land transportation
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airports
- In airport: Links to local ground transportation
An airport should always be considered an interchange where different modes of transportation connect. Since the airport itself is not a primary destination, consideration must be given to access by surface vehicles. This is as critical a factor in airport layout and design…
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ancient military technology
- In military technology: Land transportation
In antiquity and classical times the transportation technology of land warfare largely amounted to man’s own powers of locomotion. This was due in part to limitations in the size, strength, and stamina of horses and in part to deficiencies in crucial supporting technologies,…
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materials science
- In materials science: Materials for ground transportation
The global effort to improve the efficiency of ground transportation vehicles, such as automobiles, buses, trucks, and trains, and thereby reduce the massive amounts of pollutants they emit, provides an excellent context within which to illustrate how materials science functions to develop new…
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