Transport Technology & Trades

New sources of crude oil from North Dakota, Texas, and western Canada have induced new routes for shipping crude oil to U.S. and Canadian refinerie...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing to require event data recorders (EDRs) -- widely referred to as black boxe...

Trespassing is the leading cause of rail-related fatalities in the United States. A large proportion of these trespasser fatalities are from intent...

Although the concept of a fully automated driving system as envisioned under the Automated Highway System program has yet to be realised, technolog...

Automobile transport causes damage to both humans and nature due to road accidents and air pollution by exhaust gases, as well as by expanding cons...

The development of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technologies has progressed to the point of real world testing, and if broadly deployed, they are antic...

This book focuses on the application of space technology as a means of potentially solving pollution problems. Remote sensing technology and the tr...

On 6 July 2012, the President signed into law a new two-year transportation reauthorisation bill, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century...

About 93 trains a day on average crossed into the continental United States from Canada and Mexico in 2014, according to U.S. Department of Transpo...

How fatigued are safety-critical railroad employees such as Train and Engine (T&E) workers, passenger T&E workers, signalmen, Maintenance o...

To provide efficient goods movement on the U.S. transportation network, the United States will need to undertake new approaches. An approach advanc...

In March 2013, President Obama notified Congress that his Administration would seek a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ...

Distributed propulsion technology is one of the revolutionary candidates for future aircraft propulsion. In this book, which serves as the very fir...