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http://www.coc-europe.com/blog/tag/certificat-de-conformite-europeen-en/ | 2021-10-24T22:38:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587606.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024204628-20211024234628-00362.warc.gz | 0.948186 | 395 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__72864511 | en | Certificate of Conformity
The European Certificate of Conformity, also called COC or approval certificate is an essential document to register in France and throughout Europe a vehicle purchased abroad.
To facilitate intra-Community trade and simplify administrative procedures, the European Union has set up the certificate of conformity (COC) valid in all EU countries. However, this only applies to vehicles of less than 3.5 tonnes, type M1 (9 people sitting up with the driver), and the year of construction and registration is higher than 1995.
The certificate of conformity is a standardized document containing technical information on the vehicle for which it was established, it indicates that the vehicle conforms to the standards of the country of origin. Thus, it contains the vehicle chassis number, the Community type-approval number and other technical characteristics of the vehicle such as weight, color, height and length, etc …
However, despite having allowed a simplification of administrative procedures for approval of a vehicle from abroad, the COC remains mandatory for persons who acquired a vehicle outside France. It is often difficult to buy and therefore lengthens the time for obtaining a gray card, whereas the statutory maximum period for the registration of an imported vehicle is 30 days.
However, to be valid, the certificate of conformity must be issued before the certificate of sale or first registration of the vehicle and must indicate the chassis number or VIN in the same series to the one engraved on the vehicle manufacturer’s plate.
Note however that for vehicles not having COC (pre-1996 vehicles and N1 utility vehicles), identification certificates are issued, replacing the approval certificate prefecture.
So for every used vehicle purchased in Europe, it is essential to remember to ask the seller to provide the car with a distinct European Certificate of Conformity COC that Europe can provide.
COC Europe specializes in obtaining certificates of conformity for any brand. We provide the best prices and fast delivery. | transportation_engineering |
https://floridapoly.edu/parking-transportation/accessible.php | 2020-08-12T00:51:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738858.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20200811235207-20200812025207-00088.warc.gz | 0.894324 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__61345654 | en | Accessible parking spaces on campus are exclusively for those persons displaying state-authorized disabled placards or plates. These permits are available to any individual who has a disability lasting six weeks or longer in duration. Only a state DMV disabled placard or plate allows parking in accessible spaces and free parking at metered spaces for visitors.
The university’s interactive campus map includes accessible parking information.
Employees or students displaying a DMV disabled placard or plate are also required to have a Florida Poly parking permit when parking on the campus.
Unauthorized vehicles parked in accessible spaces will be ticketed and towed at the owner’s expense. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.trackcarperformance.com/2020/09/radical-reveals-new-more-powerful-sr10/ | 2023-03-31T03:19:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949533.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230331020535-20230331050535-00350.warc.gz | 0.924962 | 825 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__87483824 | en | Radical reveals new more powerful SR10
Targeted at track-day enthusiasts, motorsport country club members, and racers across the globe, the new Radical SR10 delivers more power and torque than has ever before featured in Radical’s SR line-up, with a new engine and drivetrain package optimised for both performance and durability.
Whether lapping casually at a local motorsport country club, or racing against GT and LMP competition in an around-the-clock enduro, the SR10’s sole purpose is to out-run and out-manoeuvre the competition while remaining easy to drive and cost-effective to run.
Demand from Radical’s customers for a turbocharged variant of its legendary SR line of Sports Racers propelled the new model’s extensive test programme, which continued behind closed doors throughout the UK’s COVID-19 enforced lockdown. Given the SR platform’s longstanding reputation for providing electrifying performance through optimised aerodynamics and outstanding grip, the primary focus was on maximising both the new powertrain’s incredible performance as well as its durability, for easier operation and long service intervals.
The SR10 applies Radical Performance Engines (RPE) cutting-edge engine tuning capabilities with the proven durability of Ford’s EcoBoost engine architecture. This is no ordinary production unit; as Radical’s in-house powertrain division, RPE have developed a bespoke turbocharger, induction and engine management package to release over 425 bhp and 380 lb-ft of torque from the engine. A bespoke Garrett G-Series turbocharger delivers better throttle response and reduced lag, with forged pistons and connecting rods and a bespoke dry-sump lubrication system for bulletproof durability.
This high-output engine is integrated with a new Hewland GT3-derived six-speed gearbox. The SR10 is Radical’s first application of the Hewland TMT transaxle, originally developed for the FIA F2 single-seater.
This compact unit includes an integral paddleshift actuator and innovative WaveTrac ATB differential for maximum traction in all conditions, and is a perfect match for the high torque generated by the 2.3L High Output variant of the RPE-Ford inline four-cylinder engine.
As recently debuted on the SR3 XX, the driver’s environment features a new wheel-mounted LCD multi-page display and additional car controls at the driver’s fingertips. On the SR10 this includes multiple engine and gearbox mapping options and adjustable weighting for the optional electronic power steering system, also a first for the SR model line.
“With the SR10 we’ve truly achieved our objective of creating a car with the visceral performance of our SR8 but in a longer life, more durable package, packed with the latest Radical data and electronics capabilities,” says Joe Anwyll, CEO of Radical Sportscars. “We’ve brought together the best powertrain technology from RPE, Ford, and Hewland to create a package with over 425bhp and 380lb-ft of torque, making the car both incredibly responsive and easier to drive.
“The SR10 expands on the class-leading architecture of the SR model line and gives SR3 and SR8 owners alike a great next level of Radical performance – wherever they use the car.”
The new Radical SR10 is available to order now with the first deliveries scheduled from October 2020. Indeed, with Radical having teased the SR10 to some of its most loyal owners, several deposits have already been taken for the first cars out of Radical’s Peterborough, UK production facility. Closely following the launch of the latest SR3 XX iteration in May, production at Radical has bounced back quickly post-Coronavirus lockdown. An intensive calendar of factory and dealer-supported track and race events into 2021 ensure Radical owners can enjoy their new cars to the maximum. | transportation_engineering |
https://jast.ias.ir/article_51535.html | 2023-12-04T14:22:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204115419-20231204145419-00520.warc.gz | 0.893583 | 279 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__293835798 | en | A theoretical study analyzing three-dimensional combustion acoustic instabilities in a liquid propellant rocket engine combustor has been conducted. A linear theory based on Crocco’s pressure sensitive time lag model is used. To apply this theory the combustor is divided into two main components, including the combustion chamber and the converging part of the nozzle. The assumption of concentrated combustion zone is used and the governing perturbation equations describing oscillations of flow variables are considered. To solve these equations appropriate boundary conditions at both ends of the combustion chamber are required. Combustion zone boundary condition at one end and the nozzle admittance relation at other end are used. To obtain the nozzle admittance the three dimensional flow perturbation equations are solved in the converging part of the nozzle. This approach is capable of predicting acoustic stability behavior of a combustor at a wide range of Mach numbers and frequencies. Also, this analysis enables the rocket engine designer to observe the effects of different parameters such as nozzle entrance Mach number, chamber geometry, nozzle geometry, and gas properties on stability characteristics of an engine combustor. In case of instability observation; one can predict the acoustic mode which causes the instability and achieve an optimum design before conducting any expensive and time consuming experimental tests. This paper presents the stability analysis results and a parametric study of the effect of design parameters on stability characteristics of a typical combustor. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.mackdawgproductions.com/portfolio/continental-tire-official-tire-of-grand-am-road-racing/ | 2018-01-19T21:08:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084888135.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180119204427-20180119224427-00414.warc.gz | 0.932729 | 345 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__43293725 | en | Founded in 1999, GRAND-AM Road Racing showcases emerging and legendary drivers from around the globe and thoroughbred racing machines from the industry’s leading constructors and the world’s top automobile manufacturers. The series competes on the top road racing courses in America; pitting world class teams against each other, as well as the field, in an all out clash for driver and constructor supremacy.
GRAND-AM features multiple classes of race cars including The Grand Touring, GT, class which is home to production-based race cars that are similar in appearance to the latest high-performance sports cars. GT is a mixture of U.S.-produced muscle cars going against the international flavor, mainly German, Japanese and Italian models.
Taking the name of the sanctioning body’s location – Daytona Beach, Fla., The Daytona Prototypes are the premier class of the GRAND-AM racing. These are exotic, mid-engine machines that are purpose-built for competition. With an incredibly dynamic horsepower to weight ratio, these vehicles weigh less than 2300 pounds and tout engines capable of producing 500 horsepower. The result is a spectacular racing machine capable of speed up 195 mph that still have cat like reflexes. Each vehicle is custom built from the ground up at a cost of over $400,000. Although costs and specs are controlled, teams are encouraged to innovate in the design and construction of their vehicles, as well as engine and chassis combinations.
All vehicles in GRAND-AM run on Continental Tires.
For more information on Continental Tire, visit http://www.continentaltire.com/
DP: Mike McEntire
Agency: Mad Media | transportation_engineering |
https://omnes.studio/portfolio/manchester-chateau-trid-action-strategy/ | 2023-09-24T02:57:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506559.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924023050-20230924053050-00664.warc.gz | 0.921983 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__87778097 | en | The construction of PA State Route 65 (SR-65) in the mid-twentieth century completely bifurcated Pittsburgh’s Manchester and Chateau neighborhoods. Residents, the City of Pittsburgh, partner agencies, and local non-profit partners are determined to improve safety, accessibility, and connectivity within the neighborhoods. The Manchester-Chateau TRID Action Strategy was initiated to explore the use of a Transit Revitalization Investment District (TRID) to unite these neighborhoods and use value capture to ensure that new revenue gained by neighborhood development is reinvested into Manchester-Chateau. The recommendations within the plan enhance safety through roadway design improvements; improve quality and access to public transit services; improve pedestrian and bicyclist infrastructure; and reconnect Manchester and Chateau through a new vision for the SR-65 network.
Over the course of the project, a series of interviews, focus group discussions, online polls, and printed newsletters were used to introduce the neighborhood plan. Feedback from these outreach methods as well as from the Steering Committee ̶ composed of public-, private- and non-profit-sector stakeholders ̶ helped to create guiding objectives, refine the recommendations and identify priority projects. This work is intended to take the next step, building from the previous EPA Manchester-Chateau Neighborhood Plan (MCNP) to develop specific actions backed with new financial resources to reunite Manchester. Omnes served as sub-consultant on the project to Interface Studio, creating design strategies and renderings to illustrate the future of a connected Manchester-Chateau. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.sydneyrockies.org.au/post/blackheath-highway-bypass-1 | 2023-12-01T13:36:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100287.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201120231-20231201150231-00299.warc.gz | 0.917668 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__60163742 | en | Blackheath Highway Bypass
There is a proposal to upgrade the Great Western Highway between Katoomba and Lithgow. Most of the upgrade is to increase the number of lanes, but for Blackheath there are a few options: 1. Duplicate existing road 2. Outer bypass (crag impact) 3. Western bypass 4. Long and short tunnel options
The Outer Bypass option will impact the Centennial Glen and Shipley crags and our climbing community need to provide feedback to avoid this option being selected.
Have your say by filling out the feedback form by 16 December on https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/projects/great-western-highway/katoomba-to-lithgow/index.html | transportation_engineering |
https://www.travelinternationalmagazine.com/keep-your-cool-dont-get-stuck-on-the-road-this-summer/ | 2024-04-16T17:33:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817103.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416155952-20240416185952-00549.warc.gz | 0.943436 | 453 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__190052439 | en | Keep Your Cool: Don’t Get Stuck On The Road This Summer
Summer is the time for road trips, whether they cover thousands of miles across the country, or are “staycation” day trips. As we head into the summer months, gasoline prices continue to fluctuate and are expected to average $3.56 per gallon for regular-grade gasoline, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Whether you’re driving for hours or sitting in traffic, you will want to make sure your vehicle is ready for the road.
The most important component that makes your vehicle run is the engine. Your vehicle will last longer if you take care of the engine by following regularly scheduled maintenance as recommended by the manufacturer. This includes oil changes, replacing the air filter and keeping a detailed history log of the work that has been done.
Just as important to the engine itself are the components around it that help it run. Check the hoses that are connected to the radiator. They help pump coolant to and from the engine. Look for cracks, leaks and loose connections, paying special attention to where hoses are clamped. Make sure the engine is cool when you touch the hoses. They should be firm and not soft.
Belts that help cool the system should also be checked for cracks and damage. A visual inspection is good enough, but for the more mechanically inclined, you could also remove the belt to make sure the material inside isn’t separating into layers. Cracked hoses or a belt snapping will result in your engine overheating, leaving you stuck on the side of the road.
Another way to help cool your engine and protect it is to use a radiator coolant additive like Purple Ice from premium synthetic lubricant manufacturer Royal Purple. A high performance radiator conditioner, Purple Ice can help reduce engine temperatures, protect against corrosion and provide improved vehicle performance. For use in both gasoline and diesel engines, Purple Ice can be mixed with antifreeze or straight water, and is compatible with factory fill and major brand antifreeze.
Taking the time to maintain your engine and its components will get your further down the road and on your way to a great summer vacation. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.quintinlake.com/gallery/Oriente-Station-Gare-do-Oriente-Lisbon-designed-by-architect-Santiago-Calatrava-1988/G0000E4v0cwP4rc4/C0000osSCGOe7cEM | 2024-02-25T14:27:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474617.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225135334-20240225165334-00324.warc.gz | 0.956549 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__148103333 | en | Oriente Station (Gare do Oriente), Lisbon designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, 1988
23 images Created 27 Mar 2011
Oriente Station Gare do Oriente is one of the main transport hubs in Lisbon, Portugal. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava it was finished in 1998 for the Expo '98 world's fair in Parque das Nações, where it is located. It encompasses a Lisbon Metro station, a high-speed, commuter and regional train hub, a local, national and international bus station, a shopping centre and a police office. Oriente Station is one of the world's largest stations, with 75 million passengers per year which makes it as busy as Grand Central Terminal in New York. | transportation_engineering |
https://surf4car.com.au/listings/1967-buick-wildcat-lead-sled/ | 2020-07-11T18:34:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655934052.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711161442-20200711191442-00408.warc.gz | 0.950437 | 545 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__88336123 | en | For Sale is a 1967 Buick Wildcat Fastback 2 Door Coupe that has been fully beautifully restored to an immaculate condition.
Though this Buick Wildcat was made in 1967 the Wildcat was a car that was ahead of its time, it was a mid-sized niche 2 door hardtop sports coupe that appealed to the masses it had luxury and it had performance. The 1967 Wildcat\’s 430 cubic inch 4 Barrel Carburated V8 produced 360 hp (268 kW) and 475 lb-ft. (644 N-m) that is plethora of power from the 1960\’s. The Wildcat featured a dual master cylinder braking system with warning lights, finned brakes with 15 inch wheels, 4 way hazard light warning system that would switch off automatically as soon as you are moving safely, energy absorbing steering wheel, lane changing signal indicator incorporated with your indicator signal, Dual speed window wipers and many more features. As you can see this 67 Buick Wildcat has a lot to offer and it has been fully restored to its past beauty.
Let’s see how the Wildcats been restored to its past beauty. The exterior has been professional painted metallic silver with added Silver Holographic flakes, this makes this Wildcat extremely eye popping and eye catching, add the Wildcat\’s chrome bumpers and trim and it makes the Wildcat a vehicle that has to be seen to be believed. The suspension was improved to take full advantage of the Wildcat, by adding air suspension it fully reduced road noise, harshness and vibrations, also it improved driver comfort by making the ride very smooth and less fatiguing to the driver and passengers. The interior of the Wildcat’s interior has been fully reupholstered with full custom interior, making the interior have proper form and function from the Wildcats figure hugging plush seats to its full leather rear parcel shelf and custom steering wheel. And yes the Wildcats engine bay wasn\’t left out, the engine has been fully reconditioned with Kenne Bell parts and accessories making this Buick Wildcat a must have.
So if you like a 2 door hardtop sports coupe from the 1960’s that oozes class, luxury and performance then this could be the car for you.
The Wildcat has the following features :
-Air Suspension with controls
-430-cubic-inch V8 with a four-barrel carburettor
-White Wall tyres
-Candy Apple Red Roof
-Custom Steering Wheel
-Aftermarket Stereo System
-Exhaust Flame Throwers
-Underbody LED Lights | transportation_engineering |
https://developex.com/blog/examples-of-qt-for-the-automotive-segment/ | 2024-03-03T15:40:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476396.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303142747-20240303172747-00337.warc.gz | 0.915337 | 1,053 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__22179022 | en | As we wrote in the previous blog the Qt framework is one of the most popular tools for developing digital instrument clusters and in-vehicle infotainment systems (IVI). The acknowledgment is that the Qt framework is a member of Genivi Alliance where there are also such giants of the automotive industry such as BMW Group, Honda, Volvo and others. In order to achieve a dominant position in the automotive market the Qt company released its Qt Automotive Suite for developing clusters, IVI, Head Up Displays (HUD), Connected Car Environment and Navigation, and info systems. It allows to develop IVI systems faster and makes it more extendable. There are a lot of examples of commercial products in the automotive segment where Qt has been applied. Now we list just some of them.
Embedded Linux is the most popular operating system for building a vehicles virtual environment. It is a free, open source platform that allows developers to build their own commercial applications without any fees. There are several operating systems based on the embedded Linux customized specially for the automotive segment. Two such examples are:
Automotive Grade Linux or Evidence.
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a collaborative open source project developed specially for automakers and suppliers. It is a Linux-based open software platform for automotive applications that can serve as the de facto industry standard. Adopting a shared platform across the industry reduces fragmentation and allows automakers and suppliers to reuse the same code base, leading to rapid innovation and faster time-to-market for new products. Initially, AGL was focused on infotainment. Now this platform can be used for infotainment, instrument cluster, heads-up-display (HUD), telematics, connected car, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), functional safety and autonomous driving.
Evidence is positioning itself as a fully open-source platform for automotive systems. It is a solution for automotive systems, consisting of Linux and Erika Enterprise (open-source Free RTOS) for hard real-time control. Evidence allows developers to combine the advantages of the general-purpose operating system (Linux), with the predictability and reliability of a certified RTOS. Erika Enterprise is the first OSEK/VDX-certified open-source RTOS, specifically designed for automotive and industrial control.
The Integrity Real Time Operating System is an operating system developed by Green Hills Software for embedded development. Integrity is used both on infotainment systems as well as instrument clusters. The certified RTOS is a vital building block, especially in automotive instrument clusters as well as in other safety critical systems.
Concept One Electric Supercar
Toradex Company used the Qt framework for developing a IVI system for this amazing Rimac Automobili creation. The infotainment system features fast implementation of different graphics, display sizes, integrated internet connectivity for remote diagnostics, software updates, internet media streaming, web browsing and remote control (via smartphone app and web interfaces). With advanced features such as off-line 3D navigation, real-time vehicle telemetry, rear view-camera system these cars are truly top-of-the-line.
Neptune UI provides a UI implementation for Qt in IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) systems. It demonstrates best practicesfor developing an automotive UI with the Qt Automotive Suite.
Features of the Neptune UI include:
- Helps UI designers and software developers to work together.
- Provides methods for controlling the UI look-and-feel by UI designers, not only by developers.
- Makes the integration of Qt Automotive Suite Improve and external tools like maps, Qt IVI, 3D tools easy.
- Provides a multi-process UI that forms a base for an IVI system.
AutoIO Technology from China uses Qt to ease Human Machine Interface (HMI) design. AutoIO Technology is an LCD instrumentation solution provider, which targets their products for auto producers and vehicle users. The virtual auto instrumentation developed by AutoIO utilizes a hardware platform with an ARM processor, a software platform based on Linux and the Qt framework as its multi-platform application.
Secure & Connected Carputer produced by Link Motion. Motion T is a securely connected carputer with several displays. A single computer solution supports multiple displays, including the central unit, cluster, and HUD. Link Motion features include navigation, calls and messaging, music, rear-camera, air conditioning management, and browser. The system is positioned as low-cost based on NXP i.MX6.
Automated UI Development suite (HCAT) by Harman Company. The suite allows automakers to create connected, multi-screen and secure IVI systems. This application and UI framework is created based on Qt and has a flexible architecture as its key benefit. HCAT HMI allows automakers to develop expedient human-machine interfaces with more personalized user experiences. The toolchain includes advanced features like continuous build and test automation for rapid high-quality HMI builds. There is the ability to reuse HMI business logic across different vehicle models. It also provides support for different distributed system architectures such as Multi-SoC and Single SoC with Hypervisor. | transportation_engineering |
https://forums.egullet.org/profile/76984-anonymous-modernist-3027/ | 2021-08-06T00:23:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046152085.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805224801-20210806014801-00011.warc.gz | 0.917752 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__63217097 | en | Robert Jueneman said:
The short answer is NO. If the Nitrogen should leak out - maybe the Dewar could fall over if you are involved in an accident the nitrogen will boil quickly to make nitrogen gas and this will displace the air in your car and you will suffocate - not a good idea. You can transport liquid nitrogen either in the boot (US trunk) of the car only if it has a separate sealed bulkhead - not in a car with fold down rear seats. It is best to use a van (US truck) with a sealed rear compartment or a trailer. You should inform your insurers that you will be transporting liquid nitrogen (otherwise you may find your insurance is invalidated) and you should display a cryogen in transit yellow warning sign. | transportation_engineering |
https://skiddmark.com/2011/03/geneva-watch-peugeot-unveils-its-first-diesel-hybrid-racer/ | 2020-11-24T11:20:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141176256.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20201124111924-20201124141924-00191.warc.gz | 0.941099 | 563 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__167053341 | en | Following the launch in Paris of the Peugeot 908 in February, a diesel-hybrid version of the new car has now been unveiled at this year’s Geneva Motor Show.
The new Peugeot 908 has been designed to comply with the latest endurance racing regulations and will play a major part in the Brand’s 2011 environmental strategy. Indeed, the combination of driving excitement with environmentally-respectful performance of the very highest level is ingrained into the heart of the Peugeot brand identity.
This commitment will now also be championed by the HYbrid4 technology which combines diesel and electric power, two areas in which the brand has forged a strong reputation.
Peugeot 908 HYbrid4 technology
Since the unveiling of the team’s first demonstration hybrid car at Silverstone, in 2008, Peugeot Sport has continued to work on this technology in extremely close collaboration with the Group’s engineers.
The system employed by the Peugeot 908 HYbrid4 recovers and stores the kinetic energy generated under braking, before feeding it back into the driveline during acceleration. Using this recovered energy in this way significantly improves the efficiency of the power-train.
The system provides a short power boost of 60kW (80hp) for a few seconds when it is activated. Recovered energy (500kJ between two braking phases) is stored in lithium-ion batteries before being automatically released to power the rear wheels under acceleration (there is no “push to pass” function). It will also be possible to run in electric only mode along the pit-lane and it is this mode that will be used for the car’s homologation.
Objectives for 2011
Following the world premiere of the Peugeot 908 HYbrid4 in its white livery at the Geneva Motor Show, Peugeot Sport will now turn its attention to meeting a target it has set for the new car. This is to run the car at the official pre-Le Mans 24 Hours test day at the French circuit on 24th April 2011.
Achieving this ambitious objective, however, will depend on how well the team’s preparations for this year’s Le Mans 24 hours go with the new Peugeot 908, and also on how the Peugeot 908 HYbrid4 performs during its maiden track test at the end of March.
Let’s hope the team make good progress in the limited time available – this might seem like just another race car, but Hybrid powered race cars offer spectators the most valuable benefit of all – uncertainty. Rule makers always lag behind technology developments and that usually means at least one season, if not more, of unpredictable racing. Bring it on.. | transportation_engineering |
https://travelinfonews.com/railway-ministers-big-announcement-can-run-trains-from-any-district-2/ | 2020-07-04T15:30:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655886178.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704135515-20200704165515-00210.warc.gz | 0.976665 | 491 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__24586646 | en | Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has made a big announcement that, now special train for workers can be run from any district. For this, workers will have to apply to the Nodal Officer through DM. He said that it is being ascertained from the nodal officers how many laborers are there in which district.
At the same time it is being ascertained how many workers want to return to their state or village.
Organizing will be done through the nodal officer
Piyush Goyal has said that the nodal officer will be made in every district. And through DM you can apply to run the train to the railways. The number of workers will also be seen in it.
Demand for permission to run rail from states
On the other hand, Piyush Goyal has asked the state governments to approve running more special labor trains. So that workers can be transported to their destination.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has made this appeal especially to Rajasthan Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that 1074 special labor trains have been operated so far. He has said that the railway is ready to run 300 trains per day, for this he has demanded permission from the state to run more and more trains.
How many workers are the railways reaching their destination every day
On the other hand, according to the railway website, the railways are transporting 200,000 workers to their destination every day. On the other hand, Railways says that in the coming days this capacity will be 300,000 workers per day. On the other hand, as many labor special trains have been operated. Out of them 387 trains have been run for Uttar Pradesh alone.
Uttar Pradesh has allowed 526 trains to run for workers.
Meanwhile, in Madhya Pradesh, 87 special labor trains are allowed to run. At the same time, West Bengal has allowed only 9 special trains.
Railways will have to agree
According to railway travel rules, if you want to travel in any train, then you have to give consent to do home isolation before you book your ticket. Only then your ticket will be booked.
This information has been given by an IRCTC official. According to him, the workers who arrived in Bangalore by a train recently, refused to go to the Carantine Center. Which created unpleasant conditions. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.fablink.co.uk/about-us/news/moke-goes-electric | 2024-02-25T15:47:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474617.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225135334-20240225165334-00601.warc.gz | 0.906169 | 1,244 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__79299212 | en | Moke goes electric
PROUDLY MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM:
All electric MOKEs will be manufactured in the marque’s home, the United Kingdom at a state-of-the-art facility operated by Fablink Group. The company is headquartered in Northamptonshire, the centre of Britain’s automotive heartland and attracts some of the most talented manufacturing, technical and engineering professionals in the industry.
Indeed, all electric MOKEs will be handcrafted by an expert team from a company with experience providing design, manufacturing and engineering services to some of the world’s leading automotive manufacturers including Jaguar Land Rover and Morgan. The company has over 500,000 sq/ft of production space and employs around 700 highly skilled engineers, production operators and technicians across six UK sites.
This long-term strategic commitment to UK manufacturing has been made enabled by UK government grant funding from the Niche Vehicle Network, alongside the recent trade deal which allows UK automotive businesses tariff-free access to EU markets, based on defined rules of origin. The company has reaffirmed its commitment to the UK with the creation of a number of key jobs in commercial functions.
“MOKE going electric secures the appeal of one of Britain’s best loved marques for many generations to come. MOKE’s marriage of fun, personality and open-air thrills will only be enhanced through the performance and silent running of an electric powertrain. We are proud to write a new chapter in one of British automotive folklore’s best love stories.”
Isobel Dando, CEO, MOKE International
MOKE International is delighted to announce the introduction of the all-electric MOKE. Reservations can be made today with first deliveries scheduled in time for the 2022 European summer season.
From January 1st 2022, it will no longer be possible to order Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) MOKEs, making the marque the first legacy manufacturer in the world to go fully electric. Customers wishing to acquire the last of these can through MOKE’s official UK distributor, the Hendy Group.
The introduction of full electric MOKEs reflects consistent customer demand for an evocation of one of the best loved vehicles in the world ready for the pressing global requirement for clean-air powertrains. Indeed, electrification enhances the unique promise of MOKE with significantly increased performance married to the benefits of a silent powertrain for undisturbed open-air motoring.
Nothing matches the thrill of traversing the world’s most beautiful beach resorts in an open-top MOKE. This experience is only made more fun through the instant and silent power delivery derived from an EV powertrain. Indeed, the new MOKE sprints to 55km/h in just 4.5 seconds. Maximum power of 33Kw proves plenty for a vehicle that weighs just 800 Kg. Range is fit for 5 round trips between Cap-Ferrat to Monaco (144km). Charging takes 4 hours on the Type 2 EU Standard and top speed is 100km/h.
All MOKEs can be ordered in Right or Left Hand Drive. Prices start at £29,150 + VAT. Deliveries will be made in time for the 2022 European Summer. Battery cells, motors and inverters are all sourced from Tier 1 European suppliers and have been bespoke engineered in the United Kingdom.
MOKE | READY FOR A NEW GENERATION:
Electrification writes a bold new chapter for one of British automotive’s most loved and storied marques. The MOKE was the brainchild of legendary Mini designer Sir Alec Issignois. He was tasked to create a vehicle robust enough to be parachuted behind enemy lines from an aeroplane. The MOKE proved far more popular with a 1960s glamour-set that included The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Brigette Bardot, in doing so establishing its legend as the ultimate beachouse-to-waterfront shuttle.
MOKE International revived the brand in 2017 introducing a number of special editions that have proven highly popular amongst MOKE officianods and an entirely new generation of fun-seekers. This commercial success has underpinned the significant investment in securing the long-term future of the brand through electrification.
ENGINEERING AND DESIGN:
To deliver on the promise of a next-generation powertrain vehicle, MOKE has gathered a team under the leadership of former Rolls-Royce product lead, CEO Isobel Dando. These highly skilled engineers, designers and technicians are drawn from some of the leading names in automotive engineering and design including: Polestar, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, MINI and BMW.
Together they have created a contemporary interpretation of MOKEs classic open-top driving dynamics with full scope for clients to personalise the vehicles to their exact tastes and sensibilities. The engineers have a focus on maintaining the sense of fun and freedom that has endeared the car to so many for more than five decades.
The new electric MOKE has been designed from the ground-up with a view to significantly enhancing the driving experience. The use of aluminium panels has significantly reduced the weight of the vehicle for a more agile ride, while the instant torque from the electric motor dramatically enhances acceleration and driveability. The electric MOKE benefits from a number of other updates across the vehicle from improved braking systems to increased occupant and pedestrian safety features. Finally, power-steering, regenerative braking and heated windscreens delivers ease-of-use. All luxuries far beyond Issignonis’ original brief.
Powertrain: Real wheel direct-drive (LHD and RHD)
Motor Type: Three-phase AC Synchronous
Charge Time: 4 hours
Top Speed: 100 km/h
Max Power: 33kW
Charger Port Type: Type 2 (EU Standard)
Dimension LxWxH: 3225x1660x1546mm
Ground Clearance 18cm | transportation_engineering |
https://www.spherelife.com/travel/motoring/power-test-driving-aston-martin-dbx707 | 2023-09-28T16:57:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00222.warc.gz | 0.937248 | 1,355 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__113870508 | en | When did the utility vehicle become the sports utility vehicle? Let’s say roughly two decades ago, but whatever the year zero, it represents arguably the key paradigm shift in the higher echelons of the automotive world. Customers loved the commanding driving position, the promise of being able to go pretty much anywhere — even if they never actually did — and the sheer presence a vehicle of this size and fortitude delivers.
While Aston Martin may not have been first into the fast, luxury SUV fray, the DBX vividly demonstrates that full-blooded dynamics don’t have to be sacrificed on the altar of extra mass. Now the new DBX707 alters the coordinates and pushes the parameters yet further.
“The DBX represents Aston Martin’s dynamic and design values in a way that proves not all SUVs have to conform to the same compromises,” Aston Martin CEO Tobias Moers says. “With the DBX707, we have pushed the boundaries to create a car that sets new standards of performance and desirability. The fastest, most powerful and most engaging car of its kind, it propels Aston Martin to the pinnacle of SUV performance.”
As someone who has followed Moers around Germany’s famous Nürburgring circuit — both of us in extremely rapid cars — I can tell you that the man’s commitment to peerless chassis dynamics is absolute. He’s renowned in the automotive industry for not letting go until everything is as good as it can possibly be; for balancing the empirical with the emotive. The DBX707 is a textbook example of what happens when you turn up the dial on something that’s already pretty damn cool.
According to Aston Martin, every area of the car has been enhanced to increase performance, driving pleasure and on-road presence. Let’s start with the powertrain. The DBX’s 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 is a magnificently charismatic and clever engine, but there’s always more that can be done. New for the DBX707 are ball-bearing turbochargers and more potent calibration, measures designed to extract extra power and torque. Power is up by 157PS to 707PS, torque increased by 200Nm to a thumping
900Nm. That’s a lot of grunt, which has necessitated other key alterations: the new car receives a nine-speed wet clutch automatic transmission instead of the regular torque converter, which ensures exceptionally crisp response and precision.
Having driven the regular car around Aston Martin’s Silverstone test track and beyond, it’s difficult to imagine an SUV with even more agile handling than the DBX. But the 707 goes further, even faster. Top speed is 193mph and the zero to 62mph time is now a barely believable 3.3 seconds, if you harness the Race Start function available in the GT Sport or Sport+ drive mode.
Torque distribution front-to-rear is done automatically and, if the conditions permit, 100% of the available torque can be sent to the rear axle. This is a configuration that mirrors the traditional sports car set-up — and the one savoured by the keenest drivers. The DBX uses a triple-volume air chambers in its suspension, but for the 707 there’s new damper valving and the spring volume has been altered to optimise body control. The power steering has also been recalibrated to deliver extra weight off-centre. All those things that can disturb a car in motion — heave, pitch and roll — have been further checked without compromising the ride quality.
In other words, while the DBX is bigger and weighs more than its stablemates, the e-diff and this chassis wizardry ensure that it has remarkably similar handling smarts and agility. The DBX707 feels like a smaller and more overtly sporting car.
“The DBX has always been very throttle adjustable. We’ve put a huge amount of effort into the driving dynamics brain,” says Drummond Jacoy, Head of Vehicle Engineering and Procurement. “The integrated vehicle control unit has been taken to an even higher level, as has the body control. We’ve dialled it all up, making sure everything that already existed works to its full potential.”
Of course, all this power and potential is only one part of the kinetic story; stopping is as important an element as going. The DBX707 has carbon ceramic brakes as standard, gripped by six-piston calipers. Pedal feel and response have also been improved, and there’s enhanced cooling thanks to an additional underfloor air intake. A 22in wheel is standard, with a 23in rim available in textured black or satin black with diamond turned highlights.
Which brings us to the DBX707’s exterior makeover. Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer Marek Reichman comments, “We concentrated on those areas of the design that would make the DBX707 instantly recognisable as the highest performing model. The design exudes potency while retaining pure lines and perfect proportions.”
As one of the most fascinating-looking cars on the road, the DBX now comes with impressively sculpted extra visual muscle. The satin chrome grille — enlarged to aid airflow — features six double-vaned horizontal bars. A new gloss-black front splitter has its hue matched in the window surrounds, side sills and bonnet louvres. At the rear, a new roof wing has aerodynamic properties to reduce lift and enhance high-speed stability. Similarly, there’s a much bigger rear diffuser, framed by a new large diameter quad exhaust, also finished in gloss black.
This seductively sombre effect is put to good use inside too. The switchgear is finished in dark chrome as standard, against a Piano Black veneer (with carbon fibre or bronze metal mesh options also available). Sport seats with 16-way electric adjustment are standard, and there’s a choice of three interior environments: Accelerate, Comfort, and Inspire Sport. Note also a revised lower console with new drive mode selection switches for suspension, ESP, manual gear selection and the sports exhaust. DBX707 drivers need not spend time rummaging through the infotainment system’s sub-menu if they find themselves on a particularly entertaining road. And that may be more often than not.
