Landscapes without the car : a counterfactual historical geography of twentieth-century Britain. [PDF]
, 2010 Despite increased concern about environmental damage and resource depletion, the private motor car, and associated automobility, are taken-for granted aspects of 21st century life.
Pooley, Colin
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European NCAP Program Developments to Address Driver Distraction, Drowsiness and Sudden Sickness
Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2021 Driver distraction and drowsiness remain significant contributors to death and serious injury on our roads and are long standing issues in road safety strategies around the world.
Rikard Fredriksson +7 more
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No Car, No Job; No Job, No Car: Solving the Transportation Paradox
, 2022 The Paradox Prize demonstrated Northeast Ohio is capable of developing and supporting a variety of affordable, efficient transportation options by testing and proving eight strategies that employers of all sizes can use to improve worker mobility and gain a competitive edge.
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INVESTIGATION OF DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF GONDOLA CARS ON PERSPECTIVE BOGIES
Nauka ta progres transportu, 2014 Purpose. In this paper, it is necessary to examine the dynamic properties of the gondola car with bogies, model 18-1711 when it moves on straight and curved sections of a track. Methodology.
S. V. Myamlin +2 more
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Surviving “Car-diac Arrest”: Towards Roads Where Many Modes Fit
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2022 The car dominates the imaginary of urban modernity. Such modernity links the car to living the good life, especially for the growing middle class. However, an environmentalist in my research laments that the unprecedented increase in car volume causes ...
Gina Gatarin
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Reorganizations of space and culture in a car-oriented society: the case of Johannesburg [PDF]
, 2009 Includes abstract.This dissertation aims to identify the multi-faceted ways in which the car enabled a deep restructuring of South Africa's cultural and spatial spheres, taking Johannesburg as a context from which to extract specific insights.
Laqui, Laura
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EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF SHOCK SPECTRUM RESPONSE OF ROLLING STOCK
Nauka ta progres transportu, 2017 Purpose. The article is aimed to analyze the increase in the effectiveness of traditional methods for carrying out shock tests of land vehicles, in order to assess their strength, reliability and durability. Methodology.
A. V. Tretiakov +3 more
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METHODOLOGY OF A MULTIDIMENSIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NUMBER OF VANS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Nowoczesne Systemy Zarządzania, 2020 In the article presents the methodology of multidimensional comparative analysis of data on the number of vans in thirty three European countries in 2013-2017. The first stage of research was the grouping of original data.
Bartosz Kozicki +2 more
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Flying Cars for Green Transportation [PDF]
Joule, 2019 Growing urban populations, land space limitations, and high infrastructure development costs present a challenge for the future of ground-based transportation. Flying cars, no longer confined to the realm of fiction, are in active development today and will see commercial deployment throughout the next decade.
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Adolescents and their aspirations for private car-based transport [PDF]
Transportation, 2019 AbstractThe need to transition away from the current car-dominated transport system is well documented in sustainability, health and transportation literatures. Despite growing interest in active and public transport modes, the car still dominates travel preferences for most age groups.
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