AC Transit

movements like inter-urban or intra-urban. Various examples are Bus Transit & Mass Transit. Due to bigger city size and fixed routes of these systems its accessibility varies for different user. These predefined fixed routes do not take into account the whole catchment area from where the users are using. Among these users there are some users which use daily bases are known as commuters. Such commuters access/egress the transit system by a variety of modes such as by walking, bicycle, manual tricycle

The article by Bonner examines a hydrogen-powered, zero-emission train in Germany, currently underway (Bonner, 2017). While the focus of this paper centers on the United States Transportation Industry, it is critical to observe other nations breaking ground in this field of study. The United States trails behind other regions of the world in terms of a robust rail network as a popular commuter option, however, for freight applications, the knowledge gained in other countries around the globe provides

Prakriti Bhattarai Period ½ 11-17-17 All Summer in a Day Harassment, bullying, isolation and depression are things a nine year old should not be experiencing, but for a little girl living who's living on Venus, this is exactly what is happening.The short story “All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury”, takes place on the planet Venus where everyday is like the next, full of rain. To the residents of Venus, this is normal, unless you just moved here five years ago. This is the case for Margot who has

Many centuries after the first spaceship landed on the moon, a group of brave rocket men and women did the unbelievable. The short story “All summer is a day”, by Ray Bradbury, takes place in the underground city of the planet Venus where tunnels roamed instead of streets. The land above them was submerged with endless pouring rain and deadly jungles. The sight of the sun was a rare miracle that only happened once every seven years. The children spent all their life in the enclosed underground tunnels

city of Curitiba has since been incorporated in other cities as TransMilenio in Bogota, Columbia; Metrovia in Guayaquil, Ecuador and the Orange Line of Los Angeles where urban transport and urban growth are incongruous. The essence of a Bus Rapid Transit hence is to improve bus operating speed and reliability on arterial streets by reducing or eliminating the various types of delay (Goodman et al, 2005). The history of public transport development in Sub-Saharan Africa differs from one country to

increase accessibility, it also reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases. Moreover, expanding the rail system is a “risk” since it’s coming out of the people’s pockets. With this expansion, taxpayers will pay double the “taxes already paid to Sound Transit for the previous expansions of light rail” (Celsi). This might be of a problem to certain people because they don’t want to pay more or they want their hard earned taxes to be spent on something else. Overall, the expansion of the light rail system

This short story All summer in a day is about this girl whose family moved to Venus from Earth that the sun only comes out every 7 years. Venus is 261 million kilometers and when you translate it to mile it is 162177881.174 and to you is that far from Earth and Venus is made of up of a central iron core and a rocky mantle, similar to the composition of Earth. Its atmosphere is mainly made up of carbon dioxide (96%) and nitrogen (3%), with small amounts of other gases. The short story All summer

Despite being located on the shores of Lake Ontario, and despite benefiting tremendously from trade facilitated by Lake Ontario, Toronto’s waterfront has, until recently, been difficult for most Torontonians to access. In the early 1900’s, streetcars did not venture south of Front street. In the late 1900’s the Toronto Railway Company transported workers to jobs downtown. At this particular time the only street car that serviced south of Front street was the Ashbridge streetcar. Railway lines cut

Over the last few decades South-Central Ontario has progressed from a Toronto based employment industry to a large geographic region with numerous amount of economic activity centres, employment and population (Transportation development strategy report, 2012). Due to the high increase in urbanization and urban sprawl, there is a high travel demand that is very dispersed throughout the GTA. Future population and employment growth in major urban centres will result in an increase in travel demand

“Pitter-Patter” you hear the rain start to pour and you wonder what that sound is. It sounds like the ground in sizzling. You look down and notice that the rain is sulfuric acid rain. Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy and horror author who rejected being categorized as a science fiction author, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the planet Venus is being swamped by storms of rain and thunder, never ceasing