Download or read book Development of New Kinds of Mobility Safety Barriers written by George W. Burkett and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Future of Mobility written by Liisa Ecola and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers developed two scenarios to envision the future of mobility in China in 2030. Economic growth, the presence of constraints on vehicle ownership and driving, and environmental conditions differentiate the scenarios. By making potential long-term mobility futures more vivid, the team sought to help decisionmakers at different levels of government and in the private sector better anticipate and prepare for change.

Download or read book Advances in Road Infrastructure and Mobility written by Amin Akhnoukh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 1211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on recent advances in the planning, design, construction and management of new and existing roads with a particular focus on safety, sustainability and resilience. It discusses field experience through case studies and pilots presented by leading international subject-matter specialists. Chapters were selected from the 18th International Road Federation World Meeting & Exhibition, Dubai 2021.

Download or read book The Future of Disability in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of disability in America will depend on how well the U.S. prepares for and manages the demographic, fiscal, and technological developments that will unfold during the next two to three decades. Building upon two prior studies from the Institute of Medicine (the 1991 Institute of Medicine's report Disability in America and the 1997 report Enabling America), The Future of Disability in America examines both progress and concerns about continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. This book offers a comprehensive look at a wide range of issues, including the prevalence of disability across the lifespan; disability trends the role of assistive technology; barriers posed by health care and other facilities with inaccessible buildings, equipment, and information formats; the needs of young people moving from pediatric to adult health care and of adults experiencing premature aging and secondary health problems; selected issues in health care financing (e.g., risk adjusting payments to health plans, coverage of assistive technology); and the organizing and financing of disability-related research. The Future of Disability in America is an assessment of both principles and scientific evidence for disability policies and services. This book's recommendations propose steps to eliminate barriers and strengthen the evidence base for future public and private actions to reduce the impact of disability on individuals, families, and society.

Download or read book Development of a TL 3 F shape Temporary Concrete Median Barrier written by Ronald K. Faller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work zones often require the use of temporary concrete barriers (TCBs) within a limited area to provide protection for construction workers. In situations where an existing guardrail is immediately adjacent to the construction hazards that need to be shielded, highway designers must either connect the guardrail to the temporary barrier or replace it with TCB. Although interconnecting the two barrier systems represents the more convenient option, at present no suitable solutions have been made available. A transition from guardrail to temporary barriers may not need to be nearly as stiff as a conventional approach transitions. However, it must provide sufficient stiffness and strength to prevent pocketing as well as to shield the end of the concrete barrier to prevent serious wheel snag. In addition, considerations must be made for transitioning from the TCB to the guardrail, anchoring the TCB system, and the potential use of tie-downs to limit TCB deflection. TCBs are connected and transitioned to many types of barriers. Unfortunately, little effort has been devoted to this issue. The only transitions previously developed have been between TCBs and safety shaped concrete barriers and TCBs and permanent concrete median barriers. Transitions between TCBs and other common barrier types, such as guardrail, have typically not been full-scale crash tested and may pose a serious hazard to motorists during an impact. Transitions between two barrier types generally are designed with the assumption that it is more critical to transition from a less stiff barrier to a stiffer barrier due to concerns for pocketing and snag on the stiffer barrier system. However, in the case of a TCB system, design of the transition can be more complex. Design of a transition between TCB and guardrail must consider several factors: (1) Connection of the guardrail on the upstream or downstream end of the TCB system - The location of the guardrail on either the upstream or downstream end of the transition will largely affect the transition along with other factors. For example, the attachment of the guardrail to