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Lorna Sharpe is news editor of E&T and Transport sector editor.
The innovative use of non-visual feedback techniques is enabling blind people to drive a car, and could have important lessons for other technologies that must interface with humans, reports E&T.
Fully autonomous vehicles for everyday use in the future are fantasy, but improved driver aids are evolving and here to stay says E&T.
Carriers underway
The UK’s new aircraft carriers are taking shape in an artificial world that looks out over the sea high above Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy.
You don’t have to be an Arctic explorer to visit the Geographic North Pole these days. E&T visited Murmansk’s Atomflot, where we joined the nuclear icebreaker 50 Years of Victory on a trip to the top of the world…
Wireless sensing networks are being used to improve the safety of critical infrastructure such as bridges and even helicopter blades.
Second-generation biofuels that don’t compete with foodstock were supposed to be the future, but as E&T discovers, a new report has thrown a huge doubt over the viability of that technology to deliver.
In an ultra-competitive industry suffering from chronic overcapacity, just how has Skoda managed to become the UK’s best-loved car? E&T investigates.
The Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre in the Netherlands switched over to a new flight data processing system (FDPS) in December. It is the first in a pan-European network of ATC systems designed to cut flying times and boost air traffic capacity, and cut airliners’ fuel emissions and costs and heralds a fundamental and long-overdue change in the way European air traffic is managed.
Driverless personal transport is to become a reality at London Heathrow Airport. Dassault Systèmes V5 PLM ensures that this futuristic system is designed, produced and delivered, on time, to budget and with a great user appeal.
Electronic transportation systems are increasingly exposed to the trends of microprocessor consolidation, network connectivity and increased software complexity.
GPS vehicle tracking systems have come a long way from the bulky and extremely expensive original versions and the technology is finding new homes in everything from mobile phones to hand held gaming consoles.
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Infrastructure and the climate challenge 27 January 2010
The more you consider the challenge of climate change, the clearer it becomes that it will take a sustained research effort to devise a resilient transport infrastructure.
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