Small plane crashes into Calif. storage facility
Authorities in Southern California say a small plane carrying four people has crashed into storage facility near an airport.
CicLAvia | Los Angeles Escapes Its Cages For A Day of Biking
Los Angeles is the ultimate car town. Angelenos show off with their cars the way New Yorkers show off with their clothes. After all, most of us spend an inordinate amount of time on the road, and want to be comfortable while also expressing status.
Rid…
WIT Meets With NTSB Chair
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman spent nearly four days recently immersed in activities to help her better understand the trucking industry.
Prosecutor: N.J. woman killed when train hits car
Authorities say a Rutgers University student was killed when her car was struck by a New Jersey Transit train after she drove around some lowered crossing gates in central New Jersey.
Fuel Issues
Scaled back from its original proposal, a new NAT GAS Act was reintroduced in Congress yesterday to provide incentives for the purchase of natural gas trucks and to build refueling infrastructure across the U.S. Beaver State builds on biodiesel mandate…
Volunteers build house inside airplane hangar
Republic Airways turned its Indianapolis hangar into a work zone Saturday as volunteers built the first ever Habitat for Humanity home inside an airplane hangar.
CoS2 hollow spheres show promise as high discharge capacity Li-ion anodes; other applications
Left: Charge-discharge curves of the CoS2 hollow spheres. Upper right: XRD profiles of
the CoS2 hollow spheres. Lower right: SEM images of the spheres. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge.
Researchers at Nankai University (China) have synthes…
PATH service currently suspended between Exchange Place and World Trade Center
Published: Saturday, April 09, 2011, 10:59 AM Updated: Saturday, April 09, 2011, 11:04 AM Journal file photo Train service between Exchange Place and World Trade Center is currently suspended for essential maintenance Port Authority of New York and New…
JFK airport shuttle security lapses cited
A number of security lapses in an airport shuttle system in New York is raising concerns among some Port Authority officers and state senators.
New lightweight, lower-cost Uni-Chassis targeting plug-in hybrids and EVs
Theodore and Associates is unveiling the Uni-Chassis, a frameless body-on-chassis design that is lighter in weight, lower investment and lower cost compared to traditional body-on-frame and unibody designs, at the 2011 SAE World Congress in Detroit thi…