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Prototype PNNL, UW webapp predicts parking space availability for delivery drivers

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The webapp combines curbside maps with data from nearly 300 sensors placed within 74 parking spaces in commercial and passenger loading zones from 1 st to 3 rd avenues and between Battery and Stewart streets in the Belltown neighborhood in downtown Seattle. —Amelia Bleeker, PNNL software engineer who developed the webapp.

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San Francisco selects BAE Systems Series-ER for 68 transit buses for Green Bus Zones

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BAE’s series hybrid system features no mechanical link between the diesel engine and the axle. Power flows in series from engine to generator to traction motor. Stop/start technology: With bus accessories powered by the Accessory Power Systems (APS), the engine can be shut off at stops to prevent idling and emissions.

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Portable Life-Support Device Provides Critical Care in Conflict and Disaster Zones

Cars That Think

In 2004, together with other physicians and engineers, he created a company to develop solutions based on his innovations. He named it after the Toronto neighborhood where he still lives — Thornhill Medical. Sometimes, the engineers could take existing components and develop protective features for them.

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Proud of its roots

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Subsequently, McNeil traveled to Seattle to purchase an already converted AMC Hornet 4-door sedan, and then towed the car back to Colorado. “I “I ordered a controller from a company in California, which used a single power Darlington transistor, and 4 deep cycle 12-volt batteries.”

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President Obama Outlines Vision and Plan for US High-Speed Passenger Rail System; $13B to Start

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Pacific Northwest Corridor (Eugene, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver BC). Providing grants to complete individual projects that are “ready to go” with completed environmental and preliminary engineering work – with an emphasis on near term job creation. Gulf Coast Corridor (Houston, New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham, Atlanta).

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

A lot of the advice of the engineering firms, knowing this cold-weather impact, is to find easier routes first and wait for bigger-battery buses [to serve the longer routes]. It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood. We did a ribbon cutting for Kitsap Transit, which is right across from Seattle.