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	Transport of radioactive materials - Encyclopedia of Earth
		About 20 million transports of radioactive material (which may be either a single package or a number of packages sent from one location to another at the same time) take place around the world each year.
		Packages used for the transport of nuclear materials are designed to retain their integrity during the various conditions that may be encountered while they are being transported and to ensure that an accident will not have any major consequences.
		Different types of reactors require different types of fuel assemblies, so when the fuel assemblies are transported from the fuel fabrication facility (where they are manufactured) to the nuclear power reactor, the contents of the shipment will vary with the type of reactor receiving it.
	www.eoearth.org /article/Transport_of_radioactive_materials (3195 words)

	Transport system with electric rail cars - Patent 5450796
		The present invention relates to a transport system for transferring workpieces along a predetermined route such as in factories, and particularly to a transport system which comprises electric conveying rail cars that are serf propelled along a guide rail by an electric motor, and a rail car stopping device along the tracks.
		The rail car continues to move by inertia and then stops by itself or can be forced to stop by contact of the stop engagement member of the rail car with the stopper of the rail car stopping device.
		The electric rail car 1 continues to advance under its momentum until the electric rail car is brought to a halt by the contact of its stop engaging member 22 with the fixed, stationary stopper 25 shifted to its stopping position.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5450796.html (2384 words)

	Transport of Radioactive Materials
		About 20 million transports of radioactive material (which may be either a single package or a number of packages sent from one location to another at the same time) take place around the world each year.
		Packages used for the transport of nuclear materials are designed to retain their integrity during the various conditions that may be encountered while they are being transported and to ensure that an accident will not have any major consequences.
		The fuel assemblies are transported in packages specially constructed to protect the precision-made fuel assemblies from damage during transport.
	www.uic.com.au /nip51.htm (3133 words)

	Passenger rail in the 20th Century - Railway Age, December 1999
		America's great continental network of rail passenger services was able to absorb an enormous leap in traffic that came with the war effort of World War I. The passenger volume on U.S. Class I railroads grew steadily all through the war years and afterward.
		Amtrak and VIA Rail were born out of a belief that a nationwide system of intercity rail passenger service was in the national interest, and both have come far in restoring the quality and reliability of these services.
		With this substantial growth of rail systems in the past several decades, urban and regional/commuter rail have represented the fastest growing segment of public transit for close to two decades.
	www.railwayage.com /dec99/passenger.html (3077 words)

	North American Light Rail Information and News Site
		A rail or other structure laid parallel with the running rail of a track to prevent wheels from being derailed; to hold wheels in correct alignment to prevent flanges from striking the points of turnout or crossing frogs or the points of switches; or to keep derailed wheels adjacent to the running rails.
		A Restraining Rail is an active rail and is designed to be in constant contact with the inside of the wheels.
		A rail joint designed to arrest the flow of electric current from rail to rail by means of insulation, so placed as to separate the rail ends and other metal parts connecting them.
	www.lightrail.com /terminology.htm (8881 words)

	Chapter VII: Logistics
		In fiscal year 1969 the over-all task was generally shaped by the war in Vietnam and the Army's million-and-a-half strength and worldwide deployment.
		In March 1969 the Secretary of the Army approved the plan, proposed by the Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Europe, to reorganize the logistic system in Europe, and the majority of actions embodied in it were completed in the final quarter of the fiscal year.
		The 1969, 1970, and 1971 fiscal year budgets were reviewed and the entire program adjusted in the light of maintenance and repair schedules, the condition of existing materiel, and projected requirements.
	www.army.mil /CMH-PG/books/DAHSUM/1969/chVII.htm (6061 words)

	Fund Rowville Rail Now - Coalition for People's Transport
		The Coalition for People's Transport is an alliance of community, social justice, environment, local government, disability and transport user groups and is committed to sustainable and equitable transport across Melbourne.
		The total distance of the Rowville rail extension would be just 12.3 km, this pales in significance when compared to recent rail projects in Perth which have been up to 70 km.
		This website and the campaign for rail to Rowville has been organised by outer eastern residents for the people of our outer eastern suburbs...discover more facts about the Rowville rail line line...
	www.rowvillerail.org.au (425 words)

	National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT): Cameroon: Indispensable Rail Transport
		Rail transportation is not the most common mode of travelling in Cameroon.
		Even in areas with rail network, going by train is generally the last option because of the underdevelopment of the sector.
		The ideal is for all the provincial headquarters to be linked by rail and for the introduction of urban rail transportation in the main towns.
	www.rmtbristol.org.uk /2006/08/cameroon_indispensable_rail_tr.html (667 words)

	HVCEO - HISTORY OF RAIL LINES IN THE HOUSATONIC VALLEY, CT REGION
		In 1835 a rail charter was granted by the Connecticut Legislature to an enterprise known as the "Fairfield County Railroad." The charter was established only to build a railroad between Danbury and Long Island Sound.
		Raising the necessary construction funds, $230,000, proved difficult for the size of the population the rail line was to serve.
		In October of 1970, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (Conn DOT) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York (MTA) entered into an agreement effective 1/1/1971 to oversee the operation of the New Haven Line by Penn Central and to jointly fund the operating deficit.
	www.hvceo.org /transport/railhistory.php (3383 words)

