Travel by bus

Problems with spelling and a limited vocabulary can be helped by using a dictionary and a thesaurus. Keep one of each on your desk for ready reference, and carry a small paperback version of one or the other to read when you are traveling by bus or train. You will be amazed at how much knowledge you can acquire in this way. 

In the following, we present some empirical observations from ongoing research on how people actually spend their time when traveling by bus and train in an everyday context. We initially explore what activities really take place while traveling. Is travel dominated by work, leisure, relaxation ( time out ), and social interaction. 

Do not travel by commercial airfine or long haul bus transportation for at least the first 2 days. Avoid lengthy auto trips with other people in a car for at least 2 days. 

The air at the elevations on the Plateau contains 35-40% less oxygen than at sea level. Pulmonary edema can occur at 3,000 m (9842.5 ft) elevation at Golmud for people who have come from near sea level. The abrupt rise to 4,000-5,000 m (13,123-16,404 ft) in a short time can even cause problems for people from Golmud, which is why the passenger trains are sealed, pressurized, and have added oxygen for the comfort of travelers. When tourists were crossing the Plateau to Lhasa by bus, they were required to travel nonstop for 24 h to minimize the risk of injury or death. Most healthy people will have altitude sickness at these elevations until they have acclimatized. 

The rate per miles driven is also oblivious to die impact of alternative modes of transportation on overall travel safety. Public transportation by train or bus is typically safer than travel by car and shifting the public s use to these modes can increase safety without being reflected in the fatalities per miles driven. Thus, as comforting or disturbing as die rate of fatality per miles driven is (depending on where you live, of course), the state of traffic safety looks veiy different if we consider another common rate the rate of fatalities per number of people in the population. This is the typical measure used in health statistics to estimate the risk of a person of contracting any disease in any one country. 

In recent decades, there has been a growing concern about the safety of children during their trip to school. The SAFEWAY2SCHOOL EU Project has developed methods and tools enhancing the safely of children who travel to and from school by bus. These methods and tools focus on bus transport, the consideration of door-to-door safety and the methods and tools which have been developed to provide support both in the planning and monitoring of school bus services. This chapter describes in particular the Safe Route Planning approach and the Safe Map . 

The automobile ascended to dominance in North America starting in the 1920s, and in Europe by the 1950s. After World War II, most nonauto ground transport in the United States rapidly disappeared. The decades following World War II saw vast reductions in train travel, bus service, and public transportation systems in major cities. 

Most urban rail service is electric-powered and most urban bus service is diesel-powered, although diesel rail and electric bus operations do exist, as noted above. The efficiency and environmental impacts of electricity depend gi eatly on the source of electric power. Although electric vehicles produce no tailpipe emissions, generation of electricity can produce significant emissions that can travel long distances, Eor example, coal-powered electricity plants produce particulate emissions that travel halfway across North America, Urban buses also can be powered by a variety of alternative fuels. 

Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York Bantam Books, 1999. A classic account of the man that many came to consider the archetypal hippie. Wolfe, well-known for his achievements as a participant-writer, bases his account on a tour with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters in the 1960s. The Pranksters traveled in a painted bus marked Further, presiding over gatherings where people participated in acid tests by taking LSD. 

Travel in urban areas reflect similar patterns. After intensive efforts to increase ridership on public transportation systems, most city and suburban dwellers still rely on their own cars for transportation. In Los Angeles, for example, the city s upgraded bus system and new light rail system are now used by no more than about 2% of the local population. 

To some people, the serial interface was too bulky and cumbersome. For those people, a special mouse connector was developed the small, round PS/2 connector. This connector attached to a special, 8-bit interface card that was installed directly into the computer s bus. Thus, the signals traveled on a more direct path to the CPU. This type of mouse was called a bus mouse for these reasons (and because it was developed by Microsoft, primarily, it s also called the MS bus mouse). See Figure 6.8 for an example of a bus mouse connector. 

Table 2A.1 contains the results of 32 experiments performed by the researcher, in which the time taken to travel these paths was measured. The stopwatch was started just as the bus passed beneath the passageway and stopped exactly when our hiker reached the entrance of the building housing his department. The experiments were performed in the same order as given in the table. The order was not random, for reasons to be discussed later. The objective of the experiments was to quantify the differences in the time spent taking each of the three paths. Fig. 2A.1 shows all the times measured, in the same order as in the table. 

The driver pulls the vehicle off the road with about 12 inches of the school bus in the travel lane, but well onto the limits of the roadway shoulder. The driver unbuckles as students fill the walkway of the school bus. The driver is approaching the students in the walkway when the bus is struck by a passenger vehicle from the rear. The students in the walkway fall into seated areas and into other students. The fighting students in the rear have injuries as a result of being thrown... 

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