Read more at magazine.astonmartin.com | transportation_engineering |
https://timechi.com/revving-up-the-future-a-journey-through-the-world-of-automotive-innovation/ | 2023-12-04T00:57:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100518.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203225036-20231204015036-00765.warc.gz | 0.914866 | 590 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__169735791 | en | The automotive industry has long been a driving force in shaping our modern world. From the invention of the automobile by Karl Benz in 1885 to the sleek and technologically advanced vehicles we see on the roads today, the automotive sector has continually evolved to meet the changing needs and desires of consumers. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the state of the automotive industry, exploring its history, current trends, and the exciting innovations that are reshaping the way we think about transportation.
I. A Brief History of Automotive Evolution
To understand where the automotive industry is heading, it’s essential to look back at its fascinating history. We’ll explore key milestones, from the Model T’s mass production revolution to the rise of electric vehicles (EVs) in the 21st century.
II. The Shift to Sustainable Mobility
As concerns about environmental sustainability grow, automakers are increasingly turning to electric and hybrid vehicles. We’ll delve into the rise of EVs, discussing their environmental benefits and the technological advancements that make them a viable alternative to traditional combustion-engine cars.
III. Connectivity and Autonomous Driving
Modern vehicles are becoming more connected than ever before, offering advanced infotainment systems, driver-assistance features, and even partial automation. We’ll discuss the exciting developments in autonomous driving technology and how it promises to revolutionize our daily commutes.
IV. Electric and Self-Driving Commercial Vehicles
The automotive industry isn’t just about personal cars. Commercial vehicles, such as trucks and delivery vans, are also undergoing significant changes. We’ll explore how electric and self-driving technologies are making inroads in the commercial sector, promising increased efficiency and reduced emissions.
V. The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI is playing a pivotal role in the automotive industry, from enhancing vehicle safety to optimizing manufacturing processes. We’ll examine how AI-driven innovations are reshaping the driving experience and the production of vehicles.
VI. The Future of Mobility Services
In addition to owning cars, many consumers are now exploring mobility-as-a-service options, such as ride-sharing and subscription-based car services. We’ll discuss the impact of these trends on the automotive industry and urban transportation.
VII. Sustainable Manufacturing Practices
The automotive industry is also working to reduce its environmental footprint by adopting sustainable manufacturing practices. We’ll highlight how automakers are striving for greener, more eco-friendly production processes.
The automotive industry is at a crossroads, embracing innovation and sustainability like never before. From electric vehicles to autonomous driving and AI integration, the world of automotive is undergoing a transformation that will shape the way we move for generations to come. As consumers, we can look forward to safer, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly vehicles on the horizon, marking an exciting era in the automotive industry. | transportation_engineering |
http://cascadiapolicy.com/people/dennis-mclerran | 2021-05-06T04:03:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988725.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210506023918-20210506053918-00078.warc.gz | 0.956714 | 833 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__218298841 | en | Dennis McLerran provides consulting services to a number of organizations in the areas of climate change, air quality and general environmental and land use issues and is actively working with ports up and down the US West Coast. Dennis served as Regional Administrator for EPA Region 10 between 2010 and early 2017 and as Executive Director of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency between 1994 and 2010. Dennis served as the Director of the City of Seattle’s Department of Construction and Land Use and has been a cabinet member of Mayors in several cities in Washington State. He is a past President of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA) and also served for many years there as a board member. Dennis co-chaired the Mobile Sources and Fuels Committee of NACAA during a period of dramatic shifts in mobile source and fuel regulations nationally and internationally.
At EPA Dennis led the agency’s Green Ports and Vessels Initiative (GPVI). The GPVI is a collaboration to reduce air pollution and climate emissions from vessels and port operations along the US coasts and China. The initiative brings US technical experts, private sector innovators and government officials with expertise in maritime commerce and air pollution control together with Chinese officials, scientists and organizations to share and develop best practices. Highly significant improvements in public health and the environment have been assisted through this work. Dennis has been a frequent speaker at forums such as the Pacific Ports Clean Air Collaborative and has led several U.S. Delegations to China to discuss air quality and climate issues related to international goods movement.
While at the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Dennis conceived of and led establishment of the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy. This effort is a collaboration between the Ports of Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, British Columbia and the air and climate regulatory agencies. The initiative develops strategies to reduce air and climate pollution from the three largest container ports operating in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. This award-winning effort has been highly successful with recent emission inventories documenting that between 2005 and 2016, SO2 emissions have been reduced by 97%, diesel particulate emissions by 72%, black carbon emissions reduced by 41%, volatile organic chemicals by 29% and oxides of nitrogen by 23%.
Dennis was one of the founding leaders of the West Coast Diesel Collaborative formed to reduce diesel emissions in the Western US. The Collaborative convened stakeholders from industry, ports, agriculture and air quality agencies to develop strategies and funding sources to reduce diesel and black carbon emissions. As Chair of the Marine and Ports Working Group of the Collaborative, Dennis led efforts along the West Coast of the US and Canada to develop broad support for petitioning the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to form the North American Emission Control Area. The ECA requires use of dramatically cleaner fuels for marine vessels operating within 200 nautical miles of the coasts of the US and Canada and has resulted in as many as 30,000 lives saved annually due to reduced exposure to air pollutants.
While at the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Dennis led development of programs to bring cleaner fuels to motor vehicles, reduce wood smoke in communities, provide funding to clean up diesel transit and school buses in Washington State and greatly improve air quality and public health. Dennis led formation of the State of Washington’s first climate change stakeholder process which ultimately led to passage of a wide variety of climate and air quality legislation in the state. A key legislative effort co-led by Dennis was adoption of the California emission standards for motor vehicles in Washington State.
Dennis serves on the boards of a number of public service organizations including the Leadership Council for the Puget Sound Partnership, the US arm of the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Salish Seas Institute at Western Washington University, the Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission and PugetLNG. Recently, Dennis served as Co-Chair of Governor Jay Inslee’s Maritime Blue Advisory Committee which developed a strategy for a sustainable, low carbon maritime industry in Washington State. Dennis also recently received the 2019 Air and Waste Management Association’s S. Smith Griswold Award for his accomplishments in air quality. | transportation_engineering |
https://montreal.fiaformulae.com/en/activities/activities | 2018-01-18T09:44:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887224.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118091548-20180118111548-00128.warc.gz | 0.89026 | 416 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__148161449 | en | The Formula E is not just for adults! Visit the Family Zone and discover everything it has to offer: a free fall ride, bumper cars, inflatable games, interactive, educational and artistic workshops, and much more!
In the centre of the E-Prix, you’ll find giant video games, a climbing wall, mini-drones and many virtual reality experiences!
We will also have simulators on which you’ll be able to test your talents and the best times will even get a chance to compete against the professional Formula E drivers, a Bell presentation.
You have always wanted to know what a car wash for people would be like ? You’ll be able to find out thanks to our playful atomizer that gives you the feeling of walking through a real car wash!
Montreal, it’s electric Tasting Zone
Come test the many urban and electric modes of transport in the Montréal, it’s electric Zone (situated in the Family Zone).
Montréal, it’s electric Innovation Zone
Come learn more about the electrification of transportation while you discover new vehicles and innovations from Québec.
The Stage du Montréal ePrix
On the stage, besides our great musical performances, you’ll be able to see breakdance shows and BMX stunts.
It’s on the same stage that the qualifications order will be decided thanks to a draw with the drivers.
And that’s not all! The podium is also on that stage so you will be able to see the podium ceremony up close!
Essais Routiers Circuit Électrique
During the Essais Routiers Circuit Électrique, you will be able to drive on the streets cars and SUV by these car manufacturers : Porsche, BMW, Ford, Chevrolet, Nissan and Kia !
What’s more, come quench you thirst at the Molson Canadian Beer Garden, eat your fill in the Taste Zone and relax in our Chill Zone ! | transportation_engineering |
https://christophorus.porsche.com/en/2018/385/porsche-level-6-automated-driving-future-technology-navigation-driving-14775.html | 2024-02-27T22:39:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227220707-20240228010707-00845.warc.gz | 0.944288 | 1,339 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__51531781 | en | Level 5—the highest level of automated driving. No human driver and no steering wheel. The requisite technology is expected to be ready for use within a decade. And then what?
If drivers can choose whether to drive or be driven, how will this change our conception of cars?
Level 1 Assisted
Drivers are assisted by systems like cruise control or emergency braking, but need to keep their hands on the wheel at all times.
Will the cars of the future be living rooms on wheels? Or is there yet another level beyond the current classification of automated driving?
“Not so fast,” says Albrecht Böttiger. “Right now we have enough on our hands just coming up with the technology for Levels 3, 4, and 5.” Böttiger, a physicist, directs Porsche’s project facility for driver assistance systems and highly automated driving. At this interdisciplinary and trans-departmental center in Mönsheim near Stuttgart, around 150 specialists are developing technologies for automated driving. Its offices are full of young engineers, hardly any of whom look older than thirty-five. The atmosphere is similar to that of a laboratory, with a Silicon Valley feel. Böttiger and his colleagues have a clear goal: to pave the way for driverless cars and develop solutions for the highly complex third and fourth levels of automated driving. The first cars are expected to reach these levels by the beginning of the 2020s. The technical foundation for reaching Level 5, with its self-driving robocars, will then be laid.
Will we still be “driving”?
Level 2 Partially automated
Drivers are supported by lane-keeping or traffic jam assistants, but need to constantly monitor these systems.
But when we reach the milestone of Level 5, does that mean the hierarchy of levels is complete and the mission is accomplished? “It’s not that easy, of course, and especially not for Porsche. After all, our aim is surely not to make robotic 911 taxis,” remarks Böttiger. So does fully automated driving even make sense for Porsche? Yes—if the brand sets its own course.
Böttiger and his team have to think above and beyond what the automotive industry has defined as Level 5: namely, Level 6. This construct, however, doesn’t represent a concrete scenario with clearly defined criteria, or even necessarily a further linear development of Level 5. Instead, Level 6 could point to a change in consciousness in response to this question: If drivers can choose whether to drive or be driven—or, for that matter, to fly—how will this change our conception of cars?
Autonomous navigation in megacities
Level 3 Conditionally automated
Onboard computers can drive cars on certain sections, but drivers need to keep an eye on everything and take the wheel whenever prompted.
The question is: how do we want to get around in the near and medium-term future? Legions of trend scouts and futurologists—including those at Porsche—are working hard to find out what car buyers are thinking, feeling, and expecting. “That being said, we do know where we want to be by 2025,” says Böttiger. By that time, vehicle interiors could be redesigned to make it easy to engage in activities other than driving. “But if you try to think ten years ahead, you run into too many imponderables.” After all, who could have predicted a decade ago how radically smartphones would transform human communication? In addition, worldwide digitalization and urbanization will make it necessary to view the principal markets and their respective approaches to mobility in a more discerning way.
Level 4 Highly automated
The system handles defined situations (city driving, country roads, parking) autonomously, and drivers can occupy themselves with other tasks.
Experts like Böttiger think it’s very likely that driverless cars will premiere in Asian megacities, in zones authorized exclusively for Level 5 vehicles. “For the West, studies of the next fifteen to twenty years have shown that the main tendencies are toward slower ways of life and more individualistic lifestyles.” That includes the wish to spend less time driving, which would mean having cars handle some stretches on their own, navigate independently into the nearest parking lot, or pick up their owners in the morning to take them to work. “More time, more freedom,” is how Böttiger sums it up. Drivers will not lose options in the future, but instead will be offered an expanded range of opportunities. “For a brand like Porsche, it’s crucial to make technical breakthroughs without undermining the company’s traditions.”
“The feel, design, and overall presence of a Porsche must not be influenced by the technology we have to integrate into it.” Albrecht Böttiger
Driving pleasure despite automation
Level 5 Fully automated
The vehicle drives without a steering wheel and performs all functions autonomously under all conditions.
Might the breakthrough in autonomous driving trigger a countermovement and lead to a renaissance in human driving? Böttiger considers this to be quite possible. In his view, we have arrived at a fork in the road with respect to cars. On the one hand, automated processes will ease the burden on people, yet on the other, the pure pleasure of driving will become more important—in everything from joyrides on winding roads to racing.
“We can’t allow driving pleasure to suffer just because we’re sitting in an autonomous vehicle,” says Böttiger. “We’re looking very hard at what makes a Porsche appealing, even under Level 4 and 5 conditions, which means when the driver is passive.” This would include comfort and convenience, digital entertainment options, and high-grade interiors. The litmus test for future models could be, for example, how a Porsche drives across a mountain pass in autonomous mode. Narrow, winding roads and rapid changes in altitude pose some of the biggest challenges to the technology. “How our cars handle this job—in the sporty and dynamic ways typical of the brand—will reveal the course that Porsche will take,” predicts Böttiger. “And precisely that could be our interpretation of Level 6.” Nevertheless, Porsche owners will still be able to drive themselves over the mountain. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.portablecarseats.org/the-first-years-compass-pathway-b570-adjustable-booster-seat/ | 2018-07-19T11:36:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590866.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719105750-20180719125750-00576.warc.gz | 0.953456 | 878 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__190528272 | en | The First Years Compass B570 Pathway Booster Car Seat is a high back booster seat ( as opposed to a “backless booster”) and the big brother to the hugely popular and highly rated Compass B540 Booster Car Seat.
These two Compass Belt Positioning Boosters have received a FIVE star “ease-of-use rating”, from the National Highway Transportation Administration (NHTSA). The Compass Pathway B570 has also been awarded a ‘Best Bet’ rating by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety!
Both of these Compass Booster Car Seats have been designed for use with children weighing between 30lbs up to 100lbs, so are not suitable for babies and younger toddlers.
However, as a second car seat once your child grows, the Compass car seats are definitely hard to beat. Add to that the fact that the headrest is fully adjustable to six height positions, with the design leaving no gaps as it is extended, ensuring added safety in the event of a side-impact.
The B570 Pathway has been designed with large cushioned EPS foam side “wings” as part of the headrest, providing both comfort and safety in the event of a side impact collision.
As you can see in the images, the headrest side “wings” are quite thick and well cushioned. Side-impact testing is a standard procedure for all First Year’s car seats and these car seats are tested to Australian standards, which are widely known to be the most stringent standards for side-impact testing.
The Pathway Booster Seat is very easy to install, as it features a 3 position self adjusting back, meaning that it should be capable of adjusting to almost any cars back seat.
It is also very easy to buckle your child into the seat, with patented adjustable belt paths providing a better and more secure fit for your growing child.
With many booster seats you need to keep the seat belt buckled even when they are empty or not in use to prevent them from becoming a dangerous projectile in the event of a collision.
NOT so with the Compass B570 – it has been designed with a special LATCH connector system to keep the car seat secure, so that you don’t have to remember to buckle the car seat after you drop off your child.
The Compass B570 also features two adjustable arm rests making entry and exit from the car seat extremely easy and simple. The two cup holders on either side of the car seat can easily be removed and are dishwasher safe .
On the back of the Compass B570 you will find the patented one-hand folding feature making storage and moving the car seat from one location to another very easy.
While the Compass B570 comes in at 16.5lbs (as against the Compass B540 at only 9lbs), it is still quite light and easy to manoeuvre, making it very portable for travel.
- Received a five-star “Ease of Use” government rating from NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
- Color-coded adjustable shoulder belt path for better and more secure fit
- Color-coded lap belt positioning for a better and more securefit
- Latch connections for secure installation and containment when not in use
- Deeper headrest for better and more secure head containment
- Two removable, dishwasher-safe cupholders for easy cleaning
- Self-adjusting seat back (3 position) for better installation
- Six-position height adjustable “no gap” back
- Taller belt path to accommodate larger children
- Patented easy, one-hand fold operation
- Built-in carry handle for transportation
- Deep side wing padded protection with EPS foam
- Side-impact tested to international standards
- Narrow bottom rails for better installation in smaller cars
- For use with children 30-100 lbs. (approx. 3-10 years old)
- Awarded a ‘Best Bet’ rating by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety
In summary, the First Years Compass B570 Pathway Booster Car Seat is highly recommended – however, you would really need to determine whether the extra features of the Compass B570 over the Compass B540 are worth the extra weight and price? | transportation_engineering |
https://lattitudeventures.com/christy-fernandez-cull | 2024-04-14T02:23:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00521.warc.gz | 0.95607 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__174199538 | en | Dr. Christy Fernandez-Cull is the CEO and founder of DaVinci Wearables. Previously she led the sensing and perception system’s teams at Waymo - formerly Google Self-Driving. She was also the Head of Sensors at Lyft Level 5 Self-Driving Division, leading sensor architecture for Lyft vehicle platforms — designing machine eyes to help transform transportation of the future. Prior to Lyft, she was a technologist at Apple spanning autonomous systems and the Camera and Depth Hardware team that released the first-of-kind Light Detection and Ranging module in the 2020 iPad. She has spanned both the development of Defense technologies at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and at-scale consumer-product technologies at Apple. She is a technology advisor to multiple VCs and startups in the areas of sensors and systems for security, robotics, autonomous vehicles and digital health and wearables. She received her MS and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University and MBA from MIT and enjoys mentorship and serving as a guest lecture at MIT / Media Lab and recruiting in STEM/STEAM fields. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.hecksher.com/Default.aspx?ID=23&PID=36&NewsCategoryID=2&NewsID=406 | 2013-05-25T02:12:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705318091/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115518-00089-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.960227 | 427 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__93117691 | en | Sri Lanka plans to attract US$5 billion in foreign direct investments for its ports by 2014, focusing on its main Port of Colombo and a new facility in Hambantota in the south.
Sri Lanka is on an investment drive to develop its port facilities, including the main commercial harbour in the capital of Colombo and a new facility in Hambantota, in the south.
"Our target is to reach $5 billion in FDI by 2015 only through the port sector," Sri Lanka Ports Authority chairman Priyath Bandu Wickrama said, reports Lanka Business Online.
"The committed private sector investment we have at this point including Colombo is more than $2.2 billion. Because of that we're going ahead with a second request for proposals for Hambantota, so we are expecting more investment," said Mr Wickrama.
Eleven investors, who will invest more than $800 million in Hambantota, have been selected. The Chinese funded $1.5 billion deep-sea port in Hambantota, opened for international trade and handled 1,000 cars from India destined for Algeria in first week it opened. It straddles a major east-west shipping lanes used by 200 to 300 international vessels daily.
"In Colombo port we have a maximum depth of 15 metres, whereas these ships require a depth of at least 16 metres. At the new terminal we have a minimum depth of 18 metres so we can easily handle any of the world's largest ships. That new terminal will be operational from April 2013," said Mr Wickrama.
He said the Colombo port expansion is slightly ahead of schedule, and should be completed by end next year.
"That means that by the end of 2013 we'll have an almost 1,000 metre long berth, which is something that you can't find in this part of the world. Any container carrier in the world can be handled at our new port, which will have the latest modern technology. This will definitely bring a lot of revenue, investment and employment opportunities to Sri Lanka," he said.
Source : Shipping Gazette | transportation_engineering |
https://www.exceedlab.it/en/mechanical-design/ | 2024-02-28T06:13:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474697.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228044414-20240228074414-00293.warc.gz | 0.903978 | 360 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__209862654 | en | Understand the limits to come up with the most effective solution
“A well-dimensioned race car will break down as soon as it crosses the finish line. When they have reached their limits, all the components will fail at the same time. This means that the design was impeccable: the engineers used the right materials in the right amounts for an extremely light-weight and competitive vehicle. On the other hand, a crane used on a construction site should never break down”
Tommaso Marzolini, engineer and founder of Exceed Lab
Each application has its specifications. For a race car or an aeroplane, lightness is crucial, while for a crane safety and reliability are fundamental.
To understand a problem properly, one must make the correct calculations and study the limits to be respected. By ‘keeping a certain distance’ from these limits, the designer guarantees both functionality and a suitable degree of safety.
The considerations that a designer must make range from costs, specifications and technological feasibility to safety, eco-sustainability and once again back to costs.
Exceed Lab will take your project to heart, working together with you to define specifications and limits
Structural analysis, dimensioning
Our software library includes open-source calculation programmes as well as those under the SolidWorks and Ansys licenses.
Our interests range from biomedicine to automation, from industrial robotics to 4.0 industry.
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Exceed Lab is an innovative start-up specialising in rapid prototyping, mechanical design, FEM simulation and R&D.
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(+39) 055 532 4570 | transportation_engineering |
https://beerpolaris.com.au/polarisnew.html | 2021-01-15T21:03:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703496947.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20210115194851-20210115224851-00729.warc.gz | 0.901826 | 301 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__151393940 | en | The number one sport performance side-by-side vehicles in the world. Fuelled by relentless innovation and the passion for the ultimate off-road experience, RZR delivers the perfect balance of performance, ride, handling and comfort - all enhanced by more than 275 Polaris Engineered Accessories.
The Polaris GENERAL™ sets the versatility benchmark: ultimate versatility without compromise. Built for the work-hard, play-hard riders who demand ultimate versatility to battle it ALL, the Polaris GENERAL has class-leading features needed to tackle the trails and a work ethic to battle tough jobs.
Polaris ATVs boasts a long list of innovations, copied by many, but duplicated by none. Discover the Sportsman, Scrambler, Hawkeye and UTE models which are known around the globe as the Hardest Working, Smoothest Riding line of ATVs in the industry.
The hardest working, smoothest riding and most comprehensive line of side-by-side utility vehicles on the planet. Choose from 2,3,4 or 6 seater models with Petrol, Diesel or Electric Engines for the farm and so much more.
The leader in off-road performance has redefined the category again with the revolutionary ACE. The single-seat, sit-in cockpit combines the confidence and comfort of a side-by-side with the size and confidence-inspired handling of an ATV creating an easy to ride, easy to transport, all-new off-road experience. | transportation_engineering |
https://6828.partner.viator.com/Vancouver-attractions/Lions-Gate-Bridge/overview/d616-a14887 | 2022-05-24T06:45:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662564830.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20220524045003-20220524075003-00727.warc.gz | 0.931459 | 446 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__231465556 | en | Lions Gate Bridge
From Ambleside Park in West Vancouver, the view of Lions Gate Bridge against a backdrop of downtown Vancouver shows its immense scale. The bridge is about a mile (1.5 kilometers) long; its two suspension towers are 365 feet (111 meters) tall, and the bridge deck sits 200 feet (61 meters) above the water. The bridge is most spectacular at night, as the entire structure is covered in lights.
The views from the bridge are equally appealing. Strolling from one end to the other, you’ll take in mountains, skyline, and waterway panoramas. The surrounding area is worth exploring, too, whether you’re walking or cycling through Stanley Park, visiting the Vancouver Aquarium, or simply taking in the views. You’ll see Lions Gate Bridge on most Vancouver city tours.
Things to Know Before You Go
History buffs and view seekers will enjoy a trip to Lions Gate Bridge.
Wear sturdy walking shoes, as the bridge is best enjoyed on foot.
Vancouver has a notoriously rainy climate, so bring proper rain gear and warm layers.
How to Get There
The best access to the bridge is from Stanley Park, north of downtown Vancouver. If you’re planning to walk across, you’ll find access points at the park’s northern tip. If you’re after a view of the bridge, try the Prospect Point Lookout in Stanley Park.
When to Get There
Because the bridge is a major thoroughfare for commuters, it’s best avoided during the morning and evening rush hours. Summer is a great time to visit, for the best chances of clear skies, though summer is also a busy time for tourists.
Lions Gate Bridge History
Vancouver officials initially balked at the idea of building this bridge because of the potential negative impact on Stanley Park. Local citizens successfully lobbied in favor, though, and construction started March 31, 1937. The bridge created many needed jobs during the Great Depression. It was opened on May 29, 1939, with a ceremony that was officiated by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.revlac.co.uk/air-conditioning/ | 2020-04-07T19:09:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371805747.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200407183818-20200407214318-00227.warc.gz | 0.967966 | 351 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__3956020 | en | We can re-gas your air conditioning system for all major makes of cars and light vans.
Over two-thirds of vehicles are fitted with air conditioning and climate control systems as standard these days. Many of us are familiar with using air-con in our car on both hot and cold days, but not many people are aware that like other parts of your car, the air-conditioning system also needs regular attention to make sure it is working efficiently.
You may not be aware that over 10% of air-con gas permeates from the air-con system every year, which means that it may not work as well as it should. This is why car manufacturers recommend your air-con system is recharged with gas and lubricant every two years. This service is not part of routine vehicle servicing, so if your vehicle is more than two years old it’s probably due a recharge. Air-con systems not fully recharged will be less effective and have to work harder putting more strain on the engine and using more fuel. If your air-con system has not been recharged in two years, it could dramatically reduce efficiency and be costing you more.
Revlac Handy Tip
Q. How often should I run the aircon in my car?
A. All the time on hot or cold depending on the outside temperature. This will ensure that the rubber seals and gaskets in your system don’t dry out and crack thereby causing leaks. Run your system for a few minutes every week at the very least. Contrary to popular belief it does not greatly reduce your mpg.
We carry out:
- Full air-con service
- Leak detection
- System deodorising | transportation_engineering |
https://albanytech.edu/ | 2021-04-19T05:30:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038878326.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210419045820-20210419075820-00492.warc.gz | 0.886054 | 166 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__46814363 | en | FEATURED NEWS AND EVENTS
SouthernAG and Procter & Gamble offer generous support to the Transportation Academy at Albany Technical College
ALBANY, GA – Southwest Georgia will now see a tractor and trailer traveling the region, parked in designated locations, spreading the word about the Transportation Academy at Albany Technical College. The generous donations of two local industry leaders, SouthernAG Carriers, Inc. and Procter & Gamble, helped make this possible. As companies realize the need for qualified, trained CDL drivers and diesel technicians, there will be a sharp demand curve for graduates over the next few years. Albany Technical College has implemented an 18-wheel traveling billboard that encourages the community to enter into programs at the Transportation Academy: Commercial Truck Driving, Diesel Equipment Technology, Auto Collision Repair Technology, and Automotive Technology. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.belden.com/resources/knowledge/white-papers/ethernet-cable-for-transportation-bc-lp | 2020-09-27T03:40:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400250241.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927023329-20200927053329-00769.warc.gz | 0.870571 | 122 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__188785393 | en | Download the White Paper "Selecting Ethernet Cable to Meet Transportation Demands"
This White Paper explains:
- The trend in the transportation market towards Ethernet based applications
- The challenges of running an Ethernet network in a transportation environment
- Why commercial grade products are just not suitable for transportation projects
- Industrial Ethernet Hardware vs Typical Office-grade Ethernet
- Industrial Ethernet Cable Selection
- The proof is in the testing
- Matching Hardware Components to the Application
Complete the form and download the White Paper.
You'll be on your way to knowing how to select the right product for transportation applications. | transportation_engineering |
https://bitinvestpro.com/blog-details/texas-approves-plan-to-mandate-tesla-tech-for-ev-chargers-despite-opposition/63 | 2024-03-01T14:02:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475311.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301125520-20240301155520-00835.warc.gz | 0.95706 | 217 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__54735890 | en | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Texas on Wednesday approved its plan to require companies to include Tesla's technology in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to be eligible for federal funds, despite calls for more time to re-engineer and test the connectors.
The decision by Texas - the biggest recipient of a $5 billion program meant to electrify U.S. highways - is being closely watched by other states and is a step forward for Tesla CEO Elon Musk's plans to make its technology the U.S. charging standard.
Tesla's efforts are facing early tests as some states start rolling out the funds. The company won a slew of projects in Pennsylvania's first round of funding announced on Monday but none last month in Ohio.
Federal rules require companies to offer the rival Combined Charging System (CCS) - a U.S. standard that has been preferred by the Biden administration - as a minimum to be eligible for the funds.
But individual states can add their own requirements on top of CCS before distributing the federal funds at a local level. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.aarconline.com/research-and-development/facilities/basalt-tiles/ | 2019-03-24T15:24:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203462.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190324145706-20190324171706-00144.warc.gz | 0.842371 | 214 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__208045702 | en | 7. Low Mu Basalt Tiles
Overall length 120 metres long.
- 1st section 70 metres long x 4 metres wide
- 2nd section 50 metres long x 8 metres wide
Co-efficient of friction of surface 0.3 Mu
Hotmix surface adjacent to tiled area to allow split use testing, both wet and dry
Suitable for use by cars for development of ABS, traction control systems and electronic stability program systems
Test for low Mu requirements for the following Regulations:
- ADR31/01 & 31/02 Braking - for passenger vehicles
- ADR35/02 & 35/03 Braking - for commercial vehicles
- ECER13H, 13.09 & 13.10 - Braking
- GB12676 & GB13594 - Braking for vehicles & trailers (China)
Approved by the UK’s Vehicle Certification Authority (VCA) for ECE Regulation 13.10, Annex 13, Appendix 4 and ECE Regulation 13H, Annex 6, Appendix 4. | transportation_engineering |
https://spreewald-thermenhotel.de/en/directions-contact | 2023-12-01T11:01:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100286.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201084429-20231201114429-00012.warc.gz | 0.816718 | 394 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__129420348 | en | From Berlin, take the motorway A15 in the direction Cottbus. Leave at exit Vetschau. From here, it is 9 km to Burg. Burg (Spreewald) will be signposted.
From Dresden, take the motorway A13 in the direction Berlin. Leave at exit Bronkow. Continue to Calau, then follow the signs to Vetschau. From there, Burg (Spreewald) will be signposted.
Alternatively, continue on the motorway A13 until you reach the interchange “Spreewald Dreieck”. Change here onto A15 motorway in the direction Cottbus. Leave at exit Vetschau. From here, it is 9 km to Burg. Burg (Spreewald) will be signposted.
From Frankfurt (Oder) or Beeskow, it is possible to use the B168 and B320 to Straupitz, then continue in the direction of Cottbus to Burg (Spreewald).
Free parking is available at the Spreewald Thermenhotel.
Our service for e-cars:
There are 4 charging stations for electric cars in the parking lot of the Spreewald Thermenhotel, which can be used for a fee. So you can charge your electric vehicle in a relaxed and sustainable way and can be sure that it is ready for the next day trip. Do you have any questions about using the charging station? Please contact our staff at the hotel reception.
By public transport:
Burg (Spreewald) itself has no train station, unfortunately. The nearest train stations are in Cottbus and Vetschau. From there, buses leave to Burg (Spreewald).
For detailed timetables, please check Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg: www.vbb.de/en | transportation_engineering |
https://westport-hpdi.com/hydrogen-hpdi-system-applied-on-a-high-efficiency-heavy-duty-diesel-engine/ | 2024-02-27T03:32:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474670.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227021813-20240227051813-00585.warc.gz | 0.964196 | 644 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__148139111 | en | For the Canadian group Westport Fuel Systems, also known by its acronym WFS, hydrogen is not just a futuristic opportunity, but a real business. The group has been operating in the sustainable energy sector for many years, with a turnover of several million euros.
The Vancouver-based company is listed on both the TSX in Toronto and the NASDAQ in New York and has strong ties to Italy. The three establishments specialise in LPG and CNG mobility technologies and are located in Cherasco (Cuneo), Brescia and Albinea (Reggio Emilia).
WFS operates in the hydrogen components market, but is also developing an innovative technology in this sector for H2-powered heavy vehicles, better known as HPDI – High Pressure Direct Injection. The company believes strongly in the development of the internal combustion engine powered by this promising energy carrier.
In fact, it is a technology already used today on CNG and LNG trucks – for example by the Volvo group – but with H2. This method is even more efficient than using LNG or methane, and CO2 emissions are close to zero.
Advantages of the HPDI application
Applying HPDI technology to hydrogen also offers further advantages:
In addition to having a TCO, total cost of ownership, comparable to that of fuel cell systems, it also allows the exploitation of a solution, that of the internal combustion engine, which is mature and proven and therefore preserves the value chain, investments, professional skills and related jobs.
With diesel-derived propulsion systems using a small fraction of diesel to ignite the H2, in the absence of a nearby H2 refueling facility, these systems can use ‘traditional’ fuel for short service trips. When powered by hydrogen, they provide the same range, power and torque as a classic diesel truck.
An ambitious goal
Westport is working on the development of this solution, which is still in the experimental phase, in its Vancouver R&D centre, also through development programmes conducted with important partners such as Scania, with the aim of achieving commercial application by 2027-2028.
In the meantime, WFS remains open to collaborations, talking to other major European truck manufacturers who might be interested in experimenting with this technology.
Another study, this time based on numerical simulations and carried out in partnership with AVL, focused on the TCO of these vehicles, giving results that allow encouraging forecasts for the future.
For Westport, therefore, hydrogen is also a significant part of its current business, thanks to the production of storage components such as valves and pressure reducers, which are made in the Brescia establishment, but sold almost entirely abroad.
For WFS, therefore, H2 is already a reality, which promises to become increasingly significant within the budget of the Canadian group. According to Marco Seimandi, Vice President Sales & Marketing Westport Fuel Systems, within a decade hydrogen-powered trucks will be a widespread reality. For the vice-president, Italy has the skills and the technological pipeline to develop this market and he stresses the need for attention and support from the state. | transportation_engineering |
https://landencnid951728.jaiblogs.com/37294537/discover-the-upcoming-all-electric-chevrolet-silverado | 2022-08-13T11:21:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00037.warc.gz | 0.931618 | 890 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__171330713 | en | Chevrolet recently introduced the 2024 Silverado EV, an all-electric reimagining of the brand's very popular vehicle. The Silverado EV will certainly provide a combination of capability, efficiency, as well as convenience, in addition to innovative modern technologies.
A few highlights of this new electrical truck that have actually triggered exhilaration include:
● Anticipated 400-mile variety on a full fee
● Up to 664 horse power with greater than 780 lb-ft of torque
● GM-estimated 0-60 mph time of less than 4.5 secs
● Common DC fast billing (approximately 350kW) on both trims
● As much as 10.2 kW of offboard power with optional tools
● Approximately 10,000 extra pounds of maximum trailering with as much as 1,300 extra pounds of haul
Readily available Trims
At launch, the Silverado EV will certainly be offered in 2 configurations: the RST First Edition and the fleet-oriented WT. Both the RST as well as the WT trims feature an extensive suite of standard and also readily available safety and security modern technologies along with Tow/Haul mode, trailer hitch arrangements, as well as an incorporated trailer brake controller and also Hitch Guidance.
The RST First Edition consists of:
● Four-wheel guiding
● Automatic Adaptive Air Suspension
● Multi-Flex Midgate that broadens the vehicle's freight capacity
● Available Multi-Flex Tailgate with power release
● Huge, 17-inch-diagonal LCD freeform infotainment display coupled with an 11-inch-diagonal reconfigurable chauffeur tool display and a multi-color motorist head-up display
● Trailering-Capable Super Cruise ship, the industry's very first real hands-free driver-assistance modern technology
The WT will certainly release initially for fleet consumers to supply lasting transportation objectives for organizations, this website including 510 hp as well as 615 lb-ft of torque. The WT trim is readied to supply 8,000 pounds of towing as well as 1,200 extra pounds of payload.