	Summary of Events: 1969 to 1973 - Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport
		The SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive (PTE) was established on 1st September and the eleven former bus undertakings came under control of the Executive on 1st November 1969.
		In August 1973, the Minister for Public Transport Industries indicated that the infrastructure grant for the Piccadilly/Victoria tunnel would not be approved before 1975/6 at the earliest because of the required reduction in public spending.
		The rail concession was restricted to half fare and did not include the flat fare scheme introduced in 1974.
	www.gmts.co.uk /education/history/summary19691973.html (1463 words)

	Transport Watch UK - Community Rail
		As for branch-line rail services, some of these cost as much as £1,000 (£8, 600 at 2004 prices) a year for each regular passenger, where bus services along the same route would be a fraction of the price.
		In the study that advocated it, instead of going for conversion of rail into busway, Alan M Voorhees, the American consultants, assumed that the 11ft rail track would have to be converted into a 12ft bus lane, with 3ft verges.
		The main blame for the mismanagement of British Rail in its first 20 years must be shared between the British Transport Commission and successive governments, with by far the greater share resting on the former.
	www.transwatch.co.uk /transport-quotes-1974.htm (3678 words)

	Oral History Program
		He started in transportation with a small, local trucking firm as an office assistant and warehouseman and continued with large LTL motor carriers in middle management operations.
		Frank Richter has lived railroad transportation intensively since the end of World War II and has enthusiastically reported the remarkable course of the railroads as they pursued in developing the unique technologies that are intermodal.
		Yeager became involved in intermodal transportation in 1959 and is considered to be a pioneer in the freight transportation industry.
	www.du.edu /transportation/OralHistoryProgram/Fellows.html (4174 words)

	1970 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1970.
		February 1 - The Chicago Transit Authority Kennedy rapid transit extension opens between Logan Square and Jefferson Park via a subway connection and the median of the Kennedy Expressway.
		Shipment of gasoline from Casper, Wyoming, the city that shipped the greatest amount in the world of gasoline by rail earlier in the 20th century, is shifted from railroad tank cars to a new pipeline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1970_in_rail_transport (473 words)

	Rail Transit World - Light Rail, Rapid Transit, Regional Rail
		A quick overview of some of the highlights of rail transit developments around the world may be helpful in comprehending the significance of modern rail transit technological options and their relevance to a city or region near you.
		Rail rapid transit: Over the last several decades, America has seen a truly remarkable comeback in urban rail transit, once considered a moribund victim of the private motor vehicle transportation system.
		Rail rapid transit: Mexico City's metro, opened in 1969, is predominantly not a standard-rail rapid transit system, but is, like Montreal's, almost entirely modeled after Paris's rubber-tired Gadgetbahn-type technology (although Line A, launched in 1991, is a standard steel-wheel light metro).
	www.lightrailnow.org /features/f_lrt_2005-12a.htm (4877 words)

	Transport Forum 2002: Speakers' & Presenters' Profiles
		He has a strong background in all modes of transport and in depth understanding of transport sector policies as well as a proven track record of working with public and private sector with a strong emphasis on infrastructure policies, infrastructure investments(aviation/airports, railways, maritime affairs, telecommunications and urban transport) and privatization issues.
		His specific areas of expertise are the development planning of port facilities, the economic, financial and institutional aspects of transport systems administration and management, and the integration of national logistics functions within the international transport system, focussing in particular on transport and trade facilitation issues.
		His special interest is transport economics and policy, focusing on the role of institutions to enhance development effectiveness in the transport sector.
	www.worldbank.org /transport/forum2002/profiles.htm (5302 words)

	Train Notes - NE Rails
		The old rail that is being lifted to be used elsewhere.
		rail grips lift the rail until the shadow board interrupts the light beam, spades go down into ballast, vibrating and sqeezing the rock under the tie, then come back up and the rail is released before moving ahead to the next tie.
		the left rail may not be lifted the same height as the right rail as in the case of a cross level being corrected to level.
	www.northeast.railfan.net /train_notes.html (6284 words)

	Bury Corporation Transport: 1903-1969
		The earliest mention of a transport system in Bury was in 1796 when a twice-weekly horse-drawn coach, which travelled between Rochdale and Manchester via Bury, was withdrawn due to lack of patronage.
		On the 16th November 1942 the Regional Transport Commissioners made an order that stopping places for public service vehicles should be arranged on the basis of four per mile, with the view to saving fuel and prolonging the life of vehicles.
		The Transport Act of 1968 allowed double-deck buses to be operated by one-person (up until then only single-deck buses had been permitted to be one-person-operated).
	www.petergould.co.uk /local_transport_history/fleetlists/bury1.htm (3612 words)

