Henry Barnes (traffic engineer)

Henry A. Barnes (c.1907 – September 1968), was an American traffic engineer and commissioner who served in many cities, including Flint, Michigan, Denver, Colorado, Baltimore, Maryland, and New York City. Barnes was responsible for many innovations in applied traffic engineering, including the Green Wave of coordinated traffic signals, the application of actuated traffic signals (signals [...]

Trench railways

Trench Railways represented military adaptation of early 20th century railway technology to the problem of keeping soldiers supplied during the static trench warfare phase of World War I. The large concentrations of soldiers and artillery at the front lines required delivery of enormous quantities of food, ammunition and fortification construction materials where transportation facilities had [...]

Dautel

Dautel is a German company, headquartered in Leingarten, manufacturing hydraulic tail lifts and dumpers for trucks. It is one of the several German companies returning production back to Germany, due to quality concerns.

History
The blacksmith Ernst Dautel did fitting work for horse driven wagons. His son, Emil Dautel learned the trade from him and founded [...]

HICE forklift truck

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A HICE forklift or HICE lift truck is a hydrogen fueled, internal combustion engine powered industrial forklift truck used to lift and transport materials.
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Inland navigation

Inland navigation is transport with ships via inland water (canals, rivers etc.) between inland ports or quays and wharfs.

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Navigability

Navigation markers, entrance Fremantle harbour and the Swan River, Western Australia

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Push inventory

Philosophy of inventory where supply (inventory) is allocated from the production site to the warehouses based on the forecast for each warehouse. This method can best be applied when production quantities exceed the short-term quantities of orders. These quantities must be allocated to the stocking points preferably in some way that makes economic sense.
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Post vacation blues

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Post vacation blues (or just vacation blues) or less commonly, post travel depression (PTD) is a type of mood that persons returning home from a long trip [...]

Sea story

A sea story is a work of fiction set largely at sea. The enclosed setting of life aboard a ship allows an author to portray a social world in miniature, with characters cut off from the outside world and forced to interact in cramped and stressful conditions. Themes can include differences between seamen and officers, [...]

Traffic break

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A traffic break is any separation in the flow of traffic—naturally occurring or otherwise—along a road or highway. In heavily congested traffic, natural breaks occur rarely, thus the term traffic break [...]

Local-express lanes

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Local-express lanes or collector-express lanes are a set of two same-direction one-way multi-lane roadways, usually on a freeway. The outer set, usually called local lanes or collector [...]

Swiftwater rescue

Swiftwater Rescue (also called “whitewater rescue”) is a subset of technical rescue that involves the use of specially trained personnel, ropes, and mechanical advantage systems often much more robust than those used in rope rescue because of the added pressure of moving water.
The main goal is to use or deflect the water’s power to assist [...]

Railroad police

Railroad police is a type of security police responsible for policing railroad (or railway) lines.
In the United States and Canada, they are employed by the major Class I railroads, as well as some smaller ones. In other countries, this work is typically done by territorial police forces rather than specialized agencies. In Britain, railways fall [...]

Fulfillment house

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A fulfillment house is a company specializing in product fulfillment services, on behalf of the product owner.

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2 Standard [...]

Pune Metro

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Pune Metro
Info
Locale
Pune, India
Transit type
Rapid Transit
Number of lines
4
Operation
Began operation
2013, under construction
Owner
Pune Metro Rail Corporation(PMRC), PMRDA, [...]

List of wide-body aircraft

List of commercial civilian passenger wide-body aircraft and their operators
Main article: wide-body aircraft
Airbus

List of Airbus A300 operators
List of Airbus A310 operators
List of Airbus A330 operators
List of Airbus A340 operators
List of Airbus A350 orders (Estimated entry into service: 2012 or 2013)
Airbus A380

Boeing

List of Boeing 747 operators
List of Boeing 767 operators
List of Boeing 777 operators
List of [...]

Ferry slip

Tug propelled ferry barge with integral ramp at each end
A ferry slip is a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat. A similar structure called a barge slip receives a barge that is used to transport wheeled vehicles.

BC Ferries Dock seen from the ship about to dock
Often a ferry intended for motor vehicle transport will [...]

The Engineer’s and Mechanics Encyclopaedia

The Engineer’s and Mechanics Encyclopaedia is a book edited by Luke Hebert, a London patent agent and journalist, and published by Thomas Kelly of Paternoster Row. The first edition appeared in 1836 and 1837. The second edition appeared in 1849. It was in two octavo volumes (Vol. 1, 796 pp and vol. 2, 928 pp), [...]

GLOBOsapiens

GLOBOsapiens GmbH

Founded
Hamburg, Germany
Headquarters
Munich, Germany
Industry
Internet, computer software
Website
www.globosapiens.net
GLOBOsapiens is a cooperation headquartered in Munich, Germany, providing Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its multicultural oriented Worldwide Internet Travel Community, GLOBOsapiens.net, and a classified service named findix. GLOBOsapiens was founded out of an University diploma thesis at HdM-Stuttgart by Walter Andreas Pucko. It went [...]

Ore dock

Laker at dock in Duluth, Minnesota showing scale

The Wisconsin Central Railway (later Soo Line) ore dock in Ashland, Wisconsin 1,800 ft (550 m) long, b. 1916

Ore dock (b. 1931) in Marquette, Michigan

The IR&HB ore dock at Skanee, Michigan. The steamer Christopher Columbus (362 ft) is in the foreground. ca. 1893
An ore dock is a large structure used [...]

Cross-sea traffic ways

Cross-sea traffic ways are traffic ways across the sea. Such traffic ways could include bridges or tunnels.
Contents

1 Sea bridges

1.1 Existing sea bridges
1.2 Planned sea bridges

2 Sea tunnels

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Sea bridges

Existing sea bridges

Donghai Bridge (People’s Republic of China)
Hangzhou Bay Bridge (People’s Republic of China)
Oresund Bridge (Denmark-Sweden)

Planned sea bridges

Pelješac bridge (Croatia)
Gibraltar Bridge (Spain-Morocco)
Strait of Messina Bridge [...]