The Power of the Ultium Platform
The Silverado EV will be improved GM's Ultium System. The brand-new body design includes the available 24-module Ultium battery in the essential framework to allow an outstanding driving range. The architectural design incorporates the ability of the timeless full-size pickup while giving an extra comfortable, confident flight both on- as well as off-road. The chassis is made with independent front and also rear suspensions. Front- and also rear-drive electric motors compose an e4WD system that moves power to the offered 24-inch wheels. Automatic Adaptive Air Suspension makes it possible for the pick-up to be raised or lowered up to 2 inches depending upon motorist preference. Drivers will delight in better ability to move in parking area in addition to boosted handling and also stability at higher speeds, especially when trailering.
Efficiency & Array
Both Silverado EV trims feature public DC fast billing abilities of as much as 350kW. GM estimates that this will make it possible for around 100 miles of array to be added in 10 minutes.
The Silverado EV's PowerBase charging system when combined with the offered accessory power bar offers up to 10 outlets to offer a total of 10.2 kW of all-electric power. This is particularly helpful for worksites. The electrical truck is also capable of charging an additional EV making use of the available device charge cord.
With this new all-electric pickup, vehicle drivers can create energy-efficient route planning even while trailering.
Production, Accessibility, and also Bookings
The Silverado EV will debut in the springtime of 2023 with a WT design offering GM's longest-range battery with an anticipated GM-estimated range of over 400 miles on a complete cost. The completely filled RST First Edition design is anticipated in the fall of 2023 and also will likewise supply a 400-mile variety.
Ultimately, Chevrolet will release the full Silverado EV portfolio with MSRPs around $50,000 - $80,000. Chauffeurs will be able to find electric Chevrolet trucks in Connecticut that meet their capability and prices requirements.
Learn more about this chevrolet in east haven today. | transportation_engineering |
http://financell.com/11-ways-save-money-car-fule/ | 2019-02-19T04:28:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247489343.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20190219041222-20190219063222-00576.warc.gz | 0.942227 | 810 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__147973042 | en | Save money while reducing CO2 emissions to the environment. Following these tips bellow will improve your mileage significantly. These 11 tips for fuel savings can help you improve your car’s fuel economy.
1- Slow down
One of the easiest ways to save fuel is to slow down. As vehicle speed increases fuel consumption does the same. For example, if you increase the speed from 40km/h to 80km/h you almost double the gasoline consumption. The lowest fuel consumption you’ll get is when driving between 50 and 70km/h.
2- Change your driving style
Aggressive driving , such as the pedal to the metal action, and sudden braking can spend as much as 20% more fuel compared to regular driving.
3- High gear
Cars are designed to start in the first gear (the lowest) because that is where they have the most drive force and when you run the car on the highest gear on a certain speed you will save gasoline and money. If you cruise around in low gear it will increase fuel consumption. When it is safe to do so, always try to shift into a higher gear.
4- Selective Cruise Control
Using cruise control can improve fuel consumption by allowing you to keep a steady speed on flat roads or downhill’s. If you are driving uphill the cruise control will force the car to run faster to maintain the selected speed, thereby increasing fuel consumption.
5- Use of air conditioning
The air conditioning system of your car takes an extra toll on the car engine, which uses fuel. You can save up to 3% fuel by not using the air conditioner. Consider turning off the air conditioner when the outdoor temperature allows it, especially in the winter period. At very low speeds or when stationary, you can enjoy the wind by opening windows and air vents.
6- Avoid excessive idling
Turning the engine off while you wait and then restart it when you are ready to drive saves you more gasoline than when the car is idling.
7- Remove unnecessary load
The heavier the vehicle, the more energy is required to move it, so all unnecessary weight will give a higher fuel consumption. Fuel consumption increases by 2.1% for every extra 50 kg. Think about what you need to have with you in the car, and take out all the things that are not necessary.
8- Improve aerodynamics by using the roof rack in a sensible way
Roof Rack or loading racks affect the car’s aerodynamic efficiency negatively. They increase the aerodynamic resistance of the vehicle and may increase fuel consumption by up to 5%. Install a roof rack or cargo rack on your car if it is absolute needed and remove it when not in use.
9- Keep your windows closed
Open windows and sunroofs gives poor aerodynamics, which slows down your car and results in more fuel consumption.
10- Maintain your car regularly
Make sure your car is well maintained by checking for dirty sparks, air filters or clogged fuel filters so that the car acts as effective as possible. It’s also important to change motor oil regularly for positive fuel consumption. A well-maintained engine can improve fuel consumption by up to 4%.
11- Make sure your tires are properly inflated
Tires with inflated are more rolling resistance and require more energy to roll, which leads to higher fuel consumption. Tires that are mounted on the rim lose air over time and therefore it is necessary to check the air pressure regularly and make sure it’s correct as it is listed in the user manual provided by the vehicle manufacturer. By constantly making sure you have the correct tire pressure you can save up to 5% of fuel. Tires with the right pressure are also safer and last longer.
EPA (U.S. Environmental protection agency)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. department of Energy Laboratory)
Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc., Washington, DC | transportation_engineering |
https://careers.orcpa.org/jobs/13880519/senior-grants-compliance-analyst | 2020-09-24T06:17:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400213454.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924034208-20200924064208-00545.warc.gz | 0.926401 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__14663954 | en | The Grants Compliance Analyst will be responsible for conducting the monitoring of sub-recipients and contractors on Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund (STIF) requirements of sub-awards, such as but not limited to, project, financial accounting and operations management, procurement, use and maintenance of project equipment, capital purchases, civil rights, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), charter and school bus and safety and asset management, and reporting requirements.
Sub-recipients are Public Transportation Service Providers which means a city, county, special district, intergovernmental entity or any other political subdivision or municipal or Public Corporation that provide Public Transportation Services. Public Transportation Services means any form of passenger transportation by car, bus, or other conveyance, either publicly or privately owned, which provides service to the general public on a continuing basis.
A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Business or Public Administration, Finance, Accounting, Urban and Regional Planning, or related field is required.
A minimum of four (4) years total credited experience*.
Four (4) years of experience conducting compliance monitoring, quality assurance, auditing, or similar work for financial operational requirements and reporting is required.
Two (2) years of experience in public accounting, federal compliance experience or two (2) years of experience in governmental internal auditing experience is preferred.
Class C driver license (Oregon) - must be able to drive to other agencies outside of TriMet's service area (required).
Or any equivalent combination of training or experience.
Working at TriMet means making connections. We believe providing a safe and reliable ride doesn’t just get people to work, school, shopping or the doctor’s office — it also opens doors to a stronger community and a better future.
Our team of nearly 3,000 does it all, from driving to fixing to planning, creating and communicating. What connects us is our commitment to making the Portland area a better place to live, through shared values like responsiveness, inclusivity and accountability. | transportation_engineering |
https://careers.jobsataramco.eu/job/saudi-arabia/offshore-boat-deck-coordinator/102/2091388 | 2017-01-24T04:57:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284270.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00250-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.9218 | 674 | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-04__0__261649563 | en | As one of the world’s largest fully integrated energy enterprises, Saudi Aramco not only looks for individuals who can meet its expectations but also for those who can exceed them. Our objective is to become the world’s leading integrated energy provider by 2020.
We are currently seeking an experienced Offshore Boat Deck Coordinator to join the Terminal Maintenance Department, which is a key organization within the Saudi Aramco production chain as it handles the maintenance of critical facilities that are responsible for crude oil shipment from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the entire globe. The Deck Coordinator will live and work on a marine vessel located permanently offshore. He will perform maintenance work on catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM) and single anchor leg mooring (SALM) single-point moorings (SPMs), supervise the boat Ramthan-II maintenance team to safely and efficiently complete the offshore scheduled and emergency work, ensure and implement the highest safety and environmental standards governed by Saudi Aramco safety and environmental procedures and policies, and coordinate work activities of SPM removal, installation and testing and inspection (T&I) maintenance with barges and support boats.
As the successful candidate, you will have a High School Education.
Candidates will have a minimum of thirteen (13) years experience in marine maintenance (offshore SPMs and marine hoses), oil operations, crane/rigging, and diving operations.
You must be able to live and work on a marine vessel located permanently offshore. Be fluent in English, and be able to swim.
Duties and Responsibilities
The successful candidate will perform maintenance work on CALM and SALM SPMs. Supervise the boat Ramthan-II maintenance team to safely and efficiently complete the offshore scheduled and emergency work, including but not limited to the following:
Daily SPM checks; weekly inspection; preventive and reactive maintenance of Saudi Aramco six (6) offshore SPMs
Replace and change-out of all kind of marine hoses including subsea, full float, half float and other
Perform SPM CALM bearing assessment and provide reports
Maintain and replace subsea valves and perform direct grease injection operations
Replace and change mooring hawsers
Coordinate oil spills cleanups
Ensure and implement the highest safety and environmental standards governed by Saudi Aramco safety and environmental procedures and policies.
Work under SPM area foreman supervision to coordinate all work activities and assignments.
Communicate constantly with Terminal Shift Superintendents, Marine Department, and Juaymah Offshore Platform and Piloting Operations to coordinate workboat operations and safely complete the assigned activities.
Communicate with lead divers to coordinate all diving inspection and repair work.
Maintain adequate tools and materials on the workboat to carry out normal maintenance.
Report the work progress on a daily basis, or whenever needed, to the SPM area foreman.
Timely report and encourage team members to report all safety concern, issues, and suggestions.
Coordinate SPM work activities related to removals, installations, and maintenance with barges and support boats for T&I or major repairs.
Participate with the team on risk assessments and job safety analysis preparation and development.
Train and mentor the young workforce on boats. | transportation_engineering |
https://cleanmastermind.com/cleaning/car-cleaning/how-often-should-you-clean-your-car-engine/ | 2024-02-23T10:31:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474377.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223085439-20240223115439-00692.warc.gz | 0.930428 | 3,212 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__54248615 | en | - Regular engine cleaning is essential for maintaining the performance and longevity of your car.
- The frequency of cleaning your car engine depends on various factors, including driving conditions, climate, and maintenance history.
- As a general guideline, it is recommended to clean your car engine at least once or twice a year.
- If you frequently drive in dusty or off-road environments, it may be necessary to clean your engine more often to prevent debris buildup.
- In areas with high humidity or salt exposure (such as coastal regions), more frequent cleaning can help protect against corrosion.
- Regularly inspecting your engine for signs of dirt, grease, or oil buildup can indicate when it’s time for a cleaning.
- A clean engine not only improves aesthetics but also allows for better heat dissipation and reduces the risk of overheating.
- When cleaning your car engine, it’s important to follow proper safety precautions and use appropriate cleaning products specifically designed for engines.
- Avoid using excessive water pressure or directly spraying electrical components to prevent damage.
- If you’re unsure about how to clean your car engine properly, it’s best to consult a professional mechanic or refer to the manufacturer’s guidelines.
Are you neglecting one of the most crucial parts of your car’s maintenance routine? We all know the importance of keeping our vehicles clean and polished on the outside, but what about under the hood? Your car engine is a complex system that requires regular attention to ensure optimal performance and longevity. In this article, we will delve into the question that plagues many car owners: how often should you clean your car engine?
Imagine cruising down the road with confidence, knowing that your engine is running smoothly and efficiently. No more worrying about unexpected breakdowns or costly repairs. By understanding the importance of cleaning your car engine and implementing a regular maintenance schedule, you can avoid potential headaches and extend the lifespan of your beloved vehicle.
But how do you determine the right frequency for cleaning your car engine? We will explore various factors that influence this decision, such as driving conditions, mileage, and environmental factors. Additionally, we will provide expert tips on how to safely clean your engine without causing any damage. So buckle up and get ready to give your car’s heart some much-needed TLC!
Regularly cleaning your car engine is important for maintaining optimal performance and extending its lifespan. It improves performance, prevents corrosion, enhances fuel efficiency, and helps identify potential issues. Signs that indicate your engine needs cleaning include visible dirt buildup on the surface.
Why is it important to regularly clean your car engine?
Regularly cleaning your car engine is essential for maintaining optimal performance and extending the lifespan of your vehicle. Over time, dirt, debris, and grime can accumulate on the engine surface, obstructing airflow and causing overheating. This can lead to decreased fuel efficiency and potential damage to engine components.
By cleaning your car engine regularly, you can:
1. Improve Performance
A clean engine allows for better combustion, ensuring that fuel is burned efficiently and power is maximized. This results in improved acceleration, smoother operation, and overall enhanced performance.
2. Prevent Corrosion
Dirt and grime can trap moisture around the engine components, leading to corrosion over time. Regular cleaning helps remove these contaminants, reducing the risk of rust formation and prolonging the life of your engine.
3. Enhance Fuel Efficiency
A dirty engine restricts airflow and hampers fuel combustion efficiency. Cleaning the engine improves air intake and allows for better fuel atomization, resulting in improved fuel economy.
4. Identify Potential Issues
While cleaning your car engine, you have an opportunity to inspect various components closely. This allows you to identify any leaks, loose connections, or signs of wear that may require immediate attention before they develop into more significant problems.
By incorporating regular engine cleaning into your maintenance routine, you not only ensure optimal performance but also save money on repairs in the long run.
Signs that indicate your car engine needs cleaning
Knowing when it’s time to clean your car’s engine is crucial for maintaining its health and performance. Here are some signs that indicate a dirty engine:
1. Visible Dirt Buildup
If you notice a visible layer of dirt or grime on your engine’s surface, it is a clear indication that it requires cleaning. This buildup can hinder heat dissipation and airflow, affecting overall engine performance.
2. Reduced Fuel Efficiency
A dirty engine can cause decreased fuel efficiency due to restricted airflow and improper fuel combustion. If you notice a sudden decrease in your car’s mileage, it may be time to clean the engine.
3. Engine Overheating
When an engine is covered in dirt and debris, it becomes difficult for heat to dissipate properly. This can lead to overheating, which may result in damage to various engine components if not addressed promptly.
4. Strange Odors or Smoke
Excess dirt accumulation on the engine can cause strange odors or even smoke when the engine heats up. These odors are often a sign of burning debris or oil residue, indicating the need for a thorough cleaning.
5. Poor Acceleration or Performance
If you experience sluggish acceleration or a noticeable decrease in overall performance, a dirty engine could be to blame. Cleaning the engine helps remove obstructions and allows for smooth operation and optimal power delivery.
By paying attention to these signs, you can determine when it’s time to clean your car’s engine and ensure its continued performance and longevity.
How often should you clean your car engine to maintain optimal performance?
The frequency at which you should clean your car’s engine depends on various factors such as driving conditions, climate, and maintenance habits. However, as a general guideline, it is recommended to clean your car’s engine at least once every year or every 12,000-15,000 miles.
Additionally, certain driving conditions may require more frequent cleaning:
1. Off-Road Driving
If you frequently drive off-road or on dusty terrain, your engine is exposed to higher levels of dirt and debris. In such cases, consider cleaning your engine every six months or every 6,000-8,000 miles.
2. Urban Driving
Driving in cities often exposes the engine to more pollution and contaminants from exhaust emissions and road grime. Cleaning the engine every nine months or every 9,000-11,000 miles can help maintain optimal performance.
3. Extreme Weather Conditions
If you live in an area with extreme weather conditions like excessive heat or cold, it is advisable to clean your car’s engine more frequently. These conditions can contribute to faster dirt accumulation and may necessitate cleaning every six to nine months.
It’s important to note that these are general guidelines, and it’s always recommended to refer to your vehicle’s owner manual for specific maintenance intervals recommended by the manufacturer. Regularly inspecting your engine for signs of dirt buildup and using your judgment based on driving conditions will also help you determine when a cleaning is necessary.
Potential risks of neglecting regular engine cleaning
Neglecting regular engine cleaning can have adverse effects on both the performance and longevity of your vehicle. Here are some potential risks associated with not cleaning your car’s engine:
1. Reduced Performance
A dirty engine can lead to reduced performance due to restricted airflow and inefficient fuel combustion. This can result in sluggish acceleration, decreased power output, and overall poor driving experience.
2. Increased Fuel Consumption
When an engine is covered in dirt and grime, it has to work harder to perform optimally. This increased workload translates into higher fuel consumption as the engine struggles to overcome obstructions caused by dirt buildup.
3. Engine Overheating
Dirt accumulation on the engine surface hampers heat dissipation, leading to increased engine temperatures. Over time, this can cause overheating, potentially damaging various engine components and resulting in costly repairs.
4. Corrosion and Damage
Dirt and debris can trap moisture around the engine, promoting corrosion on metal surfaces. If left unchecked, this corrosion can lead to the deterioration of engine components and ultimately compromise the reliability and safety of your vehicle.
5. Increased Risk of Malfunctions
A dirty engine is more prone to malfunctions such as clogged fuel injectors, fouled spark plugs, or malfunctioning sensors. These issues can result in rough idling, misfires, reduced power, and even complete engine failure if not addressed promptly.
By neglecting regular engine cleaning, you not only compromise the performance and efficiency of your vehicle but also increase the likelihood of expensive repairs down the line.
Recommended techniques and products for cleaning a car engine
Cleaning your car’s engine may seem like a daunting task but with the right techniques and products, it can be done effectively. Here are some recommended techniques for cleaning a car engine:
1. Preparing the Engine
Start by ensuring that your engine is cool to avoid any potential burns during the cleaning process. Cover sensitive electrical components such as fuse boxes or air intake systems with plastic bags to prevent water damage.
2. Using a Degreaser
Apply a suitable degreaser to the entire engine surface, focusing on areas with visible dirt buildup or grease stains. Allow the degreaser to penetrate for a few minutes before scrubbing with a brush or sponge to remove stubborn grime.
3. Rinsing with Water
Once you have thoroughly scrubbed the engine surface, use a gentle stream of water from a hose or pressure washer to rinse off the degreaser and dirt. Be cautious not to use excessive water pressure or spray directly into sensitive components.
4. Drying the Engine
After rinsing, let the engine air dry or use compressed air to remove excess water from hard-to-reach areas. Avoid starting the engine until it is completely dry to prevent potential electrical issues.
5. Protecting Electrical Components
Once the engine is dry, remove the plastic bags covering sensitive electrical components and inspect for any signs of moisture. If necessary, use a clean cloth or compressed air to ensure they are completely dry before reassembling.
When choosing products for engine cleaning, opt for non-corrosive and environmentally friendly degreasers specifically formulated for automotive engines. Avoid using household cleaners or abrasive substances that can cause damage.
Remember to follow manufacturer instructions for both the cleaning products and your vehicle while performing engine cleaning.
Frequent engine cleaning and its impact on the lifespan of your vehicle
Frequent engine cleaning plays a vital role in extending the lifespan of your vehicle by maintaining optimal performance and preventing premature wear and tear. Here’s how regular engine cleaning can impact the longevity of your car:
1. Preventing Dirt Buildup
Regularly cleaning your car’s engine removes dirt, debris, and grime that accumulate over time. By keeping these contaminants at bay, you help prevent them from causing obstructions in critical areas such as air intake systems or cooling fins, which could result in decreased performance or overheating.
2. Reducing Corrosion Risk
Dirt buildup around the engine can trap moisture, leading to corrosion on metal surfaces over time. By regularly cleaning your engine, you remove this moisture-trapping layer, reducing the risk of corrosion and subsequent damage to engine components.
3. Enhancing Cooling Efficiency
A clean engine allows for efficient heat dissipation, ensuring that critical components stay within their optimal operating temperatures. By preventing overheating, you minimize the risk of damage to vital engine parts and extend their lifespan.
4. Avoiding Malfunctions
Regular cleaning helps prevent malfunctions caused by dirt or debris interfering with sensitive engine components such as fuel injectors, sensors, or spark plugs. By keeping these components clean and free from obstructions, you reduce the likelihood of performance issues or potential breakdowns.
5. Preserving Performance
A well-maintained engine performs optimally and delivers the power and fuel efficiency intended by the manufacturer. By regularly cleaning your car’s engine, you ensure that it remains in peak condition, preserving its performance characteristics throughout its lifespan.
It’s important to note that while frequent engine cleaning is beneficial, it should be done using appropriate techniques and products to avoid any damage. Regular maintenance practices such as oil changes, filter replacements, and scheduled inspections should also be followed to complement engine cleaning efforts and maximize the lifespan of your vehicle.
In conclusion, regular maintenance and cleaning of your car engine is essential to ensure optimal performance and longevity. While there is no definitive answer to how often you should clean your car engine, it is generally recommended to have it professionally cleaned at least once a year or every 12,000 to 15,000 miles. However, factors such as driving conditions, climate, and the age of your vehicle may influence the frequency of engine cleaning.
Cleaning your car engine not only helps remove dirt, grime, and debris that can accumulate over time but also allows for early detection of potential issues such as oil leaks or worn-out components. It is important to follow proper cleaning techniques and use appropriate cleaning products to avoid damaging sensitive electrical components. Regularly inspecting and maintaining other parts of your vehicle such as air filters, belts, hoses, and fluids will further contribute to the overall health and efficiency of your car’s engine.
By incorporating routine engine cleaning into your car maintenance schedule and addressing any identified problems promptly with the help of a professional mechanic, you can extend the lifespan of your engine and enjoy a smoother driving experience.
Frequently Asked Questions about How Often Should You Clean Your Car Engine
Is it a good idea to wash your car engine?
On the other hand, there are advantages to cleaning your car engine. Firstly, it allows you to identify the source of oil or grease, such as a faulty valve-cover gasket, so that you can address a minor oil leak before it escalates into a major issue.
Does cleaning your engine make it last longer?
There are several advantages to washing your car engine. Keeping the engine clean can prevent overheating by allowing the cooling system to function properly. Additionally, washing the engine can protect it from corrosion and damage caused by dirt and grime, ultimately prolonging its lifespan. This information is accurate as of June 3, 2022.
Is it OK to hose down your car engine?
If you have a power washer, it can be used on a low setting, but a regular hose will also suffice. Another option is to use the sprayer at a self-service car wash. Start from the back and work your way to the front, rinsing the entire area and removing all degreaser.
What are the disadvantages of engine cleaner?
Flushing additives contain chemicals that have the potential to harm engine seals, resulting in costly repairs if there is an oil leak. These chemicals can also cause damage to engine bearings, turbochargers, and other components that rely on oil for lubrication.
Does a car engine need to be cleaned occasionally?
Keeping your engine clean through regular and thorough cleaning can enhance its performance and prolong the lifespan of your vehicle, ultimately saving you a significant amount of money in the future. Just like washing the exterior and undercarriage of your car, regular engine cleaning is crucial.
What to avoid when cleaning engine?
If you want to clean off dirt and filth, do not use a pressure washer. Both a pressure washer at home and the spray wand at a DIY car wash release water at a dangerously high pressure that can damage any part of your engine compartment. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.rawelyse.com/things-to-remember-when-using-a-heavy-tow-truck/ | 2021-08-01T21:22:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154219.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20210801190212-20210801220212-00305.warc.gz | 0.944855 | 528 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__302480121 | en | Your towing vehicle’s towing capability is the maximum weight it can haul. These capacities differ by vehicle, based on the manufacture, model, year, features, and other factors. Understanding the five main components of a towing vehicle allows you to calculate towing capability. The engine, braking, axels, drive, and edge are among them. Incorporating the weight of the towing truck, trailer, freight, and the overall cumulative weight of its passengers can give you a good idea of how much weight the towing vehicle will have to pull.
Then, consult your vehicle’s owner’s manual to determine how much weight your make and model vehicle will tow, and equate it to the overall combined weight you need. You cannot tow securely with that vehicle if the overall combined weight reaches the recommended towing capability. Either reduce the freight and vessel’s weight or purchase a towing vehicle with a higher towing capability.
Never Underestimate Towing Ability
There is an explanation for the existence of towing capability. Ignoring a vehicle’s towing cap has a number of implications. This involves things like safety risks and mechanical injury, among other things. Losing the ability to brake is the most harmful and frequent effect of exceeding a vehicle’s towing capability. They will safely reach normal speeds on the road while the towing limit is reached or exceeded; but, when it comes time to brake, issues occur. The car is just too large to come to a complete stop in the period allotted. Coming to a complete stop takes much longer, particularly at higher speeds. The load is so high in certain situations that the driver cannot brake at all, let alone in time, to avert a serious or catastrophic accident.
Exceeding the towing cap in less serious situations will prevent a car from going uphill, except on the smallest incline. Since the load is so high, the vehicle already struggles to accelerate; thus, when it comes time to move up an incline, it can simply give out or burn rubber in its place. This not only brings the towing job to a screeching stop, but it also risks causing serious harm to the towing vehicle and its tyres.
Consider hiring a professional hauler.
Don’t risk damaging your vehicle if you have a heavy load to transport. Instead, enlist the help of a competent and trustworthy towing service to complete the task. They have the required vehicles and equipment to securely handle any size tow. You’ll be shocked by how inexpensive it can be! | transportation_engineering |
https://www.crp-caetanoraposopereiras.pt/en | 2022-12-06T21:05:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711114.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206192947-20221206222947-00261.warc.gz | 0.960208 | 422 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__21624170 | en | In the 1930s, the company Caetano Raposo e Pereiras acquired, through transfer, the buses of António de Medeiros - career concessionaire Achada / P. Delgada - and those of Manuel Cabral, who were connecting the Northeast / P. Delgada.
In 1932, Caetano Raposo e Pereiras Lda. secured the Maia / Ponta Delgada connection through its first coal-powered vehicle, and later acquired another vehicle linking Vila do Nordeste to the city of Ponta Delgada.
With these acquisitions, the company started to have the exclusive collective transport in the so-called "Linha-do-Norte", which until then did not happen since Fernando Alcântara was one of its most active competitors, coming to own a bus that went to the parish of Maia.
With the appearance of the first gasoline vehicles CRP acquires three vehicles this time having in mind the Ribeira Grande / Ponta Delgada route, counting until the year 1952 with a fleet of 6 buses. In 1953 with the appearance of diesel-powered vehicles invests in the purchase of two engines, for replacement in two of its vehicles, that moved with gasoline.
In 1958 CRP invested in the purchase of 50% of the share of the company "Auto-Viação Ribeiragrandense, Lda", to the company "Varela, Lda", at the same time as João Teixeira de Medeiros joins the CRP staff taking with him the remaining business value of the extinct "Auto-Viação Ribeiragrandense, Lda", of which he was managing partner.
In 1982 the company has 48 buses of brands "Mercedes", "Volvo" and "AEC" and approximately 120 employees. It also had a workshop in Ponta Delgada, two garages in Maia and others in Pico da Pedra, Ribeira Grande and Rabo de Peixe | transportation_engineering |
http://datafield-hk.com/press.detailed.php?nid=19 | 2023-12-02T16:11:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100427.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202140407-20231202170407-00075.warc.gz | 0.864535 | 667 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__32906380 | en | The engine is the heart of the car, and the wiring harness is its neurovascular system.
1. According to the type of voltage, automobile wiring harness mainly includes:
Battery wire, high voltage wire (for new energy vehicles, voltage grade DC > 60V < 600V), coaxial cable, low voltage wire (voltage grade DC<60 v or AC<25 v), etc.
2. According to the vehicle structure, automobile wiring harness mainly has the following types:
a. Engine wiring harness, which connects various sensors and actuators on the engine, surrounds the engine.
b. The instrument panel wiring harness is connected with the body or chassis wiring harness, and all kinds of electrical components on the instrument panel, such as combined instruments, air conditioner switches, receivers, cigarette lighters, etc., are connected along the pipe beam.
c. The body wiring harness, generally from the left side of the cab to walk on the floor, connected with the tank sensor and rear taillight.
d. The car door wiring harness, connect all electrical parts on the door panel, such as central lock, glass lifter, speaker, etc.
e. The front wire harness, from the cab, along the wing and front bumper skeleton connected to the front electrical parts such as side turn signal and front combination light, horn, electronic fan, etc.
3. According to the cooperative customer cases of datafield, there are the following types of automobile wiring harness:
✔ EV charging cable
✔ Wire Harness for Hydrogen Energy Vehicle Engine
✔ Automotive Parking Air Conditioner Wire Harness
✔ Cable harness for Sky Lift of Fire Truck
✔ Cable harness for Electric Vehicle Battery System
✔ Cable assembly for car racing monitor display
✔ Cable Assembly for Car Reserse Parking Sensor
✔ Anti-Collision Cable Assembly
✔ Cable Assembly for the Automotive Motor
✔ Automotive Brake Clutch Wire Harness
✔ Automotive steering system wire harness
✔ Wire harness for emergency warning system
Here is an electric car charging harness made by datafield for its customers:
AC charging cable with Vehicle Connector and open cable end for charging electric vehicles (EV) with alternating current (AC) via type 2 Vehicle Inlets, for installation at charging stations for E-Mobility (EVSE)
Consistent design of all Phoenix Contact Vehicle Connectors and Infrastructure Plugs
Silver-plated surface of the power and signal contacts
Developed and produced in accordance with the IATF 16949 automotive standard and ISO 9001
Material data available in the IMDS (International Material Data System of he automotive industry)
Convenient handling, thanks to the ergonomic handle and additional, rubber grip components
Tested in accordance with selected tests of automotive standards LV124, LV214, LV215-2
Tested in accordance with EV Ready 37 requirements
Laser-marked pin connector pattern in accordance with DIN EN 17186
Consistent longitudinal water tightness prevents water ingress in the cable
For more information about automotive wire harness, please contact us or visit datafield's website: www.datafield-hk.com
Posted 2021 / 10 / 11 | transportation_engineering |
https://chorusandclouds.ca/products/vilacity-crane | 2024-04-24T10:09:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819089.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424080812-20240424110812-00520.warc.gz | 0.925464 | 188 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__115994391 | en | Wooden crane from the Vilacity collection by Vilac features 3 pieces including wood crane and 2 wooden containters/loads and magnetic attachments for using with the Vilacity container ship or or Vilacity transport truck. This small crane measures approx 34 cm tall. Safety rated for ages 3+.
It's busy at the port! A cargo ship is moored, it will not stay very long at the dock, you have to hurry to unload it.... Quickly, go get your crane, it is perfect to quickly accomplish this work. On the terminal, not everyone knows how to handle this crane. You're the best crane operator, so take the lead!
Children will have fun offloading and reloading the wooden containers. The cubes are magnetized, they can be lifted and handled from the Vilacity container ship and transported with the Vilacity transport truck.
Crane dimensions: 28 x 18.5 x 34 cm. | transportation_engineering |
https://gravelylaw.com/u-s-bridges-a-tragedy-waiting-to-happen/ | 2024-04-23T11:04:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818474.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423095619-20240423125619-00023.warc.gz | 0.966379 | 1,122 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__141216603 | en | Humans have been building bridges since Neolithic times. In the 21st century, as we prepare to colonize other planets, one would think the most powerful nation in the world would have perfected the technology enough to ensure that our bridges are safe. That is, unfortunately, not the case. There are at least 231,000 bridges in a pitiful state of disrepair on American soil. The majority of them are too old or damaged to repair and need to be replaced.
A 2020 analysis by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association concluded that 81,000 U.S. bridges need to be replaced, and over 46,000 are structurally deficient. Repairing and replacing all these bridges, ARTBA estimated, would take 40 years and cost $164 billion.
Our nation’s bridge infrastructure is largely underfunded. The administration’s new infrastructure bill promised to fix the problem, but as of March 2022, it has only allocated $27.5 billion to bridge infrastructure, which results in a finance gap surpassing $136 billion.
Since the interstate system’s creation, this may be the largest federal investment in bridge infrastructure, but it is still not enough to make all our bridges safe. According to The Washington Post, “The infusion of money should help state transportation departments build on progress but it’s unlikely to benefit every aging bridge.”
Bridge infrastructure is vital for our economy. There are over 69,500 bridges not operating at full capacity due to structural deficiencies. This results in weight restrictions that lead to trucks having to take alternative routes, increasing transportation costs.
Innovation scholar Edward Tenner once wrote, “disasters have been powerful instruments of change. Designers learn from failure.” But failure has been a slow teacher in the case of U.S. bridge infrastructure.
The last major bridge collapse on U.S. soil took place last January. The 50-year-old bridge over Fern Hollow Creek in Pittsburgh fell apart, sending a municipal bus and five private cars down the ravine. There were no fatalities this time, but we have seen enough tragedies over the last decades. One of the most dramatic occurred In 2007, when the I-35 W Bridge collapsed over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, killing 13 people.
What Happens When Bridges Collapse
On August 1st, 2007, in downtown Minneapolis, rush-hour traffic was flowing across the Interstate 35 West bridge. The forty-year-old bridge served over 140,000 vehicles every day. Shortly after 6 P.M., motorists heard a loud clank as the bridge trembled before breaking down and partially plunging into the Mississippi River.
Dozens of cars started filling with water as their occupants struggled to escape. Thirteen people were killed, and 145 were injured. The economic damage was massive. The Governor described the collapse as “a catastrophe of historic proportions for Minnesota.”
Nobody should have been surprised. Every year, when the bridge underwent inspections, the result was consistently the same: numerous cracks, rampant corrosion, and fatigue. Politicians argued that there were problems, but they were not that bad. According to the authorities, there was no recommendation to immediately close the bridge. I wonder what the families of the people who plunged to their death would have to say about that.
We don’t need more bridges to be closed. What we need are funds and a clear plan to bring all bridges up to standard. An aging infrastructure combined with negligent maintenance is a tragedy waiting to happen. Sometimes, like in Minneapolis, it just doesn’t wait.
Fourteen years have passed since the I-35 bridge collapsed, and there are still about 2,000 bridges in need of repair or replacement in Minnesota. How many people have to die before our government takes this matter seriously?
Like other engineering structures, bridges are not made to last forever. Many of America’s bridges are still in operation long past the end of their design lifespan. Others were designed for low traffic and are now experiencing massive traffic due to demographic growth. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 13.6 percent of bridges have become functionally obsolete.
It remains to be seen how the new federal funds will impact the state of bridge infrastructure nationwide. With 1,600 bridges in poor condition, Louisiana will get $1 billion to finance repairs. Pennsylvania has over 3,300 bridges in poor condition and will receive $1.6 billion. California will get $4.2 billion. Florida and Texas will split a meager $800 million, while 23 states will get $225 million each.
Closing bridges in poor condition is not a viable solution. When a bridge closes, communities suffer, whole regions are disrupted, and massive economic losses occur. The new infrastructure bill has brought hope, but it is not enough to fix every aging bridge. According to ARTBA, fixing the bridges in need of most urgent repairs would cost $42 billion.
The White House recently announced that states would receive $5.3 billion to fix bridges over the course of fiscal year 2022. On March 1st, 2022, during his State of the Union address, President Biden announced repairs on 1,500 bridges would begin before the end of the year.
