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5 reasons why you should drive your Porsche to Thanksgiving dinner
Noelle Talmon Transportation Technology & AutomotiveNearly 49 million people will travel 50 miles or more for Thanksgiving this year, according to AAA. Nearly 90 percent of people will be driving to their destinations. So why not take your Porsche?
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Easing off the gas: Tesla trucks are here
Delany Martinez Distribution & WarehousingEven if you'd only gotten into the logistics game yesterday, you'd be hard-pressed to miss the dire warnings about the state of truck driver shortages in the industry. It's a perfect storm of job popularity flagging with the younger set, an older generation of drivers aging out and wages falling while expectations are on the rise.
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States enact school bus seat belt laws, reigniting old debates
Ryan Clark EducationSchool buses don't have seat belts. With the lives of our nation's children at stake, to some, this one simple statement is inconceivably short-sighted.
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Excitement and a bright future for Kansas City International Airport
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveThe wilderness years of downtrodden Kansas City International (KCI) and its passengers could finally be coming to an end with the recent approval of a plan to rebuild its terminal for the modern age of air travel.
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Porsche may be gearing up for a run at Formula 1
Ross Lancaster Transportation Technology & AutomotiveFor the better part of a century, Porsche has been the world's most successful manufacturer of race cars. From the top step of Le Mans to countless local tracks, Porsche wins races and championships — and will continue to for years to come.
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The era of talking highways: Do we need ‘smart’ infrastructure?
Lucy Wallwork Science & TechnologyThe term "smart" can cause a lot of confusion these days — the prefix is used liberally to make any new product sound cutting edge. But "smart" infrastructure is about interaction and communication, based on the logic of the Internet of Things (IoT), the fashionable concept of a network of devices connected to the internet, and the relationship between them. It's what happens when even your toaster is connected to the internet. But what does it mean for ordinary citizens?
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Speed kills — or does it?
David Newton Transportation Technology & AutomotiveTens of thousands of Americans die every year on our highways, and a large percentage of those tragedies are blamed on the relative speed of the vehicles involved. The greater the speed, the more likely an accident could end in serious injury or fatality — or so the thinking goes. But is this accurate?
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London City’s vision, 30 years in the making
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveThirty years ago, an area of derelict dockland close to the center of London was transformed and opened as the city's newest airport, with hopes of developing passenger services where only certain aircraft could land at the restrictive location.
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Archaeological tool expeditions
Pablo Deferrari Transportation Technology & AutomotiveThere are typically three choices when buying tools. You can buy them cheap, made in a land far, far away; go broke buying the best; or settle on straddling the two extremes with mediocre goods. There's a fourth way, and chances are you figured it out reading the previous paragraph.
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Infrastructure still needs help, but can the US afford it?
Lucy Wallwork Construction & Building MaterialsCities are not defined by a collection of buildings but rather by a deep web of movements, people, products or ideas. And it is infrastructure that knits together the different components of a city — where we live, work and play. It is also what links cities to each other globally.
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