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» Site title: Innovative Transportation Technologies - By Jerry Schneider. Classified descriptions, diagrams, over 40 transport technologies: planned, operating; electric and not; manual, automated; 1-/2-mode; freight/people movers (PRT); top mount, suspended; mono-/bi-rails, automated highways; fora, conference reports.
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» Site title: Advanced Transit Association » Site description: ATRA promotes developing technologies such as Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), identifies problems and ways advanced systems can help solve them. Descriptions, studies (download, paper), videos, PRT Model Project, calendar, links.
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» Site title: The ADVISORS project » Site description: Action for advanced Driver assistance and Vehicle control systems Implementation, Standardisation, Optimum use of the Road network and Safety. Includes project description and reports, a virtual driving lab, and related links.
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» Site title: Alexander Communications Group, Inc. » Site description: Offers several newsletters on emerging energy and transportation technology, including intelligent transportation systems (ITS), alternative vehicles, and fuel cell research and development. Some free content.
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» Site title: AWAKE » Site description: Pipeline project for a system to assess driver vigilance and give off a warning, if need be. Lists consortium members and purpose of the project. Based in Europe.
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» Site title: Car Innovations » Site description: How cars might appear in the future.
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» Site title: Future Transportation » Site description: Small enthusiast site, with maglev trains, solar sails, transport history. Brief descriptions, diagrams, photographs.
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» Site title: Hydro Lance Corp. » Site description: High Aspect Ratio Twin Hull (H.A.R.T.H.): new, innovative marine ocean ship platform architecture with passive designed, high stability and safety, low fuel use, achieves high speeds in high seas: 50-75 knots.
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» Site title: I.N.S.E.A.N. » Site description: Description of research facilities and programs. Includes publications.
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» Site title: The National Transportation Library » Site description: Provides online access to documents and databases covering all aspects of transportation in the U.S. Material is contributed by public and private organizations around the country and access is free.
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» Site title: Planning Rural Roads » Site description: Designed to help planners and managers of rural roads networks in developing countries. Covers topics such as selection, design, funding, and maintenance.
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» Site title: Predit » Site description: French national program in land transport research and innovation. Information about strategic program efforts to improve performance relative to energy, noise, pollution and environment.
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» Site title: SMRTram » Site description: Horizontal pedestrian mobility system to stretch average walking access distances along selected corridors. Similar to light rail and buses, but with rubber tires on a concrete guideway.
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In Oblong, Illinois, it''s punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.
No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn''t allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you -- or holding you in his arms.
Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown -- if they''re nude.(Apparently, if you wear socks, you''re safe from the law!)
In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it''s illegal to make love on the floor between the beds!
The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts.
An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store''s walk-in meat freezer!
A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can''t go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service job -- for men only -- called a corset inspector.)
However, in Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."
It''s safe to make love while parked in Coeur d''Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren''t allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate.
Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can''t dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing.
Lovers in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term.
In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it''s legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in.
A Florida sex law: If you''re a single, divorced, or widowed woman, you can''t parachute on Sunday afternoons.
Women aren''t allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio, a man might see the reflection of something "he oughtn''t!"
No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper." The man isn''t charged nor is his name revealed.
In Las Vegas, Nevada: It''s against the law to pawn your dentures.
In Natoma, Kansas; It''s illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suites.
Idaho Falls, Idaho: If you''re 88 years of age or older, it''s illegal for you to ride your motorcycle.
In Vermont: It''s against the law (not to mention impossible) to whistle under water.
In Alabama: It''s illegal to play dominoes on Sunday.
In Barber, North Carolina: It''s illegal for a cat to fight a dog (or vice versa).
In Clawson City, Michigan: It''s illegal to sleep with chickens.
A pet rooster cannot say cock-a-doodle-do within the city limits of Mount Dora, Fl.
In Richmond, Va., you must buy a license for 93 cents to sell song books on the street.
The U.S. government says it''s a crime to give false weather reports.
In Gary, Ind., you cannot go straight to the theater after eating garlic.
You can be fined $500 if you bother a butterfly in Pacific Grove, Ca.
In Maryland, a woman may not go through her husband''s pockets while he is sleeping.
There is no horse racing allowed on the New Jersey Turnpike.
In Waterloo, Neb., barbers cannot eat onions between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs in Brooklyn, N.Y.
In New York, you can teach your pet parrot to speak, but not to squawk.
Cars are not allowed to scare horses in Centerville, Ohio.
On the books in Tennessee:
In Alamo: A person found intoxicated must be given a large dose of castor oil by a local doctor...and failure to gulp it down will result in a fine.
In Newport: It''s against the law to tickle a girl under her chin with a feather duster in order to get her attention.
In Collierville: Keeping clean can be a chilly proposition, as a law there says all bathtubs must be kept in the backyard.
In Waverly: You better not let your horse near the tub, since horses are prohibited from sleeping in them, as well as in the house.
In Wartburg: The town strictly forbids single, widowed or divorced women from parachuting on Sunday!
It is against the law to have disco dance contests last more than eight hours.
It is against the law to call another person a coward if he refuses to duel.
Humor of the day
ARTERY--The study of fine paintings.
BARIUM--What you do when CPR fails.
BENIGN--What yoiu are after you be 8.
CAESAREAN SECTION--A district in Rome.
COLIC--A sheep dog.
COMA--A punctuation mark.
CONGENITAL--Friendly.
DILATE--To live longer.
FESTER--Quicker.
G.I. SERIES--Baseball game between teams of soldiers.
GRIPPE--A suitcase.
HANGNAIL--A coat hook.
MEDICAL STAFF--A Doctor''s cane.
MINOR OPERATION--Coal digging.
MORBID--A higher offer.
NODE--Was aware of.
ORGANIC--Church musician.
OUTPATIENT--A person who has fainted.
POST-OPERATIVE--A letter carrier.
PROTEIN--In favor of young people.
SECRETION--Hiding anything.
SEROLOGY--Study of English knighthood.
TABLET--A small table.
TUMOR--An extra pair.
URINE--Opposite of you''re out.
VARICOSE VEINS--Veins which are very close together.