As states start planning how the new federal funds will be spent, one can only hope they will use these resources wisely. The new infrastructure bill has been a step in the right direction, but it is certainly not enough. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.caelumtech.co.za/post/sky-high-solutions-how-drones-are-transforming-engineering-and-industry | 2024-04-25T00:59:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296820065.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425000826-20240425030826-00484.warc.gz | 0.878472 | 975 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__181779775 | en | In recent years, drones have transcended their status as mere gadgets for hobbyists and aerial photographers. Today, they stand as indispensable tools across various industries, revolutionizing the way we approach tasks and challenges. Among these industries, engineering stands out as a prime beneficiary of drone technology. From surveying vast terrains to inspecting infrastructure with unparalleled precision, drones have become integral to the modern engineer's toolkit. Let's delve into how these unmanned aerial vehicles are transforming the engineering landscape.
Precision Surveying and Mapping
One of the most significant contributions of drones to engineering is in the realm of surveying and mapping. Traditionally, land surveying involved manual measurements and data collection, often time-consuming and labor-intensive. However, drones equipped with advanced sensors and cameras can now perform these tasks swiftly and with unparalleled accuracy.
By flying over designated areas, drones capture high-resolution images or LiDAR sensors and gather data that can be used to create detailed 3D maps and models. This capability is invaluable for various engineering projects, including land development, urban planning, and environmental assessments. With drones, engineers can quickly obtain comprehensive insights into terrain features, vegetation coverage, and elevation changes, facilitating informed decision-making and efficient project planning.
Efficient Infrastructure Inspection
Maintaining infrastructure integrity is a paramount concern for engineers, whether it's bridges, pipelines, or buildings. Traditional inspection methods often involve manual visual inspections or costly aerial surveys using manned aircraft. Drones offer a safer, more cost-effective alternative.
Equipped with cameras, thermal sensors, LiDAR, and other specialized equipment, drones can closely inspect infrastructure for defects, corrosion, or structural damage. Their ability to access hard-to-reach areas and navigate complex environments makes them particularly well-suited for this task. By conducting regular drone inspections, engineers can detect issues early, prioritize maintenance efforts, and ensure the safety and longevity of critical infrastructure assets.
Construction Site Monitoring and Management
In the realm of construction, drones are proving to be invaluable for monitoring project progress, enhancing safety, and optimizing resource allocation. By capturing aerial footage and images of construction sites, drones provide project managers with real-time insights into site conditions, work activities, and potential safety hazards.
With the use of advanced software, one can generate accurate 3D models of construction sites, enabling engineers to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and optimize workflows. This level of monitoring and analysis empowers project stakeholders to make data-driven decisions, mitigate risks, and ensure projects stay on schedule and within budget.
Environmental and Disaster Response Applications
In addition to their role in traditional engineering tasks, drones are increasingly being used for environmental monitoring and disaster response. Whether it's assessing the impact of natural disasters, monitoring pollution levels, or conducting wildlife surveys, drones offer a versatile and cost-effective means of gathering critical data in challenging environments.
For example, in the aftermath of a natural disaster such as a runaway fire, drones can quickly survey affected areas, identify infrastructure damage, assess the need for emergency repairs and/or determine hotspots. This capability enables engineers and emergency responders to prioritize resources effectively, streamline recovery efforts, and minimize disruption to affected communities.
In conclusion, drones are revolutionizing the engineering industry in countless ways, from precision surveying and infrastructure inspection to construction site monitoring and environmental assessment. By harnessing the power of unmanned aerial vehicles, engineers can streamline processes, improve safety, and make more informed decisions throughout the project lifecycle. As drone technology continues to evolve and become more accessible, its impact on the engineering profession is only set to grow, promising a future where innovation knows no bounds.
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https://american-tribune.com/right-to-know-april-2023-vol-5-news-events-clark-hill/ | 2023-06-06T23:56:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653183.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606214755-20230607004755-00356.warc.gz | 0.926757 | 554 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__247381797 | en | Lamborghini CEO says orders for hybrid Revuelto show ‘incredible’ demand from wealthy car-buyers
Lamborghini’s quick sellout of its new $600,000 hybrid supercar is proof that wealthy car buyers are still spending, according to the CEO.
Lamborghini already has a waiting list and two years worth of orders for the Revuelto, its first ever plug-in hybrid that was launched last month, CEO Stephan Winkelmann told CNBC. The orders come despite the global turmoil in financial markets and banking systems in recent months.
“The resilience of our customers, with everything that is happening in the last 24 months is incredible,” Winkelmann said. “We don’t see any slowdown in order intake for buying cars like ours.”
The rush of orders for the Revuelto and other supercars highlights the continued strength of the wealthy consumer despite slowdowns in other segments of the consumer economy. The share price of Ferrari is up 27% this year on the back of continued demand for trophy cars, especially in the U.S.
Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls Royce and other top brands reported record sales and production last year.
Lamborghini produced a record 9,233 vehicles worldwide last year, up 10% over 2021. Winkelmann said it’s too early to forecast 2023 production, but if orders continue as they have in the first quarter the company can match or exceed last year’s record.
The big question for supercar makers like Lamborghini is how to define their brands in the age of electrification. Prized for their powerful, thundering engines, supercar makers are working to develop silent, high-performance EVs that are distinct enough from Tesla and other brands to command higher premiums.
Every Lamborghini model launched after the Revuelto will be a hybrid, with plug-in versions of the Urus SUV and Huracan sportscar expected in the coming years. Lamborghini plans to launch its first fully electric model sometime in 2028 or 2029.
With the Revuelto, Lamborghini utilized the best of both worlds, pairing three electric motors with a new 6.5-liter, naturally aspirated V12 engine for a combined 1,001 horsepower. It has a top speed of over 217 miles per hour and can do 0 to 62 mph in under 2.5 seconds.
With hybridization, the Revuelto is 30% more fuel efficient.
Car collectors say part of the appeal of the Revuelto is owning one of the last generations of V12 supercars to be sold and built. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.safety-insights.com/what-is-a-forklift/ | 2024-02-22T16:58:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222161802-20240222191802-00083.warc.gz | 0.944762 | 1,032 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__102702986 | en | What is a Forklift? All You Want to Know
A forklift, also known as a fork truck, is an industrial truck with a motor that is used to lift and move goods on pallets inside of warehouses, storage facilities, and distribution centers. Some forklifts, depending on the design, permit the operators to sit while operating or driving the machine.
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What is a Forklift Used For?
Forklifts come in a wide variety of designs, and each one has its own benefits and uses.
A forklift is generally used to lift, move, and transport materials.
What Are Forklifts Used for in Construction?
Industrial forklifts are used to transport materials across locations and distances in construction. Bricks, wood, tile, and other interior construction materials are frequently delivered on pallets to construction sites. When packaged together, they travel well. A forklift can assist in moving them to their intended location once they have been delivered on-site.
On construction sites, forklifts aren’t always present because heavy machinery like telehandlers and even front loaders can be equipped with fork attachments. The telehandler in particular is a great material mover because it can lift both up and out, allowing for easy transportation of materials to different levels of a project.
What Are the Different Types of a Forklift?
Although they can be transported by other vehicles on the road or by water (such as cargo ships), forklifts are not considered to be vehicles under the law. They come in all shapes and sizes for various tasks, some of the common ones include:
This is more like a regular standard type of forklift, which has a unique design that helps it balance the weight of the load with its weight, and it can be operated easily with the help of the three wheels that ease turning.
The most common forklift, which is present in almost every warehouse, is this one. It is a small type of forklift built to perform well when it comes to loading and unloading deliveries.
They are the strongest forklift because they are large and used to handle loads on an industrial scale, carrying more weight than any other forklift.
Rough Terrain Forklift
As their name suggests, they have heavy-duty traction tires (like tractor tires), which give them powerful grips and downforce to operate effectively on uneven terrain.
They have a joint design of a crane and an ordinary forklift, giving it a strongly elongated arm that allows it to reach higher than any forklift. They are frequently referred to as telehandlers or teletrucks.
What Are the Main Parts of a Forklift?
Because of how it is built, a forklift can lift a lot of weight without toppling. Each part is crucial to keep the functioning and operators safe while operating a forklift. According to the model, these components differ. For example, some forklifts are more suited for rugged terrain while others are not. These are the basic parts of most forklifts:
- Load back-rest:The load is prevented from moving backward by this component.
- Overhead guard:In the event that a load falls, this part of the forklift shields the operator.
- Carriage:The forklift’s base, the carriage, is supported by mast rails and can be raised and lowered with ease.
- Forks:These are the prongs that support loads.
- Mast:The load is lowered and raised by the mast. Additionally, it has rails that interlock to offer horizontal control.
- Counterweight:To stabilize the forklift and prevent it from toppling over, this weight is used.
- Power source:Forklifts can be powered by things like fuel cells, propane gas, gasoline, diesel engine or batteries.
- Truck frame:The frame is the base of the machine and all parts are attached to it.
- Tires:Forklifts can use pneumatic tires (normally used outdoors) or solid tires (sometimes called cushion tires) that are used both indoors and on hard, flat surfaces.
The hydraulic system, chain pulley system, and forklift controls are the three most crucial components of the forklift. For the forklift’s power and lifting capabilities, both systems and controls are essential.
The Versatility of the Forklift
Forklifts have many ties to the construction industry, despite the fact that you might only think of them in a warehouse. Whether it’s loading supplies to be shipped to a construction site or stacking timber, bricks or other materials, the industry relies heavily on these machines. A construction site would not be nearly as productive without the ability to accept large orders of materials and have everything they require to actually complete projects. Today, it is evident that our industrial and commercial world would not exist without the forklift, whether as a result of the pallet or as a result of the First World War. | transportation_engineering |
https://dockwalls.com/pages/high-speed-rail | 2023-12-02T14:29:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100427.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202140407-20231202170407-00138.warc.gz | 0.934757 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__207089700 | en | High Speed Rail
Rail operator Brightline West announced late last month that it has struck a deal with the High-Speed Rail Labor Coalition to begin work on the nation’s first high-speed rail project. The all-electric train will connect a station in Apple Valley, east of the city of LA, to Las Vegas along Interstate 15. The 218-mile trip will take about 85 minutes on a train that will have a cruising speed of 200 miles per hour.
The High Speed Rail will feature upscale amenities such as hand-stitched leather seats, complimentary onboard Wi-Fi, and delicious food and beverage.
Business riders can turn the journey into the main event by hosting meetings and events in one of the High Speed train's in-station event spaces or add onboard entertainment on their trip to or from Los Angeles.
Groups will be able to save with fixed rates for business travel needs. Brightline West also offers a simple and accessible custom portal to book trips, allowing groups to have full control over their travel budgets.
The Brightline West portal will also help streamline travel by providing planners or organizers the flexibility to digitally transfer single or bulk rides for employee business travel.
In 2020, Brightline signed a right-of-way agreement that allows it to build the 135-mile California portion of the corridor in the middle of Interstate 15. The agreement allows CalTrans to oversee construction and maintenance of the rail line that will begin in Apple Valley at a train station to be constructed off Interstate 15’s Dale Evans Parkway exit.
Brightline has received $1 billion in private activity bonds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help fund the project. Brightline West has also applied for a portion of $7.2 billion in U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration grants for high-speed intercity passenger rail.
Construction on the $10 billion project will create 35,000 jobs and is expected to begin later this year. Brightline West expects operations will begin in 2027. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.aaronvega.org/house-approves-transportation-bond-bill/ | 2020-09-21T14:49:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400201826.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20200921143722-20200921173722-00555.warc.gz | 0.934022 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__14293793 | en | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Aaron Vega or Pat Duffy
Legislature Sends Transportation Bond Bill to Governor
Reaffirms Commitment to Investing in Local Aid and Sustainable Transportation
(BOSTON) – State Representative Aaron Vega (D – 5th Hampden) joined his colleagues in the Massachusetts Legislature today to enact a $12.766 billion transportation finance bill to bolster the state’s transportation systems, improve existing infrastructure and assist Massachusetts’ communities in funding local projects.
The bond bill authorizes $300 million in Chapter 90 funding to help municipalities complete road, bridge and infrastructure improvement projects, and requires earlier notification of funding levels so cities and towns can prepare appropriately. This marks the eighth consecutive year that the Legislature has either raised or level-funded Chapter 90.
“I’m pleased to see the bill move forward,” said Vega. “The construction season has begun and there are crucial infrastructure projects here in Holyoke awaiting these funds.”
In Holyoke, the bond bill includes funding for the second phase of the Canalwalk construction which will include a pedestrian bridge across the second-level canal. In addition, there is funding for complete street construction and much-needed bridge repair. (The funding for the completion of the repair of the Willimansett Bridge spanning the Connecticut River from Holyoke to Chicopee is already in place.)
“The passage of this bill will have an immediate effect on Holyoke, as it will allow work on the Canalwalk to break ground in the upcoming weeks,” said Holyoke’s Director of Planning and Economic Development Marcos Marrero. “At the same time, the inclusion of funds for a future expansion of passenger rail service in Western Mass, as well as for complete streets, bodes well for the City’s infrastructure planning going forward.”
“Transportation improvements and Chapter 90 funds are essential to providing stability and spurring economic growth in Massachusetts,” House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said. “That growth starts on the local level which is why the House is an unyielding champion of municipalities across the state. The funding in this bill builds upon last year’s transportation finance legislation which is resulting in sustainable, lasting changes. I thank my colleagues in the House, Senate President Murray and the conferees for their work on this crucial legislation.”
“The continued success of Massachusetts’ economy relies on our commitment to a strong transportation system,” Senate President Therese Murray (D-Plymouth) said. “This transportation bond bill goes a long way in meeting many of the Commonwealth’s transportation needs including expanding rail access for more regions. Our towns and cities depend on these funds to make critical reforms to their infrastructure and support new projects, and this bill will create many new job opportunities which is critical to promoting economic development across the entire state.”
“I’m pleased that the House was able to act in a timely matter on this legislation that will directly address important unmet transportation needs throughout the state and will benefit Massachusetts economically in the decades to come.” said Representative William Straus (D-Mattapoisett), House Chair of the Joint Committee on Transportation.
The bill includes numerous provisions designed to result in savings and efficiency improvements including the creation of a special Commission to study metropolitan planning organizations and advise on potential ways to simplify and streamline the federally-mandated project selection process.
The bill now goes to the Governor for his consideration. | transportation_engineering |
https://analytics.strava.com/challenges/bike-to-work-2017 | 2020-10-28T18:22:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107900200.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028162226-20201028192226-00452.warc.gz | 0.919222 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__71219611 | en | Ride to work or school with cyclists from around the world and make your commute count.
79,879 Strava cyclists from 180 countries joined us on Global Bike to Work Day last year. They offset 514 tons of greenhouse emissions and contributed millions of data points to the Strava Metro data set. Let’s crush those numbers in 2017!
Completing the challenge is easy. Just make a point-to-point trip on May 11th and tag it a commute when you upload. That’s it. You’ll get your finisher’s badge, contribute to this global movement, and as always, Metro will anonymize your commute data and share it with city planners to make riding in your city better. And plus, it’s just a healthy, fun way to get around… nothin’ wrong with that! | transportation_engineering |
http://whistmatt.ulovv.ru/brooklyn-new-york-dating-94.html | 2018-06-22T20:28:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864795.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622201448-20180622221448-00426.warc.gz | 0.942203 | 305 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__156531669 | en | Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere.
Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs.
Large portions of the subway outside Manhattan are elevated, on embankments, or in open cuts, and a few stretches of track run at ground level.
In total, 40% of track is above ground, despite the "subway" moniker.
That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam.
The Staten Island Railway is not officially considered part of the subway, as it lacks a rail link with the subway system, so passengers traveling to another borough take a ferry or bus; however, free transfers are allowed to the New York City Subway and the MTA's bus system.
Many lines and stations have both express and local services. Normally, the outer two are used for local trains, while the inner one or two are used for express trains.
Stations served by express trains are typically major transfer points or destinations.
In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name: New York City.
For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany; indentured servants; and African slaves. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.energy.ox.ac.uk/news_items/call-for-clean-maritime-research-hub/ | 2023-12-02T08:18:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100381.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202073445-20231202103445-00722.warc.gz | 0.912107 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__156258116 | en | Call for Clean maritime research hub
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Department for Transport (DfT) want to establish a clean maritime research hub, to address fundamental research challenges in clean maritime. Up to £7.4 million is available for the hub, at 80% of full economic cost. The fixed start date is 1 Sep 2023 with 43 months duration. The successful applicant will need to co-create an interdisciplinary research consortium, forming project partner collaborations with academia, industry, policymakers and the third sector. Match funding of at least £2 million at application stage should be demonstrated, with a plan to increase this to £10 million by the end of the hub.
Closes 4pm Tue 2 May.
Further details here. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.republikein.com.na/die-mark/texts-fatigue-factors-in-jetstar-botched-landing.146738.php | 2016-05-25T22:31:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275412.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00076-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.979979 | 368 | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__102885002 | en | Texts, fatigue factors in Jetstar botched landing
The flight from Australia?s Darwin to Changi Airport in 2010 had to abort landing and circle around for a second attempt after the wheels were lowered too late due to a series of distractions, Australian air safety officials said.
The captain received a phone call about weather in Singapore just before takeoff and, as he had forgotten to turn his phone back off, got a series of text messages from local mobile providers as the plane began its descent.
According to the report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) published yesterday into the incident, the first officer had earlier switched the controls off autopilot ?in order to hand-fly the aircraft and ?wake up?.?
Consequently, the plane still did not have its wheels completely down when it was just 500 feet (150 metres) above the aerodrome and had to pull out for a second attempt.
?A number of distractions during the approach degraded the crew?s situation awareness and resulted in the crew not detecting the incorrect aircraft configuration,? the ATSB said, indicating the texts and fatigue were key.
Both men had limited sleep before the flight, with the captain woken twice by fire alarm tests in the Darwin hotel where they were staying and the first officer receiving a phone call from housekeeping at 4.30 am.
The ATSB said it had not identified ?any organisational or systemic issues that might adversely impact the future safety of aviation operations? but the carrier, a budget offshoot of Qantas, had made a number of changes.
Jetstar has edited its manual to require descending aircraft to have their wheels in the correct position and landing checklists completed by 1,000 feet above the airport. It is also improving training on ?human factors? in flying. | transportation_engineering |
https://integratedsol.co.in/automotive-and-mould/ | 2024-03-03T01:29:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476180.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303011622-20240303041622-00305.warc.gz | 0.909048 | 631 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__155421360 | en | The relationship between the automotive industry and molds (also spelled as “moulds” in British English) is significant and multifaceted.
The automotive industry relies heavily on molds to produce the many plastic and metal components that make up a modern car. Molds are used to create everything from the exterior body panels to the interior trim pieces to the engine and transmission components.
Automotive molds are typically made of high-grade steel or aluminum and are precision-machined to extremely tight tolerances.
Automotive components that are produced using molds:
- Exterior body panels: fenders, doors, hood, trunk, etc.
- Interior trim pieces: dashboard, steering wheel, seats, etc.
- Engine and transmission components: pistons, cylinders, connecting rods, crankshafts, etc.
- Air intake and exhaust systems: manifolds, mufflers, etc.
- Lighting systems: headlights, taillights, fog lights, etc.
- Electrical systems: battery cases, fuse boxes, etc.
- Safety systems: airbags, seatbelts, crumple zones, etc.
Component Manufacturing: Molds are used in the manufacturing process of various automotive components, such as body panels, interior trim, bumpers, and more. These molds are typically made of steel or other durable materials and are used to shape and form parts from raw materials like plastics, metals, or composites. Injection molding and compression molding are common techniques employed in the automotive industry.
Precision and Consistency: The automotive industry demands precision and consistency in the production of parts to ensure safety, performance, and aesthetics. Molds enable manufacturers to achieve these standards by creating identical parts through multiple production cycles.
Cost Efficiency: While the initial setup of molds can be expensive, they lead to cost efficiencies in mass production. Once a mold is created, it can be used repeatedly to produce a large number of parts, reducing per-unit production costs.
Customization: Molds can be customized to produce specific automotive parts according to design specifications. This allows automakers to create unique designs and meet specific engineering requirements for different vehicle models.
Materials and Processes: The choice of mold materials and molding processes is critical in the automotive industry. Depending on the type of part and its intended use, different materials and molding techniques may be employed to ensure strength, durability, and performance.
Quality Control: Molds are essential for maintaining quality control in automotive manufacturing. They help minimize variations in part dimensions and characteristics, ensuring that parts fit together seamlessly and meet safety and regulatory standards.
Rapid Prototyping: In addition to mass production, molds are used in rapid prototyping and the development of concept cars. Prototyping molds allow designers and engineers to create test parts quickly and refine designs before moving into full-scale production.
Environmental Impact: Automotive manufacturers are increasingly focused on sustainability and reducing their environmental footprint. Molds can play a role in this by optimizing material usage and reducing waste in the manufacturing process. | transportation_engineering |
https://merrickmotorsports.com/products/dodge-hemi-5-7-6-4-85mm-throttle-body-13-23 | 2023-11-30T20:54:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100232.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130193829-20231130223829-00162.warc.gz | 0.75656 | 546 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__127901887 | en | Merrick Motorsports and BBK Performance working together to make your Mopar faster and More Responsive.
- 10-12 Horsepower Gains Over Stock
- Larger 85mm Throttle Body Bore for Maximum Airflow
- Durable CNC Machined Aluminum Casting
- Designed and Manufactured In USA
- New OEM Electronics Included
- Recommended For 5.7L Applications
- 2013-2023 Chrysler 300C 5.7L or 6.4L Hemi V8
- 2013-2023 Dodge Charger 5.7L or 6.4L Hemi V8
- 2013-2023 Dodge Challenger 5.7L or 6.4L Hemi V8
- 2013-2023 Dodge Ram Hemi 5.7L or 6.4L Hemi V8
- 2013-2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 6.4L Hemi V8
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https://edinburghstjames.com/news/33/leith-street-reopens-following-major-infrastructure-works | 2019-04-26T01:50:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578747424.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190426013652-20190426035652-00552.warc.gz | 0.960301 | 855 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__190916106 | en | Leith Street will reopen to traffic in both directions by 6am on Saturday 28 July ahead of this year’s Fringe, following a programme of infrastructure improvement works which began in September 2017.
Comprehensively reconfigured from the intersection with Waterloo Place to the junction with Little King Street, both southbound lanes and one northbound lane will be reopened to road traffic for the first time in 11 months. Bus services will also return to Leith Street on the 28th, with more details available at https://www.lothianbuses.com/.
The northbound inside lane from Waterloo Place to Greenside Row will remain closed as part of the safety initiatives in place during the construction of the adjoining Edinburgh St James site. As enabling works continue on Picardy Place, some traffic management will also remain in place at the northern end of Leith Street.
Overseen by Laing O’Rourke, the main contractor at Edinburgh St James, the works programme has created a high quality and much-improved environment along Leith Street, which better serves pedestrians, cyclists, public transport and road traffic alike. Below ground, infrastructure and utilities have also been renewed, greatly reducing the need for any future works or repairs.
Pavements along the full length of the road have been reconstructed using high quality materials and widened, largely by removing the central reservation that existed on the old road layout, creating a much safer and more accessible route for all pedestrians.
The new layout has also been designed to better meet the needs of those with physical disabilities and those that are sensory impaired, with a total of four primary crossing points on Leith Street, a new signalised junction at Calton Road and tactile paving at each crossing point.
The pedestrian crossing at Waterloo Place has also been significantly improved with a larger footway provision and wider crossing.
A dedicated two-way cycle way has been created between Calton Road and Picardy Place, which will continue to be extended as part of upcoming improvement works at Picardy Place, eventually joining up with the existing infrastructure already in place on Leith Walk. Cyclists can also make a left turn at the top of Leith Street on to Waterloo Place.
The existing carriageway along Leith Street has been resurfaced and in many instances has been fully reconstructed, creating a safer and smoother environment for road traffic. Traffic will not be able to turn right from Calton Road northbound on to Leith Street, right from Leith Street on to Calton Road or left from Leith Street on to Waterloo Place. Calton Road will reopen and the diversion route on George Street will return to its original operation on the 28th July, whilst the diversion route at Easter Road/Montrose Terrace/London Road will be removed after the August festival period, in early September.
Commenting on the works programme, Martin Perry, Director of Development, Edinburgh St James, said:
"We would like to thank the public for their patience during the main phase of construction work along Leith Street and we are delighted to now be reopening the street to traffic on the 28th July as planned. The closure period has enabled us to deliver a high quality and much-improved environment, which will better serve Edinburgh’s pedestrians, cyclists and public transport for years to come."
Approved by the City of Edinburgh Council’s Transport and Environment Committee in March 2017, the Leith Street works programme has also been supported by the Council’s City Wide Traffic Management Group, which includes representatives from the Council, local transport providers and emergency services.
Councillor Lesley Macinnes, Transport Convener for the City of Edinburgh Council, said:
"The reopening of Leith Street marks the culmination of the first phase of public realm improvements being delivered in conjunction with the Edinburgh St James project. With wider pavements and better cycling provision, the works have created a much more accessible and people-friendly thoroughfare.
"Temporary traffic management will remain in place to allow construction of the new Picardy Place road layout to continue. I would like to thank the public for their continued patience and cooperation while these works are carried out." | transportation_engineering |
http://unitydevelopmentgroup.com/ccr/ | 2023-06-08T18:51:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655092.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608172023-20230608202023-00593.warc.gz | 0.926174 | 1,777 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__128572933 | en | The Central Corridor Railroad (CCR) is a project to modernize the most important regional railroad in Central East Africa in order to provide efficient market access to western Tanzania and landlocked nations, unlocking the region’s economic potential. The 100 year-old railroad that extends from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, toward Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern DRC and Uganda, is the backbone of Tanzania’s transport infrastructure and the most efficient transportation route from the coast into Central East Africa.
The CCR project will modernize 1,627km of Tanzania’s existing colonial railroad infrastructure from the port of Dar es Salaam to the inland lake ports of Kigoma and Mwanza, as well as develop 460km of new railroad infrastructure from Isaka, Tanzania, into Kigali, Rwanda. The project will be phased to establish successful railroad operations prior to expansion into Rwanda and Burundi. The first phase of the CCR project will upgrade and standard gauge 977km from Dar es Salaam to Isaka in Tanzania. This route is designed to capture the majority of the existing long-haul traffic across Tanzania, and allow the trucking industry to operate more efficient routes off of the main railway line. UNITY has formed a consortium of industry leading strategic and financial partners to both develop and operate the Central Corridor Railroad on behalf of the Government of Tanzania, including Bechtel (Construction Manager), HDR Inc. (Engineering Manager), GE Transportation (Equipment Provider), and BNSF (Operations Advisor).
UNITY and our partners are committed to a developing and operating the Central Corridor Railroad in a manner that drives sustainable positive economic and social change for all stakeholders. The modernization of the Central Corridor Railroad will unlock the region’s potential for transformative economic development by reducing transit costs, increasing market access, creating jobs, and improving the quality of life for over 130 million people.
BENEFITS TO TANZANIA
The CCR project is one of the highest economic and social investments available to Tanzania, and the returns from investment in a modern freight railroad will continue to compound for decades.
Because the project improves an existing right of way, it will not displace people groups or negatively impact the environment. Instead, the railroad will consume less fuel (3.5X fuel efficiency versus trucks), reduce transport related carbon emissions by 40%, reduce road congestion, highway accidents, and expensive road maintenance.
Within 10 years, incremental GDP growth will produce US $22.7 billion above baseline, tax revenue will rise US $6.9 billion and employment levels will grow 5%-14% above baseline expectations
Producers will have access to less expensive and more accessible business inputs, increased productivity and quality from equal investments, more efficient market pricing and physical market access, and increased local sales due to greater consumer purchasing power.
Transport cost savings translate into US $40 savings per year for the average household and reduction in prices will allow the poorest households to make more basic purchases (e.g., the CCR will drive market costs down, translating into a 5.3% decrease in total consumer basket costs, and a 7.4% decrease in food costs).
Increased social sector funding due to additional tax revenue. Improved access to education and household ability to pay for education. Improved distribution and pricing of essential health services and supplies, and greater household ability to pay for healthcare. Increased food security and improved nutrition through increased agricultural productivity, better market access, and increased household consumption
The realization of the CCR project will unite Tanzania, DRC, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi in trade and unlock the region’s potential for transformative economic development by reducing transit costs, increasing market access, creating jobs, and improving the quality of life for over 130 million Central East Africans
Regional GDP Growth
Regional GDP growth will accelerate as CCR expands into new territories that currently lack rail access. Landlocked nations’ GDP growth is projected to accelerate up to 9% above their current growth rate for 3-4 years after launch of the CCR spurs into Rwanda and Burundi.
Projected transportation cost savings to the region of $10.8 billion over 20 years, vast time savings and security advantage of modern rail transportation, and step change in transport system capacity, to handle projected regional growth.
New agricultural development (e.g. yield expansion, farming of new arable land along the Central Corridor, increased market access for small holding farmers). Growth in soft and hard commodity processing, storage, and management businesses
Employment & Capacity Building
Direct employment via construction jobs and skilled operations positions. Indirect employment in Trucking, Maritime, Engineering, Communications and IT, General Construction, Mining, Agriculture, Cement Manufacturing, Quarrying and Asphalt, Lodging, and Tourism.
Capacity building in executive management, railway operations and maintenance, train and yard operations, maintenance of way, locomotive and freight car maintenance, support functions such as IT, marketing and other professional career paths.
Technology transfer of satellite signaling, IT systems, logistics, management and accounting systems.
Unity Development Group
UNITY’s team has deeper knowledge and more institutional history with the CCR project than any competitor. UNITY principals have brought more than $5 million of investment since 2007 to prove the commercial and technical viability of the project in the 2009 BNSF Feasibility Study and 2013 Feasibility Study Update. UNITY has worked with the Government of Tanzania to craft a development plan that aligns incentives to deliver the project at highest quality and lowest cost, as well as offers to not just build, but to operate and maintain the line, and pay for 100% of Tanzania’s infrastructure financing costs via the operation of the railroad. UNITY is proposing to develop the CCR project with strategic investment from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and global infrastructure investors, and UNITY has brought industry leading standard gauge railroad operating talent from the most developed freight market in the world to facilitate the launch of a world-class Tanzanian railroad operating company.
Bechtel Corporation is the largest construction and engineering company in the United States, and the 5th-largest private company in the U.S. Bechtel operates through five global business units that specialize in civil infrastructure; power generation, communications, and transmission; mining and metals; oil, gas, and chemicals; and government services. Bechtel has delivered more than 22,000 projects in 140 countries and has 53,000 employees. For the past 116 years, Bechtel has applied its expertise to complete more than 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) of railway, 17,000 miles (27,000 kilometers) of roadways, 30 major bridges, nearly 100 airports, 80 port projects, and 25 new communities.
HDR’s railroad engineering specialists have advised on the CCR project since its inception and have deep institutional project knowledge. HDR is an employee-owned architectural, engineering and consulting firm that has worked on projects in all 50 U.S. states and in 60 countries. HDR employs professionals representing hundreds of disciplines in the transportation, architecture, energy, government and private land development, resource management, and water markets. HDR is ranked #7 in the Engineering News Record 2014 Ranking for Top 50 Transportation Design Firms; #9 in the Top 25 for Mass Transit and Heavy Haul Freight Rail for 2013; and #11 in Top 500 Design Firms.
Burlington North Santa Fe (BNSF)
BNSF is the second-largest freight railroad in North America with a rail network of 32,500 route miles in 28 American states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF operates 30 intermodal facilities and serves over 40 ports. BNSF executives have advised on the CCR project since its inception and are perfectly situated to facilitate efficient purchasing, access to systems, technology and capable operating talent through their network during pre-operational construction and development.
GE Transportation has been a leader in the rail industry for over 100 years, providing freight and passenger locomotives, signaling and communications systems to solve the toughest rail challenges. GE builds new, remanufactures and modernizes locomotives for purchase and lease, with leading levels of customer productivity in both mainline and shortline service. More than 20,000 GE Transportation locomotives are operating in more than 60 countries around the world. | transportation_engineering |
http://partmanpartcar.blogspot.com/2009/12/is-segway-assistive-device.html | 2019-01-17T15:19:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583658988.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190117143601-20190117165601-00314.warc.gz | 0.973292 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__112797825 | en | Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Is A Segway An Assistive Device??
The main intention of Segway has been to revolutionize the way people move about. The idea was to provide a means of short range transportation for an individual for errands that did not require a car. One use for the device is something that is generally overlooked by many people: use of the Segway as an assistive device. People with mobility issues who can still stand but need assistance in walking long distances can use a Segway quite effectively in many situations. Currently the Americans with Disabilities Act does not classify the Segway as an assistive device; so public places do have the right to prohibit them. One popular place that is well-known that does not allow Segways is Disney, who have banned the device at all of their theme parks. While it is not considered an assistive device under the ADA, the Department of Transportation does consider it an assistive device, so under the recently revised Air Carrier Access Act, airlines must treat Segways just like wheelchairs when operated by a passengers with disabilities. Rail travel (such as Amtrak) will accommodate Segways; however, it will have to be checked in as luggage. Cruise ships will accept Segways provided that it is arranged with the special needs department so that they can ensure that it will be able to navigate the doorways and cabins of the ship. If you happen to have a Segway and would like to travel with it, it is best to ask Segway owners for advice. Check out their message board here. | transportation_engineering |
https://launch.solidworks.com/story/elonroad-charges-ahead-solidworks-and-3dexperience-works | 2022-11-30T21:09:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710771.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130192708-20221130222708-00415.warc.gz | 0.944848 | 1,076 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__16145214 | en | Elonroad Charges Ahead with SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works
Elonroad leverages SOLIDWORKS connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to develop a ground-level feeding method for electric vehicles, manage product data, and lead a growing supply chain.
Creating the first electric road for charging electric vehicles. Such roads could help reduce the number and size of electric vehicle batteries, making additional positive impact on the climate.
Develop the first electric road with a ground-level feeding method designed to increase knowledge about electric roads as part of a future fossil-free transport system using SOLIDWORKS® design and the 3DEXPERIENCE® Works portfolio—including Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS, Collaborative Industry Innovator, and Collaborative Business Innovator—on the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
- Reduced time of entire development process
- Streamlines the entire process for drawing approvals and file tracking with PDM
- Communicate ideas in an effective and extremely efficient way
- Growth of supply chain to deliver larger projects
Electric roads may one day enable “range happiness” instead of “range anxiety” for electric vehicle drivers. In addition to charging electric vehicles, such roads may help reduce the number and size of electric vehicle batteries, making additional positive impact on the climate.
The first electric road with a ground-level feeding method is being installed and tested in the city of Lund, in southern Sweden. The Swedish Transport Administration is pioneering a test and demonstration site for a unique electric road system, which is designed to increase knowledge about electric roads as part of a future fossil-free transport system.
