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  Transportation Research Board 

  http://www.trb.org/

  Search for: in TRB.org Newsletter Blurbs Full-Text Publications Research in Progress Online Directory or Search Publication Blurbs by Topic General Admin. & Manag. Aviation Construction Data & Info Tech ... Design Education Energy & Environ Finance and Econ Freight Highway Intermodal Legal Issues Maintenance Marine Materials Motor Carrier Operations Pavement Peds & Bicyclists Pipelines Planning Public Trans. Railroads Research Sfty & Humn Fctrs Security Societal Soils & Geology Structures Vehicles   [More...] [Less...]

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  Transport Research Laboratory 

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  QUICKLINKS | Home | About TRL | News & Events | FAQs | Careers | Online Store | Training | Extranet | Advanced Search | Infrastructure | Safety | Transportation | Environment | Developing World | Contact ... Us | Our Facilities   [More...] [Less...]

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  Transportation Research Group 

  http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/trg/

  Since the early 1980s, researchers in the Transport Research Group have been investigating the dynamics of heavy goods vehicles and their road-damaging characteristics. The group is unusual in its cross-disciplinary ... approach, investigating projects spanning areas from heavy vehicle dynamics, safety and suspension design; to weigh-in-motion, vehicle-road interaction, and the failure mechanisms of asphalt pavements and paving materials. Vehicle-Road Interaction Early work initially concentrated on the influence of dynamic tyre forces generated by heavy goods vehicles on road damage and bridge vibration. Research was performed to understand the mechanisms by which lorries generate dynamic tyre forces as they travel along roads, and how road surfaces and bridges respond to these applied forces. Sophisticated mathematical models of vehicle dynamics and road and bridge response to moving random wheel loads were developed. These were validated using field measurements with instrumented lorr   [More...] [Less...]

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  Virginia Tech Trasnportation Institute 

  http://www.vtti.vt.edu/

  Welcome to VTTI The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) continues to serve as Virginia Tech's largest university-level research center and is dedicated to conducting research to save lives, ... save time and save money in the transportation field by developing and using state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and technologies to solve transportation challenges. Its cutting-edge research is effecting significant change in public policies in the transportation domain on both the state and national levels. VTTI continues its success by employing an elite team of multi-disciplinary researchers, engineers, technicians, support staff, and students. The Institute conducts applied research to develop new techniques and technologies to study transportation challenges from various perspectives: vehicle, driver, infrastructure, and environment. To accomplish its ground-breaking research, the Institute has at its disposal a wide-range of tools to explore transportation problems including facil   [More...] [Less...]

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  U.S. Department of Transportation 

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  9/27/07 - Department of Transportation Announces New Steps to Tackle Aviation Congestion and Delays in New York Area, Across the Nation More

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  Transport Studies Unit 

  http://www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/

  Welcome The Transport Studies Unit (TSU) is a research centre at the heart of the (OUCE) at the University of Oxford The Transport Studies Unit has an established international reputation in the fields ... of sustainable transport, transport policy analysis, transport economics, transport and the environment, and transport and land use planning. The Unit's mission is to promote excellence in transport research and teaching. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the social, economic, behavioural and environmental implications of transport over both time and space. The Unit's work ranges in geographic scale from the local to the global whilst the full spectrum of quantitative and qualitative research techniques is deployed. Recent research sponsors include the Rees Jeffreys Fund, the Department for Transport, the Economic and Social Research Council and the European Commission. Forthcoming Seminars The Trinity Term seminar series have now finished. Information on Michaelmas Term   [More...] [Less...]

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  Electric Drive Transportation Association 

  http://www.electricdrive.org/

  President Bush addressed the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change and urged a new path forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a way that does not undermine economic growth ... or prevent nations from delivering greater prosperity for their people. The meeting launched President Bush's major economies initiative to work with all of the world's largest users of energy and largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions, including both developed and developing nations, to establish a new international approach on energy security and climate change in 2008 that will contribute to a global agreement by 2009 under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Read More The United States hosted representatives of 17 world leaders plus the United Nations in the first Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change. This meeting is part of the new initiative President Bush announced at the G-8 Leaders Conference in May 2007 to further the shared object   [More...] [Less...]

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  Transport Research Institute 

  http://www.tri.napier.ac.uk/

  Napier University, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh EH11 4BN Telephone: +44 (0) 131 455 3200 Fax: +44 (0) 131 455 3201 Email: tri@napier.ac.uk Napier University Main Switchboard: 08452 60 60 40 Latest News: ... Transport day at Orkney International Science Festival is a great success & Road Safety Expo '07 featuring Steve Stradling of TRi Scroll below for further details Transport day at Orkney International Science Festival FRESH IDEAS FOR ISLANDS TRANSPORT A captivated audience heard about the latest thinking in inter-island transport. New developments were presented by over twenty leading experts at the one-day event in the Pickaquoy Centre on Monday 3rd September 2007. The initiative was brought together by Prof. Alfred Baird of Napier University’s Transport Research Institute (TRi). It comes at a time when Orkney has to make long-term decisions about the future of its inter-island services. “One option is of course simply to replace the various existing ferries,” says Professor   [More...] [Less...]

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  al.PDF [pdf]

  http://www.londonshealth.gov.uk/pdf/lhs/transport.pdf

  TRANSPORT and HEALTH in LONDON a Report for the NHS EXECUTIVE, LONDON Stephen Glaister, Dan Graham and Ed Hoskins Department of Civil Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine London, ... SW7 2BU October 1999 This report is available in pdf format on: http://www.doh.gov.uk/london/hstrat1.htm This research was funded by NHS Executive, London The views contained in this report are those of the authors, and may not reflect the views of the NHS Executive. The report is one of a series of rapid reviews on topics related to the health of Londoners, commissioned by the London Regional Office. They were intended to stimulate debate rather than provide a definitive picture of the topic. 2 CONCLUSIONS and EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SECTION A A 1 ATTITUDES and CONTEXT A 2 PUBLIC OPINION A 3 LONDON TRAFFIC GROWTH A 4 NATIONAL MORTALITY A 5 The RELATIONSHIP between TRAFFIC and HEALTH SECTION B B 1 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS B 1.1 INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON B 1.2 NHS COSTS of TRAFFIC CASUALTIES in   [More...] [Less...]

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  Transportation.qxp [pdf]

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  School Bus Safety circle6 According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration (NHTSA), school transportation is one of the safest forms of transportation in the United States. 1 circle6 School ... bus crash data show that a federal requirement for seatbelts on buses would provide little, if any, added protection in a crash. 1 circle6 Rather than requiring seatbelts, NHTSA decided that the best way to provide crash protection to passengers is through a concept called “compartmentalization.” This requires that the interior of large buses provide occupant protection so that children are protected without the need to buckle up. Occupant crash protection is provided by a protective envelope consisting of strong, closely- spaced seats that have energy-absorbing seat backs. Trasnsportation-related incidents are the leading cause of brain injury Motor Vehicle Safety circle6 Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for 15-to 20-year-olds. 2 circle6 Seat belts are 57% effectiv   [More...] [Less...]

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