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The company is commercializing a mobile social computing system named Tiramisu (“pick me up” in Italian) that is intended to connect riders and transit service providers. It supports a variety of collaboration mechanisms designed to improve the experience of riders in a transit service and improve the service provided by service operators. The system has been designed using current knowledge i ...

There exists a wide-range need in both industry and government for quantitative residual stress measurements. Generation 2 Materials Technology LLC (G2MT) will collaborate with partners from industry and government to calibrate and commercialize the eStress system to assess residual stress from mechanical damage and re-rounding. The industrial members, consortiums, and government laboratories who ...

Individual differences in vulnerability to sleep loss and fatigue from extended work hours and night work are a substantial problem in transportation policy making, work schedule development, fatigue risk management strategies, and prediction of performance impairment in real-world operations (Van Dongen et al. 2003; Mollicone et al. 2010). Our group was the first to document the considerable magn ...

COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DEPEND ON GROUND SUPPORT FOR NAVIGATION. THE GROUND SOLUTION CAN BE COSTLY AND MAY PROVIDE LESS ACCURACY THAN NEEDED. A GPS-BASED REAL-TIME AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AN ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH COMBINES GPS-DERIVED POINT POSITION ESTIMATES WITH A PROPAGATED A PRIORI POSITION ESTIMATE. THE POINT POSITIONS ARE ...

THIS DOCUMENT IS AN SBIR TECHNICAL PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO THEFEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION BY DELTA INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. IN RESPONSE TO SBIR SOLICITATION NUMBER 91-FA11. THE PURPOSE OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAM IS TO INVESTIGATE, ANALYZE, AND DESIGN ALTERNATIVE DATA COMPRESSION SYSTEMS TO EFFICIENTLY TRANSMIT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL DISPLAY DATA FROM MAJOR AIRPORTS TO SMALLER SATELLITE AIRPORTS ON LI ...

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A NEED EXISTS TO MONITOR VIBRATION IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES. IT IS DESIRABLE TO MONITOR MANY POINTS ON THE BRIDGE. THE CURRENT PROBLEM IS THAT SENSORS MUST BE WIRED TO A CENTRAL LOCATION. WIRE IS DIFFICULT TO INSTALL AND TO MOVE. THE SOLUTION IS TO COLLECT SENSOR DATA BY RADIO. A SYSTEM EXISTS THAT ELIMINATES WIRE. IT GATHERS SENSOR DATA TO A CENTRAL LOCATION BY RADIO. THE SYSTEM'S UNIQUE FEATURE IS THA ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ADDRESSES A NEED FOR A WORKABLE METHODOLOGY FOR RECORDING THE ENERGY FORCES FROM DIRECT AND SLIDING (ABRASION) CONTACTS ON ANTHROPOMORPHIC DEVICES WITHIN THE INTERIOR OF A VEHICLE ON IMPACT. THE SCOPE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DETERMINE FEASIBILITY OF INCORPORATING CALIBRATED PRESSURE SENSITIVE MICROENCAPSULATED DYE (MED) SENSORS INTO A COATING THAT ADHERES TO ANTHROPOMORPHIC CR ...

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THREE SYSTEMS OF ACTIVE GUIDEWAY SWITCHING CONCEPTS ARE PROPOSED WHICH USE FAIL- SAFE ELECTRICAL SWITCHING WITHOUT NEED FOR LARGE MECHANICAL MOVEMENT OF GUIDEWAY STRUCTURAL MEMBERS. THE SPECIFIC APPLICATION OF THIS APPARATUS TO A 300 MPH, 40- 80 TONNE CLASS MAGLEV VEHICLE OF 50-200 PASSENGERS IS USED AS A BASELINE DESIGN WITH A VEHICLE WIDTH 3.65 M AND EXTENDING IN LENGTH FROM 14 M TO 56 M. THE TH ...