Elonroad, a key partner in the project, was conceived by company founder Dan Zethraeus while driving home from work one day. “Why not an electric road?” thought Zethraeus. “I can charge my electric car [while driving], use less batteries, and the car will likely be much cheaper to make so I can actually afford to drive an electric car.”
A charging infrastructure contained on the road is a new approach for electric vehicles. The Elonroad electric road system works for all electric vehicles—cars, taxis, buses, and trucks—regardless of manufacturer. Cars are especially relevant because they account for 60% of CO2 emissions from transportation.
Plug-free Electric Vehicle Charging
“The whole idea behind the company is that we are providing a solution in which electric vehicles can get charged on the go,” says Mechanical Design Engineer, Farrukh Kamran. In other words, once the Elonroad electric road system infrastructure is installed, electric vehicles will be charged while driving. The roads will have sensors, so data, along with electricity, will stream throughout the road, ensuring immediate vehicle identification and notification of accidents or even animals on the road. The road will also be able to identify, hence bill vehicles for electricity.
SOLIDWORKS was essential to the development of the innovative technology. The company experimented with a lot of different designs, and SOLIDWORKS helped facilitate an efficient process. “Without SOLIDWORKS, I don't think we would have been able to make so much progress,” continues Kamran.
Elonroad’s concept involves a conductive rail laid on top of a road. It has inclined sides so changing lanes does not include traversing a bump. The rail is 5 cm high and 30 cm wide; it can be installed either on top of asphalt or integrated into the road. The Elonroad system can also be used in charging stations and parking spots.
Connected Team Propels Productivity
With SOLIDWORKS connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Elonroad teams can collaborate with ease, communicating ideas in an effective and extremely efficient way. Elonroad also leverages PDM for drawing approvals and file tracking, which streamlines the whole process. “The 3DEXPERIENCE platform has helped us to come into a scale-up mode,” says COO Anna Wieslander. “We are now going from concept and technology development into product development.”
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform has helped us to come into a scale-up mode. We are now going from concept and technology development into product development.
Planning for Expansion
Within the Elonroad system, all electric vehicles will have batteries that supply energy for driving on non-electric roads. The electric road is a charging infrastructure placed only on major roads and highways. Electric vehicle batteries automatically take over at exits and roundabouts.
Elonroad is also growing its supply chain so it can deliver larger projects. “We see that we will be able to grow with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with our suppliers,” says Wieslander. Elonroad sees its future as being an important piece of the puzzle in the decarbonization of the transport sector and providing charging infrastructure as a service to its customers. “Together with our partners…we want to make a difference in how we transport people and goods. We want to make it safer, smarter, and more energy efficient,” concludes Wieslander. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.shawprimary.com/school-news/walk-to-school-week-2021 | 2022-06-25T03:58:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103034170.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220625034751-20220625064751-00282.warc.gz | 0.966855 | 320 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__282353975 | en | From the 17th to the 21st May, we’re getting involved with Walk to School Week. This road safety event is organised by Living Streets - a road safety charity who champion the awareness of safe streets. Spectacularly, this year marks 90 years of the charity’s campaigning!
Walking is good for our health, the environment and personal welfare.
Statistically, walking instead of driving can significantly decrease air pollution, which has a huge impact on public health.
As a school we’re inviting our children to take strides to improving how many times a week they make an active journey to school.
This year’s theme is walking superpowers which focuses on the different superpowers of walking to school, such as aiding concentration and creativity, and creating safer, less polluted, and more welcoming streets.
According to research conducted by Living Streets, in 1975 around seventy four percent of primary school children walked to school. Thanks to the increase of speedy transport connections in cars, this estimated figure has dropped to 48 percent in recent years.
Our headteacher, Simon White, said: "One of the great benefits of being a village school which draws almost all of our pupils from the local area is that many parents are able to take advantage of the benefits of walking to and from school."
Walking to school is an easy way to incorporate exercise into children’s lives. At Shaw, pupil safety and wellbeing are our top priorities. We hope to have inspired pupils, staff and parents to take up making active journeys to school every day! | transportation_engineering |
https://ecrc.org/programs/transportation_planning/okaloosa_transit_cooperative/index.php | 2021-10-27T17:24:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588216.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20211027150823-20211027180823-00247.warc.gz | 0.928028 | 302 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__160800164 | en | The Okaloosa Transit Cooperative (Co-op) is created in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Okaloosa County and participating jurisdictions, which currently include: Cinco Bayou, Crestview, Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, and Okaloosa County.
The purpose of the Co-op is for the County and participating municipalities to cooperate, pursuant to the terms of the MOA, to provide for the coordination of fixed route transit service and to formulate and implement consistent plans, programs, policies and procedures in the operation, maintenance and development of transit service throughout the legal service areas of the participating entities.
The Co-op will review the operation of the public transit system and, as it may deem appropriate, recommend changes to the Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) regarding routes, stops, or other components of the fixed route system.
The Emerald Coast Regional Council public transportation staff shall serve as the staff to the Co-op for the duration stated in the Professional Staff Services Agreement between Okaloosa County and the ECRC.
Public meetings of the Okaloosa Transit Cooperative (Co-op) are usually held at 9:30 a.m. on the fourth Thursday of every other month in the Okaloosa County Commission Chambers located at 1250 N. Eglin Parkway, Shalimar, Fla. To confirm the times and dates for these meetings, please contact staff at 850-332-7976. | transportation_engineering |
https://espanasafica.com/districts-and-comarcas/latina/cuatro-vientos/ | 2023-03-30T14:53:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949331.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330132508-20230330162508-00495.warc.gz | 0.960918 | 142 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__177157815 | en | Aeropuerto de Madrid-Cuatro Vientos is located at Ctra. Barrio de la Fortuna. It is a airport founded by the air force in 1911, and is one of the two oldest airports in the country. It has since become a civilian airport, with military and police sections. The airport is the base for the Policia Nacional to use for things like road traffic and crowd monitoring. The facilities also include the Museo del Aire. Lucía Sánchez Saornil wrote the poem, Cuatro Vientos, drawing on the airport for inspiration. The poem was published in a 1919 edition of the magazine Cervantes. | transportation_engineering |
https://rockweather.com/u3/ | 2023-05-29T09:01:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644817.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529074001-20230529104001-00148.warc.gz | 0.956158 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__70407259 | en | At the Malmö Museer, one of the nine Swedish-designed U-boats is permanently on display. It is open to the public to crawl through and explore. The words Steampunk Heaven come to mind instantly as you are climbing in and out of all the copper pipes and gauges.
These small coastal submarines were constructed and launched during the years 1941-1944, five at Kockums and four at the Naval Shipyard in Karlskrona. U3 was built at the Naval Shipyard in Karlskrona in 1943.
U3 featured a radical Swedish design. Other submarines of this era used a diesel propulsion system on the surface and electrical engines when submerged. This required them to switch propulsion systems when diving. With the new diesel electrical system the only thing they had to do was to stop the diesel engine, reducing the dive time to less than 30 seconds. These were also the first to have a completely welded pressure hull, a construction method developed at the Kockum Shipyard in Malmö (Kockums Mekaniska Verkstad AB).
Length – 49.6 metre
Breadth – 4.7 metre
Displacement – 367 tons
Speed – 14 knots on the surface, 9 knots underwater
Torpedo tubes – 3 x 53 cm tubes
Crew complement – 26 | transportation_engineering |
http://requestforbids.asianinc.org/1-request-for-bids/924-robert-a-bothman-construction | 2018-02-19T19:28:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812788.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219191343-20180219211343-00225.warc.gz | 0.85983 | 391 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__120833644 | en | Contract Description: Warm Springs BART West Access Bridge & Plaza TRADES NEEDED: QA/QC, SWPPP, Survey, Site/Building Electrical, Traffic Control, Pavement Markings, Waterproofing, Masonry – CMU Walls, Fencing/Gates. Handrail/Guardrail, HVAC, Fire Suppression, Plumbing. The project consists of the construction of a two-span (a truss span and a cable-stayed span) pedestrian and bicycle bridge connecting to the west side of the new Warm Springs / South Fremont BART station, the bridge vertical circulation elements (staircase, escalators with canopy, and elevator), installation of plumbing, lighting, security, and communications systems to support the operation of the bridge. The project includes construction of various rooms, with required appurtenances, within the staircase and escalator buildings, including a Janitor/Storage Room, a Valve Room, a Communications Room, an Electrical Room, a Battery Room, an Elevator Machine Room, an Escalator Control Room, a Mechanical Space, and a Trash Area. The project also includes construction of an approximately 1.0 acre City plaza that will provide a landing place for the bridge vertical circulation elements. The City plaza includes decorative pavement, seating elements (terraced seating, benches), lighting elements, stormwater treatment areas, landscaping, irrigation, utility connections, fences, bicycle lockers, solar charging stations, an information kiosk, a retaining wall and fence along the eastern edge of the project, and any other items or details required by the contract documents.
BID Address: Quantum Dr. & future Innovation Way Fremont CA 94538
Contract Duration: 500 C/D
InformationEstimator: Jan Kelleter
Date for Submittal of Bid Proposal: 08-01-2017
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http://www.miseauto.info/vemo-fuel-tanks.html | 2019-07-23T21:14:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529664.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723193455-20190723215455-00275.warc.gz | 0.962259 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__181019405 | en | A fuel tank is a compartment containing the fuel of a car with an internal-combustion engine. Using a pump, it feeds the engine. Every new car model needs a custom-made fuel tank that can fit in the available space. It also varies within the same model according to the type of fuel used, diesel or gasoline. This is why it is crucial to know the exact configuration of your vehicle, so you can buy the right fuel tank.
While the main purpose of a tank is to store fuel, it also must allow to measure its level (using a gauge). Safety regulations dictate that the tank has to be designed in a way that allows secure filling, prevents leakage, minimizes gas emissions and allows venting.
Most car owners don’t need to change the fuel tank during the lifespan of their vehicle. Usually it is damaged in an accident or by corrosion. Despite its apparent simplicity (after all it is just a big container) you have to carefully choose a quality fuel tank that will not let you down in the long run. Replacing it is an expensive and complex procedure and you don’t want to do it very often.
VEMO fuel tanks are an excellent choice as they have proven to last many years without failures. They are made of high-density polyethylene plastic, instead of metal, by a process called blow molding. This allows them to be lighter, thus decreasing your car’s overall weight and improving maneuverability. VEMO fuel tanks are also environment-friendly because they can be recycled, avoiding waste and pollution. Using plastic allows to decrease the production cost, and consequently the price you pay. That doesn’t involve, however, any loss of quality. Moreover, plastic tanks tend to last more time than their metal counterparts due to the impossibility of corrosion. | transportation_engineering |
https://skullinfo.com/big-factories-big-trucks-and-big-musk-tesla-q4-earnings-expectations/ | 2023-11-30T04:15:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00015.warc.gz | 0.96472 | 654 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__44549062 | en | Big factories, big trucks and big Musk: Tesla Q4 earnings expectations
The electric-car maker is set to report earnings Wednesday after the market close, and analysts are expecting strong numbers
Tesla is set to report fourth-quarter earnings after the market close on Wednesday, and analysts are expecting the electric-car maker to post strong results.
Tesla has had a tumultuous few months, including the resignation of its chief technology officer, the firing of hundreds of workers and a production shortage of its Model 3 sedan. But despite those challenges, analysts are optimistic about the company’s fourth-quarter results.
Here’s what analysts are expecting:
- Adjusted loss per share: $3.04
- Revenue: $3.28 billion
- Vehicle deliveries: 29,870 (25,860 Model 3 and 4,000 Model S and X)
Tesla has been working to ramp up production of the Model 3, which is seen as critical to the company’s long-term success. The company has been dealing with production bottlenecks, but analysts expect those issues to be resolved soon.
“We continue to believe that Tesla is on the cusp of resolving its production bottlenecks, which should allow the company to hit its target of producing 5,000 Model 3s per week by the end of Q1,” CFRA Research analyst Efraim Levy wrote in a note to clients.
Tesla has also been working on expanding its manufacturing capability. The company is building a giant factory in Shanghai, China, and it plans to break ground on another factory in Europe next year.
“The Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai is progressing quickly and is now likely to start production in 2019, a year ahead of schedule,” Levy said. “In addition, Tesla should break ground on its Gigafactory 4 in Europe in 2019 and start production in 2020.”
Analysts are also expecting Tesla to provide an update on its Semi truck, which is slated to go into production in 2019. The company has said that the Semi will be able to travel 500 miles on a single charge and will be cheaper to operate than a diesel truck.
“We expect an update on the Tesla Semi, which is scheduled to begin production in 2019,” Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi wrote in a note to clients. “Tesla has promised that its Semi will be able to travel 500 miles on a single charge, and will be cheaper to operate than a diesel truck.”
Analysts will also be closely watching Tesla’s guidance for 2019. The company has said it plans to deliver between 360,000 and 400,000 vehicles this year, which would be a significant increase from the 2018 deliveries of 245,240.
Tesla has been facing increased competition from a number of well-established automakers, including General Motors, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. But analysts say Tesla is still the leader in the electric-car space.
“We believe that Tesla’s competitive position in EVs is unassailable in the near term, given its technology, brand, and head start in the market,” Sacconaghi said. | transportation_engineering |
https://gulf-yachts.com/listings/quicksilver-activ-675-sundeck/ | 2021-07-31T21:23:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154126.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20210731203400-20210731233400-00489.warc.gz | 0.928916 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__184102613 | en | The Activ 675 Sundeck’s updated, contemporary design wows in any water. And there’s much more than meets the eye. Jump aboard to experience for yourself how space, comfort and ergonomics come together. For example, the helm now makes better use of the available surface, is easier to work with and has improved functionalities. Along with you behind the wheel, there’s room for up to 8 passengers who want to soak up the sun.
The Activ 675 Sundeck is powered by an outboard Mercury engine with up to 225 hp. On board, accessibility to the bow and to other parts of the boat is high thanks to the wide steps to the bow, intelligently placed handrails and a high freeboard. A restyled windshield with new tinted glass (30/70 blend) was developed to improve the pilot’s view. Water enthusiasts will love the pivoting backrest to reach the swim platforms effortlessly.
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http://cheaptyres4sale.com.au/blog/tips-and-tricks-maintain-tyre-air-pressure | 2019-04-18T17:15:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578517745.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20190418161426-20190418183426-00092.warc.gz | 0.929364 | 463 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__33172867 | en | Many drivers do not pay attention to tyre air pressure without realizing how important it is for the life of your tyres and your car’s safety. Therefore Cheap Tyre 4 Sale shares a few tips and tricks to maintain tyre air pressure.
“Max. Cold Press.” number is embossed on the sidewalls of most tyres. It is not recommended to use this pressure in your tyres! The right air pressure is on a plaque embossed inside the driver's front door. This is the recommended pressure by car manufacturer based on the weight of the car and the tyre size.
Many drivers like to change their tyre pressures a bit, adjusting according to their preferences of the kind of ride they want. You should not do it but if you do, do it only within rather tight limits. Adjust not more than a few pounds on either side of the manufacturer's baseline.
Stiffer tyres transmit more energy during an impact to the wheels as compared to tyres that can flex a bit. Too much wear in the centre of the tread is a sign of overpressure and too much wear on the shoulders of the tyre is a sign of low pressure.
Check the pressure when the tyres are cold before driving to get consistent readings. Leave a pound or two less than usual if you must add air to hot tyres, depending on how much cold air you are adding.
Make sure to check your pressures on frigid mornings when cold weather comes around. This is because, for every 10-degree drop in temperature, air pressure drops about 1 psi. This loss of pressure combined with cold-stiffened rubber can sometimes cause tyres to spring otherwise unexplainable leaks.
Running at low pressure for a long period of time can progressively damage the sidewall of the tyre. A little bit of foldover will damage the rubber, and the inner edges will start to scrub rubber off the inside of the tyres, leaving the cords exposed, and handfuls of rubber dust inside the tyre.
Air pressure maintenance is the most important maintenance items on your car. Proper air maintenance in your tyres means better gas mileage, no irregular wear and an extended life of your tyres. If it is not part of your maintenance routine, you really should be trying to make it at least a monthly item. | transportation_engineering |
https://parks.westerville.org/parks-trails/trails | 2019-03-26T11:15:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204969.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326095131-20190326121131-00515.warc.gz | 0.939721 | 570 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__189465774 | en | With 44 miles of recreational trails that run through parks, wooded areas, fields, over rivers and roads as well as along streets and through neighborhoods, the City's recreational path system, known as the Westerville Bike and Walkways (B&W), is traversed by thousands of residents and visitors each week.
As an official Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists, many of those path users are not only walkers and runners, but families out on their bikes and competitive cyclists alike. Whether using the trails for recreation or transportation, safety on the trails is a top priority for the City.
Bike Safe Westerville
The Westerville Parks and Recreation Department and the Division of Police teamed up to create a Bike Safe Westerville video series to highlight the importance of preventative bike maintenance, general safe practices and rules to follow while riding on the roadway or path. Before heading out on the B&W, we encourage you to review the path rules and the Bike Safe Westerville videos below.
Bikeway Rules (Ordinance No. 05-13)
- Abide by all signage
- Yield to cross traffic at intersections
- Keep right except to pass
- Announce passing
- Avoid blocking trail
- Respect others and private property
- Pets must be leashed/Obey scoop law
- Unauthorized motorized vehicles prohibited
- Users shall observe a fifteen (15) miles per hour speed limit on all Park Trails
Bike lanes are the portion of the roadway which has been designated by striping, signing and pavement marking for preferential or the exclusive use by bicyclists. Bicycle lanes make the movements of both motorists and bicyclists more predictable.
According to Ohio law, bicycles are considered vehicles. This means bicyclists have the same rights as motor vehicle drivers and must follow the same rules. Bicycles are permitted on all roads except limited-access highways. Generally, bicyclists should not be expected or encouraged to use sidewalks. Westerville does not prohibit sidewalk cycling except in Uptown, but many jurisdictions do.
Shared Lanes (Sharrows)
On streets with narrow lanes, sharrows are placed in the middle of the lane. This encourages bicyclists to “take the lane” so that motorists will not pass them at an unsafe distance. Three feet is considered a minimum safe passing distance.
On streets with lanes wide enough to allow a large vehicle to safely pass a bicyclist within the same lane (at least 14 feet wide), sharrows are placed closer to the right edge of the lane.
On streets with on-street parking, sharrows guide bicyclists to avoid the (car) door zone. In such cases, the center of each sharrow is 14 feet, 8 inches from the curb. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.urbanbykes.com/vespa.php | 2017-10-21T04:42:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824570.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021043111-20171021063111-00895.warc.gz | 0.919176 | 346 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__25464801 | en | Vespa (Italian pronunciation: [ˈvɛspa]) is an Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian. The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio.
From their inception, Vespa scooters have been known for their painted, pressed steel unibody which combines a complete cowling for the engine (enclosing the engine mechanism and concealing dirt or grease), a flat floorboard (providing foot protection), and a prominent front fairing (providing wind protection) into a structural unit.
In the 2012 Auto Expo held in New Delhi, the iconic Vespa re-entered the Indian Market. Piaggio unveiled its range of scooters at the Expo. This became the announcement of launch of Piaggio in India.
In India, VESPA has a range of Scooter Models launched to suit every individual lifestyle: SXL150, VXL150, SXL 125, VXL 125, LX and Limited Edition models.
In 2016, VESPA appointed URBANBYKES as its Authorised Dealership and Service Station for Central Delhi Area. With its spacious showroom and fully equipped service centre located in the heart of Delhi at Rama Road (Opp. Kirti Nagar Metro Stn.), URBANBYKES offers the complete 4S service : Sales, Service, Spares with Smile.
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https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/pakistan-passenger-plane-crashes-in-residential-area-43954 | 2020-08-12T18:17:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738913.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20200812171125-20200812201125-00271.warc.gz | 0.961852 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__68920953 | en | Pakistan passenger plane crashes in residential area
Pakistan Airline's Plane with 107 on board crashed in a residential area near Karachi Airport before landing. Casualty details awaited.
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight en route from Lahore to Karachi has crashed near Karachi airport. The aircraft, with 107 people on board hit a residential district Friday afternoon.
The plane is reported to have crashed in the populated Model Colony area located on the outskirts of the city, approximately two kilometers from Jinnah International Airport.
A spokesman for PIA said the aircraft had 107 people on board, as quoted by Reuters. He explained there were 99 passengers and eight crew members.
#BREAKING: A passenger plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) crashed on Friday afternoon in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, local media reported. There are no reports about how many passengers were on board. pic.twitter.com/IidKYcckFd— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) May 22, 2020 | transportation_engineering |
https://www.americanambassadorslive.org/post/icao-strength-reinventing-itself-to-address-the-challenges-facing-international-aviation | 2024-04-20T02:39:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817463.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419234422-20240420024422-00255.warc.gz | 0.941604 | 4,401 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__50024045 | en | by Ambassador Donald Bliss, former U.S. Ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Published in The Air & Space Lawyer, Volume 32, Number 4, 2019. Copyright 2019 by the American Bar Association.
Amid the destructive use of air power in the Second World War, President Franklin Roosevelt perspicaciously foresaw aviation’s potential as an instrument of peace, global friendship, commerce, and economic development. The United States invited representatives of 54 nations to Chicago to draft a Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention). A Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization (PICAO) was created on December 7, 1944, when 52 states signed the convention in New York, and PICAO convened in Montreal on August 15, 1945. When the convention was ratified on March 5, 1947, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) formally came into being. In October 1947, it became a United Nations (UN) specialized agency.
Over the past 75 years, international aviation and the work of ICAO have evolved dramatically. What has remained constant is the global commitment to technical cooperation to strengthen and maintain the safety of air travel. In 2018, 38 million flights by the global aviation industry carried over four and a half billion passengers. Look up in the sky and, at any given moment, there are 9,728 planes carrying 1,270,406 passengers, and they compete for airspace with cargo, business, and privately piloted planes and now with drones, rockets, spacecraft, and all manner of novel aircraft types. Maintaining safety and security during a time of fast-changing technologies, climate change, cybersecurity threats, metastasizing terrorism, volatile fuel prices, and the fierce competition of “open skies” presents a formidable challenge to ICAO’s 193 contracting states and the 36-member Council which serves as its governing board. The record speaks for itself. Four and a half billion passengers on international trips demonstrate their confidence in this record.
Yet, maintaining an outstanding safety record, facilitating a modern and efficient global air navigation system, and “leaving no country behind” present enormous challenges, as well as great potential, in today’s technology revolution in which 2,000 satellites are launched annually, the transformation to digital communication is accelerating, forecasts project a doubling of traffic in 20 years, and the sky is increasingly cluttered with unmanned aircraft. This article describes how ICAO has responded to new challenges over the past 75 years and suggests how it can be reinvented and restructured to meet the challenges of the future.
ICAO Responds to Emerging Challenges
In addition to setting forth the foundational rules of airspace, the Chicago Convention established a mechanism for developing uniform global standards and recommended practices (SARPs) for air navigation and safety. During the initial decades, ICAO focused on air navigation routes and procedures, but gradually began to develop safety SARPs that addressed accident investigation findings. As new challenges and threats emerged, the convention proved sufficiently resilient to enable ICAO to respond to environmental issues (initially aircraft noise and now the effect of emissions on the climate), security threats presented by terrorism and regional conflicts, the need for technical assistance to strengthen developing nations’ capability to meet ICAO’s SARPs, the creation of safety and security audits to identify and correct deficiencies in state oversight, the facilitation of international cooperation in accident investigations, and the negotiation of international treaties to enhance the rule of law. The Chicago Conference adopted 12 annexes in 1944 dealing with such subjects as airways systems, communications, rules of the air, air traffic control procedures, licensing operational and mechanical personnel, civil aircraft airworthiness, aircraft registration and markings, meteorology, maps and charts, customs, and search and rescue. Rising to unanticipated challenges, ICAO has adopted seven additional annexes addressing, among other things, accident investigations, airports, the environment, security, dangerous goods, and safety management systems. Of course, the 19 annexes have been amended over the years and, to advance the convention’s mandate of “securing the highest practical degree of uniformity,” over 12,000 SARPs have been adopted implementing the annexes.
Every three years, the ICAO Assembly of 193 states and over 40 observer organizations meet, usually in Montreal, to set the agenda, approve a three-year budget, and elect a 36-member Council that will implement the policies set by the Assembly. The Council elects its president and appoints the secretary general to head the Secretariat and the 15-member Air Navigation Commission to develop technical recommendations. Under Chapter XVIII of the Chicago Convention, the Council is also empowered to settle disputes among contracting states.
Achieving consensus among the many states with different political and economic systems, languages, and cultures and at various stages of development is a daunting task. With a small budget of about $100 million Canadian annually, of which the U.S. pays 20 percent,
ICAO is dependent upon the voluntary contributions and the expertise of its member states, which makes U.S. leadership so critical to its effectiveness. While the U.S. must stand for election to the Council every three years, it has always had a seat at the table and was reelected in October 2019. Moreover, the key safety responsibility in the Secretariat is vested in the director of the Air Navigation Bureau (ANB), one of five bureaus, which has always been a U.S. appointee. The U.S. mission, led by an ambassador in recent years, facilitates a constant flow of experts from the State Department, the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), stakeholder organizations, and the private sector to bring the best technical knowledge to the table while addressing political and geopolitical issues that arise in the context of global diplomacy.
Working closely with like-minded allies and seeking common ground with all Council members, the U.S. has been a leader in reinventing ICAO to address the changing dynamics of air travel. ICAO has avoided, for the most part, the political divisions that have constrained other UN venues by tirelessly working for consensus around shared values of safe and secure air travel—values shared by the citizens of every state. In a global economy interconnected by aviation, we are all vulnerable to the weakest link in the chain.
While some legal scholars have asserted that ICAO has reached far beyond the express mandates of the Chicago Convention, ICAO’s legal advisor has opined, based in part on international customary law, that ICAO has appropriately adapted to the changing challenges of international aviation. Spurred by U.S. leadership, some of the most important initiatives include the following.
With fast-changing technologies, prescriptive safety standards, usually three to seven years in development, quickly become obsolete. Accordingly, ICAO had stressed performance standards, coordination with technical standard-setting bodies on prescriptive requirements, safety management systems that cultivate a culture of effective safety oversight, and the sharing of safety information that prevents accidents. ICAO seeks to minimize confusion and miscommunication by harmonizing standards, clarifying state differences, and establishing English proficiency as the language of international aviation. A long-recognized concern, made more urgent by the Boeing 737 MAX accidents, ICAO is addressing automation dependency in the cockpit by working with member states and the industry to improve pilot skills in the manual handling of the aircraft when automated systems do not function as intended. In increasingly congested airspace, the ANB seeks to maintain the downward trend in the worldwide accident rate from over four accidents per million flights in 1978 to a fraction of one in 2017.
Historically, most safety standards have resulted from accident investigations, but increasingly ICAO relies on the protected voluntary reporting and exchange of information about safety incidents and concerns to prevent accidents. After the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 (MH370) in November 2018, ICAO adopted the Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS), requiring aircraft position reporting every 15 minutes, and setting a target date of 2021 for systems that can report coordinates every minute for an aircraft in distress. This would enable finding an aircraft’s location within roughly a six-nautical-mile radius. The technology is currently available to meet this target, and the only question is why it took the disappearance of MH370 to initiate a global tracking system. ICAO also has established special programs that focus on regional safety issues. For example, after a series of accidents, it dedicated $5 million to address safety oversight in Africa. In response to another emerging threat, ICAO is working closely with other UN agencies to address the scourge of human trafficking.
Under the convention, the enforcement of safety standards is the responsibility of contracting states. Yet, ICAO creatively has provided strong incentives for state enforcement and regulatory oversight. Most importantly, in 1999, ICAO initiated the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP), which audits the safety oversight of each contracting state. In 2007, the Assembly passed a U.S.-sponsored resolution providing for the public release of safety audits, which has created a strong incentive for states to address safety deficiencies and which has resulted in significant measurable improvements in safety audit findings. ICAO follows up the audits by continuous
monitoring of significant deficiencies and by providing technical assistance to states that need help in addressing safety concerns. The Council president and secretary general have taken specific actions to address potential “flags of convenience”—states that register aircraft, certificate operators, or license pilots without adequate oversight—and ICAO has established an international aircraft registry to provide timely information about registration, ownership, and control of aircraft. Finally, ICAO has implemented the mutual recognition provision embodied in Article 33 of the convention by encouraging states in recognizing the certificates and licenses of other states to verify that ICAO standards have been met.
Despite the convention’s silence on the subject, ICAO has developed a five-pronged approach to aviation security. First, the Universal Security Audit Programme (USAP) conducts airport security audits in all contracting states. Second, ICAO issues SARPs and guidance on issues such as the hardening of cockpit doors, flight crew procedures, and machine-readable passports. For example, the Global Aviation Security Plan (GASeP) will elevate security measures and capacities worldwide, issuing outcome-focused standards, guidance material, and data-informed impact assessments, although the GASeP’s time frame should be accelerated. Passenger name record data is being elevated to a standard, which requires states to review airplane reservation data and a passenger’s flying history to determine hidden connections to other travelers and patterns of activity that enable an assessment of a traveler’s potential to commit hostile acts. Technical experts provide harmonized guidance on items permitted on board aircraft, providing necessary protections while minimizing passenger inconvenience and commercial disruption. Importantly, new fast-moving procedures are required because the convention’s standards-setting processes cannot respond quickly enough to inventive new security threats. As chair of the Unlawful Interference Committee in 2008, I had to deal with the liquid, aerosol, and gels threat. Some states saw this as a U.S.-only problem. They were reluctant to impose the inconvenience on their travelers and resented the TSA’s unilateral imposition of new requirements. Because global cooperation is essential to address the weakest link in the chain, I urged TSA to work though ICAO to achieve the most effective results. When we worked through the problems, including the need for global standards that would facilitate the transfer of items purchased in duty free shops, I found a willingness by states to accept ICAO’s guidance. The third prong of the security initiative is to provide technical assistance to states without the capacity to remedy security deficiencies. The fourth prong is the negotiation and amendment of aviation treaties to address the changing threats of terrorism and the means by which they are effected, including by those who plan, finance, and conspire to attack aviation. Finally, conversion to digital communication in the internet age increases aviation’s vulnerability to cyberattacks. Accordingly, ICAO has a cybersecurity team working to stay ahead of hackers with hostile intent.
Despite the silence of the Chicago Convention on environmental issues, ICAO has been thrust into the global climate change debate, having been delegated the responsibility by the Paris Agreement to reduce aircraft emissions, which constitute about 2 percent of overall greenhouse gas emissions. During my tenure at the U.S. mission, this was the most time-consuming, intractable problem I faced with little progress toward a consensus solution. It pitted Europe against the rest of the world, and threatened to bring the north-south divide into ICAO deliberations, which have always been premised on equal treatment of all nations. The U.S. was an honest broker seeking to find common ground. The 2016 Assembly adopted Resolution A39-2 implementing the voluntary Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), which stitched together various initiatives, including technology and operational improvements, sustainable aviation fuels, and market-based mechanisms. CORSIA aspired to reduce aircraft emissions by 1.5–2 percent annually through 2050, achieve carbon-neutral growth by 2020, and reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent against a 2005 base by 2050. The issue remains highly controversial as environmental groups advocate for tougher and mandatory requirements.
While not anticipated in the convention, it became evident that the capacity of developing states to comply with SARPs would require technical assistance, and thus the Technical Cooperation Bureau (TCB) was established. Over time this program has evolved from technical assistance to technical cooperation and has become self-funding as ICAO partnerships with 138 states have initiated some 100 projects annually, including construction of a new airport in Panama, implementation of an e-passport system, and specific projects that address deficiencies identified by ICAO safety and security audits. A key objective is building human capacity through the Global Aviation Training program, which offers 200 courses for over 17,000 trainees in skills development, SARP compliance, credentialing instructors, and promoting best practices.
Enhancing the efficiency and capacity of global navigation helps to achieve other important ICAO safety and environmental objectives. It also significantly reduces costs that can be passed through in reduced fares in a competitive environment. ICAO’s Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP) is updated every three years and overhauled every six years. The 2019 GANP takes into account 23,000 airlines flying 362,000 aircraft with upwards of four million drones. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) guides the transition to the next generation of satellite-based air navigation by fostering interoperable systems and data, greener airports, optimum capacity, and flexible and efficient flight paths, enabling international aircraft to operate efficiently in satellite-based systems of different states and regions. Automatic Dependent Surveillance—Broadcast (ADS-B) has been endorsed by ICAO as part of its GANP to bring the precision and reliability of satellite-based surveillance to international aviation. In furtherance of global air navigation modernization, ICAO will establish a fully coordinated aviation trust framework that interconnects the global aviation community and increases information sharing to achieve operational improvements.
Governance reforms have been essential to ICAO’s reinventing itself to address the growing and fast-changing aviation sector. Given its limited resources, establishing priorities is essential, and ICAO has adopted five strategic objectives: (1) enhancing global aviation safety, (2) increasing the capacity and efficiency of the global civil aviation system, (3) strengthening global civil aviation security and facilitation, (4) fostering the development of a sound and economically viable civil aviation system, and (5) minimizing the adverse environmental impacts of civil aviation activities. In addition, the adoption of a results based budget has enabled targeting limited resources on these objectives. In any human institution, fighting corruption requires ongoing vigilance, and ICAO is no exception. Limiting key positions to two terms and prohibiting former Council members from taking positions in the Secretariat for a fixed period are among the steps the U.S. pushed through during my tenure. We also pushed through strong provisions to recruit, retain, and promote women into professional positions, an area where ICAO’s record had been woefully inadequate. When I arrived, there were no women in charge of any of ICAO’s five bureaus; by the time I left, three of the five directorships were held by women, one of whom later became secretary general. We also worked diligently to streamline Council deliberations, transforming talkfests into an efficient decision-making mechanism. More recent reforms include the establishment of an independent process to investigate complaints expeditiously and transparency in dealing with cyberattacks on ICAO’s IT systems.
My most important takeaway from serving on the ICAO Council is that U.S. leadership is absolutely critical. Although the U.S. is the largest contributor in funding and expertise, we have only one vote in 36, and thus the U.S. needs to work closely with likeminded counterparts to build coalitions in support of important initiatives, priorities, and reforms.
ICAO must constantly be reinvented to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Rapidly changing technologies such as the digitalization of communications, satellite-based navigational efficiencies, artificial intelligence and blockchain innovations, and millions of drones and novel aircraft types all require a far more agile and nimble ICAO if it is to maintain and improve its extraordinary record of safety, thwart cybersecurity threats, meet its CORSIA obligations, and facilitate the interoperability that is essential to a global aviation system. ICAO’s standards-setting process is too slow and cumbersome. The budget is too limited to address serious deficiencies in the capacity of some states and regions. Competing technologies in the private sector threaten to fragment and segment global navigation.
