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Science News
June 1, 2002
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Setting Records Randomly Athletic record-breaking occurs in such small increments that chance factors loom large. Mathematicians and statisticians have sought recently to learn more about the role of randomness in records...   |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
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The Megabus Effect After decades of decline, the bus is the U.S.'s fastest-growing way to travel, led by curbside service from Megabus, BoltBus, and others. |
Fast Company
September 2003
Jessica Steinberg |
Driving in the Valley of the Shadow of Death It's the management problem from hell: How do you run a company whose customers and employees are being killed? |
Science News
September 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Waves of Congestion From a physicist's point of view, traffic flow can be regarded as a "many-body system of strongly interacting bodies." Various studies have revealed that such systems can show wavelike behavior and abrupt transitions from one state to another... |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Erico Guizzo |
Q&A With Dario Hidalgo An interview with the Colombian engineer who was the deputy manager of the Transmilenio, Bogota's bus rapid transit system. |
Science News
July 22, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Aircraft Boarding by the Numbers America West Airlines worked with industrial engineers to figure out a boarding system that minimizes seat and aisle bottlenecks. Computer simulations showed that a "reverse pyramid" process appears to work best. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Erico Guizzo |
How to Keep 18 Million People Moving The Brazilian megacity of Sao Paulo operates the world's most complex bus system. Here's how it works. |
PC Magazine
September 21, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
A Moveable Mesh One of the last places you would expect to find cutting-edge technology is inside a city bus. But the bus system in Portsmouth, England, is an exception. |
Reason
March 2005
Ted Balaker |
Railroading the Poor The chief argument for public transit is that it's necessary for those who can't afford cars. But many cities tailor their transit services to those who need them the least. |
Science News
December 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
The Math Hatter and More Looking for a cool gift for someone mathematically inclined? An unusual, conversation-generating token of appreciation? The World Wide Web offers a number of intriguing possibilities -- if you know where to stop and shop... |
BusinessWeek
September 18, 2008
Brian Burnsed |
Suddenly, It's Cool to Take the Bus New low-cost operators are attracting air travelers. |
Technology Research News
February 26, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Quantum computing catches the bus National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have tapped an aspect of classical computers and a pair of weird particle traits to allow distant particles, or qubits, to communicate as though they were in contact. |
Reason
March 2006
Jacob Sullum |
Rocking the Bus Here's how Deborah Davis, a middle-aged Colorado woman with four grown children and five grandchildren, ended up getting dragged off a bus by federal security officers, who handcuffed her, took her to their station, and cited her for two misdemeanors. |
PC Magazine
April 20, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
Crosstown Traffic Visitorville brings Web-site statistics to life, in a simulated city. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
For Gustav-Level Outages, Cities Tap Hybrid Buses for Power This weekend's evacuation measures involving charter and school buses in the New Orleans area was a success, but BAE Systems may soon leverage military research to tap emergency power from hybrid-electric bus fleets. |
Geotimes
September 2007
Erin Wayman |
Taking Science for a Ride Instead of carting kids off to school, the Rutgers Science Explorer brings school to the kids, making science more fun and less intimidating. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Bob Parks |
Robot Buses Pull In to San Diego's Fastest Lane In response to heavy traffic loads, San Diego Country is working on a dedicated truck and bus lanes with lane-keeping sensors and adaptive cruise controls. |
