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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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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has selected BAE Systems to supply electric power and propulsion systems for its transit buses. 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.

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

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

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President Barack Obama, along with Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, released a strategic vision and plan for a high-speed passenger rail (HSR) system in the US. Additional funding for long-term planning and development is expected from legislation authorizing federal surface transportation programs.

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

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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.