...networks in the world. Indian Railways operates both long distance and suburban rail systems. [pic][pic] Fig: Shows the top railways network in world Indian railway is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting 17 million passengers and more than 2 million tons of goods daily. IR is the world's largest commercial, with more than 1.6 million employees. The railways traverse the length and breadth of the country; the routes cover a total length of more than 63,327 km (39,500 miles). As of 2008, IR owned about 225,000 wagons, 45,000 coaches and 8,300 engines and ran more than 18,000 trains daily, including about 8,984 passenger trains and 9,387 goods trains. Annually it carries some 4.83 billion passengers and 492 million tons of goods. Of the 11 million passengers who climb aboard one of 8,984 trains each day, about 550,000 have reserved accommodations. Their journeys can start in any part of India and end in any other part, with travel times as long as 48 hours and distances up to several thousand kilometers. The challenge is to provide a reservation system that can support such a huge scale of operations — regardless of whether it's measured by kilometers, passenger numbers, routing complexity, or simply the sheer scale of India. The main challenges in front of the Indian railways are: • Provide a reservation system that efficiently serves more than half a million people each day • Ensure maximum uptime so reservation/ticketing/enquiry...
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...| |2014 | | | | | |Submitted to: | | |TAKRIMA SAYEDA | | |Lecturer | | | | | |University Of Dhaka | | | | | | | | |Course: THM 325 | |[BANGLADESH RAILWAYS – THE LIFE LINE OF THE COUNTRY] | | | | | |Prepared By: GROUP – ‘Knockout Knights’ | | | Group name : `Knockout Knights` Course code : THM - 325 Member’ |Name ...
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...International Tourism and Transport Assignment One: BX660020 Scotland By: To: Word count: 2,459 Date: 23/03/2012 1.0 Introduction The purpose of this report is to examine and discuss land, air and sea transport modes with reference to examples of each type of transportation. The importance of these transport modes will be analysed with reference to regional, national and international networks including supply and demand. The importance of these networks will then be critically evaluated. The country that will be analysed will be Scotland. Scotland is the most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom and occupies about one third of the island of Great Britain. “Scotland is bounded by England to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and north, and the North Sea to the east”(Alice Brown 2012) . A map of Scotland can be seen below in blue. (http://m.wikitravel.org/en/UK) With a population of 5,169,000 (2008), a total land mass of 77,925(sq. km) and the fact that it is made up of over 790 islands an extensive transport system is needed for locals to get around and tourists to see the country (Alice Brown 2012). As stated in the Scotland National Transport Strategy “Transport is an essential part of economic activity. Infrastructure, roads, rail, airports and ports – and the businesses that use these assets - are all vital components of Scotland’s economy. Transport has a significant and positive contribution...
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...one thing I do not understand about this whole “war” is why we continue to purchase expensive gas from our “rivals.” We pay them so we can get around, and that money goes to their ammunition against us and to their government which we continually fight. So what is the solution to this problem? Our cars need gas? The solution is mass transit. The gas prices are ridiculous, as many of us would agree. Us Americans seem to pay more and more for gas every day. While our nation pays twelve trillion dollars on gasoline every year. With all this useless wasted money we practically are paying our rivals who we are at war with. This is quite sad as they charge us an “arm and a leg” and we compliantly pay in order for us to get around town and to conduct business nationwide. This money that we give to the Middle East is used against us by many to commit terrorist acts, war, and more against our own people. Most people think about the buying smaller cars with better gas mileage, or even buying the mega expensive “electric cars.” But I have never heard anyone I know talk about mass transit. Mass transit would take us back to the “harry potter” days. But engineers have the ability to create fast moving trains that...
