Blog 18: Third Answer

Title:  Third Answer
Label: Research
Due Date:  Thursday March 27 by 8AM

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:

• EQ 
• How can a transportation engineer best design a comfortable means of transportation in the city of Los Angeles?

• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
• A transportation engineer can best design a comfortable means of transportation by implementing bycicle lanes.

• 3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)
• detail 1: People who live around their job can ride bicycles to and from work.
• detail 2: Their will be less cars on the streets and their will be less saturation. 
• detail 3: By using a renewable energy source, the human body, the bicycle, will not be polluting the world like automobiles. 

• The research source (s) to support your details and answer
• http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bike/home.shtml
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregated_cycle_facilities

• Concluding Sentence
• Bike lanes, road shoulders, and side paths would benefit the city of Los Angeles in a big way. Less cars less traffic and healthier people.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview

Title:  Fourth Interview Questions
Label: Interviews 
Due Date:   Tuesday March 4, 2014

Content:

1: What is one of the major means of reducing vehicle miles of travel in a region, and thus of reducing auto emissions?

2: What are the levels of public transit service?

3: Will Los Angeles implement a subway or light rail system in future to reduce traffic saturation?

4: How is public transit viewed as an important component of transportation engineering?

5: How do transit systems pplay in maintaining mobilty and thus economic prosperity

6: How are structured transit services related to the land use patterns associated with an individual area?

7: How do major transportation corridors provide an ideal enviorment for the movement of large numbers of people?

8: Why have growth characteristics changed over the last 40 years due to the highway building program?

9: How will personal vehicle travel deteriorate significantly in more and more areas of the country? 

10: What type of emerging development patterns will require a broader range of public transportation solutions?

11: How will these transit systems worsen the air in this growing nation?

12: Will there be a coherent long-term energy policy for these transit systems?

13: Will there be any threats to energy indepence if these transit systems are put in place?

14: How will the trend of declining infrastructure affect the public transit system?

15: What makes a transit system successful?

16: How can transit systems and services be expanded using different types of measures?

17: What is the difference between heavy rail rapid transit and light rail transit?

18: Why do commuter rail services exist mainly between suburban communites and urban centers?

19: How do full automated guideways reduce vehicle traffic flow saturation?

20: What are paratransit services?