Everything should be on the table, including the respective roles of a uniquely dual-headed organization with both a Council president and secretary general, the ability to recruit and retain the highest quality of professionals, the organization of the Secretariat, the size and procedures of the Council, and the funding mechanisms. There are ongoing discussions about reorganizing the Secretariat to eliminate duplication and fragmentation and improve coordination. One proposal would create separate bureaus for data gathering, standard setting, and implementation. Other proposals would elevate security and the environment to bureau status. Strengthening partnerships with stakeholders and the private sector is critical to enable rapid adjustment to innovativetechnologies. With clear lines of demarcation that prevent conflicts of interest, industry’s expertise and innovative technologies must be utilized effectively to advance safety and efficiency priorities. The work of the regional offices must be better integrated with headquarters as they undertake regional planning and apply best practices and new generation-skipping technologies to regional air navigation, safety, and security priorities. As we are on the cusp of commercial space travel, and space/rocket launches and debris are an increasing factor in airspace management, it is time for ICAO to integrate space launches and travel into its air navigation planning and SARP development.
Given the enormity of the challenges of maintaining a safe, secure, and efficient global aviation system at a time of accelerating change, ICAO’s budget is woefully inadequate and subject to the annual appropriations and political whims of individual states. As ICAO is reformed and restructured to advance its strategic objectives more efficiently and with greater accountability, it should also expand its capability to self-fund its operations. The TCB has demonstrated one approach through its state partnerships. The sale of print and online publications and data including, with appropriate safeguards, advertising is another source of revenue. By organizing task forces with technology firms, ICAO might develop innovative solutions in areas such as passport control, facilitation, infrastructure development, dangerous goods transport, the digitalization of shared safety information, and cybersecurity protection that create intellectual property that can be sold to the states. ICAO could work with partners to provide fee-based licensing and credentialing services to certify that innovative technologies are interoperable and safe; promote navigation, infrastructure, and facilitation efficiencies; and protect against cyberattacks. The UN and individual states are always coming up with ideas to tax aviation to serve other noble purposes, such as health care in Africa, proposals that contravene the Chicago Convention. It would make more sense to assess a small charge on each international flight or miles traveled in international airspace with restrictions on how the funds would be used to further ICAO’s strategic missions. All options should be explored.
As Americans increasingly traverse the globe, ICAO remains critically important to maintaining and improving the safety, security, efficiency, and environmental sustainability of air travel. Among UN specialized agencies, ICAO is a shining example of technical cooperation among 193 nations in advancing shared values.
For 75 years, ICAO has repeatedly reinvented itself to address emerging challenges and, in coordination with the states and the private sector, has achieved an enviable record of safety, security, and seamless air navigation that will require continuous diligence, reinvention, and U.S. leadership to maintain and improve in the future. | transportation_engineering |
http://mountain.ezinemark.com/railway-on-a-mountain-31c756861c5.html | 2017-07-22T00:33:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423839.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20170722002507-20170722022507-00113.warc.gz | 0.982497 | 774 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__192843666 | en | The Snowdon Mountain Railway is one that has been operating for over 100 years. This popular tourist attraction is the only public rack and pinion railway in the United Kingdom. It is a Railway that is geared towards tourism hence why it is only 4.7 miles long. It starts at the village of Llanberis and ends at the summit of Snowdon (pending weather and season). Snowdon has the highest mountain peak in England and Wales. The line is owned and run by Heritage great Britain who also have a few other tourist attractions all over Britain.
The construction of the railway was first proposed in the middle of the 19th century but nothing came of it as it was thought that a railway would spoil the scenery. It wasn't until there was a proposal to build a railway to the summit of Snowdon from Rhyd Ddu that Llanberis started to show intent as they feared that it would drive tourists away. The work of the railway started in 1894 and finished in Easter of 1896.
The journey begins at Llanberis Station, once you leave the station it begins a steep incline up in which it goes along the first of two viaducts that crosses Afon Hwch. Along the way you will see a waterfall which there is a station by it where the train would stop so that people can marvel at it. But now this is closed, this station marks the beginning of the mountain. The next part of the journeys is the looping track at Hebron that is named after the nearby Hebron Chapel which is now in ruins. Up the halfway point of the mountain is the second loop of the track this is the part where the train stops so that water is taken aboard. There is a path here that leads to the Halfway House caf where you can get a quick bite to eat, it is also here where you can get views of the other trains that are on the track as there are three passing points on the mountain. Once everything is done and the train is set to go then it sets off up to Rocky Valley is the point of the journey where it can end depending on what the weather is like. This part is that of a narrow platform that is protected by a rocky outcrop that lies on the east.
Beyond the Rocky Valley is an exposed ridge that runs for half a mile towards Clogwyn station this is another point in the journey where it can terminate. This is due to the snow from the mountains, so from March to the end of April this SMR usually stops at this station. From this point you can see fantastic views of Llanberis and the summit and on a clear day you can see the peaks of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland and the Isle of Man. The final stop on the SMR is the Summit of Snowdon. Here lies the Summit Visitor Centre, Hafod Eryri which opened in 2009, it was built to look like it has grown out of the mountain, it was built out of granite which complements the mountain very well. In the building there are panoramic windows that give you a view of the whole mountain, it is dubbed the 'window on the world'. There is a postbox inside of the centre which means that Hafod Eryri has the highest post box in Wales. You could send a loved one a postcard that the centre sells also stamps too if you need one.
The trains operate from late March to the end of October and tickets are available daily although it is advisable to book ahead. They can be purchased in single and return trips. A journey to the summit can take 2 hours this includes the 30 minute stop at the peak. Llanberis is a village and has nice Snowdonia holiday homes that aren't that far from the SMR railway station. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.smithsmotorgroup.co.uk/hyundai/new-cars/ioniq-5/ | 2023-12-10T09:55:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679101779.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210092457-20231210122457-00813.warc.gz | 0.922717 | 1,294 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__168008998 | en | The IONIQ 5, Hyundai's all-new 100% electric crossover, is now available to order and test drive at Smiths Hyundai, Peterborough. The IONIQ 5 sets a new benchmark in electric mobility, featuring innovative exterior design, strong performance, eco-friendly materials, and ultra-fast charging.
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The IONIQ 5 is available with two battery capacity options: 58kWh or 77.4kWh - The larger battery options gives the IONIQ 5 a range of up to 315 miles* on a single charge making the IONIQ 5 a true long-range cruiser.
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The digital driver's display can be customised to display the information the driver needs. This, combined with an augmented reality head-up display that turns the car's windscreen into a display, reduces distractions and allows the driver to focus on the road ahead.
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The IONIQ 5 is available with a range of powertrain layouts to meet the needs of different types of driver, all of which provide punchy performance. The top of the range option features dual-motors and all wheel drive and, when combined with the 77.4kWh battery, offers a 0-62mph time of just 5.2 seconds. The 58kWh dual-motor version's 0-62mph time is 6.1 seconds.
The single-motor versions of the IONIQ 5 can cover the 0-62 sprint in 7.4 and 8.5 seconds for the 77.4kWh and 58kWh battery packs respectively.
The IONIQ 5 is also capable of towing a trailer up to 1,600kg.
Some specification items listed/shown may not be available on all models or may be available at an additional cost. Please be aware that images and videos shown on this page are for illustrative purposes only and may include items that not available in the UK or may cost extra. While we do our best to ensure that all information here is accurate we cannot be held responsible where errors occur. Vehicle and specification availability is subject to change without notice.
*Range figures quoted are expected figures on the WLTP testing cycle and are subject to homologation.
^Hyundai test data for comparison purposes. Actual time will vary and is dependent on a number of factors including battery temperature, condition and age, ambient temperature and the power provided by the charger. Charge time increases in cold weather and if battery temperature activates safeguarding technology. Ultra-fast 350kW chargers are currently available on selected motorways/major arterial routes (excluding Northern Ireland). See the Charge myHyundai app or https://chargemyhyundai.com/web/hyundai-gb/map for details. | transportation_engineering |
http://madisonrails.railfan.net/kirkman.html | 2019-02-16T03:20:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479838.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216024809-20190216050809-00266.warc.gz | 0.985889 | 1,996 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__34745628 | en | Central Indiana Division, NMRA
Big Four Depot
Big Four (NYC)
CI Rwy & CIW
July 01, 2000
Railroads of Madison County|
Central Indiana Railway (the Midland)
May 02 1999
Dear Mr. Hensley, my name is Jeff Kirkman, and I am sending this E-Mail to you in regard to your website "Railroads of Madison County". Although I now live in Texas, I was born in Muncie, IN, and raised in Westfield, IN, where my parents are from and still live. I remember as a boy growing up, and later in teen-age years seeing the "Midland" coming through Westfield, where it crossed the Monon tracks at the west edge of town. At the railroad diamond was located a small "freight" shed, which seemed to front both the CI and the Monon, and an interlocking tower. I believe I read somewhere that the junior railroad at the crossing diamond had to maintain the interlocking tower. I seem to remember that the tower had a green "shingling" siding on the outside, and the interlocking mechanism was still inside, and still, or could have, functioned.
My friend David Good and I spent a lot of time around the railroad crossing. The Monon used semaphore signaling, or should I say the L&N by this time, and was on somewhat of a schedule. We would watch the semaphores to see when the train was coming, and could get ourselves to a better observation place and watch the train go by, sometimes from the freight shed. We considered ourselves very lucky if we were there when the Midland came in town. By this time, it was Conrail. It had to cross US highway 31 at grade, two lanes both ways, with a median in between, and how the cars and trucks had to wait for the train to cross. I remember that both the Midland and the Monon served the "Waite (sp) Elevator, which was right next to the railroad diamond, and had the leg of the spur connecting the Midland and Monon going under and in between the elevator building and storage silos. There would be a covered hopper sitting on the spur, and boy would the flanges squeal as the locomotive and cars would move slowly on the rusted rails.
The Midland's right-of-way seemed like it was going through a tunnel, the foliage was so dense, and yet the tracks were for the most part ran right between cultivated fields. Onetime, Dave and I walked from Westfield to Noblesville on the Midland tracks, about seven miles. There is an Indiana Power and Light station along the route. The Midland used very light rail, similar to what the Monon had on it's sidings, for it's "mainline", however, at the power and light station they had apparently cut in a new siding with heavier rail. There was no transition rail at the turnout, just some angled welding, yes welding, with the heavy rail and the light rail butted up together. The Midland never went very fast, and the rocking back and forth would have seemed to make the un-initiated sea-sick, but it must have been quite a bump to hit the change in rail height.
Hope I haven't rambled to much, whenever I see your website all these memories come back. I thought I'd send this to you while I was thinking about it.
May 05 1999
The time period that I have been writing about is from around 1964 through 1980. We lived about 2 blocks from the CI in Westfield from 1964 to 1966, and my dad's parents lived across the street from us, so we came visiting quite often.
I remember that the train came into town in the late afternoon or evening, seems that it was around supper time or already dark. In 1964, I was 6 years old, so I wasn't allowed down by the tracks by myself. My dad was always interested in trains, and I guess the interest just came to me naturally. When I became aware of things, dad and I would go out to see the train. I knew that it had a switch engine rather than a larger road switcher, and by the time of Penn Central, CI was using what looked like a transfer caboose, because of the longer platforms on each end, and it didn't look at all like what the Monon had.
CI Ry #67 Information from John Reehling
There were two single end sidings in town. One was just west of Union Street where the points of the turnout were just beyond the street and the end of the siding facing west. The other was just to the east of US31, which also had the points of the turnout facing east so that the end of the siding was somewhat east of the highway. Tradition says that one of the homes along the track east of the second siding was the old CI station. Across the highway was the Monon/CI crossing, Monon going north and south, CI going east and west. The Waite elevator was/is in the north-west corner of the crossing, and there was a siding that connected Monon and CI, which went from the west CI side to the north Monon side. The Monon had a long passing siding which started maybe half a mile or more north of the crossing on the west side of it's main-line. There was a crossover just north of the crossing, which was the southern end of the passing siding, and the northern end of the Monon/CI connection siding.
Further west was the CI passing siding, which was on the south side of the main line. The first two CI sidings were on the north side of the main line. I have been told that the first siding, next to Union Street, was to a former coal supply company. Towards the west end of this siding the track was on an embankment, and there was a auger placed under the track so that, I guess in later years, grain could be emptied into trucks. I believe it was the type of auger used in farming. The second siding, which was next to US31, supplied propane, I believe to the Westfield Gas Company. There was usually a long tank car parked on the siding.
The Monon station sat right in the north east corner of the crossing. I don't know if there was a station track behind the Monon station or not, I don't remember seeing any old railroad ties left after the rails were pulled up. There were some old ties in the south east corner of the crossing that looked like they at one time connected CI on the east side of the crossing to the Monon on the south side. These were pretty much covered with the surrounding ground cover, and went under the fence of the adjoining Truss MFG. CO. property. My grandparents used to say that when the CI or "Midland" carried passengers the train could turn around here. I'm not sure if that means the engine turned around too.
In the southwest corner of the crossing, there was quite a bit of undergrowth, and the ground slopes somewhat away from the roadbed. Someone told me once that there was a "Hobo" jungle here years back. This is behind where the CI interlocking tower stood. To the west the track crossed a creek, and the railroad used three culverts maybe four feet in diameter to make a bridge, the south and east flowing creek made a sort of pond to the south of the track. I can't remember if the passing siding crossed the creek also, or if it was single track. Black cinder ballast, black upper quadrant semaphore mast, small (70lb ?) rails which one would have a hard time finding a straight one, very few tie plates, loose spikes.
My cousins lived about half-way in between Westfield and Noblesville, and their property adjoined the CI track. Cousin Greg and I, when we were about 14 and 15 years old, walked down the track pulling out spikes with our hands, eventually we had two grocery sacks full and had only gone a short way. We also put them all back after our dads found out! In about 1977 the railroad had at sometime replaced some of the railroad ties a mile or so east of Westfield and left the old ties along the roadbed.
I later worked for the city of Westfield, and their city garage was along the right-of-way. There was an old trail through some dense woods that led to the track, and I had this old Jeep CJ5 ;^) After the track had been pulled up west of Westfield, my friend David Good and I drove down the roadbed, he on his motorcycle, and me in my Jeep. We went west all the way to Jolietville, where the tracks crossed state road 32. There was a trestle across Little Eagle creek, which was still standing except there were no rails. It made it interesting going kabump-kabump across the ties, 10 or 12 feet above the water. I wish now that I had taken pictures while the CI was still alive, my dad took some and I'll see what he has. You never know what you've got till it's too late.
CIRy 1 (SW1) was the first and only locomotive ever purchased new by the CI - Photo courtesy of Ed Belknap, deceased
CIRy 67 The CI's caboose - Photo courtesy of Ed Belknap, deceased | transportation_engineering |
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This section provides status overviews by type of programmes involving aircraft that are currently being delivered or projects for which funding is being sought.
|Boeing KC-46A||Boeing 777-300ER|
|Cessna Citation 680A||Kawasaki C-2|
|Kawasaki-Boeing CH-47J/LR Chinook||F-15J Modernization/F-2 Upgrades|
|Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II||Mitsubishi-Sikorsky UH-60J|
|Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye||Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk|
|Indigenous UAVs (TACOM/UARS)|
|X-2/Next-Generation Fighter||New Tanker/Transport Aircraft
A table at the end of Aircraft Programmes, above the Aircraft Projects section, provides the in-service years and numbers received or on order of JASDF aircraft types in chronological order.
The budget system employed by the Japan Ministry of Defense calls for equipment requests for the following fiscal year to be submitted to the government in August and approved in December. The fiscal year runs from April 1 of that year to March 31 of the following year.
For the purposes of longer term planning, the Cabinet approves a five-year Medium-Term Defense Program (MTDP). Passed on December 17, 2013, the current MTDP runs from FY2014 to FY2018.
JASDF Aircraft Programmes
One of the four KC-767s delivered between 2008 and 2010 climbs out from RAF Fairford, England, in July 2014. The KC-767 fleet is due to be augmented by the entry into service of three
KC-46As in around 2020. (Photo: Adrian Pingstone via Wikimedia Commons)
Under the current MTDP, the Japan Ministry of Defense declared its intention to acquire three new tanker/transport aircraft of then unspecified type for the JASDF.
At a press conference on October 23, 2015, Defence Minister Gen Nakatani announced that the U.S. government-proposed Boeing KC-46A had been selected; one appeared on the finalized fiscal 2016 budget shopping list, but approval only came with that requested under fiscal 2017 funding.
Setting a deadline of September 8, a request for proposals had been issued on June 17, 2015. Airbus having declined to make “inappropriate use of shareholders’ funds and company resources” by putting forward its A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport for what they clearly saw as a lost cause, the Boeing KC-46A was the only submission.
At the time of the announcement of the type’s first overseas sales success, the U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus programme was nearing the end of its development phase. Based on the Boeing 767-2C, the first of four prototypes had flown for the first time only a month before, on September 25.
To be based at Miho AB in Tottori Prefecture, Japan’s KC-46A fleet will be capable of refuelling the JGSDF’s MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft. Their unit price tags of 20.8 billion yen (around $173 million) due to be funded as part of the fiscal 2016 budget, the aircraft are planned to be deployed in around 2020. The exact dates will be subject to slot availability on a production line that is currently set to fulfill a U.S. Air Force requirement for 179 aircraft over the space of a decade commencing in August 2017.
Operated from Chitose AB outside Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, the two Boeing 747-400s used to transport the prime minister and members of the imperial family are scheduled to be withdrawn from service by the end of March 2019.
It was announced early in August 2014 that they would be replaced by two B777-300ERs. Taken at San Bernardino, California, a photo of the first aircraft, which is due for delivery in autumn 2018, appeared in a Japanese daily newspaper in mid-October 2016. The second aircraft is set to arrive at the end of 2018, in time to commence full, two-aircraft operations when the 747s are withdrawn. Following a competitive bidding process, the ground support contract is to be switched from Japan Airlines to All Nippon Airways.
On April 28, 2015, the Cabinet Secretariat issued a press release that included information on the new colour scheme selected for the two aircraft (above).
Selected from several put forward by Boeing, the basic colour scheme retains the Japanese flag-derived, red-and-white upper surfaces of the B747s and repeats the application of grey to the wings and horizontal tail surfaces. In place of the current staid fuselage cheat-line, the major change is the flowing fuselage stripe. According to the Japan Ministry of Defense, this radical design departure represents the realization of dynamic (economic) growth without fear of change and expresses in design form Japan’s sense of active engagement (in global affairs) in the years to come.
Although the possibility of detail changes remains, another illustration and a three-view drawing are available for viewing in pdf format at the Cabinet Secretariat’s Japanese-language website here [link].
Cessna Citation 680A
In July 2016, the Air Staff Office issued a request for information from companies interested in supplying and maintaining three of a new type of flight check aircraft and related equipment as a replacement for the YS-11FC and the U-125 tragically lost in an accident in the previous April.
Planned for delivery by the end of March 2021 via Kanematsu Corporation, which acquired the Japanese sales agency rights from Cessna parent Textron Aviation in 2015, the Citation 680A beat off rival bids submitted in October by Sojitz Corporation (Bombardier Challenger 650) and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace (Dassault Falcon 2000S). An initial two of the type received funding under the FY2017 budget, Aside from the Citation’s assessed advantages in terms of performance and price, a major factor acting in Kanematsu’s favour was the company’s 20-year track record of supplying special mission aircraft to the JASDF and its delivery of three Citation CJ4 flight inspection aircraft to the Civil Aviation Bureau, also in 2015.
On July 4, 2014, the Japan Ministry of Defense announced that the development period for the C-2, which had been planned to end in March 2015, would be extended by two years. (See Bulletin Board, March 27, 2017)
The ministry’s then Technical Research & Development Institute (TRDI) at Gifu has been using a ground test airframe to verify the C-2’s structural integrity since 2005. On January 7, 2014, that airframe sustained damage to its cargo door and rear fuselage during pressurization tests, prompting the temporary grounding of the two XC-2s until February 19.
As reported in the Koku Fan magazine published in July (the September issue), an investigation found the root cause to have been a stress concentration-induced rupture at the part of the fuselage frame close to where the cargo and ramp doors meet. In the meantime, the two XC-2s continued to be operated from Gifu AB, having surpassed a combined total of 300 test flights. The first prototype appeared in formation with the 44-year-old prototype C-1 (now designated C-1FTB) during the SDF review flypast at Hyakuri AB, Ibaraki Prefecture, on October 26, 2014. From November 2014, the first prototype’s fuselage was replaced by one built to production aircraft standard; the aircraft was returned to the test programme at Gifu on February 24, 2016.
This was the second time the C-2 programme had suffered a major delay. KHI engineers were forced back to their drawing boards in 2007 after structural weaknesses were found in the main wing of that same first prototype XC-2, which was rolled out on July 4, 2007, but did not complete its maiden flight until January 26, 2010. The aircraft was finally handed over to the TRDI for flight testing two months later, on March 30.
The second prototype had made its first flight on January 27, 2011, and immediately joined the flight test programme. During the course of 2013, the aircraft was engaged in the in-flight, low-level operational testing of the ramp door and used to conduct paratrooper drop tests from its side door. These were followed by snow-covered runway trials from Gifu in December 2014.
The first production C-2 took to the skies for the first time on May 17, 2016, and was officially handed over to the Ministry on June 30, the first of three scheduled for delivery by the end of March 2017. The JASDF still has an estimated requirement for 30 of the aircraft, which is in the same weight category as the Airbus A400M and Antonov An-70. As shown in the chart below, orders for six production aircraft have so far been placed; the single aircraft requested under FY2016 funding failed to secure final approval. Drawn up before the pressurization test setback, the MTDP included 10 aircraft.
Production Kawasaki C-2 Budget Requests/Procurement
The service would ultimately be seeking to modify the airframe for electronic intelligence (ELINT) and surveillance operations, as a modified 1977-vintage Kawasaki C-1 has been flying as the EC-1 since 1983.
It will now be early in 2017 before the first of those production examples is supplied to an active unit at Miho in Tottori Prefecture, where in September 2013 a new control tower was inaugurated and new hangars were being built in anticipation of the C-2’s arrival. The second prototype was deployed to Miho for three days of ground handling trials in October 2015, and the completion of a new hangar expressly built to house Miho-based C-2s marked by a ceremony on January 27, 2017.
Kawasaki-Boeing CH-47J/LR Chinook
Although a trickle of JGSDF CH-47JA deliveries is being maintained, JASDF CH-47J orders are in abeyance. The most recent of the 31 examples produced for service with Air Rescue Wing units was ordered under fiscal 2010 budget funding and entered service in 2013. Of those 31 helicopters, the last half (since 2002) were all to long-range (LR) specification standard.
F-15J Modernization/F-2 Upgrades
According to media reports in the summer of 2014, a total of 88 F-15Js are to undergo modernization, a programme that had been given added impetus following the U.S. decision to ban the export of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in July 2007. The pace of the modernization programme over recent years is shown in the chart below.
Numbers of F-15J Approved for Modernization since Fiscal 2009
Appointed JASDF chief of staff in August 2013, General Harukazu Saitoh was asked about the F-15J modernization programme during an April 2014 interview that appeared in the August edition of JWings magazine. Having commanded the 305th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the mid-1990s, he readily admitted that the aircraft has undergone considerable change. Replacing the radar and avionics, upgrading the missile armament (to the Mitsubishi Electric AAM-4B) and improving situational awareness by the installation of an advanced data link, which also negates the need for pilot’s to relay information to other aircraft over the radio, have made the F-15J a far more capable aircraft. The June 2016 issue of JWings reported that a total of 102 F-15J/DJs were planned to undergo modernization and that 80% of the F-15Js and around half of the F-15DJs had already been through the process.
While much has been made of the “pivot” toward Asia in overall U.S. foreign policy, there is per force also a distinct shift toward the southwest within the Japanese defense organization. Due to be implemented by March 2017, an organizational change involves the F-15Js of the Tsuiki-based 304th Tactical Fighter Squadron saying sayonara to the F-2s of 6th TFS to join the 204th at Naha AB on Okinawa, where the 83rd Air Wing is to be re-designated the 9th Air Wing.
In the case of the F-2, funding was sought and approved for air-to-air combat capability improvements to be made to 40 F-2s and the supply of 70 sets of related equipment between fiscals 2010 and 2014. Improvements were to be made to nine aircraft and 12 sets provided under fiscal 2016 funding, and fiscal 2017 covers 16 aircraft upgrades and the supply of an additional nine sets. Running in parallel with this programme between fiscals 2011 and 2013 was adding Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)-carrying capability to 43 aircraft. In previous years, budgeting had covered the supply of JDAM weapon conversion kits. Funding for the trial mounting of a single targeting pod was approved in the fiscal 2014 budget.
The provisional fiscal 2015 budget successfully included requests to fund the upgrade of two F-2s to make them compatible with the Jieitai (SDF) Digital Communications System (JDCS) for fighter aircraft; four more will follow under fiscal 2016 funding.
On the subject of the F-2, repair funds are being made available for 13 of the 18 F-2Bs damaged at Matsushima by the tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011. As the type is no longer in production, replacement parts such as flaps are being manufactured at Lockheed Martin’s Dallas-Fort Worth facility. Initially, there were plans to repair six aircraft, all of which were delivered back to the JASDF by March 2016. Adding a further seven for a total of 13 aircraft, to be returned to service by the end of March 2018, reduced the cost per aircraft to around 7.3 billion yen (currently around $60 million).
Having been transported by road to Mitsubishi’s Komaki plant in Nagoya, repair work on the selected aircraft did not commence until July 2012. The first repaired F-2B was test flown from Komaki on February 16, 2015, and officially handed over at a ceremony held at the same location on April 21.
The handover ceremony was attended by around 120 people, including military personnel and representatives from Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. as well as Lockheed Martin Corporation. The same day, the aircraft was taken by an 8th Sqn pilot on an hour-long ferry flight to its temporary home at Misawa, where some 600 4th Air Wing personnel were waiting. Repairs to the hangars and apron at Matsushima are scheduled for completion by the end of March 2016.
A short (no sound) video of the events on April 21 can be viewed via the JASDF Official Channel on YouTube here [link].
Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II
The Japan Ministry of Defense announced the selection of the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II—the conventional takeoff and landing variant [link]—to fulfill its F-X (F-4EJ replacement) requirement on December 11, 2011. An agreement to purchase up to 42 aircraft followed in June 2012.
The roll-out ceremony for the first JASDF F-35A took place on September 23, 2016.
(Photo: Lockheed Martin/Beth Steel)
As shown in the table below, the approval of the six aircraft requested under fiscal 2016 brought the total number of F-35As on order to 22 and accounts for 16 of the 28 planned over the duration of the MTDP. An additional six aircraft have been requested under the fiscal 2017 budget.
Lockheed Martin F-35A Budget Requests/Procurement since Fiscal 2012
The first JASDF F-35A (AX-1) was rolled out at prime contractor Lockheed Martin’s Dallas-Fort Worth plant on September 23, 2016. The first four aircraft are to be delivered, presumably to the AD&TW at Gifu AB, from March 2017 onwards (and by the end of 2017). The subsequent 38 examples are due to be produced in Nagoya by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).
Lockheed Martin concluded the final assembly and check out (FACO) facility details with MHI and the other parties involved early in 2014. Following its selection by the U.S. Department of Defense, Nagoya will ultimately serve as the North Asia-Pacific regional Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul and Upgrade (MROU) facility, part of a global network providing advanced, long-term support for the F-35 fleets of a number of services. On the engine front, the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corporation signed an agreement with IHI Corporation covering the F135 turbofan in November 2013.
On October 2, 2015, a ceremony was held at Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Palmdale Aircraft Integration Center to mark the completion of the centre fuselage for the first of those 38 indigenously produced aircraft (AX-5). Giving some idea of the production rate, the milestone involved the 207th example of the major structure and the 30th unit manufactured in the year.
The manufacturing process at the Nagoya Plant includes mating the centre fuselage to the Lockheed Martin-produced forward fuselage/cockpit and wings as well as to the aft fuselage and empennage produced by principal subcontractor BAE Systems plc; AX-5 commenced its journey through the process on December 5, 2015. This aircraft is due to be rolled out in the summer and introduced into service in 2017; the May issue of Koku Fan carried photos of the still ‘green’ aircraft as it briefly saw the Nagoya light of day.
Although not a development partner, Japan invested in the FACO facility at Nagoya in part to maintain its expertise in the high-tech aerospace industry. While work progresses on the first aircraft, vertical logistics systems are being incorporated to compensate for the reduced floor space available.
In the latter half of 2014, the F-35 programme had made headlines as a result of the current Japanese government’s decision to conditionally lift the country’s long-standing, self-imposed ban on arms exports from April 1, 2014. On the one hand, the move appeared advantageous for the likes of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and IHI, who could now plan to export their respective radar and engine components for installation in the F-35s operated by other nations’ air forces. On the other hand, the move prompted the Ministry of Defense to look into recouping part of its budgeted initial investment expenses, should an item of defence equipment be exported and contribute to the company in question’s profits.
Having requested increased government funding to enable the company to supply F-35 rear fuselages to BAE Systems, traditional JASDF jet fighter supplier MHI was unable to reach an agreement—on either the amount of profit that could be expected or the amount that would be reimbursed—and postponed its participation in the programme, pending contract renegotiation. As reported in the November 7, 2014, edition of the Tokyo Shimbun, this put on hold MHI’s export of assemblies, which are nonetheless components, but the company had already received orders to assemble and conduct the final checks on its quota of 38 aircraft for the JASDF at the dedicated facility, newly rebuilt with taxpayers’ money, inside its Komaki South plant.
While concerns were raised in the summer of 2014 about the impact of the U.S. dollar exchange rate on the F-35 programme as a whole, the aircraft kept an otherwise aptly low profile on the Japanese media radar screens. A full-scale F-35A mock-up was present at Hyakuri AB, Ibaraki Prefecture, for the SDF review in October of that year (and at the Japan Aerospace 2016 industry exhibition held in Tokyo). The engine fire that befell an aircraft on the ground at Eglin AFB, Florida, in June 2014 might be used in evidence by the local population as the type’s arrival at its first likely operational base of Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, looms near. In 2000, staunch local government opposition on safety grounds was a factor in the delayed arrival of the first JASDF F-2s at the base. On this occasion, a yet to be designated unit will form and work up to strength with 20 aircraft during the course of fiscal 2017, while the aircraft will also become an increasingly familiar sight in western Japan as a U.S. Marine Corps unit works up to operational strength from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture..
Aircraft basing remains high on the political agenda in Okinawa, where Governor Takeshi Onaga made the vexed subject of the U.S. military presence the focus of his campaign in winning election in November 2014. Ahead of the vote, the Okinawa Times for November 10 that year reported that a plan was being devised to also maintain U.S. Marine Corps F-35s at Kadena AFB on Okinawa. Wisely, neither the U.S. nor the Japanese government has revealed any details about operating the F-35 from Okinawa, but the newspaper was highlighting a move that does at least assume integrated U.S. and possibly JASDF operations there. According to plans announced by the Marine Corps at that time, the ramp at Kadena was to be upgraded to accommodate F-35 operations in fiscal 2016.
JASDF maintenance personnel pose in front of their new charge at Luke AFB, Arizona, on November 28,
2016, when the JASDF aircraft became the first Foreign Military Sales F-35 to arrive at the base.
The low-visibility hinomaru markings applied for the roll-out had been removed by this time.
(Photo: U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Louis Vega Jr.)
Not to be confused with the current JGSDF utility helicopter requirement, the JASDF’s own UH-X programme for fiscal 2011 revolved around a next-generation rescue helicopter. Ultimately, three UH-60Js were requested and approved under fiscal 2011 funding.
The pattern of acquisition in recent years, which included a failed request in fiscal 2013, is shown in the chart below. A contract for the equivalent of around U.S.$43 million was placed with Mitsubishi on February 29, 2016, to cover the single aircraft included under FY2015 budget financing; delivery is scheduled for January 2018.
Mitsubishi-Sikorsky UH-60J Budget Requests/Procurement since Fiscal 2011
At the same time, the JASDF is hoping to be able to increase the number of UH-60Js retrofiited with in-flight refueling probes.
The Japan Ministry of Defense announced on December 18, 2015, that additional UH-60Js would be procured under the fiscal 2015 supplementary budget as part of additional funding earmarked to provide enhanced cover for disaster relief.
Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye
Also included in the MTDP was the introduction of four new airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft to “enhance the warning and surveillance capabilities in the surrounding airspace, including the southwest region.”
The contest was between two types: the Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (link, note that the right-hand sidebar listing includes a cutaway, courtesy Flight International), which would offer some degree of commonality with the E-2C already operated by the JASDF; and the Boeing 737 AEW&C Wedgetail (link), as operated by the Royal Australian Air Force. It was announced on November 21, 2014, that the E-2D had been selected to form the fourth constituent element of the JASDF’s AEW Group; a second example was successfully sought under the fiscal 2016 budget.
In July 2016, three months after having received request for proposal-prompted bids, the Ministry of Defense announced that Kawasaki and IHI would be the companies contracted for the maintenance of the E-2D airframes and engines, respectively. In August 2016, both aircraft were being manufactured at Northrop Grumman’s Saint-Augustine facility in Florida for delivery in 2018.
Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk
A U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk lands at Misawa AB, Aomori Prefecture, on May 24, 2014. On temporary detachment, the pair of aircraft were the first of the type to touch down in Japan.
(Photo: U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Nathan Lipscomb)
In a sign of things to come for the JASDF, the U.S. Air Force deployed two Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Misawa AB, Aomori Prefecture, from May to October 2014. Moved to escape the typhoon season at their normal base on Guam, the aircraft were shown off to local dignitaries and the Japanese media on May 30, and one was placed on static display at the base air show in September.
On November 20, 2014, the Japan Ministry of Defense announced that the Global Hawk had been selected over the General Atomics Guardian ER. The budget request had given no indication of the amount of funding and merely stated that the type of UAV was being selected. The MTDP includes provision for three UAVs for “joint units,” in other words to be jointly operated with the U.S. Air Force. Although there were reports that the first could be in service as early as this year (2015), fiscal 2015 funding only covered expenditure for components of a system that will take some time to implement. Although the forecast was that the three aircraft would be acquired during the course of fiscal 2019 and be operational in fiscal 2020 at the earliest, the first aircraft was approved under the fiscal 2017 request, a fiscal 2016 request for all three having been denied.
Used to assess the damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant complex in the aftermath of the March 2011 tsunami, the Global Hawk will obviously offer a significant improvement in the JASDF’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities around disputed islands. It can be expected that the JASDF version would also be equipped with sensors to enable the detection of ballistic missile launches.
Indigenous UAV Programmes (TACOM/UARS)
For such a technologically advanced nation, Japan appears a comparative laggard in terms of the development of an indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) reconnaissance system. Although Japanese industry began producing target drones in the 1970s and developed helicopter-based systems for the JGSDF from the 1990s, this accumulated expertise has not been utilized toward, for example, the full-scale development of a sophisticated medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) system.
