Vulnerabilities Of The Train System

The main parts of Common Rail Direct Injection system are Injector, fuel supply pump, fuel filter, distribution pipe (Rail), high pressure pumps, solenoid valve, Piezo-Inline Injector, electronic control unit(ECU) and sensors.

“The threat of blood on the tracks has become constant as the number of passengers surges to a level unseen since 1948”, Andrea Peyser writes in “Subways are New York’s Biggest Deathtrap”. The New York Post reported several subway incidents happened in the past weeks: a man in a wheelchair fell onto the tracks and was struck by a train in Brooklyn (Moore), a woman was shoved onto the tracks and killed by a train in Times Square (Furfaro), a man was pushed onto the tracks and injured (Moore), and a teenage boy found dead on the tracks in Bronx (Prendergast). These alarming number of incidents raised the public concern for subway safety, which made “MTA board member Charles Moerdler… [to renew] a push to have the doors installed on New York City’s

(a) Why did CSX make a two-tiered offer? What effect does this structure have on the transaction?

“When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.” – Charles Loring Brace

Larry Page once said, “Especially in technology, [we] need revolutionary change, not incremental change.” Whether he is speaking about the Transcontinental Railroad system or the latest iPhone, what he says is true. If change is going to happen, it needs to bring a revolution of some kind along with it, otherwise, it will just become lost in history. This makes us wonder, how did the railroad system affect the US? The railroad system benefited the US most economically by industrializing towns it ran through, lowering shipping costs, and allowing for mass imports and exports.

The use of trains helped the Canadian war effort significantly during World War Two. When the Second World War broke out, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company put all of their resources into the war effort. The railways allowed 307 million tons of freight including munition, ships, and building to be moved around the country. During the course of the war, Canada built 800 thousand military transport vehicles, 50 thousand tanks, 2 million guns, and almost 400 ships. In addition to moving freight, trains also transported over 86 million passengers during the war and were a vital component in the transportation and accommodation of infantry. At the end of the war, families gathered eagerly at train station to welcome their heroes home. During

A. Donald Man and William Mackenzie bought up land in the West, and by 1901, they had enough land to qualify for federal assistance in building a railway. The Canadian Northern Railway was born as a rival to the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Terrorist attacks are a consistent global occurrence.The 2005 London underground bombings was an attack which caused largest mass fatality occurrence in the UK since World War 2. As a result the comfort and use of public transport in the UK was greatly impacted. Research into the fatalities and physical repercussions of tragedies are amplified globally. For instance it is considered factual that the

In all decision making and process, there are many steps to come to an assured conclusion. Evaluation in the public administration's sector is to realize both the efficient and the impact that issues like "the scratchitti" has on the public through the reaction of the citizens of one city; while still maintain accountability to the citizens, see how things are not working efficiently and how to shift the performances to better it. Hence, this evaluation ought to help analyze and choosing the best approach in ameliorating or fixing the situation; while spending as efficiently and precisely needed money as possible. Although evaluation does not automatically guaranty success, but it helps with the analyzing and elimination process. Through this

In this article “How Safer Streets Can Thwart Terrorists” written by Yonah Freemark, educates us about multiple terrorist attacks that have occurred specifically in the New York area and how the state is working to develop a safer approach. In May of 2017 at Times Square a motorist drove through a large crowd killing one person and injuring many others. Had it not been for a three foot guarding rail, the motorist could have killed many more. Another attack like this happened previously where an average of sixteen pedestrians were killed and since then have doubled. New York is not only the victim of these kind of attacks; famous places like France, Netherlands, and London constantly have attacks like these happen.

When someone gets stopped by a train on their way to work, do they ever think about the people driving those trains? Michael Watkins is a RCL conductor for 40 years at Alton and Southern Railroad, station in the heart of East St. Louis, and he is the person who runs trains by remote control. This railway has a record of incidents that are both horrifying and tragic which Watkins has experienced as well as witnessed. We will find out just how dangerous these types of jobs are.

In 1995 a group of terrorists used Sarin in several coordinated attacks in subway trains in Japan and as a result of this attack 12 people died, many more were severely injured (Alfred, 2015). This instance illustrates how such an attack could be carried out very easily. Subways in particular are susceptible to this type of attack based on the close proximity of a large number of people in a confined space. An agent such a Sarin, when released in a confined area could easily disperse filling the available volume rapidly. As the effects of Sarin can onset rapidly, this leads to another potent effect of the agent, panic. Even though people may not be immediately affected, they would see the symptoms of those who were. This would cause serious concern, and in a close area like a subway train or even the station there would be injuries or even fatalities from people trying to flee. Additionally hospitals would start to quickly become overwhelmed as people who are affected or even worry about being affected seek medical

Unlike their counterparts, letter and package bombs, these bombs are typically indiscriminate. Typically, they are “…loaded with explosives, parked on a busy…[and create] fear and panic by killing a large number of innocent bystanders…” (Poland, 2011, p. 181). Furthermore, using vehicles give terrorists a strategic standpoint due to them playing on an asymmetric playing field. In regards to terrorism, asymmetry is “…competing forces are out of balance….a weak force fights a much stronger power…” (White, 2012, pp. 24-25). One of the best ways to help mitigate these threats is to use physical barriers. However, the best method is for people to be diligent on suspicious vehicles and reporting

Today’s experience was pretty much a unique one. Probably because it was not done individually but it was required to be done in groups. It was amazing to do a community investigation and have four completely different people jump on a Metrorail together. I was amazed of what everyone had to say, the differences in opinions and the type of discussions that we were having between one another. To begin with I knew I was going to be one of the few to be excited to hop on the Metrorail and explore the different areas of Houston which my hypothesis was right. I can still recall how everyone followed me to the station when they found out I have used the Metrorail before. To be honest I thought it was pretty funny to the point, I walked around campus

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