an area. Residents of transit-oriented communities have only about a quarter the per capita traffic fatality rate as residents of…

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    so in this chapter So in this chapter tells the story of science in normal congestion criteria and does not depend on the traffic congestion that followed the revolution. attitude taken scientists in the face anomaly Friday or crisis is taking a different attitude with retaining their padradigma and more and more competitive as well as the articulation of an…

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    Distracted Driving

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    which has only been increasing over the last 10 years. The influx of new drivers leads to congestion, pollution, and even danger. Every single one of these cars relies on a human to operate, which all make mistakes, have distractions and work on a busy schedule. Human operation has always been the best available method for us but has huge downsides when it relates to crashes that lead to deaths, Congestion of traffic and distracted drivers. Auto companies have worked to make these cars safer by…

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    Net Neutrality and Data Discrimination “They who can give up their essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin. When you sacrifice your freedoms for security you deserve neither. The same goes for internet freedoms. When you sacrifice the freedom and openness of the internet for any type of law you deserve nothing. The internet started on the basis of the words, free, open and…

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    more than two cars”. Car pooling idea is implementing by many office going people, who belongs to same area. As no. of cars on road reduce which helps in managing traffic. But this idea is derogatory by multiple car owners, who bought car as status symbols. Many corporate sectors provide cab facility, to add one step toward managing traffic and parking space problem. It avoid choking of the roads at peak hours of office timings. Residential societies are making rules for parking on the…

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    What multi-modal impact does Qantas have with their DFW hub? With Qantas using DFW as one if its current hubs. The airline has the opportunity to now bypass San Francisco, which reveals a lot of the current congestion the airline or passengers used to deal with. Also, DFW has much better connections since Qantas and American Airlines became partners for all United States Flights. Finally, DFW is a major airport and it’s not going to be deserted at any time of the day or night, but in terms…

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