SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Pros and Cons of Transportations 5 Modes

Essays 961 - 990

Evolution of Transportation from 1861 to 1939

In five pages this paper examines how transportation evolved during this time period from horse and wagons to gasoline powered mac...

Steamship History and Uses

In five pages this paper discusses the transportation, shipping, and military uses of steam power and the historical role steamshi...

Air Transportation Maintenance and Inspection Regulations

perhaps having caused the crash in which many died. Minute Detail The Alaska Air plane...

Long Island's Transportation History

to the multitude of choices of transport on Long Island. Finally, in a discussion of Long Island, it is important to define it. W...

California's Public Transportation Policy

of California, although not always giving the outward appearance of doing so, does take the transportation problem seriously and h...

NYC's Subway History

In eight pages this paper traces the subway system of New York City back to 1904 and considers its widespread impact as well as ef...

Historical Overview of the New York City Public Transportation System

America was a bit behind. Paris had its omnibus in 1823 and London in 1829 (Ellis, 1997). New York states first railroad, the Moha...

Transportation Handouts and Railroads

In three pages this paper discusses the practice of government handouts to the railroad and other transportation industries since ...

Transportation and Speed in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

In 5 pages this paper examines these motifs and the symbolism they represent in this 1955 novel by Jack Kerouac. There are no oth...

National Transportation Safety Board Investigator's Role

In five pages this paper examines air crash investigations in this consideration of the NTSB's investigator's role. Six sources a...

Logistics and Transportation Industries and the North American Free Trade Agreement

In nine pages NAFTA's effects upon U.S. trade with Mexico and the impact it has had upon trucking and railway industries are exami...

Slavery & Religious Principles

feet" (Grimke 2)(all citations refer to the page number in the source document transmitted by the student researching this topic)....

Should Drug Use Be Decriminalized?

focus to intervention and rehabilitation. Others oppose this view, arguing that the War on Drugs is working and that to decriminal...

Land Use and Transportation Plan for Tinley Park, Illinois

Tinley Parks current state of development indicates that it grew largely in response to convenience and what was available at spec...

Demographics and the Transportation Industry

has been using Clearview, a method of designing signs to make the typefaces more readable for the older population (Harris, 2008)....

Euthanasia

i.e., death. While euthanasia does not allow people to avoid the "cause of our fear-death-it does allow us to control its manner, ...

Should the US Drill for Oil in Alaska?

a minimum. He points out that the protection that the oil companies have "provided for wildlife" at their drilling sites at Prudho...

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT AT DHL

fact that logistics tends to be somewhat slow when it comes to innovation and management, the advent of computers, bar code system...

Timeline of Land and Air Transportation in the United States

This timeline consists of five pages. There is one visual included and four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Medical Testing On Animals

on animal use in experiments for human well being (Singh, 2006). II. IN FAVOR OF Michael et al (1994) attempt to sharpen...

United Kingdom Stagecoach Group Transportation Company

(in millions) 1502 1798.7 Net profit 95.8 -500.2 Net profit margin (%) 6.38 -27.81 It is worth noting that this figures include e...

NY's Transportation Growth

of transportation system would come in stages. There was much travel, even in the early years and it was made possible to creating...

Transportation Agency Screener Effectiveness Policy Example

In November of 2004 new legislation will allow private companies to be hired by various airports, provided that the private firms ...

Air Transportation Environmental and Regulatory Issues

pages when in the fall of 1988, the terrorist attack on U.S. Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland became at the time "the worst sec...

Next Generation Air Transportation System

This will save fuel because pilots would be able to take a more direct route between destinations. As it is, pilots must keep the ...

TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PLAN - U.S. ARMY

pull together the rag-tag elements of the separate colonial armies and unify them enough to drive the British from the United Stat...

GLOBAL LOGISTICS, SUPPLY CHAINS AND INTERMODEAL TRANSPORTATION

where it would head off to another distribution center, and from there, to its destination. The major intermodal function, inciden...

Reducing Costs through Innovating Transportation

The writer presents an outline proposal for an organization to reduce the overall delivery costs. The proposal suggests increasin...

URBAN PLANNING/TRANSPORTATION QUESTIONS

Answers questions pertaining to infrastructure and international treaties. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this ...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...