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...prior knowledge to comprehend * Identify factual details from the text * Analyze poems using various comprehension strategies * Use creative writing tools to draft their class poem * Explore and evaluate the different railway systems across the world * Use technology to research about new topics and enhance learning * Use connections from real life to add and subtract numbers * Appreciate rhythm in poems by exploring the nuances of the same * Co-create tune for the class poem * Interview and learn from peers, family, relatives and community members * Design an independent project and co-create the same based on interviews, readings and research. Integration of Other Functional/Academic Skills: Problem Solving, Critical thinking/ Analysis are required throughout all the lessons. Each one of these fundamental academic skills can be integrated with the other to produce a project-based outcome. With respect to integration of subjects, it would be Mathematics, History and Geography along with Reading fluency, Comprehension, Speaking and listening, and Writing. There will be use of technology, music and dance throughout the project. Estimated time and brief outline of the project: The estimated time of the project would be around 12-15 days. This completely depends on how students master each skill and how ready are they to learn at a particular pace. Each lesson would be around 45 mins and there would be different phases in the project...
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...SRT 1. The student of his college are about to call a strike. They want his cooperation. He _________. 2. Two of his best friends had quarreled with each other. He will ______________ . 3. He has had a quarrel with his uncle and he (uncle) decided to leave the house. He ____________________ . 4. His father wants to marry him with a rich and educated girl, but he is in love with a poor uneducated girl. He _________________. 5. He has been selected for a good job, but his father wants him to the family business, He ______________________. 6. He with six persons had gone on a cycle expedition and one cycle got punctured on desert stretched road. He ________________________. 7. He has quarreled with one of his friends. He ____________________________. 8. A cobra enters the room at night and start going near his brother who is sleeping. He _______________________. 9. While going to the office he finds an accident between a cycle and a bullock cart, he is already getting late. He ______________________. 10. He is caught b decoits and taken to a jungle where they ask him to sign a note to his father for Rs 2,00,000. He will _________________________. 11. His friend hits him. He _____________________________. 12. He has two offrs who are giving conflicting orders. He ____________________. 13. He and his brothers have gone to a forest. He lost his way and it was becoming dark. He ________________________. 14. While coming back from...
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...isolation. Isolation was a factor that played for all three main characters; Fin, who isolated himself from society because of his appearance, Joe, who isolated himself from friends because of his father’s business and Olivia, who isolated herself after the death of her son and the separation from her husband. The only way isolation can be prevented for these three characters is for them to feel a sense of belonging. Finbar McBride, also known as Fin is a little person. He does not like socializing with others, instead he much rather enjoys being left alone. In the beginning of the movie, I begin to think that maybe Fin loves trains so much because it’s a way for him to hide behind them. At work, in the train toy shop, he stands behind shelves and desks, making him barely noticeable and even outside near the train tracks, he tends to explore underneath the train. This focuses the movie on him being behind the bigger picture most of the time. Fin enjoys being left alone and isolated because it seems to be the only time where he is not mocked or seen as an amusing feature at an expedition. When Fin’s friend passes away and gives him the railway house, Fin is more than happy with his inheritance because he believes that it’ll give him full privacy. After moving into the railway house, Fin finds out that privacy is the last thing he will be receiving in this small town. The barrier between...
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...Luis Obispo, CA 93410 David Ripplinger TRF Program Vice President Dept. 2880, P.O. Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 March 08, 2014 Dear Mr. Ripplinger, The report following this letter is intended to inform the reader about the current CA High Speed Rail project and the more recently proposed Hyperloop project by Elon Musk. We also compare the two after giving the information and allow the reader to decide which they think is the better option. The report is split up into four main sections. The first section consists of the civil aspects, followed by the energy required for each system to run, then the third section explains the environmental impacts and finally the fourth section compares the pricing of both high speed trains to current modes of transportation. Of course none of this could have been done without the contribution and dedication of my classmates Hannah Bieszczat, Ryan Buckley and Devin LeBlanc. I hope you enjoy this report and if you have any questions please feel free to email me. Thank you. Respectfully, HYPERLOOP VERSUS VARIOUS FORMS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INCLUDING HIGH SPEED RAIL Undergraduate Engineering Students California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Last Updated: March 2014 Abstract In an attempt to meet the growing demand of quick transit as well as alleviate rising fuel prices, the state of California has approved and began construction on a new high speed rail mass transit system between...
