Tag: Highway

Free Download J. Yu, "China’s Highway of Information and Communication Technology"
English | ISBN: 0230553753 | 2010 | 221 pages | EPUB | 910 KB
Based on first-hand information obtained from Chinese and Foreign enterprises and institutions in the Chinese ICT industry, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Chinese ICT industrial sector. It especially analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, and threats facing both the Chinese enterprise and western multinationals.

Free Download Bruce D. Epperson, "Bicycles in American Highway Planning: The Critical Years of Policy-Making, 1969-1991"
English | ISBN: 0786494956 | 2014 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The United States differs from other developed nations in the extent to which its national bicycle transportation policy relies on the use of unmodified roadways, with cyclists obeying the same traffic regulations as motor vehicles. This policy-known as "vehicular cycling"-evolved between 1969, when the "10-speed boom" saw a sharp increase in adult bicycling, and 1991, when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials adopted an official policy that on-road bikeways were not desirable. This policy resulted from a growing realization by highway engineers and experienced club cyclists that they had parallel interests: the cyclists preferred to ride on highways, because most bikeways were not designed for high speeds and pack riding; and the highway engineers did not want to divert funding from roadways to construct bikeways.

Free Download Tammy Ingram, "Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1469612984, 1469629828 | EPUB | pages: 255 | 3.5 mb
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation’s earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern U.S. transportation system evolved out of the hard-fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie’s creation.

Free Download Humpback Highway: Diving into the mysterious world of whales by Vanessa Pirotta
English | April 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1742237975 | 192 pages | PDF | 6.39 Mb
I entered the water quietly and saw two humpback whales sleeping diagonally in the distance. Two school buses just hanging in space … Acclaimed wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta has been mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale and covered in whale snot. In Humpback Highway, Pirotta dives beneath the surface to reveal the mysterious world of humpback whales – from their life cycle and the challenges humans present to these marine giants to why whale snot and poo are important for us and the ocean. Plus the cutting-edge new technologies (including tagging whales so that they communicate with satellites) that allow us to see where they swim, listen to them talk and even spy on them underwater.

Free Download Highway Bridge under Collision and Explosion
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819757134 | 744 Pages | PDF (True) | 162 MB
This book presents comprehensive experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies on the highway bridge under collision and explosion. Highway bridge is one of the significant civil infrastructures of public transportation, which plays an important role in the sustained and stable growth of the national economy. However, with the development of the transportation industry and bridge construction, the risks of accidental vehicle- and vessel-bridge collisions, as well as the explosion during the whole service life of the bridge are also increasing. Therefore, the damage assessment and protective design of the highway bridge have become the concerned topic in the field of bridge engineering in recent years. The book is intended for researchers and graduate students majoring in bridge engineering and protective engineering, as well as professional engineers working in the field of bridge design.

Free Download Highway Bridge under Collision and Explosion by Hao Wu , Yuehua Cheng , Liangliang Ma
English | EPUB (True) | 2024 | 744 Pages | ISBN : 9819757134 | 86.9 MB
This book presents comprehensive experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies on the highway bridge under collision and explosion. Highway bridge is one of the significant civil infrastructures of public transportation, which plays an important role in the sustained and stable growth of the national economy. However, with the development of the transportation industry and bridge construction, the risks of accidental vehicle- and vessel-bridge collisions, as well as the explosion during the whole service life of the bridge are also increasing. Therefore, the damage assessment and protective design of the highway bridge have become the concerned topic in the field of bridge engineering in recent years. The book is intended for researchers and graduate students majoring in bridge engineering and protective engineering, as well as professional engineers working in the field of bridge design.

Free Download Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGY1BQBW | 2024 | 8 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Frank Figliuzzi
Narrator: Frank Figliuzzi
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders-and counting. In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the "Truck Stop Killer," who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and "The Interstate Strangler," who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative.

Free Download Industrial Vehicle Technology – Off-Highway Annual 2024
English | True PDF | 84 Pages | 25 MB

Free Download Truck & Off-Highway Engineering – December 2023
English | True PDF | 38 Pages | 11.3 MB

Free Download Peter Guralnick, "Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians"
English | 1999 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 0316332747 | EPUB | 18,4 mb
This masterful explorationof American roots music-country, rockabilly, and the blues-spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road.