the downstream end of an unanchored, free-standing TCB system would require a transition. This could be as simple as using tie-down anchorages on the TCB segments to increase their stiffness prior to the guardrail attachment. Conversely, attachment of the guardrail to the upstream end of a free-standing, TCB system would require a transition as well. However, this type of transition would require stiffening the guardrail as it approached the TCB. (2) Anchorage of the end of the TCB system - The location and design of the end anchorage for the TCB system will largely determine the stiffness of the TCB end as compared to the guardrail as well as the transition configuration. (3) Free-standing barrier vs. tie-down anchorage - The stiffness of the TCB section varies depending on whether the barrier segments use any form of tie-down anchorage. The design of the transition between the rail and the TCB would change depending on whether the barrier segments were free-standing or anchored. (4) Direction of traffic - The transition design may depend on the potential for two-way traffic or reverse impacts. Due to the wide range of factors affecting the design of a TCB to guardrail transition, it is necessary to develop a better understanding of the most common and most critical transition installations. Then, a transition design could be developed to meet those needs. It is anticipated that this transition design would be developed around the F-shape, TCB segment and the recently developed Midwest Guardrail System (MGS). The research study recommended herein would primarily be directed toward improving the safety and minimizing risk for the motoring public traveling within our nation's work-zones and on our highways and roadways. More specifically, this project would address the goal of the Smart Work Zone Deployment Initiative, which is "to develop improved methods and products for addressing safety and mobility in work zones by evaluating new technologies and methods, thereby enhancing safety and efficiency of traffic operations and highway workers. The project is a public/private partnership between the sponsoring public transportation agencies in several Midwestern States, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), private technology providers and university transportation researchers." The overall objective of this research effort is to develop a MASH TL-3 transition design between TCBs and the MGS. The design of the transition would focus on a representative selection of state departments of transportation (DOTs) highest priority configuration. Due to the large number of unknowns, this phase of the project will focus on the development of design concepts for the highest priority transition need. Full-scale crash testing of the proposed transition design is not a part of this project and may be performed in a future phase of the project. This research effort will begin with identifying and quantifying the most pressing TCB to guardrail transition needs. Although a need to develop configurations for most, if not all, of the TCB to guardrail transition needs may exist, this project will address the highest priority need. Thus, the state DOTs of the Midwest States Pooled Fund Program will be surveyed to identify the highest priority TCB to guardrail transition need. After the critical transition need is identified, potential transition concepts and prototype designs will be brainstormed. Computer simulations with LS-DYNA, a non-linear explicit finite element code, will be used to investigate and evaluate the concepts and prototype designs. CAD details for the proposed transition design will be prepared. A summary report detailing the research effort will be compiled and will include recommendations for future full-scale crash testing of the TCB to guardrail transition as well as recommendations for further development of TCB to guardrail transitions. The research study is directed toward improving the safety by minimizing the risk for the motoring public traveling within our nation's work-zones and on our highways and roadways. Since W-beam guardrail has proven to provide better safety performance than temporary concrete barriers, the development of an effective transition between the two can help preserve guardrails outside the immediate work-zone area, thus providing an overall higher level of safety for motorists. The new transition would also eliminate the use of an unproven connection between guardrail and temporary barriers. Further, limiting the use of temporary concrete barriers strictly to the work zone area will also minimize the traffic disruption that these barriers can create to motorists passing in work zones. Following the development efforts, a research report will be prepared that summarizes the results of the study. If warranted, a formal paper will be prepared and submitted for publication in a refereed journal, such as a Transportation Research Record, so that dissemination and distribution of the final research results will provide the most significant impact in terms of safety benefit for the motoring public

