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Shipment Characteristics in the Commodity Flow Survey - Can One Describe an Elephant?
The ultimate need for data is to generate confidence in the decision maker's process. But for data to be useful, it must provide the correct information in the correct form for comprehension. The question is what shipment characteristics are the most relevant and are these being adequately distributed to users...
Cooperative research gets funding: TRB heads up program for airports.(National Academy of Sciences. Transportation Research Board)(Brief Article)
RENO -- The Airport Cooperative Research Program ACRP, originally authorized by Congress for FY2004, is finally obtaining funds to get the effort up and running. At the helm of the program is Christopher Jenks, manager with the Transportation Resea RENO -- The Airport Cooperative Research Program...
Identification of Research Needs Related to Highway Runoff Management
This report presents an analysis of research needs in the area of highway water runoff management and control. Research directors and water-quality professionals from state departments of transportation DOTs participated in a survey to identify pressing needs related to the impacts and control of storm-water runoff. The survey results were...
Integrated Urban Models for Simulation of Transit and Land Use Policies: Guidelines for Implementation and Use
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ISTEA required metropolitan and statewide transportation plans to be integrated with land use plans. The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA- 21), the 1998 successor to ISTEA, also recognizes the need for consistency in transportation and land-use plans, albeit in...
Rural Passenger Transportation: Models and Strategies
People living in rural areas are supposed to be independent and self-sufficient, capable of providing their own transportation. Modern Americans move through an urban and suburban landscape, work in a global marketplace, and seldom acknowledge dependence on others. The paper presents a history of the replacement of horse power by...
Freight Transportation Research Needs Statements
A major portion of the inland waterway infrastructure is more than a decade beyond its design life and in need of replacement or upgrade. The waterways system is a vital component of the nation's transportation system and must be maintained for the benefit of both the national economy and the...
Oil in the Sea III
This report in general proposes a clearer methodology for estimating petroleum inputs to the sea and makes recommendations for further monitoring and assessment that helps policymakers prioritize next steps for prevention and response. The paper also reveals that new estimates indicate that the overall amount of petroleum released to the...
Cargo Clearance, Security, and Safety
The focus today will be issues such as border and port of entry clearance, international equipment and safety standards, efficient transfer of goods, cargo, liability, cargo crime, and security issues arising from a number of factors, certainly including more traffic congestion, multiple users of the transportation system, and the intermodal...
Moving Toward a National Agenda of Transportation Operations and Mobility Research
A National Research and Technology Partnership Forum has been established to develop a new framework for coordinating surface transportation research. As part of this Forum, five working groups were established to pursue development of a consensus national research agenda. This paper documents the work of one of those working groups,...
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Economic muscle
The male hormone responsible for promoting muscle growth and strength may even influence our economy. In a study from the University of Cambridge UK, researchers monitored the levels of testosterone and cortisol in 17 male workers on a London trading floor over the course of eight days. They reported in...
Promising Results in Phase 1 Gene Therapy Trial for Blinding Disease
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE text PUBLIC "-//The Gale Group//DTD Mercury Version 1.0//EN" "Article.dtd"> <Text rich="yes"> <P> Three young adults with an inherited form of blindness showed evidence of improved day and night vision following a specialized gene transfer procedure in a phase 1 clinical trial...
Grazers align north to south: deer, cattle may sense Earth's magnetic field
Moss covers the north side of trees in a forest. But if you're lost in an open field, look to deer to point you in the right direction. Herds of grazing and resting deer and cattle tend to align themselves, on average, with Earth's magnetic field lines, report...
Eisenberg to Keynote 2009 WFC Congress
Dr. David Eisenberg will be the keynote speaker at the World Federation of Chiropractic's 10th Biennial Congress in Montreal next year. Dr. Eisenberg, director of the Osher Research Center at Harvard Medical School and director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is perhaps best known...
Science, Evolution, and Creationism
SCIENCE, EVOLUTION, AND CREATIONISM by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008. 88 pages, bibliography, index. Paperback; $11.60. ISBN: 9780309105866. The original edition of this book was published in 1984 by the National Academy of Sciences, an organization...
No bull: Cattle seem to know which way is north
WASHINGTON -- Talk about animal magnetism, cows seem to have a built-in compass. No bull: Somehow, cattle seem to know how to find north and south, say researchers who studied satellite photos of thousands of cows around the world. Most cattle that were grazing...
I'd never have guessed!
Byline: Denis Kilcommons RESEARCH scientist Dr William Brown, of Brunel University, published his latest work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He wanted to discover what made men and women attractive and, after tests using a 3D optical scanner, came to the conclusion...
Frog die-off a global problem
For years, California developers have been struggling to find ways to not disturb the endangered red-legged frog. Now, research led by two UC Berkeley biologists finds frogs and other amphibians worldwide need help because they are dying at alarming rates. The researchers found that...
Frog die-off a global problem, UC researchers say
For years, California developers have been struggling to find ways to not disturb the endangered red-legged frog. Now, research led by two UC Berkeley biologists finds frogs and other amphibians worldwide need help because they are dying at alarming rates. The researchers found that...
Brain Slow to Judge Fast-Moving Objects Head-On
If you are not experienced at dodging flying or speeding objects, your best bet may be to just get out of the way, a new study says. balls or cars, for example -- coming straight toward them based more on past experience than actual perception, according to findings published in...
DNA Helps Trace History of Human Migration
An analysis of human DNA has provided new information about how ancient people shared knowledge that helped advance civilization, say Stanford University researchers. They found that animal-herding methods arrived in southern Africa about 2,000 years ago on a wave of human migration, rather than by movement of ideas between people....
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