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    The Effect of Highspeed Trains on Society A major reason in favor of the construction of high-speed trains in America is to relieve airways and traffic congestion. First, delays at airports are costly. Larry Johnson, director of the Center for transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, calculates that passengers lose more that twelve million hours each year in delays at O'Hare airport alone. In 1986, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airlines, delays

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    Studies have shown that motor vehicle and related crashes are the primary cause of death among Americans, especially those aged 1-34 years old. Contributing to the death toll are alcohol, speed, and other various driver behaviors as well as the kinds of vehicles people drive, and the roads on which they travel. In this context, traffic safety is a major public health issue for all motorized regions of the world [1]. More influentially, crashes involving motorcycles are substantially more severe in

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    kill innocent people. Driving while under the influence of alcohol is called drunk driving (DUI), which is against the law. The National Traffic Safety Administration (NTSA) estimates that almost 40% of traffic deaths caused by accidents in the United States are caused by drunk drivers. Some people think that there should be tougher penalties for repeaters of DUI and we should have zero tolerance for drinking and driving. Others believe that tougher laws are not needed. Some people feel like the social

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    that is designed to help people there are those who take advantage of it and put others in danger. According to a study done by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2017) some of the most dangerous driving habits that occur in the United States are; speeding, distracted driving, and driving tired. To improve our society we need to focus on these habits and try to break them. In doing so, it will make traveling by road much safer and will reduce the number of people that are killed in

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    kill innocent people. Driving while under the influence of alcohol is called drunk driving (DUI), which is against the law. The National Traffic Safety Administration (NTSA) estimates that almost 40% of traffic deaths caused by accidents in the United States are caused by drunk drivers. Some people think that there should be tougher penalties for repeaters of DUI and we should have zero tolerance for drinking and driving. Others believe that tougher laws are not needed. Some people feel like the social

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    Every year about 60 police officers die from vehicle crashes alone. About another 90 police officers die from other related causes every year. Vehicle accidents are the top twenty leading causes of death. Police officers are paid a significant amount of money because their job can be very dangerous at times. Police officers spend most of their time in a police cruiser and when an incident occurs, they should be able to rely on the vehicle to get them there safely or to keep them safe. Police

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    city still managed to decrease its viocontinued its downward trend in violent crime this year, moving down one spot to be the Most Dangerous City and the United States. The city saw its fewest number of total crimes since 1966. Despite this trend, St. Louis still has the fourth highest violent crime rate among large cities in the United States. The city’s encouraging 20 percent drop in crime during the first six months of 2013 continued through the year’s end, as violent crime went down 10 percent

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    railways for long distances is cheaper than any other shipping method of land transportation. It can be stated that shipping trains in the past Soviet Union transported the largest amount of goods in the world, and then comes in the second place the United States then China. Company trains also transport a lot of goods, as each train holds and transports the products and goods of its own company. 4.1. Benefits of train systems Dependable - The best preferred standpoint of the railroad transport is that

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    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is responsible for ensuring the safety of the US citizens through regulation of traffic rules, implementing safety standards, reduction and hopefully elimination of road accidents and deaths. It aims at getting topmost standards of merit in motor vehicle as well as highway safety by upholding integrity and leadership. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) discusses the universal rules issued and also published in the Federal register by the Federal

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    Abstract Wind force is still the most encouraging renewable energy in the year of 2013. The wind turbine system (WTS) began with a few tens of kilowatt power in the 1980s. Now, multi megawatt wind turbines are widely installed even up to 6–8 MW. There is a widespread use of wind turbines in the distribution networks and more and more wind power stations, acting as power plants, are connected directly to the transmission networks. As the grid penetration and power level of the wind turbines increase

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