Princeton Consultants client RailPulse, an industry joint venture, is optimizing the collection and use of data on freight car performance metrics to improve service on the North American rail freight network. For Railway Age, Kevin Smith interviewed David Shannon, General Manager of RailPulse, about...
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Gasoline engine: The hybrid car has a gasoline engine much like the one you will find on most cars. However, the engine on a hybrid is smaller and uses advanced technologies to reduce emissions and increase efficiency. Fuel tank: The fuel tank in a hybrid is the energy storage device for...
By the time the bike was perfected, around 1885, it was already an anachronism: the steam locomotive had been invented decades earlier and the automotive revolution was beginning to stir. But the bicycle was such aningeniousdevice that it didn’t matter that it was, in a way, behind-the-...
Today, software is the most powerful medium I can wield. But software is changing. And so will I. Masks are Necessary Interfaces for AI April 3, 2023/Leave a comment In the climactic scene of the movie Contact, a vastly advanced alien species communicates with humanity in an ingenious and...
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Hard as it is to believe, we’ve arrived at Labor Day Weekend — the weekend when summer unofficially draws to a close. The official end of summer arrives later in the month but for some, summer is already over because the new school year has already begun. ...
Then the combustion engine came along and introduced a portable and efficient source of power, completely revolutionizing transportation. The engine's compact size and portability enabled it to be incorporated into vehicles, such as automobiles and locomotives, leading to unprecedented mobility and the ...
Unlike most beer festivals, this event takes place in the restaurants. You travel from restaurant to restaurant to sample the featured brews and tasty dishes designed to spotlight those brews at that particular establishment. Tickets are not required. This is a pay-as-you-go event. All you nee...
The American conversation about high-speed rail has an internal debate that greatly bothers me, about whether investments should be incremental or not. An interview with the author of a new book about the Northeast Corridor reminded me of this; this is n