In 1995, however, a team from prime contractor Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) commenced TRDI-authorized project development work on TACOM, from tayoto kogata mujinki (multirole, small UAV). Essentially a feasibility study for an infrared sensor-equipped, air-launched system, the programme focused on such areas as an autonomous target tracking system. The design included a parachute and flotation bags to enable the vehicle to be retrieved from the sea at the end of a mission.
In the summer of 1998, the prototype F-4EJ Phantom, which was then assigned to the Gifu-based Air Development & Test Wing (AD&TW), was photographed with a TACOM mounted on each of its inboard underwing weapons stations. The aircraft acted as “mother” ship on a total of 22 missions. Having achieved the first of five fully autonomous flights on May 7, 1999, the flight test programme of this initial design was concluded in 2001.
As shown in the photo above, the third of the six TACOMs built was displayed on a trolley at the Yokohama Pacifico Exhibition Centre during Japan Aerospace 2004. A nearby signboard gave its dimensions (length 4.7 metres, span 2.5 metres) and weight (620kg [at launch]). Note the dorsal air intake for the Teledyne Model 382-10J turbofan and the foldable wingtips, which were extended in flight and enabled the vehicle to fit between the F-4EJ’s centreline and wing-mounted drop tanks.
Funded between fiscal 2004 and fiscal 2011 as the Unmanned Aerial Research System (UARS), the “Improved TACOM” design featured the addition of an undercarriage. Target acquisition and tracking is by means of an infrared sensor mounted in a multifaceted, glazed ventral housing. A sign at a briefing given by the TRDI in 2007 gave the length and height of this definitive version as 5.2 metres and 1.6 metres, respectively, as a well as a weight of approximately 700kg.
The culmination of the initial flight test programme came on December 15, 2009. On that day, a UARS vehicle was successfully launched from an AD&TW F-15J and brought in for its first autonomous landing at the JASDF air base on the island of Iwo Jima. (A photo of the vehicle and video of that first landing can be found on the TRDI website [link].)
Although a prototype was reportedly lost at sea after launch from an F-2 in 2010, it is believed that two vehicles remain. A concept diagram and thumbnail images still appear under Test Records if you scroll down on this page of the TRDI website [link], and the UARS still occasionally appears in the Japanese aviation media. Taken in October 2013 and published in the January 2014 issue of Koku Fan, one photo shows a red-and-white example mounted on an AD&TW F-15J (again the first aircraft delivered to Japan). The vehicle appeared to be equipped with cameras and bore seven mission markings on the side of its fuselage. A fine study of another vehicle, painted in low-visibility grey, appears here [link].
The March 2016 issue of JWings magazine carries a photo of an AD&TW F-15J carrying TACOM 1001 aloft in December 2015. One of two TACOMs on display at the Gifu open house in October 2015—both been adorned with the unit’s 60th anniversary tail markings and temporary shark’s mouth insignia—1001 had in the interim had two more test flight score markings added for a total of seven.
JASDF AIRCRAFT IN-SERVICE DATES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
|Aircraft Type||In Service||No.||Notes|
|Kawasaki KAL-2||1954–1962||1||→ JGSDF|
|Fuji T-1||1960–2006||66|| ff. (T-1A) Jan. 19, 1958
(T-1B) May 17, 1960
|RF-86F Sabre||1961–1979||18||Converted JASDF F-86Fs|
|F-104J Starfighter||1962–1986||210||ff (Lockheed-built) June 30, 1961
14 aircraft → UF-104J/JA standard
|Mitsubishi MU-2S||1967–2008||29||SAR version|
|F-4EJ Phantom II||1971–||140||ff. (U.S.-built) Jan. 14, 1971|
|Kawasaki C-1||1971–||33||ff. (XC-1) Nov. 12, 1970|
|RF-4E Phantom II||1974–||14|
|Mitsubishi T-2||1975–2006||96||ff. July 20, 1971|
|Mitsubishi MU-2J||1975–1995||4||Flight check version|
|Mitsubishi F-1||1977–2006||77||ff. (FST-2Kai): June 16, 1977|
|Fuji T-3||1978–2007||50||ff. Jan. 17, 1978|
|F-15J Eagle||1981–||165||ff. (U.S.-built) June 4, 1980|
|Kawasaki T-4||1985–||212||ff. (XT-4) July 29, 1985|
|U-125||1992–||3||Flight check version|
|UF-104J/JA Starfighter||1992–1997||14||Converted F-104Js|
|Mitsubishi F-2A||1996–||64||ff. (XF-2A) Oct. 7, 1995|
|Mitsubishi F-2B||1996–||34||ff. (XF-2B) Apr. 17, 1996|
|Gulfstream IV (U-4)||1997–||5|
|Fuji T-7||2002–||49||ff. July 2002|
|C-2||2016–||1||ff. (XC-2) Jan. 26, 2010
8 more production aircraft ordered
|F-35A Lightning II||2017–||ff. (U.S.-built) Aug. 24, 2016
28 on order
|B777-300ER||On order||2||For 2018 delivery|
|E-2D Adv. Hawkeye||On order||2||2018|
|Citation 680A||On order||3||2021|
JASDF AIRCRAFT PROJECTS
[Please note that, for obvious copyright reasons, some of the photographic and video coverage of the X-2 (formerly ATD-X) comes in the form of embedded links. J-HangarSpace is hoping to incorporate additional authorized images as they become available.]
In July 2014, the TRDI website featured photographs of its then engineless experimental Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD-X) being towed out of a paint shop at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Komaki South Plant in Nagoya on May 8 [link]. Taken from above, one photo revealed the relatively small size of the aircraft; although taken into the sun, the other showed the aircraft almost in profile and the line of the wing merging point above the side-mounted air intake.
Timed to coincide with the appearance of the photos on the TRDI site, a behind-the-scenes report on the aircraft was featured in a 30-minute segment aired on Tokyo-based TBS TV’s Japan News Network programme on July 12. Screen grabs soon started to appear on social media [link] and the entire programme was even uploaded to YouTube [link].
The definitive X-2 was presented to members of the media in its Komaki South hangar on January 28, 2016, as recorded on another YouTube video [link]. The video also includes footage of one of the radio-controlled models (see below).
Roughly the size of a Saab JAS39 Gripen and sporting the standard red and white colour scheme favoured for military aircraft prototypes, the aircraft represents the latest phase in a feasibility study programme that was launched in 2007 but dates back to 2000. Originally, what is now the X-2 was given the enigmatic codename Shinshin, the two-kanji combination that has the general meaning of mind or spirit, but this appellation is no longer used.
In addition to the undertaking of research into flight control systems that would enable highly manoeuvrable flight, a more sinister-looking, full-scale radar cross section (RCS) model was tested at a French government facility in the latter half of 2005 and displayed at the Japan Aerospace Exhibition in 2008 after the conclusion of that stage of development. The X-2’s low RCS-optimized fuselage cross section, described in the Japanese aviation press as like that of an abacus bead, arose from that research.
[Above and below] A full-scale model of what was to culminate in the X-2 underwent radar cross-section testing at the French Direction Générale de l’Armement facility near Rennes. These photos appeared in the defence white papers for 2007 and 2008, respectively.
(Photos: Japan Ministry of Defense)
The RCS model was followed by flyable, one-fifth scale models, one of which was revealed in 2006 [link]. From that year, five years of parallel research were conducted into the so-called smart skin, whereby the external fuselage structure is embedded with self-diagnostic microsensors. Manufacture of the ATD-X, now X-2, and a ground test airframe commenced in 2009.
Also appearing in the Defense of Japan 2008 white paper, this photo shows technicians preparing one of the radio-controlled scale models that were used for high angle of attack testing.
(Photo: Japan Ministry of Defense/TRDI)
As its initial name implied, the ATD-X was destined to be used as a test bed for research and systems integration. The aircraft is intended to act as a stepping stone on the way toward the possible production of a scaled-up, next-generation fighter, incorporating what have been dubbed i3 (informed, intelligent, instantaneous) technologies and counter-stealth features. Released by the TRDI, the early examples of digital mockup (DMU) concept designs from 2011 and 2012 resembled the F-22 Raptor and Northrop/McDonnell-Douglas YF-23, respectively. Dubbed 25DMU (from the Japanese calendar year Heisei 25, or 2013), the latest known example incorporates some of the design features of its predecessors.
Following the RCS model, a combination of a model displayed at a TRDI event in 2007 and a 1/10th scale wind-tunnel model displayed at Gifu AB open day in October 2012 (photo below) had already provided heavy hints with regard to the direction the then ATD-X’s configuration was taking, but closer inspection of the photos from May 2014 revealed more details of the definitive version. Salient points included the four-sided horizontal tail surfaces, which had been five-sided in the full-size mockup, and the rounder air intakes. As tends to be the case in the Japanese aircraft industry, the aircraft represents a joint effort, with one prime contractor (MHI) mating major assemblies from other companies; the wings and both the horizontal and vertical tail surfaces were supplied by Fuji Heavy Industries.
Building on earlier research that was also conducted in the 2000s, the X-2 will be used to investigate axisymmetric engine nozzle thrust vectoring. This will be achieved by three “paddles” mounted around each tail pipe, as seen below in a close-up view of the wind tunnel model. Such devices have previously appeared on the ill-fated Rockwell-MBB X-31 and NASA’s F/A-18-based High-Alpha Research Vehicle. All things considered, the X-2 marks an important step in Japan’s efforts to retain and build on the expertise accumulated in the production of its own fighters.
Also worthy of note in those May 2014 photos was the cost-saving use of a canopy from a Kawasaki T-4 (prompting design changes from the T-2 canopy on the full-size mockup) and the undercarriage from a Mitsubishi T-2, although each of the mainwheels sports the T-4’s cluster of three landing lights. For some reason, the area of the standard hinged T-2 noseheel door was masked in some views in 2014; masked areas also appeared on the fuselage sides aft of the cockpit, presumably obscuring intakes.
Not content with working on its first indigenous fighter since the end of World War II, the development of the X-2’s two 11,000lb-thrust IHI XF5-1 turbofan engines, first installed on the aircraft in July 2014, also breaks new ground through the utilization of ceramic composite turbine blades. The XF5-1 has its origins in basic research carried out from 1991. The first of four test engines was delivered to the TRDI in 1998, but a full five-year prototype programme was not scheduled to start until 2015. Reflecting the X-2’s role as a lower-powered, scaled-down test bed, the next-generation fighter, if proceeded with, is planned to be powered by a pair of a small-diameter 33,000lb engines of a type that has been under development since 2010.
On January 7, 2015, The Asahi Shimbun website reported that the first flight of the X-2 stealth demonstrator, which had been planned for that month or at the latest by the end of the fiscal year (March 31), had been postponed to April or later. The reason given was that the device that senses the throttle position was not working normally, and fixing the defect would require some corrections to the software. The report quotes the Japan Ministry of Defense as also saying that it had been decided to add a system that automatically restarts the engine in the event of an in-flight flameout, as installed on the latest U.S. fighters.
The aircraft’s first taxy trial took place at Nagoya on February 11, 2016, as recorded in edited form in this YouTube video (link). After being transported by road to Gifu, the X-2’s first flight took place on April 22; a joint TRDI/JASDF test flight programme is scheduled to run until around spring 2017. According to the MTDP, a decision on a go-it-alone fighter programme was to be made by fiscal 2018, around 10 years before the oldest of the F-2 fleet would be ready for retirement. In January 2016, the Ministry of Defense was envisaging squadron service from fiscal 2028 onwards. (It is estimated that the last F-2 will be withdrawn from service in 2035.)
New Tanker/Transport Aircraft (C-130H)
Under the MTDP, the Ministry of Defense also planned to acquire three new tanker/transport aircraft of unspecified type (see Boeing KC-46A above).
In a related move, 1.4 billion yen was earmarked to add the tanker function to C-130H Hercules transports, but fiscal 2015 only included 600 million yen for one set of components; another tanker upgrade set was unsuccessfully requested under fiscal 2016 funding. A programme is also under way to increase the number of UH-60J SAR helicopters equipped with refueling probes.
JASDF Aircraft Profiles
Planned for inclusion over the long term, this section will focus initially on the design, development, and operation (including pilot perspectives) of the indigenous types utilized by the JASDF over the years. The aircraft types will be selected, in no particular order, from the following:
Later on, the emphasis will switch to include aircraft types that were built under licence, including the service’s quartet of mainstay fighters: the North American F-86F Sabre; Lockheed F-104J Starfighter; McDonnell-Douglas F-4EJ Phantom; and McDonnell-Douglas F-15J Eagle.
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Then GM introduced the H2, a more civilized version of the very large, very polarizing SUV. And in 2010, the Hummer brand went the same way as the dodo and the Saturn.
Fast forward to 2020, when GM decided to revive the Hummer nameplate as part of its GMC brand. But this time it won’t be a gas-guzzling vehicle the size of a studio apartment. Instead, there will be two electric vehicles the size of a studio apartment.
The 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV and 2022 Hummer EV pickup are coming to a charging station near you. Here are some of our favorite features.
Watts to freedom
Watts to Freedom is the launch control feature of the GMC Hummer EV “supertrucks” (as GM calls them). But the feature does more than just propel the 9,046-pound Hummer EV pickup from 0-60 mph in an impressive 3 seconds with the tri-motor pickup. When activated, a series of on-screen animations, haptic feedback from the seat and audio cues prepare the driver for the experience as the vehicle lowers 2 inches. Then you’re off.
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It sounds more like a theme park ride than a feature, and that’s exactly why we love it and can’t wait to experience it for ourselves.
Range over 350 miles
It is the first question that is asked when someone brings up the subject of an electric car. For those looking to put the Hummer in their driveway (but probably not their garage, since the thing is huge), they’ll be happy to know that GM is aiming for a range of 350 miles for the Hummer EV truck. You may have tight city street anxiety in these vehicles, but definitely not range anxiety.
200 kWh battery
Everything about the upcoming Hummer EVs is big, including the battery pack. With a capacity of 200 kWh using GM’s Ultium electric vehicle platform, Hummer’s batteries exceed those of other automakers. By comparison, Tesla’s Model S has a 100 kWh battery pack. Of course, the huge battery is one of the reasons for the vehicle’s curb weight of 9,046 pounds.
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800-Volt, 350-kilowatt DC fast charging capability
To keep that 200 kWh battery pack charged, you need to be able to push a lot of electrons into the vehicle as quickly as possible. GM chose an 800-volt architecture that supports a charging rate of 350 kW via a DC fast charger. Other vehicles coming to market that charge this quickly are the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6 and Genesis GV60. All of these vehicles will be dwarfed by the majesty of the Hummer EV as they all line up to charge much faster than other EVs.
GM’s hands-free driver assistance system will be available as an option on the Hummer EV. First available in Cadillac luxury cars, the driver assistance system is now landing in select GM vehicles. The system allows drivers to remove their hands from the steering wheel while it is engaged. The driver must still pay attention to the road and traffic and is monitored via a sensor on the steering column.
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Additionally, Super Cruise will only work on highways that are already mapped to support it. So don’t expect to turn it on while driving down a back road. Still, it’s one of the best advanced driver assistance systems on the market today, and soon it will be in a giant EV Hummer.
With a whopping 18 available cameras on the pickup and 17 on the SUV, UltraVision offers drivers real-time views of the world around and under the Hummer EV. For those braving the rigorous world of off-road driving, these cameras can replace the spotter that usually prevents the driver from making a serious mistake. Plus if they get dirty there is a wash function and the lens covers are replaceable.
Like its gas-powered predecessor, the Hummer EV has a huge interior with enough cabin space to fit three large adults across the back seat. At the front, a 13.4-inch touchscreen houses the car’s infotainment center. Underneath it are actual buttons that control the climate, powertrain options, and features like the heated steering wheel.
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Design-wise, the interior is equipped with what feels like dozens of H letters. An interesting aspect is the references to the moon. The dead pedal resembles the footprint on Neil Armstrong’s boot. There is also a map of the Sea of Tranquility in the speaker grilles and in the center console.
Although rear wheel steering is not new or even new at this point, the rear wheel steering’s ability to turn up to 10 degrees results in an impressive feature that can get drivers out of a tight spot.
Hummer’s low-speed Crab Walk option can turn all four wheels diagonally in the same direction. This feature allows drivers to move diagonally to get around a difficult obstacle, whether it’s a giant boulder on a trail or a group of shopping carts in a mall parking lot.
With four transparent removable modular sections, the Hummer is the very large convertible EV SUV you didn’t realize you wanted. The roof sections store in the large front boot, which means the option to go outdoors when you’re on the go.
As you’d expect from a vehicle that in another life was a military-grade transport vehicle, the Hummer EV retains its off-road DNA. The front differential can be locked. Additionally, the rear motors simulate a locking rear differential by turning both rear wheels simultaneously.
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The vehicle also supports torque vectoring which controls the power sent to each rear wheel. There is also full underbody protection to protect the underside of the vehicle. Finally, the adaptive air drive system can lift the vehicle half a foot in extract mode to help drivers navigate through water and traverse large obstacles.
Power plant generator
Last but not least is the Power Station generator. Just like the Ford F-150, the Hummer EV SUV can be equipped with its own power supply. It enables 19.2 kW AC charging, the ability to charge other electric cars (240v/25A/6kW) and generator functions (120v/25A/3kW) to plug in electronics for tailgating or camping. The Power Station will also be available in the Hummer EV pickup in the future.
This story originally ran on KBB.com. | transportation_engineering |
https://themagicboltbox.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/winter-project-disc-brake-upgrade/ | 2018-03-22T13:53:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647885.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322131741-20180322151741-00756.warc.gz | 0.950783 | 552 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__174518036 | en | My 1967 Pontiac Tempest rolled off the assembly line with manual drum brakes at all four corners. In the 2+ years that I’ve owned it, I’ve come to grips with the eccentricities of the not-so-affectionately nicknamed “death brakes.” You could make the argument that driving a car with manual drum brakes forces you to be a better driver, because you must be constantly aware of traffic patterns and avoid hard stops at all costs. I say this because not only do these types of brakes take more pedal effort than modern brakes, but they also fall out of adjustment often, behave erratically, and fade quickly. During a panic stop, you must prepare yourself for the following scenario:
- Step firmly on pedal, which is much harder than the pedal in a modern car.
- Feel the car begin to slow down, then rapidly jerk to the right.
- Release the pedal to straighten car, then apply brakes again.
- Feel the car slow down more, then jerk to the left.
- If the car hasn’t stopped yet, expect the brakes to start fading and lose effectiveness until you stop via aerodynamic drag or impact.
I’d learned to adapt to this setup, but planned to eventually convert the car to disc brakes. Well, “eventually” turned into this winter, as the last time I drove the car the brake warning light was flickering, indicating a fluid leak somewhere in the system. I decided that my winter project (both the blessing and the curse of living in the midwest) for the car would be to completely rebuild the brake system.
Of course, in order to upgrade from drum to disc brakes in the front, there are a whole host of parts that have to come off, and I might as well replace them while I’m at it. So not only did I purchase all the brake parts, I also have ball joints and coil springs on the list for replacement. It’s likely that I’ll get carried away under there and end up with new tie rods and shocks as well.
This will be the biggest single project I’ve ever undertaken and I’m expecting lots of busted knuckles and headaches, but it should be fun and well worth it in the end – not only will the car be immeasurably safer, it will be much more fun to drive as well. I’ll be posting regular updates as I work on the car, so look forward to in-depth how-to tips, photos of greasy, forty-year-old parts, and perhaps gruesome tales of sledgehammer and air chisel injuries. | transportation_engineering |
https://appnavi.com/en/arrk-engineering-and-appnavi-announce-their-partnership/ | 2023-03-29T00:02:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948900.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328232645-20230329022645-00586.warc.gz | 0.914224 | 363 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__197513532 | en | AppNavi and ARRK Engineering have agreed on a WIN-WIN-WIN oriented partnership. ARRK Engineering has been established for many years as a trusted development partner of the automotive and mobility industry, combining industry know-how and development expertise in user-oriented and efficient applications. To support users in the best possible way and to fully exploit the potential of these software solutions, ARRK Engineering and its customers rely on AppNavi. By using AppNavi, considerable efficiency potentials can be tapped, errors can be reduced to a significant degree and the first-time-right approach can be safeguarded. Oliver Sawitzki, Department Manager Digitalization & Software at ARRK Engineering, says: “With AppNavi, we are expanding our portfolio in terms of maximum user experience. We are establishing true end-2-end products that map everything from software to digital mindset. Together, we can thus empower our customers to drive digital transformation in their businesses.”
About ARRK Engineering
WE MAKE IDEAS HAPPEN
ARRK Engineering is a globally active development partner for the automotive and mobility industry. The share of development tasks in the company from the trend areas of e-mobility, autonomous driving and software development has been growing steadily for years.
ARRK Engineering’s Digitalization & Software competence area contributes greatly to serving the innovative power in a digitalized development environment and driving the digital transformation for its customers. The portfolio includes innovative end-2-end solutions from individual consulting to professional software development. The division’s key strength lies in its bundling of expertise from IT experts and interdisciplinary engineering know-how.
You can find further information on ARRK Engineering on the Internet at www.arrk-engineering.com. | transportation_engineering |
http://evolutionropes.com/ | 2022-08-19T21:08:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00645.warc.gz | 0.938216 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__93108899 | en | Evolution Ropes supply a comprehensive range of specialist steel wire rope products along with all required fittings. As well as supply, Evolution Ropes offer a complete after sales service to ensure that all of their products are able to fulfil any requirement you may have, now or in the future, within the marine and offshore industry.
Based in Aberdeen, Evolution Ropes are ideally positioned to ensure you have the highest performance products for mechanical handling, lifting, mooring and towing operations.
Our products are highly resistant to corrosion and impact, very durable, safe and cost-effective. All this is ensured by the use of first-rate materials, perfectly tuned manufacturing processes, and cutting-edge rope tech in terms of compaction.
Depending on the intended use, Evolution Ropes offers both rotating and rotation resistant ropes. Premium-quality raw materials and perfect workmanship are standard – in each of our ropes. | transportation_engineering |
https://fresh.lu/portfolio/schroeder-associes-app/ | 2023-06-02T04:26:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648322.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602040003-20230602070003-00400.warc.gz | 0.902215 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__47524647 | en | This application is designed to deliver smart management capabilities for enterprise parking lots. Through this app it is possible to dynamically reserve and request parking spaces in a parking lot.
This mobile application brings the user a seamless experience from requesting a parking spot, to viewing the account balance and checking their statistics, directly from their iOS device.
This app helps improving the environmental impact of driving to work, and has even included a carpooling section where people can create carpooling groups and use the parking lot together, in order to reduce their CO2 footprint.
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https://www.jsptindia.com/bucket-elevator.html | 2023-03-27T19:50:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948684.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327185741-20230327215741-00737.warc.gz | 0.95937 | 118 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__116425704 | en | The Bucket Elevator is mainly used for vertical (elevation) conveying, although some manufacturers are also proposing designs allowing covering horizontal sections. It is a piece of material handling equipment that is designed to boost production speeds by transporting materials from one place to another. The elevator consists of several buckets mounted onto either a chain or belt loop which is fitted onto two pulleys. A drive assembly at the head pulley causes the pulleys to rotate which moves the buckets up one side, over the head pulley, and down the other side. Bucket Elevator is available in various types. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.cheapchryslerjeep.co.uk/chrysler.shtml | 2015-01-31T13:01:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115867507.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161107-00168-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95104 | 533 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__188502017 | en | Chrysler’s Beginning 1920-1930
Chrysler LLC was founded in 1925 by Walter Chrysler. Walter Chrysler had many years of experience in the car industry prior to founding Chrysler LLC including a spell at prominent car manufactures of the day, Maxwell-Chambers.
The first car to be manufactured by the new Chrysler company was a 6 cylinder car which was distinguishable from its competition by its quality of build and affordable price. Both of these original Chrysler characteristics are still firmly part of all Chrysler cars today.
Chrysler Introduces New Technology 1930-1940
In 1934 Chrysler engineer Carl Breer created the Airflow. It is said that Breer was inspired by watching the manoeuvres of aeroplanes at an air show. The Chrysler Airflow went on to beat 72 speed records!
Chrysler Supports the War Effort 1940-1950
In the early 1940s Chrysler was hit by the death of its founder Walter Chrysler. As the decade continued Chrysler used its engineering expertise to assist in the Allied War effort and was responsible for supplying all kinds of different vehicles to the allies including tanks and trailer mounted aircraft guns.
Chrysler Continues to Innovate 1950-1960
During the 1950s Chrysler came up with several more important motoring innovations. Chrysler’s superiority over other car manufactures was underlined by the fact the Chrysler C-300 was banned from sanctioned racing due to its massively superior engine power.
Chrysler Delivers More Value for Money 1960-1970
As the 1960s progressed Chrysler continued to build its reputation for affordable quality by wining the 1967 Mobil Economy Run.
One Small Step for Chrysler 1970-1980
During the 1970s Chrysler was selected from a host of US car builders by NASA to build the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1b vehicles. The selection of Chrysler went to further demonstrate the reputation of Chrysler for reliability and excellent engineering.
Lee Lacocca Becomes the Face of Chrysler1980-1990
During the 1980s Chrysler carried advertising campaigns fronted by Lee Lacocca to drive home its core values of affordable reliability.
Chrysler Joins Daimler Benz to Form a Partnership Based on Innovation 1990-2000
During the 1990 Chrysler joined forces with innovative European motor giants Daimler-Benz. This partnership proved successful with the 300m being voted the car of the year by Motor Trend.
Chrysler Today 2000+
Today the Chrysler brand still stands for the same things it did when Walter Chrysler first founded the company, affordable reliability and high quality engineering. Why not check out some of the current range of Chrysler cars at Cheap Chrysler Jeep. | transportation_engineering |
http://www.twiga-africa.com/products | 2018-12-13T17:53:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376825029.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20181213171808-20181213193308-00145.warc.gz | 0.909123 | 395 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__103790056 | en | Twiga supplies armoured vehicles, military vehicle remanufacture programmes, rugged patrol boats, mobile field equipment, weapon mount, night vision and thermal imaging devices, specialised ballistics wear, corocam cameras and a wide range of training advisory services.
Twiga supplies the Nyoka 4x4 range of mine and ballistic protected vehicles which can be assembled in the client’s country. The Nyoka 4x4 is supplied in various configurations and fitted with client-specified ancillary equipment.
Using ex-stock South African armoured vehicles Twiga supplies clients with military vehicle remanufacture programmes providing clients with the equivalent of 80% of a new vehicle. Military Vehicle Remanufacture Programmes can include various sub-system upgrades, fitment of ancillary equipment and are supplied with maintenance and service kits as well as the necessary documentation and training programmes.
Twiga supplies a wide range of night vision and thermal imaging devices suitable for military and police surveillance, observation, anti-poaching and counter-smuggling operations.
Twiga supplies a range of rugged boats fabricated from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) making these boats virtually indestructible water platforms suitable for harsh working environments.
The Rugged Riverine Patrol Boat Range can be supplied in sizes from 6 m to 12 m and can be fitted with outboard motors or inboard diesel engines with stern drive or jet drive propulsion systems.
Twiga supplies the CoroCAM camera range that enables the identification of potential failures in electrical equipment. The CoroCAM provides high quality imagery and accurate identification of problem areas by capturing electrical and corona discharges, enabling early detecti on and resulting in cost savings.
Twiga supplies comprehensive military vehicle spares packages which are preserved, packed and marked to ensure easy logistic management by the client. Specialised Spares Programmes are supported with logistic management training and computerised logistic management systems. | transportation_engineering |
https://rechenass.net/global-gateways-how-freight-forwarders-facilitate-seamless-china-to-usa-logistics/ | 2024-02-26T10:39:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474659.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226094435-20240226124435-00296.warc.gz | 0.907405 | 1,241 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__172320733 | en | In the expansive landscape of international trade, the role of freight forwarders is pivotal in ensuring the smooth and efficient movement of goods between China and the USA. Acting as global gateways, these professionals navigate the complexities of logistics, regulations, and transportation to facilitate freight forwarder from china to usa seamless trade between the two economic powerhouses. This article explores the critical functions of freight forwarders in China to USA logistics, examining their role in coordinating shipments, navigating regulatory landscapes, and optimizing supply chain efficiency.
I. Coordinating Multimodal Shipments
A. Sea Freight Management
Freight forwarders orchestrate sea freight logistics, coordinating the movement of goods via ocean vessels. They optimize containerization, ensure timely departures, and handle documentation for shipments traversing the Pacific Ocean from China to the USA.
B. Air Freight Operations
For time-sensitive shipments, freight forwarders manage air freight operations. They coordinate with airlines, arrange cargo space, and oversee the efficient transport of goods from major Chinese airports to destinations across the USA.
II. Customs Compliance and Documentation
A. Navigating Regulatory Frameworks
Freight forwarders possess extensive knowledge of customs regulations in both China and the USA. They ensure compliance with import and export requirements, facilitating the smooth passage of goods through customs checkpoints.
B. Document Preparation and Verification
The preparation and verification of shipping documents are crucial tasks handled by freight forwarders. From commercial invoices to customs declarations, accurate and compliant documentation is essential for seamless cross-border logistics.
III. Cargo Consolidation and Deconsolidation
A. Optimizing Cargo Consolidation
Freight forwarders maximize efficiency by consolidating smaller shipments into full container loads. This practice reduces costs and enhances the utilization of available cargo space during transportation.
B. Deconsolidation at Destination
Upon arrival in the USA, freight forwarders oversee the deconsolidation of cargo. They efficiently distribute individual shipments to their respective destinations, ensuring timely delivery and minimizing delays.
IV. Supply Chain Visibility and Tracking
A. Utilizing Technology for Visibility
Freight forwarders leverage technology to provide real-time visibility into the movement of goods. Shippers can track shipments, monitor transit times, and receive updates on the status of their cargo from origin to destination.
B. Proactive Issue Resolution
With advanced tracking systems, freight forwarders can identify and address issues proactively. This ensures that potential disruptions are mitigated swiftly, maintaining the integrity of the supply chain.
V. Risk Management and Contingency Planning
A. Identifying and Mitigating Risks
Freight forwarders conduct risk assessments to identify potential challenges in China to USA logistics. This includes evaluating factors such as geopolitical events, weather conditions, and transportation disruptions.
B. Implementing Contingency Measures
In the face of unforeseen events, freight forwarders implement contingency plans. These plans may involve rerouting shipments, adjusting delivery schedules, or coordinating alternative transportation methods to minimize disruptions.
VI. Warehouse and Distribution Management
A. Distribution Center Operations
Freight forwarders manage distribution centers strategically located in both China and the USA. These centers facilitate efficient storage, inventory management, and order fulfillment for businesses engaged in cross-border trade.
B. Last-Mile Delivery Coordination
Coordinating last-mile delivery is a critical aspect of freight forwarding. Forwarders collaborate with local carriers to ensure timely and accurate delivery of goods to their final destinations within the USA.
VII. Communication and Collaboration
A. Building Strong Partnerships
Freight forwarders foster strong partnerships with shipping lines, airlines, customs brokers, and other stakeholders. Effective communication and collaboration contribute to a seamless flow of information and resources.
B. Client Collaboration
Working closely with clients, freight forwarders gain a deep understanding of their unique logistics needs. This collaboration allows for customized solutions that align with the specific requirements of businesses engaged in China to USA trade.
VIII. Sustainable Practices in Freight Forwarding
A. Embracing Environmental Responsibility
Freight forwarders are increasingly adopting sustainable practices. This includes optimizing transportation routes, reducing emissions, and exploring eco-friendly packaging solutions to align with global sustainability goals.
B. Compliance with Emission Standards
Compliance with emission standards is a priority for freight forwarders. They adhere to international regulations and invest in green technologies to minimize the environmental impact of transportation between China and the USA.
Freight forwarders serve as the linchpin in the intricate web of China to USA logistics, providing a comprehensive range of services that ensure the seamless movement of goods across borders. From coordinating multimodal shipments and managing customs compliance to leveraging technology for supply chain visibility, these professionals play a central role in facilitating international trade. As the global economy continues to evolve, the expertise and capabilities of freight forwarders remain essential for businesses seeking efficient and reliable cross-border logistics solutions.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
- What is the role of freight forwarders in sea freight management between China and the USA?
- Freight forwarders coordinate sea freight logistics, optimizing containerization, ensuring timely departures, and handling documentation for shipments between China and the USA.
- How do freight forwarders navigate customs regulations in China to the USA logistics?
- Freight forwarders possess knowledge of customs regulations in both countries, ensuring compliance with import and export requirements and facilitating smooth customs clearance.
- What is cargo consolidation, and how do freight forwarders optimize it?
- Cargo consolidation involves combining smaller shipments into full container loads. Freight forwarders optimize this process to reduce costs and enhance cargo space utilization.
- How do freight forwarders contribute to last-mile delivery coordination?
- Freight forwarders collaborate with local carriers to ensure timely and accurate last-mile delivery of goods to their final destinations within the USA.
- What sustainable practices are adopted by freight forwarders in China to USA logistics?
- Freight forwarders embrace sustainable practices, including optimizing transportation routes, reducing emissions, and exploring eco-friendly packaging solutions to minimize environmental impact. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.fifa13forum.com/igor-makarovs-innovations-in-clipless-pedal-systems-and-cycling-cleats-for-maximized-power-transfer-and-efficiency.html | 2023-12-02T02:50:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00232.warc.gz | 0.894309 | 664 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__364529 | en | Igor Makarov’s contributions to cycling extend beyond carbon fiber frames and components. Igor Makarov innovations in clipless pedal systems and cycling cleats have played a pivotal role in enhancing power transfer and overall cycling efficiency. Here’s a closer look at the significance of these innovations:
- Optimized Pedal-Cleat Interface
Makarov’s innovations likely focus on creating an efficient connection between the cyclist’s shoes and pedals. The pedal-cleat interface is crucial for transmitting power from the rider’s legs to the bike’s drivetrain. By designing a precise and secure connection, Makarov aims to minimize energy loss during the pedal stroke.
- Enhanced Power Transfer
Clipless pedal systems designed by Makarov are likely engineered to provide a direct transfer of power from the cyclist’s legs to the pedals. This results in a more efficient transfer of energy, enabling riders to generate higher speeds and maintain better momentum, especially during sprints and climbs.
- 3. Customizable Cleat Positions
Makarov’s innovations may include cleat systems that allow for precise positioning and adjustment. Customizable cleat placement ensures that each cyclist can fine-tune their pedal setup to match their biomechanics and riding style. This optimization can lead to increased comfort and maximized power output.
- Aerodynamic Considerations
Efficient pedal and cleat designs also take aerodynamics into account. Makarov’s innovations might involve reducing the aerodynamic drag caused by the pedal system. Minimizing turbulence around the cleat area contributes to smoother airflow, helping cyclists maintain higher speeds with less effort.
- Compatibility with Various Shoe Types
Innovations in clipless pedal systems and cleats could prioritize compatibility with a wide range of cycling shoe designs. This versatility allows cyclists to use the same pedal system across different disciplines, from road cycling to mountain biking.
