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- Social Studies > World Peace > Sustainable Development > Sustainable Transportation
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- Bicycle Advocacy (Bicycle Transportation Alliance)
- Provides leadership in making bicylces a viable alternative means of transportation within the city of Portland. Portland is a national leader in bicycle accessibility, with bicycle lanes on streets, bike carriers on city buses, and designated bicycle parking spaces. 10-01
- Wind Power for Bicycles (Bicycle Transportation Systems)
- Describes a system for supplementing bicycle power with wind. 1-02
- Sustainable Local Transportation System (Time.com)
- "Among the perks offered to employees at Louis Vuitton in Paris is an annual subscription to Vélib', the French capital's popular self-service bike-sharing program. Since it debuted last July, there have been 15 million rentals. So far there are 15,000 bikes at stations located about 1,000 ft. (300 m) apart throughout the city. But JCDecaux, the company that runs the service, expects to increase the number of bicycles to 20,000 in time for spring. Subscriptions are $44 per year, or bikes can be rented by the hour. The best deal of all, though, is the quick trip: rides under 30 minutes are free." 03-08
- Solar-Powered Pods for Personal Transportation (JPods.com)
- Shows a JPod plan for future personal transportation. 05-12
- Transportation - Department of Transportation
- Provides information on policies and programs.
- Traffic Accident Statistics (U.S. Department of Transportation)
- Provides statistics about traffic fatalities. 4-03
- India - Daily Life in Ancient India (Donn)
- Provides information on toys, pets, food, jobs, entertainment, transportation, clothes, and other daily life details. 03-06
- -Daily Life in Ancient Times (Donn)
- Provides information on toys, pets, food, jobs, entertainment, transportation, clothes, and other daily life details. Includes ancient China, Egypt, Greece, Rome and India. 03-06
- Daily Life for Ancient Egyptians (Donn)
- Provides articles about daily life, such as toys, pets, food, jobs, entertainment, transportation, clothes, and other details. 03-06
- -Autos - Fuel Cell Cars (Awesome Library)
- Provides a summary of options for current and near future transportation that avoids pollution, yet is convenient, uses inexpensive fuel, and is safe. 6-01
- Replacement Selected for Twin Towers (CBS News)
- "LMDC chairman John Whitehead praised the way Libeskind's plan aims to create a bustling, vibrant streetscape around the site, complete with a five-star hotel, a transportation hub, a memorial museum and cultural spots."
"He also mentioned a space designed to capture a wedge of sunlight each year on Sept. 11, from the time that the first plane hit until the time the last tower fell."
"The spire, which recalls the year of America's independence, would have a garden all the way to its top, not office space." 2-03 - Skycars (MSNBC News)
- Describes the current development of cars that can be driven in the air as an alternative form of transportation. 5-03
- 09-04-03 U.S. Infrastructure in Disrepair (CBS News)
- "America's infrastructure is full of cracks, leaks and holes and is getting worse, according to an analysis by civil engineers that gives the nation's transportation, water and energy systems an overall grade of D-plus."
"A report by the American Society of Civil Engineers released Thursday said the condition of 12 categories of infrastructure hasn't improved in the past two years." "Schools received the worst grade — D-minus — from the engineers, who said three out of four school buildings are inadequate. They estimate it will cost more than $127 billion to build new classrooms and modernize outdated schools." 9-03 - Electric Recumbent Trike - EZ-3 (NYCeWheels.com)
- This is a semi-recumbent and is a A BEST BUY for personal transportation. Describes an electric trike that costs about $1,300. It has a maximum power of 1800 watts and continuous power of 1000 watts. It must be registered as a moped or motorcycle, depending on maximum speed. Safety equipment may need to meet federal standards for a motorized vehicle. Awesome Library does not endorse these products, but only provides them as examples. 6-05
- -Biodiesel Fuel for Vehicles (Wikipedia.org)
- Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of biodiesel fuels as a replacement for gasoline or diesel engines.
"Biodiesel is non-flammable, and in contrast to petroleum diesel it is non-explosive, with a flash point of 150 °C for biodiesel as compared to 64 °C for petrodiesel. Unlike petrodiesel, it is biodegradable and non-toxic, and it significantly reduces toxic and other emissions when burned as a fuel."
"Biodiesel reduces emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) by approximately 50% and carbon dioxide by 78.45% on a net basis because the carbon in biodiesel emissions is recycled from carbon that was already in the atmosphere, rather than being new carbon from petroleum that was sequestered in the earth's crust."
"Biodiesel does produce more NOx emissions than petrodiesel, but these emissions can be reduced through the use of catalytic converters. Petrodiesel vehicles have generally not included catalytic converters because the sulfur content in that fuel destroys the devices, but biodiesel does not contain sulfur."
"It is one of the most realistic candidates to replace fossil fuels as the world's primary transportation energy source, because it is a renewable fuel that can replace petrodiesel in current engines and can be transported and sold using today's infrastructure."
"Current worldwide production of vegetable oil and animal fat is not enough to replace liquid fossil fuel use. Some environmental groups, notably NRDC object to the vast amount of farming and the resulting over-fertilization, pesticide use, and land use conversion that would be needed to produce the additional vegetable oil."
"The estimated transportation fuel and home heating oil use in the United States is about 230,000 million gallons. (Briggs, 2004) Waste vegetable oil and animal fats would not be enough to meet this demand. In the United States, estimated production of vegetable oil for all uses is about 33,000 million pounds (15,000,000 t) or 4,500 million US gallons." Although soybean oil is most commonly used for biodiesel in the U.S., algae may supply 200 times more oil per acre, according to the article. 10-05 - Marshall, Thurgood (LandmarkCases.org)
- "Thurgood Marshall was the great-grandson of a slave and the son of a dining car waiter and a schoolteacher. He was the first African American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He studied law at Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C. under Charles Hamilton Houston, who has been credited with transforming Howard into a laboratory for civil rights litigation."
"He was the mastermind behind the litigation strategy that challenged racial oppression in education, housing, transportation, electoral politics, and criminal justice. In one of his most famous cases and victories, he represented Linda Brown in the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) case." 1-05 - -08-10-05 Massive Highway Bill Becomes Law (MSNBC News)
- "President Bush, saying it will help economic growth, on Wednesday signed a whopping $286.4 billion transportation bill that lawmakers lined with plenty of cash for some 6,000 pet projects back home." 8-05
- Editorial: Brazil Is Almost Independent, We Need to Get Serious (CNN News)
- "And an astounding 40 percent of the transportation fuel used in Brazil is ethanol. Brazilians say within the next year, they won't need to import a drop of oil. Independence. One official who was in on the ethanol program in its earliest days 30 years ago smiled impishly and told me, 'We won.' "
"In the U.S., ethanol represents only 3 percent of the fuel we burn." 03-06 - -05-02-06 Aviation Safety for Small Planes (New York Times)
- "The [F.A.A.] board recommended today that the F.A.A. develop "visual and tactile training aids" to train pilots to detect ice, and that the Department of Transportation require charter operators to tell the passengers if a flight has been subcontracted to another company." 05-06
- 01-10-07 California Plans Major Carbon Cut (Christian Science Monitor)
- "Now that California is on record as mandating a 25 percent cut in the state's greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 - a move that made headlines worldwide four months ago - leaders here are starting to lay out how they intend to hit that ambitious mark. First up: requiring transportation fuels sold in California to contain less carbon, a major greenhouse gas." 01-07