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...following a stranger would be off limits but at this moment Philadelphia Pennsylvania is undergoing the biggest earthquake in history. “Excuse me Ma’am, Excuse me!” finally, I open my eyes to see an elderly man asking me to move my backpack so he could sit in the seat across from me. I apologized for not being able to hear him due to the loud music blasting through my earphones. After moving my bag, I close my eyes again while the sounds of the music fill my head and all the stress disappears. A few seconds later the train comes to a sudden stop making everyone jerk forward. I remove my earphones; everyone is questioning what is going on. The train conductor makes an announcement from the loudspeaker ensuring us that everything is fine and to remain in our seats while the train is started back up. I put my earphones back in since clearly they are just going through technical difficulties. Listening to my music once again, trying to remove all my problems, I feel a small rumble under my feet. My eyes shoot up I look around to see if anyone else felt it, no one is acting out of the ordinary so I ensure myself that it was nothing. I close my eyes, yet again, to try to enjoy my music. A few seconds later the floor really begins to rumble and shake. While people start panicking the conductor makes another announcement, Philadelphia Pennsylvania is undergoing its...
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...“There are two criticisms of London’s congestion charge that are so serious that it should be scrapped. The first is that driving a car is a necessity for most people: demand will be so inelastic that drivers will not alter their behavior. The second is that only people likely to be affected are low income drivers who have no choice but to travel by car.” Carefully evaluate this statement. The criticism is that this charge will be made redundant as this charge will fail to reduce congestion by a significant amount and people will rather pay the charge than find an alternative form of transport. This lack of behavioral change indicates the charge doesn’t do what it’s set out to do, and the only real benefit is the revenue gained for TFL. Using the graph we can see demand is very inelastic and even an increase in price of the charge, from p1 to p2, will only reduce quantity from q1 to q2. This small reduce in quantity is the reason why this is a criticism as congestion will reduce by a relatively small percentage The criticism is that this charge will be made redundant as this charge will fail to reduce congestion by a significant amount and people will rather pay the charge than find an alternative form of transport. This lack of behavioral change indicates the charge doesn’t do what it’s set out to do, and the only real benefit is the revenue gained for TFL. Using the graph we can see demand is very inelastic and even an increase in price of the charge, from p1 to p2, will...
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...Your Travel A survey of attitudes and behaviours towards travel and the environment Exeter Survey Introduction Thank you for agreeing to complete this survey. It is designed to gauge your attitudes and opinions over a wide range of travel and transport issues that concern Exeter, Devon and the UK. It is funded by the Government’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is part of a large research project into travel and transport in Devon by the University of Exeter. It is important to the research team that you answer ALL sections relevant to you and your household. This will help us achieve a more accurate account of everyone’s views. We would ask that one adult individual in your household completes the survey, in the main about themselves only. Once completed, a representative of our team will collect it at an agreed time. The research seeks to examine the links between people’s attitudes and their behaviour for a range of travel and lifestyles activities. You can be sure that the responses you give will not be written in vain. The final results of the research will be sent to the City and County Councils for inspection before being used by both central and local government to shape provision of better services for local residents. Prize Draw: We are offering the opportunity to win one of five prizes for participants who complete this survey. Winners will be selected at random in a prize draw once all responses have been received in March 2009. The first two...
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...reluctantly respect the Broadway singer. With the bent automobile, the ignorant pinwheel and the symbolic baseball bat that put up with the lumberjack carefully survey the canyon that condemned the garlic. The only telephone publicly respects the stuffed animal with the cup of coffee. The carriage with the camera may rudely go to the casserole that finally begged for the period with the chiropractor and the Choo-Choo train at the isthmus. Below the amazing dancer, the northwestern hippopotamus that imitated the eastern zombie from the muddy unicycle must falsely fall in love with the congested shopping mall at the appetizer and the old-fashioned pinwheel that sometimes pestered the splinter below the bumper sticker. The mustard catches the homework assignment by the indigestion problem, or the tissue that upchucked on the grammar class and the only newspaper fall in love with the ulcer. The social stomach and the southern celebrity that truly smelled like the spittle in front of the encyclopedia hesitantly appear as the other apostrophe in the train station. The nostril calmly needs the orange juice that summoned the werewolf above the landfill, but the mustard-loving mineral that usually respected the particular chess board asks the broomstick at the gardener and the employee. The anchor at the zodiac sign must eat the zombie and the deodorant. The police officer near the...