- Durability and Longevity
Makarov’s designs likely emphasize the durability of the pedal-cleat system. The materials and construction techniques used aim to withstand the rigors of cycling, ensuring that the system remains reliable and efficient over countless rides.
- Efficient Cleat Engagement and Release Mechanisms
Makarov’s pedal systems may incorporate efficient engagement and release mechanisms. Quick and secure engagement while starting or sprinting, coupled with smooth and predictable cleat release, can significantly improve a cyclist’s overall performance and confidence on the bike.
- 8. Rider-Centric Approach
Makarov’s innovations are likely centered around improving the cycling experience for riders of all skill levels. Whether for professional athletes or recreational cyclists, the focus is likely on enhancing comfort, power transfer, and overall enjoyment on the road or trail.
In summary, Igor Makarov’s innovations in clipless pedal systems and cycling cleats contribute to the maximized power transfer and efficiency of cyclists. These designs aim to create a seamless connection between the rider and the bike, allowing for optimal power output, comfort, and aerodynamic performance. By addressing key aspects of cycling dynamics, Makarov’s innovations likely play a crucial role in advancing the sport and helping riders achieve their full potential. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.nbdemolition.com/services/asphalt-removal/ | 2024-04-15T10:13:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816954.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415080257-20240415110257-00057.warc.gz | 0.889986 | 130 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__46965387 | en | ASPHALT BEGONE: PAVING YOUR PATH FORWARD
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Are you looking to remove that old asphalt driveway or parking lot? Our asphalt services in Pittsburgh, PA, and Allegheny County, are tailored to meet your specific needs. We specialize in asphalt driveway and parking lot removal, helping to clear the way for your new project. With us, asphalt removal doesn’t have to be a hassle. Our experienced team ensures every piece of asphalt is removed safely and efficiently, preparing your site for whatever comes next. | transportation_engineering |
https://naijablazers.com/a-young-nigerian-who-was-part-of-the-team-of-engineers-that-built-hyperloop-wins-competition/ | 2019-05-22T11:05:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256797.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522103253-20190522125253-00295.warc.gz | 0.987906 | 300 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__213779657 | en | The young Nigerian and his team were part of a competition that challenges teams to build a futuristic transport pod – It was gathered that the competition which began in 2017, picks the team with the best idea as the winner. The Nigerian man identified as Oluwatobi Oyinlola has made a great achievement after he joined a team of intelligent engineers to build an innovative type of train. The team of engineers entered a competition that challenges university students to come up with creative ideas on transport pods. Oyinlola’s team won the competition known as Hyperloop Pod competition. The first two competitions were held in January and August 2017.
The competition focuses on a single criterion maximum speed that makes all Pods self-propelled. NAIJ.com gathered that the Hyperloop competition was launched by a technology company known as SpaceX. . SpaceX was founded by South-African born inventor, Elon Reeve Musk. According to Musk, the Hyperloop Pods are high-speed trains. Musk explained that the pods would use a separate system known as the Hyperloop system. The Hyperloop systems would allow trains/pods to reach destinations on time.
Hyperloop is an alternative to short distance air travel, where the system will be much faster than the normal rail networks we are used to and much cleaner than air travel. The Hyperloop systems would be built in tunnels that have had some of the air sucked out to lower the pressure of pods/trains that would transport through it. | transportation_engineering |
https://allied.ie/transport-infrastructure-ireland | 2023-12-08T00:02:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100705.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207221604-20231208011604-00001.warc.gz | 0.94053 | 312 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__33543127 | en | Client: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Architect: In house Location: Dublin 8
Client: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Architect: In house
Location: Dublin 8
Located in newly refurbished premises in Dublin’s Parkgate Street, Transport Infrastructure Ireland was established through a merger of the National Roads Authority and the Railway Procurement Agency. The organisation’s primary function is to provide an integrated approach to the future development and operation of the national roads network and light rail infrastructure throughout Ireland.
The merged organisation employs over 250 staff, located primarily in Dublin, for which Allied secured the contract to supply and install Komfort Double Glazed Polar with an acoustic performance of up to 49dB (Rw) and Sonik 44mm double glazed doors providing up to 38dB (Rw) acoustic performance. Located over three floors, this extensive fit out by Allied Workspace has created a modern, peacefull and light-filled working environment with new meeting rooms, individual offices and kitchenettes.
Complete with integrated blinds, the double glazed partition system uses no silicone even at glass-to-glass joints. Shared support to both panes of glass is offered by the unique ‘ghost post’ which means that the system is totally relocatable should future needs dictate. The use of Sonik doors in the project was key in that they provide enhanced acoustic performance and are flush glazed to the corridor side.
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http://www.highonadventure.com/hoa16sep/blishak/steam-locomotives.htm | 2022-05-27T19:31:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662675072.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220527174336-20220527204336-00648.warc.gz | 0.97426 | 1,302 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__170127235 | en | MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
I'm one of the old-timers who lament the demise of steam engines. I sometimes dream of seeing a working locomotive going by, and I always feel a thrill and believe it is really happening. That dream came true while attending the 100th Anniversary of the opening of the Forth Bridge on October 8, 1990. As dusk darkened the skies, newly installed Scottish Power floodlights were switched on for the first time, fireworks exploded, and I heard a tiny British-style shriek from a streamlined steam locomotive high on the massive structure above us. The president of Scottish Rail was parking his private train, hauled by a vintage streamlined steam engine, in order to view the festivities.
A rail fan acquaintance related a painful experience when in the San Francisco Bay Area decades ago. He watched while "Those Who Knew Best" junked the redundant red, orange, and black GS series locomotives designed in 1937 for the Southern Pacific Railroad's new "Coast Daylight."
One can imagine that the locomotives added their dying screams to the cacophony of metallic grinding and crashing and banging. Fortunately, one engine was saved.The Model GS-4 engine #4449 was retired from revenue service in 1956 and put into storage. In 1958 it was donated, by the railroad, to the City of Portland, who then put it on static display in Oaks Amusement Park. Some old-timer visited it occasionally and oiled its bearings just in case it could ever be restored.That day came 1974 when it was painstakingly restored to operating condition and repainted in red, white, and blue to haul the bi-centennial American Freedom Train. Many technicians and mechanics had been tracked down out of retirement to do a host of repairs and rebuilding that only their unique memories and skills could handle.
One chilly morning, we waited next to the commuter tracks between San Jose and San Francisco. We had lots of company; many young fathers and their sons who had never seen a live steam engine before were in attendance. We all gazed down the tracks awaiting the first puff of steam. The engine put on a thrilling show, with steam expanding in to the cold air, chuffs aplenty, and the sort of clanging and chugging that only steam engines can create. I was mesmerized as my old friend charged by.
The engine, after her role powering the American Freedom Train, was stabled in Portland, Oregon. My father, Homer Hamlin, lived nearby. He had spent some time on the Southern Pacific serving as a fireman in the late 1940s on earlier models of the GS engines. He made some acquaintances at the Burlington Northern Railroad, in who’s barn #4449 was now sheltered, and arranged to take me to visit the vintage engine while it was at rest. The huge barn was casting shadowy light on the former Daylight engine. She loomed huge, larger than she’d ever looked, while operating, and strangely, uncharacteristicaly silent. Now once again wearing her authentic red, orange, black and silver livery she was fired up occasionally to haul railfan trips, and once to star in the Hollywood film "Tough Guys" with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster.
I grew up in San Luis Obispo, CA, along the Southern Pacific Railroad's Coast Line. The SP maintained a stable of oil-burning steam engines into the late 1950s, including the colorful GS locomotives that pulled the vintage, art-deco "Coast Daylight" trains between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The passenger station at San Luis Obispo is halfway between the two cities in a spectacular location, with San Luis Mountain looming to the west and eucalyptus and palm trees surrounding it. It was a great place to park with your boyfriend at night. Switch engines and helper engines produced a symphony of clanks and chuffs which made a pleasant accompaniment to adolescent hugs and kisses. Steam engines seem alive even while parked, noisily breathing steam while pumping up the air brake system. In action, having their working drive wheels, piston rods and cylinders exposed to view, makes them fascinating to watch.
In 1956, my father was driving me to college at Stockton, California when we observed a railfan excursion. Happy passengers crowded the rear platform - festive with red and white bunting - of the steam-hauled train. I found this curious as there were still steam engines on the Southern Pacific at that time and I didn't realize until later that they had been replaced with diesels on most other railroads.
The last time I recall seeing one of SP’s engines at work was in 1957. We were camping out on the Pacific shore in Santa Barbara County, and woke up at night to see, and hear, a black freight engine charging down the Coast Line right towards us. In my sleepy confusion I forgot that the track curved shortly before it reached the spot where we were camped and had a moment of panic.
The age of steam is long gone. The steam locomotive has disappeared on main line service. Diesel powered locomotives were introduced in the late 1930s and by the 1960s most steam engines headed for the scrap heap. Steam locomotives were high maintainance machines. They used water, and lots of it, requiring frequent stops for refilling water tenders. They required frequent lubrication of drive train bearings, usually done by a man with an oil can. They required careful nurturing, frequent inspections, and repairs, of steam boilers, which, operating at pressures of up to 350 lbs. per square inch, could result in catastrophic explosions if not carefully tended to. The results of such an apocalyptic event usually included the disappearance of the engine crew.
The bottom line, of course, is economics. Though initially expensive to purchase, the cost of operating and maintaining a diesel locomotive was quickly proved to be much lower than the cost of steam locomotives.
It is still possible to view and to ride behind steam locomotives maintained for their tourism value. Subject to regular inspections by the Federal Railway Administration, they are as safe (or safer) than the average amusement park ride. Here are some examples in the Western United States, available for aficionados. | transportation_engineering |
http://town.blackdiamond.ab.ca/340/On-It-Calgary-Regional-Transit-Services | 2017-05-26T09:08:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608652.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526090406-20170526110406-00354.warc.gz | 0.920146 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__101702278 | en | On-It Regional Transit Pilot Launches! "On-It Regional Transit - a Calgary Regional Partnership Initiative"
The Town of Black Diamond, working with the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP), will see public transportation come to our community beginning October 11, 2016. The two-year public transit pilot, called On-It Regional Transit, will also serve Turner Valley, Okotoks and High River. The service will go from Black Diamond to Okotoks and to the Somerset Bridlewood LRT Station in Calgary every morning, with return trips in the afternoon and early evening.
To start, buses will operate Monday to Friday during peak hours, with one route that will offer a local service in Okotoks before departing for the Somerset/Bridlewood LRT station and the other route offering an express service with only 2 stops in Okotoks at the Park 'n Ride locations before departing to the Somerset/Bridlewood LRT station. As this is a pilot, service will be closely monitored after the first year. Services are being provided by Southland Transportation Ltd.
For up to date news on this exciting venture read the blog on the On-It website!
For more information about the service, please visit the On-It website, or follow the links on the top left for further details about the On-It Regional Transit Service. The information on the On-It website will be regularly updated. | transportation_engineering |
https://healys.com/news-events-insights/is-it-just-too-dangerous-to-cycle-in-brighton | 2024-04-22T19:35:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818337.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422175900-20240422205900-00290.warc.gz | 0.975871 | 1,555 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__2688731 | en | At the time of writing, the UK is basking in unseasonably warm sunshine. Spring appears to have arrived early and with it, many of the outdoor activities that one associates with more temperate weather are making an early appearance. Whilst cycling is an all year-round activity and indeed a necessity for those who use it as their main method of getting around our towns and cities to commute to and from work, the number of people who choose to jump on their bikes increases considerably in the spring and summer months.The Visit Brighton website rightly highlights the pleasures of cycling along Brighton's coastal routes: out towards the Marina, along the stunning cliff paths of Saltdean and Peacehaven, the coastal route from Shoreham to Rottingdean and the combination of coast and countryside that can be experienced by cycling the Seafront to Downs Route.However, cyclists who travel daily on the city centre roads would most likely give a wry smile at the suggestion that Brighton is some kind of cycling paradise. It will doubtless come as a surprise to those not familiar with the city that Brighton is consistently ranked as one of the most dangerous cycling cities in England. It was reported that in a year when Brighton actually ranked as the most dangerous of ALL cities (including London) in the UK for cyclists, 157 cyclists were killed or seriously injured on the city's roads. Poor road design and busy junctions are undoubtedly contributory factors. However, as most cyclists are injured as a result of collisions with other road users and most commonly with other motorised road users (car, vans, lorries, buses and motorcyclists), Brighton's appearance in another 'top 10 most' list provides the biggest clue as to where the problem for Brighton's cyclists really lies.In 2018, a government backed study by The National Infrastructure Commission listed the top 10 most traffic-clogged cities in the UK outside London. Coming 8th in a list which comprised in the main large major cities such as Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham and Bristol, was Brighton. The report was based on comparing the ease with which people could drive from one area to another during peak and off-peak times. Places with the largest variation in travel times during peak and off-peak hours were rated as being most congested. In a nutshell there are just too many vehicles on the roads of Brighton and the infrastructure cannot cope with the volume.Along with pedestrians, cyclists are the most vulnerable of road users. The problem for cyclists is that they actually have to share the carriageway with motor vehicles. The potential for the two modes of transport coming into collision with each other in large volumes of traffic, is pretty high. In almost all circumstances where the two collide, the cyclist is going to come off worse, for obvious reasons.
The main causes of cycling accidents
According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), the most common causes of cycling accidents are;
- Motorist emerging into path of cyclist
- Motorist turning across path of cyclist
- Cyclist riding into the path of a motor vehicle, often riding off a pavement
- Cyclist and motorist going straight ahead
- Cyclist turning right from a major road and from a minor road
- Child cyclist playing or riding too fast
In collisions involving a bicycle and another vehicle, the most common key contributory factor that the police record is 'failed to look properly' by either the driver or rider, especially at junctions. 'Failed to look properly' was attributed to the car driver in 57% of serious collisions and to the cyclist in 43% of serious collisions, at road junctions.When the volume of traffic is heavy, it is particularly easy for a motor vehicle driver to miss the approach of a cyclist on either the near or offside of his vehicle. Cars and vans changing lanes in heavy traffic, is a serious problem for cyclists, particularly if they are able to ride past stationary vehicles which suddenly start moving again.HGVs present a serious danger to cyclists, most notably in heavy traffic where the cyclist is able to make progress on the road whilst other vehicles are stopping and starting. These types of accident often occur when an HGV is turning left at a junction and fails to see the cyclist on his nearside. According to the RoSPA report, about one quarter of all serious accidents involving serious injury to a cyclist were caused by an HGV, coach or bus driver travelling too close to the cyclist.That having been said, by no means are all accidents involving cyclists and other road users the fault of 'other road users.' Motorists become incensed at cyclists who drive off the pavement onto the road and those who ignore red traffic lights.
Why does Brighton suffer in comparison to, say, Cambridge in terms of providing a safe environment for cyclists?
The national average proportion of people cycling just once a week is 12%, but in Brighton the percentage is higher at 17%. Compare this with Cambridge where almost half the adult population cycles at least once a week. Cambridge is considered to be the most popular place in the country to cycle. What is Cambridge doing that Brighton isn't, for its cycling population?
- It features over 80 miles of dedicated cycle lanes and routes,
- It restricts the number of parking permits it issues - the choice of transport may be between no wheels and two wheels for a lot of people!
- Road priority is given to cyclists in key busy spots,
- Business incentives are given to provide bike hire and parking spots for cyclists in the city.
That's not to say Brighton isn't trying to make improvements for cyclists
The authorities in Brighton have responded to its poor reputation as being anything but a safe haven for cyclists by increasing the number of cycle lanes. Improvements are being made along the Lewes Road and Old Shoreham Road. There are already cycle lanes across the city, including along the seafront, Grand Avenue and The Drive, and Hove to Hangleton. New cycle parking has been installed in the city.How far Brighton is able to move forwards in its efforts to appreciably improve life on the roads for the city's cyclists, remains to be seen. Perhaps more 'park and ride' schemes may be brought in in the future to assist a reduction in the number of vehicles in the city? As always, the question of financing such schemes and the public transport improvements required to accompany them, will be an issue, as will the potential effects such measures would have on business in the city.However, if Brighton as a city wants to ensure that the numbers of those injured in cycling accidents within its city limits are reduced year on year, it must keep up all possible efforts to ensure that it does not stand still in its attempts to make its roads safer for all road users.One negative and an ongoing problem now for many years is the fact that Brighton seems to have been taken over by roadworks. They are everywhere and as the majority of residents we suspect would agree, they never seem to finish. This is likely to be a problem that does not go away in the near future and that is a worry. Traffic congestion invariably leads to a less safe environment for cyclists. That cannot be good news.Healys personal injury solicitors based at their Brighton office, have acted on behalf of many cyclists who have suffered injuries as a result of cycling accidents and have recovered many thousands of pounds worth of compensation as a result of bringing cycling accident compensation claims, on their behalf. If you have been injured in a cycling accident and wish to discuss making a road traffic accident claim, contact us on 0800 280 0432 or if you want us to call you back, please complete our enquiry form online. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.sumosearch.org/unlocking-versatility-the-advantages-of-nylon-wheels-for-trolleys/ | 2024-04-17T05:08:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817144.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417044411-20240417074411-00868.warc.gz | 0.92416 | 1,079 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__88158905 | en | In the realm of material handling, the choice of wheels for trolleys can significantly impact efficiency, durability, and overall performance. Among the plethora of options available, nylon wheels stand out for their versatility and suitability across various applications. In this blog, we will explore the myriad benefits of nylon wheels for trolleys and delve into why they are an indispensable choice for industries worldwide.
Understanding Nylon Wheels:
Nylon wheels are engineered using nylon material, a thermoplastic known for its exceptional strength, durability, and versatility. These wheels are widely utilized in trolley applications due to their ability to withstand heavy loads, resist wear and tear, and provide smooth and quiet operation.
Advantages of Nylon Wheels for Trolleys:
– Durability: Nylon wheels are renowned for their durability, making them ideal for trolleys handling heavy loads or operating in rugged environments. Their resistance to abrasion, chemicals, and impacts ensures long-lasting performance, reducing the need for frequent replacements.
– Load-Bearing Capacity: Nylon wheels boast impressive load-bearing capacities, allowing trolleys to transport heavy items with ease. Whether it’s in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, or distribution centers, nylon wheels provide reliable support for various material handling tasks.
– Smooth and Quiet Operation: Nylon wheels offer smooth and quiet operation, minimizing noise levels in the workplace. This feature is particularly advantageous in environments where noise reduction is essential, such as hospitals, libraries, or retail establishments.
– Floor Protection: Nylon wheels are designed to be gentle on floors, reducing the risk of damage or markings. This is especially important in settings where maintaining pristine floors is crucial, such as automotive showrooms, hotels, or exhibition halls.
Caster wheel manufacturers in India offer a wide range of customization options for nylon wheels to suit specific trolley requirements. From different wheel diameters and tread designs to various bearing types and load capacities, businesses can tailor nylon wheels to meet their unique needs.
Nylon wheels for trolleys are well-suited for diverse environmental conditions. They can withstand temperature variations, moisture exposure, and chemical spills, making them suitable for indoor and outdoor use across industries.
Maintenance and Longevity:
One of the key advantages of nylon wheels is their low maintenance requirements. Routine cleaning and lubrication are typically sufficient to keep them operating smoothly. Additionally, their durability translates to a longer lifespan, minimizing downtime and maintenance costs for businesses.
Nylon wheels offer excellent temperature resistance, making them suitable for use in both hot and cold environments. Whether in freezing cold storage facilities or high-temperature manufacturing plants, nylon wheels maintain their performance and integrity, ensuring consistent and reliable operation of trolleys.
Unlike metal wheels that may corrode over time, nylon wheels are resistant to corrosion. This property makes them ideal for applications where exposure to moisture or chemicals is common, such as in food processing facilities, chemical plants, or outdoor environments subject to rain or humidity.
Despite their impressive load-bearing capacity, nylon wheels are lightweight compared to their metal counterparts. This lightweight design contributes to easier handling and maneuverability of trolleys, reducing strain on operators and enabling smoother navigation through narrow aisles or tight spaces.
Nylon wheels offer a cost-effective solution for material handling applications. Compared to other wheel materials such as metal or rubber, nylon wheels typically have a lower initial cost while still delivering long-term durability and performance. This makes them a budget-friendly option for businesses looking to optimize their material handling operations without compromising on quality.
Compatibility with Various Trolley Types
Nylon wheels are compatible with various trolley designs, including platform trucks, hand trucks, utility carts, and dollies. Their versatility allows them to be seamlessly integrated into different trolley configurations, providing reliable support and mobility across a wide range of material handling tasks and industries.
Some nylon wheels are equipped with additional safety features such as wheel brakes or swivel locks, enhancing the stability and safety of trolleys during loading, unloading, or stationary positioning. These safety features help prevent accidental movement and reduce the risk of workplace accidents or injuries.
Nylon wheels manufactured by reputable suppliers comply with industry standards and regulations for quality, safety, and environmental sustainability. Businesses can trust that nylon wheels from certified manufacturers meet stringent requirements, ensuring peace of mind and compliance with industry best practices.
Customer Support and Warranty
Reputable caster wheel manufacturers in India provide excellent customer support and warranty options for nylon wheels. From expert guidance in selecting the right wheels for specific applications to after-sales support and warranty coverage, manufacturers prioritize customer satisfaction and stand behind the quality and performance of their products.
Nylon wheels for trolleys exemplify versatility, durability, and reliability, making them an indispensable choice for businesses across various industries. With their impressive load-bearing capacities, smooth operation, and low maintenance requirements, nylon wheels continue to be a preferred option for material handling applications. As businesses strive for efficiency and productivity, investing in high-quality nylon wheels from reputable caster wheel manufacturers in India ensures optimal performance and long-term value. | transportation_engineering |
https://www.sap-digital-business-services.com/reference/joint-stock-company-freight-one-jsc-freight-one/ | 2021-01-26T21:50:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704803737.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20210126202017-20210126232017-00509.warc.gz | 0.922101 | 113 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__124583851 | en | - Country: Russia
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Joint Stock Company Freight One (JSC Freight One) is a Russia based rail freight transportation company that offers single wagon and full train export, import, and transit transport services for customers through its tank, box, flat, and wagon cars. With the help of SAP Digital Business Services, JSC Freight One successfully implemented SAP S/4HANA and SAP Transportation Management, which enabled a new level of automation and control. | transportation_engineering |
http://latesthowto.com/fg-to-adopt-motorists-friendly-platforms-for-toll-payment-director/ | 2018-05-22T14:03:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864790.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522131652-20180522151652-00450.warc.gz | 0.965477 | 500 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__26853631 | en | FG to adopt motorists’ friendly platforms for toll payment – director
Abuja – The Federal Government says it will adopt motorists’ friendly platforms, such as phones, smart cards and electronic cards on windscreen for toll payments.
Mr Chukwunwike Uzo, the Director of Highways, Planning and Development, Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, made this known in an interview in Abuja on Sunday.
The plans are ongoing by the Federal Government to re-introduce toll gates across the country.
Uzo said the idea was to make toll payment easy and reduce cash payment at toll gates.
According to him, the use of cash will not be totally eliminated, but will be reduced to the barest minimum to ensure that motorists are not delayed at toll gates.
He, however, said the toll gates would run as businesses to create employment for Nigerians.
“We are evaluating, studying and trying to map out all the facilities we need to put in those areas where we have toll plazas in the past.
“We are not looking at it only as toll plazas, but as a business venture, so that we can create employment for Nigerians.
“We want to set up facilities like mechanic workshops, restaurants, rest rooms and little motels to create employment for people living around the toll gates,” he said.
Uzo said the facilities would provide safe environment for travelers to fuel and stretch their legs before continuing their journeys.
He said that the reintroduction of toll gates was a government policy that would certainly be implemented on completed sections of federal roads.
“That is why we are monitoring road contractors, because government does not want to put toll gates on roads that are not in good conditions.
“The key thing is that driving from Lagos to Maiduguri, a distance of about 1,600km, without paying anything to maintain the road is not wise.
“There is no country that operates its roads like that.
“We have the biggest spread of road network in the sub-region and it is an asset that is expected to yield revenue,” he said. (NAN)
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https://baderbros.com/ATVs-Polaris-Sportsman-500-H-O-2003-Hillman-MI-a5cd87f3-4976-4ff6-a6a2-aac50139f845 | 2019-12-06T23:22:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540491491.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20191206222837-20191207010837-00479.warc.gz | 0.851297 | 313 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__185060938 | en | This is not an offer for credit and should be used for estimation purposes only based on the information you provided. You should not base your decision on this estimate alone. Title, registration, tax and other fees, and personal circumstances such as employment status and personal credit history, were not considered in the calculations.
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https://travelbehaviour.com/2014/10/20/walk-to-work-and-improve-your-mental-wellbeing/ | 2023-04-01T03:35:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949701.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401032604-20230401062604-00283.warc.gz | 0.961703 | 1,608 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__281314379 | en | The question of whether the method of transport you use to get to work affects your mental wellbeing is bound to grab attention and this has certainly been the case with the study by Adam Martin, Yevgeniy Goryakin and Marc Suhrcke from the Health Economics Group at the University of East Anglia.
An ONS study published in February 2014 found that those who walked, cycled or took the bus to work had lower personal wellbeing than car commuters. A rather different result is reported by Martin et al. Their analysis used 18 years of data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), containing repeated observations for individuals of commuting mode and travel time and psychological symptoms. The longitudinal data gave them a stronger basis for causal inference than previous studies, as they could not only control for measured differences between individuals that could confound the relationship between commute mode and wellbeing (these were also taken into account by ONS), but also unmeasured differences (e.g. preferences for travel) and they could assess how transitions between commute modes affect wellbeing. Hence their work can be considered the most robust evidence to date on the relationship between commuting and wellbeing.
Martin et al found that actively commuting to work (walking or cycling) and using public transport are associated with higher psychological wellbeing than driving to work. Not only that but they show a switch from car driving to active travel is associated with a simultaneous increase in wellbeing.
These were the headline findings reported in the media when the paper was published. When you look closely at the results there are nuances that merit mention. In one of the analyses which accounted for specific travel modes, it is only walking and bus commuters that are associated with higher wellbeing (however an acknowledged limitation of the dataset was that relatively few people ever cycled or took the train). The longer the duration of the walk to work the larger the increase in wellbeing (with the opposite effect for car commute duration). When looking at mode switching, it is only those commuters that switch from car driving to walking that improve their wellbeing (and not from car driving to cycling or bus or rail). Also, switching from walking to work to car driving is not examined.
Having got these results, it seems important to try to explain them. Why would it be expected that how you get to work might influence mental wellbeing? What is the causal mechanism? We could suggest that walking (like other forms of exercise) involves physical movement that relieves stress and provides time for reflection that helps in dealing with issues of daily life. Other modes do not offer this quite as well – for example, cycling requires concentration to attend to risks on the road. In fact, other modes could introduce stress due to uncertainty about journey times.
The main results of Martin et al focus on an overall score for psychological wellbeing constructed from 12 different psychological symptoms. When looking separately at the 12 symptoms, it is found that active commuting (results are not separated for walkers and cyclists) is associated with lower scores for being ‘constantly under strain’ and ‘unable to concentrate’ but is not statistically significant at 95% level with different scores for other symptoms. The association with these two symptoms does however support the hypothesis that walking relieves stress and assists in dealing with daily life.
So, why did we find this work of great interest? What was common in the Martin et al study and our Life Transitions and Travel Behaviour study is that they both analysed changes to commute mode recorded in panel surveys. Martin et al looked at the effect of commute mode changes on wellbeing. We were looking in the opposite direction at what factors influence a change in commute mode to occur in the first place. We used the first two waves of Understanding Society, the successor to BHPS. Put the two studies together (as suggested by Martin et al in their paper) and you can consider in what circumstances people are likely to switch from car to active commuting and gain the wellbeing benefits that they discovered. This could have important implications for the design of behaviour change interventions.
In the Life Transitions and Travel Behaviour project, we found that switches from non-active commuting to active commuting were strongly predicted by job or home location changes that shortened distances to work (to within 3 miles) and brought people into more supportive environments for active travel (i.e. living in mixed land use neighbourhood). They were also more likely among those with pro-environmental attitudes.
Incidentally, this raises the question of whether the increased wellbeing that Martin et al found with walking to work could be picking up the benefits of wider lifestyle changes that occur at the same time as switching to walk to work. The researchers accounted for changes in residence, job and neighbourhood and job satisfaction and hence provides strong evidence that walking to work has an effect in its own right. Nevertheless, it would be worthwhile to conduct further research to examine if life changes that occur at the same time as a change in commute mode have a separate, direct effect on wellbeing, as well an indirect effect through a change in commuting mode. Although the Martin et al study used data from an 18 year period, only changes that occurred between any two consecutive waves were considered in the analysis. A development would be to track commuting behaviour over a longer period and look at whether commuting dissatisfaction is a prior prompt to a job or home move and whether improved wellbeing arising from a commuting mode change is maintained or grows over the longer term. Building on the work of the Life Transitions and Travel Behaviour project, which linked data from the panel survey with secondary data on built environment characteristics, future research could also consider whether the effect on wellbeing of switching to more active travel modes varies in neighbourhoods with different characteristics – it would be expected that walking to work would be more relaxing in parkland than along main roads. This would strengthen the case for investment in environmental improvements.
So, encouraging workers to live closer to their jobs and in walkable neighbourhoods (especially those workers with pro-environmental attitudes) could facilitate increased walking to work with the attendant benefits to wellbeing. While commuter cycling did not come out as improving psychological wellbeing in Martin et al study, there is cross-sectional evidence that it increases physical health and from that perspective it is also worth encouraging workers to live within distances that are able to be cycled, even if not walked. Other schemes, such as that recently proposed by Lord Darzi, whereby incentives are used to encourage public transport commuters to walk or cycle the first mile to/from home or work, could also be used to support active commuting amongst those for whom longer journeys are unavoidable. It might also be hoped that current day improvements to cycling environments could enable the wellbeing impacts of walking to be appreciated also by cyclists.
Kiron Chatterjee and Ben Clark (20/10/14)
Walking or cycling to work ‘improves well-being’ Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29175088
Martin, A., Goryakin, Y., Suhrcke, M. (2014) Does active commuting improve psychological wellbeing? Longitudinal evidence from eighteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, Preventive Medicine. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.08.023
Office for National Statistics (2014) Commuting and personal wellbeing. Available at: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-national-well-being/commuting-and-personal-well-being–2014/art-commuting-and-personal-well-being.html
London Health Commission (2014). Better Health for London. Available at http://www.londonhealthcommission.org.uk/better-health-for-london/ | transportation_engineering |
http://mackayhomeshow.com.au/arb-4x4-travel-traction-test-track/ | 2017-08-23T21:12:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886124563.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823210143-20170823230143-00015.warc.gz | 0.815266 | 135 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__195452214 | en | ARB 4×4 Travel & Traction Test Track
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A feature of the 2017 Mackay Home Show and Caravan, Camping Expo will be the ARB 4×4 Travel and Traction Test Track.
This specially designed trailer track will push the traction and suspension of a 4 Wheel Drive vehicle to the extremes.
The Test Track allows the team from ARB to showcase first hand to visitors how suspension, tyres and the use of air lockers work hand in hand in off-road conditions.
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https://myoverlandrig.com/products/tymate-tire-pressure-monitoring-system-full-color-screen-design-6-alarm-modes-cla-charging-method-simple-installation-and-setup-with-4-advanced-external-tmps-sensor-0-6-bar-0-87-psi | 2021-07-29T05:26:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153816.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20210729043158-20210729073158-00158.warc.gz | 0.840646 | 894 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__223092760 | en | - 🚘 Full-Color Screen Design 🚘 Tymate Tire Pressure Monitoring System CL205 provides a stylish, high-end appearance, which enhances the sense of technology and the grade of the environment in the car. This tpms is small-size and light-weight, saving space. Its screen displays the tire pressure and temperature in real-time and provides visual and audible alarms when abnormal conditions occur.
- 🚘 Six Types Of Alarms And User-set Alarm Values 🚘 Tymate Tire Pressure Monitoring System CL205 provides six-alarm modes (including fast leak alarm, high/low-pressure alarm, high-temperature alarm, sensor low voltage alarm, and sensor fault alarm ). You can set the pressure and temperature alarm values in your free. (TP setting range: 12-87 PSI. Two units of tire pressure Bar/PSI and one unit of temperature ℃)
- 🚘 Car Cigarette Lighter Charging Method 🚘 Tymate Tire Pressure Monitoring System CL205's charging method is very convenient, preventing from worrying about being lost due to small size, and maintaining the state of long-term power. It will also display the voltage of the battery in the car to help you know if there is any abnormality in the car battery. (Please keep the power on during use, otherwise, the system may go to automatically restore factory settings after power off)
- 🚘 Low Power Consumption And Long Working-life Sensor 🚘 Tymate Tire Pressure Monitoring System CL205 equipped with 4 advanced external sensors, which are low power consumption (a CR1232 battery can be used for half a year) and have long working life (can reach 2 years maximum). Small size, light-weight, high accuracy of sensing tire pressure [small acceptable tire pressure error (≈3psi)], and easy installation, it also can withstand harsh environments. (0-6 Bar/ 0-87 PSI )
- 🚘 Installation and After-Service 🚘 The sensors are all programmed before leaving the factory, so you don't need to pair them manually. After receiving the goods, please power on the display first, and then install the sensors one by one. Then start the car for 5-10 minutes to activate the sensor. For professional after-sales service contact information, please refer to the document "User Guide" in the "Product guides and documents" section of this page.
Release Date: 31-12-2018
Details: Features: 6 alarm modes: fast leak alarm, slow leak alarm, high pressure alarm, high temperature alarm, sensor fault alarm and sensor battery low power alarm, keeping your driving safe. Large LCD Screen: The LCD Screen displays real-time pressure, car voltage and temperature in real-time. Widely use: Can be widely used in most types of 4-wheel vehicle, Sedan car, Off road vehicle, SUV, Commercial Car, Station Wagon, Minibus, Limousine, MPV, Sports Car, Pickup Truck and more. Pressure unit is BAR/PSI, and temperature unit is ℃/℉. Monitor Specification: Default Pressure Unit: PSI Default Temperature Unit: ℃ Default High Pressure Alert: 44PSI(3. 0Bar) Default Low Pressure Alert: 29PSI(2. 0Bar) Default Temperature Alert: 70℃ Working temperature: -20℃ to +80℃ Storage temperature: -30℃ to +85℃ Output Voltage: Dc 12 to 24V Frequency: 433. 92MHz Sensor Specification: Working temperature: -40℃ to +80℃ Storage the, : -40℃ to +85℃ Pressure range: 0 to 6bar(0 to 87psi) Transmission Power: 2 Years Package Includes: 1 x Tymate tire pressure tester 4 x Sensors 4 x Anti-lost nuts 1 x Portable tool 1 x Charging cable 1 x User Manual Suitable for: It is suitable for the car with tire pressure less than 4. 0, such as car, SUV, sports car or MPV, etc. NOT SUITABLE for Trailer or RV.
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