If you are an employer and you provide a vehicle to an employee for an entire year, you may value the use of that vehicle a fringe benefit to your employee by using the vehicle's annual lease value. A vehicle's annual lease value is based on the fair market value...
This paper compares four transportation energy conservation strategies using a comprehensive evaluation framework that takes into account how each strategy affects annual vehicle travel, and therefore mileage-related impacts such as traffic congestion, road and parking facility costs, and crashes. These mileage-related impacts tend to be large in magnitude compared with...
The vehicle design process is a complex multidisciplinary optimization problem involving multiple teams of engineers. This article presents a research whose objective is twofold. First, it studies the applicability of ATC to time-dependent simulation-based design problems; problems in which optimization parameters may be time-dependent, and it studies where the evaluation...
One of the fundamental requirements to facilitate implementation of any Advanced Transportation Management and Information System ATMIS is the development of a real-time traffic surveillance system to produce reliable and accurate traffic performance measures. This study presents a new framework for anonymous vehicle tracking that is capable of tracing individual...
This paper presents a critical analysis of the health and safety issues surrounding competing transport fuel options, including those for possible future fuel-cell powered vehicles. The paper identifies the hazards of the fuels but does not estimate the risks likely to be associated with their eventual use in fuel-cell vehicles....
This study examines the impact of the introduction of such advanced fuel/propulsion system pathways from a societal point of view. The study estimates two key performance criteria of advanced fuel/propulsion systems on a total system basis, that is, "well" production source of energy to "wheel" vehicle. The study focuses on...
Auto insurance refers to the insurance which is used for insuring the automobiles against any kind of uncertain accidents that may cause damages to the vehicle. The main purpose that the insurance serves is to give protection against the losses incurred due to accidents. Auto insurance is a type of...
Zip Express Rolls out Retail Partnership Program to Provide Next-Day Installation Service for Electronics Retailers Nationwide MINNEAPOLIS -- Zip Express Installation, the first next-day installation service for consumer electronics retailers, announces the first of its nationwide retail partnerships with Target.com (www.target.com). Zip Express provides Target.com and its other...
AKRON, Ohio, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company today announced that Joe Ruocco has been named Senior Vice President of Human Resources, effective August 1. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050204/GTLOGO ) Ruocco, a 23-year GE veteran, will provide strategic...
CHICAGO, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Boeing Company this week sent more than 90 teachers from around the world to the 17th Annual Boeing Educators to SPACE CAMPR program at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. The Boeing Educators to...
COSTA MESA, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Astrata Group (BULLETIN BOARD: ATTG) announced today that it has appointed the former Siemens' Regional ASEAN Vice President for Wireless Modules, Shawn Sanderson, as its new Group Sales & Business Development Director. Sanderson, who had...
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. -- The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq. ...
RACINE, Wis. -- Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, has received the 2008 Friend of Tourism Award from the Racine County Convention and Visitors Bureau. The award recognizes Modine's community involvement and specifically its continued support of the...
- Nancy A. Rae Appointed Executive Vice President - Human Resources and Communications - John S. Franciosi, Senior Vice President - Employee Relations Announces Retirement - Al Iacobelli - Vice President of Employee Relations realigned to report to Nancy Rae -...
Abu Dhabi Customs Will Utilize AS&E's Full Range of Cargo Inspection Products for Integrated Border Security BILLERICA, Mass. -- American Science and Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASEI) (AS&E([R])), a leader in X-ray detection technology, announced today that the Company has received a $55.1 million contract from...
Rapidly Growing Medical Costs, Declining Pensions and Medical Subsidies, Longer Life Spans Make 401k Plans Critical Saving Vehicles for U.S. Employees, Regardless of Additional Sources of Income LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. -- Rising medical costs, lengthening life spans and the declining prevalence of pension and retiree medical...
WASHINGTON AFP — Giving one million dairy cows a growth hormone makes them produce more milk would cut greenhouse gas emissions equal to taking 400,000 cars off the road, a US study found. Large scale cow milk production requires the use of huge amounts of land,...
When Lynda and Don Perdew retired, they sold their home in Southern California and used the money to buy a 37-foot recreational vehicle. Then they set out to see the country. That was 10 years ago, and the Perdews are still on the road. But now...
IFEES fosters international collaboration to improve skills and provide uniform standards. BY THOMAS K. GROSE ISTANBUL-After the old Soviet Union crumbled, the now-independent country of Kazakhstan was left with the clunky remains of a Soviet-style system of higher education. That was a problem particularly for its...
In just seven years, sustainable engineering-technology to protect the planet while raising living standards-has caught fire with students and professors across the U.S. WHEN REGINA CLEWLOW graduated from Cornell University in 2001, she didn't take the career path one might expect of someone with a degree...
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