LNG as a Vessel and General Transportation Fuel Developing the Required Supply Infrastructure

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Van Tassel
Keyword(s):  
Great Promise ◽  
Transportation Fuel ◽  
Hub And Spoke ◽  
Green House Gases ◽  
Fuel Supply ◽  
The Road ◽  
Green House ◽  
The U.S

LNG holds great promise as a transportation fuel making significant reductions in emissions and green house gases. The road to increased use of LNG as a heavy transportation fuel in the U.S. is the development of a coherent LNG supply infrastructure. The existing LNG import terminal infrastructure can be leveraged to implement a safe and reliable fuel supply infrastructure. This paper will discuss the transshipment of LNG, by an AT/B LNG carrier, from existing U.S. LNG import terminals, in a hub and spoke arrangement.

Transportation Fuel Resiliency: Case Study of Tampa Bay

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110416
Author(s):  
Alexander Kolpakov ◽  
Austin Marie Sipiora ◽  
Caley Johnson ◽  
Erin Nobler
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Fuels ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tampa Bay ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Transportation Fuel ◽  
Fuel Supply ◽  
Preparedness Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hurricane Irma

This case study presents findings from an analysis of the emergency preparation and response for Hurricane Irma, the most recent hurricane impacting the Tampa Bay region. The Tampa Bay region, in particular, is considered one of the most vulnerable areas in the United States to hurricanes and severe tropical weather. A particular vulnerability stems from how all petroleum fuel comes to the area by marine transport through Port Tampa Bay, which can be (and has been in the past) impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms. The case study discussed in this paper covers previous fuel challenges, vulnerabilities, and lessons learned by key Tampa Bay public agency fleets during the past 10 years (mainly as a result of the most recent 2017 Hurricane Irma) to explore ways to improve the area’s resilience to natural disasters. Some of the strategies for fuel-supply resiliency include maintaining emergency fuel supply, prioritizing fuel use, strategically placing the assets around the region to help with recovery, investing in backup generators (including generators powered by alternative fuels), planning for redundancies in fuel supply networks, developing more efficient communication procedures between public fleets, hurricane preparedness-planning, and upgrading street drainage systems to reduce the threat of local flooding.

Real-Time V2V Communication With a Machine Learning-Based System for Detecting Drowsiness of Drivers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Ahmed Y. Awad ◽  
Seshadri Mohan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Drowsy Driving ◽  
The Road ◽  
V2v Communication ◽  
Physical Injuries ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The U.S

This article applies machine learning to detect whether a driver is drowsy and alert the driver. The drowsiness of a driver can lead to accidents resulting in severe physical injuries, including deaths, and significant economic losses. Driver fatigue resulting from sleep deprivation causes major accidents on today's roads. In 2010, nearly 24 million vehicles were involved in traffic accidents in the U.S., which resulted in more than 33,000 deaths and over 3.9 million injuries, according to the U.S. NHTSA. A significant percentage of traffic accidents can be attributed to drowsy driving. It is therefore imperative that an efficient technique is designed and implemented to detect drowsiness as soon as the driver feels drowsy and to alert and wake up the driver and thereby preventing accidents. The authors apply machine learning to detect eye closures along with yawning of a driver to optimize the system. This paper also implements DSRC to connect vehicles and create an ad hoc vehicular network on the road. When the system detects that a driver is drowsy, drivers of other nearby vehicles are alerted.

U.S.-Israeli Policies: Reading the Signs for '77

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Mark A. Bruzonsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Near East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recent Issue ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Road ◽  
Democratic Candidate ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

The real crunch for Israel will probably come during 1977 if Ford is elected—it will be delayed by only a few months if a Democratic candidate wins.” So writes Wolf Blitzer, editor of the “Jewish lobby's” Washington publication Near East Report, in a recent issue of the Jerusalem Post.With the same sense of urgency Abba Eban insists that “Time is of the essence, and unhappily for us, time is running out. We ought to grasp the central issues now and involve the United States in resolving them.” He and a growing number of his colleagues fear that should Israel not choose to “cooperate” with the U.S., the Americans might run right over Israel on the road to Geneva and some form of imposed settlement.

Source Rock Hydrocarbons Development, An Opportunity for Green House Gases Capture in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Andres Sachica Avila ◽  
Juan Eduardo Rivera de la Ossa ◽  
Jaime Piedrahita Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Source Rock ◽  
Green House Gases ◽  
Green House

Japan in 2010

Asian Survey ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Mccall Rosenbluth
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
The Road ◽  
The U.S

The Democratic Party of Japan's first full year in office was rocky, with open competition for party leadership sandwiched between diplomatic rows with the U.S. and China. If bumps in the road are inevitable for a new party in government, the Japanese public has made an investment in the long-term health of its democracy.

The U.S. Airline Industry in 1995

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
James D. Dana ◽  
David A. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Airline Industry ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Industry Analysis ◽  
Hub And Spoke ◽  
Cost And Benefit ◽  
Basic Industry ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Point To Point ◽  
Domestic Airline ◽  
The U.S

Provides an overview of the domestic airline industry. Offers details on industry structure and performance necessary for basic industry analysis (or five forces analysis). Also emphasizes cost and benefit drivers, especially hub-and-spoke vs. point-to-point service and sources of differentiation.

“The Empire Will Compensate You”: The Structural Dynamics of the U.S. Overseas Basing Network

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1034-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Cooley ◽  
Daniel H. Nexon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Host Country ◽  
The United States ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Hub And Spoke ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
Transnational Networking ◽  
Soviet Central Asia ◽  
The U.S

Many commentators refer to the U.S. overseas network of military installations as an “empire,” yet very few have examined the theoretical and practical significance of such an analogy. This article explores the similarities and differences between the basing network and imperial systems. We argue that American basing practices and relations combine elements of liberal multilateralism with “neo-imperial” hegemony. Much, but far from all, of the network shares with ideal-typical empires a hub-and-spoke system of unequal relations among the United States and its base-host country “peripheries.” But Washington rarely exercises rule over host-country leaders and their constituents. Historical examples suggest that this combination of imperial and non-imperial elements has rendered the United States vulnerable to political cross-pressures, intermediary exits, and periodic bargaining failures when dealing with overseas base hosts. Moreover, globalizing processes, especially increasing information flows and the transnational networking of anti-base movements, further erode U.S. capacity to maintain multivocal legitimation strategies and keep the terms of its individual basing bargains isolated from one another. Case studies of the rapid contestation of the terms of the U.S. basing presence in post-Soviet Central Asia and post-2003 Iraq illustrate some of these dynamics.

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