Study finds technology could support mountain monorail
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New technology would make it possible to build a monorail connecting Denver to the state&#39;s ski resorts and such a railway could carry six to eight times more people than two additional
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Most machines don't improve with use. Old pickup trucks don't gradually become Ferraris just by driving them fast, and a pocket calculator won't change into a supercomputer by crunching lots of numbers. The human body is different...
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Visions of a slick, elevated train gliding over streets choked with traffic wooed a razor-thin majority of city voters to pass the Seattle Monorail initiative two years ago.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  A new study by the U.S.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 18--There's been a lot of talk about creating a regional transportation authority in northern Colorado. But that may not be as possible as it once seemed.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ researchers are working on a variety of location-based tools, some of which could turn into interesting commercial applications. In one project, the researchers lent out cheap GPSÂ devices to drivers and asked them to leave the devices on the dashboards of their cars for a couple of weeks, said John Krumm, a researcher at Microsoft Research. He discussed the results of his work at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington, on Monday. Krumm's group examined the data they collected from the GPS units for a number of different factors, including what time of day people were most often in their cars and where they most commonly were going at what times, such as to commercial or residential areas. That data was perhaps most relevant to the group's efforts to create a model to predict where and when users would stop and get out of their cars. Krumm imagined a number of reasons why that information might be useful. For example, the provider of a navigation system might be able to predict that because a user is near the airport, the user is likely to go there, and so offer the user a coupon for airport parking. An intern on Krumm's team is working on determining whether hybrid cars could use such predictive modeling, which could predict the length of a trip as well as hills and the speed of the vehicle during the trip, in order to efficiently allocate the car's resources. Scott Counts, another researcher, is working on a community application that would let fitness enthusiasts share exercise routes. SlamXR users carry a small device that includes a range of sensors, such as heart rate monitor, temperature sensor, altimeter, GPS receiver, and Bluetooth radio. Users of the device can collect data along their favorite bike route, for example, and upload that data onto the Web site. The site shows the route on the map and includes such dataÂ speed and altitude along the route. Other users can search for routes based on difficulty, distance, target heart rate, elevation change, and activity. Users can also tag the routes for easier searching. Technologies developed at Microsoft Research could become commercial products from Microsoft, or the company may sell them to external sources. More than 700 researchers work in the group in five labs around the world. The event in Redmond is an opportunity for Microsoft Research workers to spend time with members of academia, in part to discuss issues in computer science research.
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CUMBERLAND -- Technically speaking, the Providence and Worcester Railroad doesnât lead to the North Pole, but passengers on the Blackstone Valley Polar Express may get a similar experience.
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Nanowire electrodes could improve the performance of electric vehicles.
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Business & money: Wall Street is bracing itself for impact when monoline and monorail collide
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An electronic &quot;artificial eye&quot;, developed for people with impaired vision, has been shown to reliably identify pedestrian crossings, determine when it is safe to walk across and even measure the width of a road.
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DeLormeâs Earthmate GPS PN-20 displays topographical maps as realistic 3-D flyover simulations.
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For the last four years, experts on metallurgy and railroad safety have been traveling back and forth between Pueblo and the United Kingdom, called upon to help the British rail system improve the safety of its ...
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Blog: How can you stretch Wi-Fi? Researcher Ermanno Pietrosemoli tried communicating between peaks in the Andes mountains.
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U.S. officials want to see if the same technology that speeds cars through highway tolls and identifies lost pets can unclog border crossings without compromising security.
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An "electronic eye" that can be fitted  to a pair of glasses could help the blind cross roads more  safely, scientists said on Friday.
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An electronic device that senses when a vehicle is about to tip and automatically corrects steering, acceleration and braking can reduce single-vehicle crashes that include deadly rollovers, a safety group said Thursday.
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By A.J. HOSTETLER  Fiber-optic cable can provide commercial TV, Internet access, phone service and now, temperature readings along the Shenandoah River.  The U.S.