Download or read book Shifting Mobility written by Dewan Masud Karim and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of resource depletion, environmental changes, lifestyle changes, demographic and digital adaptation, old ideologies of city building and expensive and complex automobility solutions are in freefall. These changes are creating severe friction between the old and new paradigms. This book provides new perspectives through the process of ideological disassociation and concepts of human mobility code. The basic premise of the book, human mobility is an essential component of our creativity that comes from our unconscious desire to become a part of a community. Several new concepts in the book starts with the hallmark of new discovery of human mobility code and its implications of urban mobility boundary systems to stay within safe planetary zone. A new discovery of human mobility code from comprehensive research finding prove that each individual develops a unique mobility footprint and become our mobility identity. Beyond individual hallmarks, human develops collective mobility codes through interaction with the third space on which entire mobility systems lie and are created by the fundamentals of city planning and the design process. Readers are introduced to an innovative mobility planning process and reinvention of multimodal mobility approaches based on new mobility code while formulating new concepts, practical solutions and implementation techniques, tools, policies, and processes to reinforce low-carbon mobility options while addressing social equity, environmental, and health benefits. Finally, the book arms us with knowledge to prevent the disaster of full technological enlightenment against our natural human mobility code.

Download or read book Shared mobility and MaaS written by Yves Crozet and published by Centre on Regulation in Europe asbl (CERRE). This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This CERRE report finds that to effectively reduce congestion and pollution in cities, policies should focus primarily on the rarest resource: space. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) also has a role to play in the transition towards truly sustainable mobility. But this is provided regulation guarantees that new mobility models complement and not substitute for public transport. European cities have been trying to enhance their mobility and transport systems, while reducing congestion, pollution, CO2 emissions, noise and accidents. Local transport policies across countries strive to encourage car drivers to switch to public transport, but with limited success. The authors of the report find that the lack of success of policies to encourage the switch to public transport is often due to the alleged trouble of using other transportation modes compared to the convenience of private cars. “If cities are to effectively reduce congestion and pollution, regulation of access to cities must change dramatically. Until now, the constraints on the use of cars have largely remained low”, explain the authors. “An approach promising individual time savings will not benefit the collective interest. To be efficient, policies should focus primarily on the rarest resource for the community: space. Transport authorities must intervene on the uses of roads, sidewalks and pedestrian zones. It is up to them to define the balance between the different uses of roads”. In addition, public authorities should significantly develop public transport systems that constitute a genuine, practical, fast, reliable, and affordable alternative. The lack of public transport in areas of disperse and low demand due to financial reasons also remains a critical issue to be addressed. The CERRE report also finds that new mobility services (such as shared cars or free-floating e-scooters) provide unprecedented opportunities to reduce the disutility users would face from simply switching from the private car to public or active transport. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) enables users to change their routines, discover the variety of mobility services available and to combine former and new mobility services. Shared mobility providers may complement public transport, especially by supplying first and last mile solutions, and by serving areas where public transport is not financially viable. However, unless ridesharing replaces solo trips by car at a large scale, the impacts on congestion, pollution and CO2 emissions are likely to be neutral at best. Urban mobility public authorities cannot neglect the opportunities brought by new mobility services. Public authorities have to be more ambitious. They have to enlarge their spectrum of mobility services that will, in a financially sustainable way, ease user life and foster alternatives to solo car use. But to effectively deal with new mobility services authorities must develop new skills in the data and platforms areas. Platforms, information services and ticketing are crucial to increase the number of users of urban mobility services. Although digitalisation cannot be considered a magic wand, it plays a critical role in achieving this transition to new mobility services. For MaaS to develop, Mobility data must be gathered under the umbrella of Metropolitan Transport Authorities, who are the only trusted party able to do so. “Policies for the use of roads should discourage the use of individual cars and incentivise ride sharing. As long as individual cars can move freely and on the same roads and use services in the same conditions as shared vehicles, it is unlikely that MaaS and shared mobility will be successful. In addition, public authorities need to modernise and grasps the opportunities that digitisation and data offer for the transition to a truly sustainable mobility”, conclude the authors.

Download or read book Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Transport written by Carey Curtis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, this book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems become encrusted around investment to accommodate private cars, erecting an impenetrable barrier against more sustainable mobility and accessibility solutions. The findings are applicable to most cities of the developed world, and to fields beyond transport planning.

Download or read book New Borders and Old Barriers in Spatial Development written by Peter Nijkamp and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers from a workshop in Wassenaar, Netherlands, on themes of vanishing borders caused by increased globalization and communication, as well as the collapse of the Eastern Block. Clear policy conclusions are drawn regarding European spatial and transportation problems.

Download or read book A Pathway to Safe Smart and Resilient Road and Mobility Networks written by Amin Akhnoukh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Department of Transportation Research and Development Plan written by United States. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advancing Aerial Mobility written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced aerial mobility is a newly emerging industry that aims to develop and operate new air vehicles potentially capable of safe, reliable, and low-noise vertical flight. The world has seen a recent increase in the adoption of electric vertical lift aircraft for urban, suburban and rural operations. These new innovations and technologies change the way that we move cargo and people, affecting industries across the economy. These changes will challenge today's airspace monitoring systems and regulatory environment. The U.S. government and its regulatory agencies need technical guidance to facilitate the development of these technologies, and to create the regulatory framework to foster the growth of this vertical flight industry to the benefit of the aviation industry. Advancing Aerial Mobility evaluates the potential benefits and challenges associated with this emerging industry. This report provides recommendations that seek to foster an environment in which the nation can maintain its leading position in developing, deploying, and embracing these new technologies. This publication presents a national vision for advanced aerial mobility, market evolution, and safety and security management.

Download or read book Facilities Development Manual written by Wisconsin. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Developing a New Barrier Condition Index BCI to Optimize Barrier Improvements in Wyoming written by Amirarsalan Molan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 2018 Federal Guide to Self Driving Cars and Automated Driving Preparing for the Future of Transportation Automated Vehicles 3 0 Safety Issues and written by U. S. Department of Transportation and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has always been a leader in transportation innovation. From the mass production of automobiles to global positioning system navigation, American ingenuity has transformed how we travel and connect with one another. With the development of automated vehicles, American creativity and innovation hold the potential to once again transform mobility. Automation has the potential to improve our quality of life and enhance the mobility and independence of millions of Americans, especially older Americans and people with disabilities. Moreover, the integration of automation across our transportation system has the potential to increase productivity and facilitate freight movement. But most importantly, automation has the potential to impact safety significantly

Download or read book Report of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board for Fiscal Years written by Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board written by Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: