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    6. Smart Transportation System It aims to improve travel safety and travel efficiency while bringing up a sustainable transportation system. The information collected from the system can support transportation mangers in making decision, facilitate rational utilization of resources, and provide inspiration for the future development. This smart transportation system helps travelers to reduce travel times, delay, and the stress of travel so that benefit the whole transportation sector to reduce energy consumption and emission (Adler & Blue, 1998). 6.1 Real-time Transport Service Information System This real-time transport service information system is a strategy corresponding to the real-time traffic information system. In this scenario, ravelers…

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    Summary of Findings •High quality public transportation (convenient, comfortable, fast rail and bus transport) and transit oriented development (walkable, mixed-use communities located around transit stations) tend to affect travel activity in ways that 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…

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    Key Drivers of Innovation The innovation and technical progress experienced in the transportation industry is driven by speed and efficiency, market size and structures, and strategy formulation. Speed and efficiency The need to have fast delivery of supplies to cities and towns and from farmlands to urban centers facilitated innovation in railway and railcars. Initially, innovation in the transport industry was due to economies of scale. With the intention of sustaining themselves, towns and…

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    getting products from its place of origin to its final destination as quickly as possible using up as little resources as possible. Sometimes trying to accomplish efficiency can be a very difficult process, because there can be multiple issues that can affect planning at the final seconds of shipment. The article that is being reviewed addresses some of the issues with the different modes of operation in the shipping industry, which are industrial, liner, and tramp shipping. In industrial…

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    Advantages of Transportation Transportation is the motion of people, animals or goods from one place to another. The modes of transport are air, rail, road, water, pipeline, cable and space. The field can be separated into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is significant because it allows trade between people, which is important for the growth of civilizations. Transport infrastructure is comprised of the fixed installations, which include roads, railways, airways,…

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    should more be on a sustainably developed transportation system that meets the needs of people, i.e. mobility, accessibility and safety, within the available or affordable environmental, financial and social resources. Bluemel (1999) proposed a back casting method for mobility plan which derives solutions to the problems via feedback loop and it mainly focus on defining desired future conditions and then works backwards to attain…

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    Near-Sourcing Case Study

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    companies can greatly reduce costs of shipping across long distances or overseas, for continued production (Heubsch, 2013). However, for near-sourcing to work, companies must find locations closer to home, while still maintaining lower production costs. Many U.S. firms are looking to Mexico and South America for production, where products are relatively close to home and the hourly wages are low (Heubsch, 2013). Costs for shipping raw materials overseas is reduced and costs for labor…

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    by their access to natural resources, the level of conflict within the country and their access to transportation, in order to provide the country that would be most successful to the corporation. Due to its access to resources, level of conflict and excellent…

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    to keep a person arms as strong as possible as this would have been a plus for me. Since I have been in this program I have not been able to do what I would normally do to stay in shape. Being slightly on the weak side definitely worked against me. A home exercise program would be idea for someone in a wheelchair. E. Remediation Driver Rehabilitation/Adaptation Interventions 1.) R.E.A. L. Inc. Rural Economic Assistance League in Alice Texas offers several options for community mobility. REAL,…

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    The Caravel was a ship that had many uses. These ships were from small to medium. They could be used as cargo ships, warships, patrol or dispatch boats and also pirate ships. They were mainly used for fishing. The Caravel was from 50 to 200 tons. These ships were cheap and you could get them in shape for working very easily. They were known for their speed and maneuverability. So these ships were used by explorers to explore.This ship came was developed/came in use during the 16th century. The…

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