News tagged with transit
Study shows US lags behind in transit safety programs for female riders
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris documents the gap between women's transit safety needs and programs in the U.S. that respond to them.
Are Magnetically Levitating 'Sky Pods' the Future of Travel?
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As a society, we are increasingly interested in finding new ways of transportation that are cleaner for the environment. New concepts in mass transit seem to be one of the main ways to move ...
Cooperative cybercars, a question of priorities
Aug 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed new control systems that let driverless vehicles communicate and cooperate with each other. Could fleets of high throughput rapid transit systems soon be cruising our cities?
Got ear plugs? You may want to sport them on the subway and other mass transit
Jun 19, 2009 |
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The U.S. mass transit system, the largest in the world, provides affordable and efficient transportation to more than 33 million riders each weekday. The system is generally considered one of the safest modes of travel. But ...
World 'getting closer' to swine flu pandemic: WHO
Jun 02, 2009 |
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The world is "getting closer" to a swine flu pandemic as the virus shows early signs of spreading locally in countries outside the Americas, a senior World Health Organisation official said Tuesday.
Public transit users 3 times more likely to keep fit
Mar 26, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia suggests taking public transit may help you keep fit.
Spectacular Photo-op on Saturn
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2009 |
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Something is about to happen on Saturn that's so pretty, even Hubble will pause to take a look.
Ford to launch electric van in the US next year
Feb 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ford's first all-electric vehicle in the US will be a commercial van that gets a range of 100 miles per charge with a top speed of 70 mph. The van, called the Ford Transit Connect, should ...
Transit Search Finds Super-Neptune
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While Neptune ...
Researchers showcase automated bus that uses magnets to steer through city streets
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The thought of a bus moving along city streets while its driver has both hands off the wheel is alarming. But a special bus introduced today (Friday, Sept. 5), steered not by a driver, but ...
Transit systems are not well-integrated into local emergency plans
Jul 22, 2008 |
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Millions of people each day rely on transit, yet few urban area emergency plans have focused on its role in an emergency evacuation, says a new report from the National Research Council's Transportation Research Board. Transit ...