	New Zealand Rail and Transport Geography
		A similarly ferocious storm in May 1969 tore the sunken hull into three pieces and finally put an end to the ship which, up to that point, was expected to be refloated.
		The development of the rail ferry services came about because the Union Steamship Co wished to exit the Picton to Wellington services, although the first two Cook Strait Railways ships were initially operated by the company.
		The increase in rail and road traffic funnelled into and out of the ferries via Christchurch-Picton land transport routes forced the secondary-grade infrastructure of this sparsely populated South Island eastern coastal region to be substantially upgraded in coming decades, although it still lags to an extent behind the South Island Main Trunk (Christchurch-Dunedin) route.
	nzrailgeography.blogspot.com (1644 words)

	National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Transport - Rail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Commonwealth was first involved in rail transport when they acquired administration of the Northern Territory in 1911.
		was established to advise on land transport in relation to railways.
		Other railway photographs can be found in the rail transport section of PhotoSearch.
	www.naa.gov.au /The_Collection/transport/rail.html (677 words)

	Ecopolitics.ca - Transportation - Public Transit - RAIL vs AUTO TRANSPORT
		Transportation is a vital component of Canada's economic prosperity and Canadians' quality of life, but to ensure success in both, we must strive for sustainability and proportionate balance among all modes of transportation.
		Current Finnish rail is set up with a fleet of 119 electric trains running in high density corridors, and an additional 429 diesel extending to less populated areas.
		A high speed dedicated rail infrastructure to accommodate the TGV type trains of France's or the MagLev trains of Germany, is not available in Canada, as it could ill afford the expenditure.
	www.ecopolitics.ca /transport/pt/rails_auto_transport.php (1731 words)

	Transport Statistics
		The statistical tables cover all the main branches of transport: road traffic, public transport, water transport, air travel, together with general and cross modal tables dealing with freight transport, passenger casualty rates etc., and energy and environment statistics covering carbon dioxide emissions etc., many giving data for 5 or 10-year periods.
		Finally there are selected historical series, for instance road accidents and casualties from 1926 to the present, freight transport by mode from 1952, and households with regular use of cars from 1951.
		Current Statistics Collection 42 (HA155), edited by B. Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press in 1988, is a very useful compendium with a chapter on transport and communications covering a wide variety of topics from the earliest available statistics (1572 in the case of English shipping tonnage) up to 1980 in most cases.
	www.lse.ac.uk /library/statistics/Transport_Statistics.htm (1667 words)

	British Rail - Trains
		The Transport Act 1947 made provision for the nationalisation of the network, as part of a policy of nationalising public services by Clement Attlee's Labour Government.
		The Transport Act 1962 converted British Railways from being the trade name of a BTC activity to a separate public corporation, as the British Railways Board.
		This re-branding introduced the double-arrow logo, still used by National Rail under licence to represent the industry as a whole; the standardised typeface (known as "Rail Alphabet") used for all communications and signs; and the "rail blue" livery, which was applied to nearly all locomotives and rolling stock.
	train.spottingworld.com /British_Rail (2776 words)

	1969 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1969.
		May - A northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Aberdeen, Scotland, takes the curve in Morpeth too quickly and derails in the Morpeth rail crash.
		September 28 - The Chicago Transit Authority's rapid transit operation in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway opens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1969_in_rail_transport (290 words)

	Introduction
		Our aim is to transform public transport so that the people of the West Midlands have a world class public transport system provided by a best in class organisation.
		Now more than ever, it is crucial to invest in the development of public transport as seemingly endless traffic jams, longer journey times and increasing pollution become commonplace on our towns' and cities' roads, adding even more stress to our daily lives.
		We are committed to a public transport system for the benefit of all West Midlands residents and are involved in a wide range of initiatives to achieve this goal.
	www.centro.org.uk (671 words)

	Solutions from the cities: Bucking the trend
		The ‘global transport concept’ – with a transport infrastructure that is friendly to people, the environment and the city – is intended as an integral part of the development of the city, which now has 202,000 inhabitants.
		The concept was approved in 1969 and, since then, the city has developed many pioneering plans and measures, including establishing cycle lanes, banning traffic from the city centre, introducing Germany’s first transferable flat-rate travel card, and building a city and suburban railway (see end of article).
		Local public transport increased from 11 to 18 per cent, and bicycle use from 15 to 26 per cent, while motor vehicle traffic decreased from 38 to 32 per cent, despite the increase in the issue of motor vehicle licences.
	www.ourplanet.com /imgversn/121/bohme.html (1226 words)

	Department for Transport - Proposal on public passenger transport services by rail and by road
		The proposed transitional arrangements would require all light rail schemes to be awarded under the rules of the regulation within 10 years (and at least 50% of them within 5 years).
		The proposed restrictions on rail concession durations would appear to prohibit some of the procurement models that have been previously used in the UK for light rail projects and hence limit flexibility for the development of future projects.
		In particular, the ability to match the operating concession length to that of the infrastructure concession (typically a minimum of 30 years) would be difficult unless some form of competition at the sub-contract level was possible and deemed compliant.
	www.dft.gov.uk /consultations/archive/2006/prppts/proposalonpublicpassengertra1863?page=3 (3064 words)

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