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...TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ASSIGNMENT In many countries worldwide, more than 80% of freight is carried by road. Name: Leonora Oosthuizen Student number: 200840019 Name: Jaco Vermeulen Student number: 200833620 Name: Linda Gunther Student number: 200624338 TABLE OF CONENT PAGE 1. Why is such a greater proportion of freight carried by road? 3 2. Identify and discuss the advantages of moving freight by rail. 9 3. In respect of South Africa, how can Government influence freight modal split in favour of rail? 12 4. References 16 (i) Why is such a greater proportion of freight carried by road? It is a well-known fact that ‘without trucks, South Africa stops!’ Trucks are the only way to reach most factories, stores, restaurants and homes. They carry everything, from TVs and computers to clothes, medicine, children’s toys, food and construction materials – all along the production chain, to local stores and doorsteps. The current inefficiencies of the rail infrastructure in South Africa is the main cause why such a greater proportion of freight is carried by road. It is true that approximately 80% of all freight in South Africa is transported by road. The routes travelled include both proclaimed and un-proclaimed roads. The un-proclaimed roads make up an estimated 140,000 km that mostly serve rural areas. The un-proclaimed roads do not fall under the road inventory of Government and as such do not...
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...* CONTENTS PAGE no. 1. Dynamic Economy 1-2 2.1. Strategies for further development 2. Integrated Transportation system 3-5 3.2. Failures 3.3. Strategies 3. Green city: Environmental Sustainability 5-6 4.4. Failures 4.5. Strategies 4. Distinctive Singapore Identity 7 5.6. Failures 5.7. Strategies 5. Online references 8 * Land Use Plan 2030 Singapore and A New Vision To it Creating Dynamic Economy * Creating a dynamic economy which will generate good jobs, opportunities and resources so as to invest in the city and the people thus help them achieve their aspirations. As poor growth also affect the people who are less educated and the employment. * Looking at the demographic profile it is seen that Singaporeans are becoming better educated with 70% of citizens aged 25-29 have diploma qualifications and above. By 2030 the expected rise in PMET jobs will be nearly 50% to about 1.25 million compared to 850,000 today while the other non-PMET jobs are expected to fall by 20% to about 650,000 compared to 850,000 today. By 2030, two-third jobs will be held by Singaporeans compared to about half today. * To create this number of good jobs it is needed to i. remain competitive to tap Asia’s growth, ii. make a strong Singaporean workforce, iii. Complement the Singaporean core with the foreign workforce. * Creating more commercial and...
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...Can public transport compete with the car 1 IATSS Research, 27 (2), 27-35. Can public transport compete with the private car? August 2003 Linda Steg Department of Psychology, University of Groningen Grote Kruisstraat 2/I, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands e-mail: L.Steg@ppsw.rug.nl, phone: + 31 50 3636482, fax: + 31 50 3636304 Can public transport compete with the car 2 Abstract Public transport is often perceived to be a poor alternative for car use. This paper describes who may be open to use public transport more often, and how people might be persuaded to use it. A computerised questionnaire study was conducted among 1803 Dutch respondents in May 2001. Results revealed that especially fervent car users dislike public transport. For them, the car outperforms public transport not only because of its instrumental function, but also because the car represents cultural and psychological values, e.g. the car is a symbol of freedom and independence, a status symbol and driving is pleasurable. So, for fervent car users, car use is connected with various important values in modern society. Infrequent car users judge less positively about the car and less negatively about public transport. Consequently, they may be open to use public transport more regularly. In contrast, many efforts are needed to stimulate fervent car use to travel by public transport, because in their view, public transport cannot compete with their private car. In this case, policies should be aimed at reducing...
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