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Vocabulary
Types of Land Transportation
Problems
Solutions
Miscellaneous
100
A highway that is part of the federal network of major roads.
What is an interstate?
100
A mode of transportation that runs on steel tracks used to transport passengers and freight.
What is a train?
100
Toxic waste that can be harmful to plants, animals, humans, and our atmosphere.
What is pollution?
100
The sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car.
What is carpooling?
100
Commerce that involves the transportation of goods across state lines.
What is interstate commerce?
200
A container consisting of one or more cells carrying an electric charge that can be used as a source of power.
What is a battery?
200
A vehicle which one or more electric or traction motors for propulsion.
What is an electric vehicle (EV)?
200
A number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move.
What is traffic congestion?
200
A robotic vehicle that is designed to travel between destinations without a human operator.
What are driverless cars?
200
Biofuels made from algae and other plant resources.
What is green diesel?
300
Goods that are transported by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
What is freight?
300
A vehicle containing both an electric motor and a gasoline engine, each of which can move the car.
What is a hybrid vehicle?
300
A collision between motor vehicles that can cause little to no harm or can be fatal.
What are car crashes?
300
Any energy source that is naturally replenished.
What is renewable energy?
300
11 miles of smoothly paved paths, complete with air pumps and 26 planned routes to encourage bycicle commuting to and from Copenhagen.
What is the "Cycle Superhighway"?
400
The lining up of cars forming road trains where the lead car acts as a pace setter, allowing all the vehicles to act simultaneously and move as a single unit.
What is platooning?
400
Any form of public transport system which uses buses to provide services that are faster and more efficient than traditional bus lines.
What is bus rapid transit?
400
Excessive population of an area to the point of overcrowding, depletion of natural resources, or environmental deterioration.
What is overpopulation?
400
A system of large-scale public transportation that is usually made up of buses, subways, and elevated trains to move a large number of people.
What is mass transit?
400
A three-wheeled racecar that has a wind turbine on the back of the car, enabling it to run both upwind and downwind faster than the wind.
What is "the Blackbird" (wind-powered car sail)?
500
The underlying foundation and basic framework that makes up a system of highways or roads.
What is infrastructure?
500
A system of transportation which uses magnetic levetation to suspend, guide, and propel vehicles using magnets.
What is a maglev?
500
A car holding one person and can be considered "a waste".
What is single person transportation?
500
A membership-based car sharing company that provides automobile reservations to its 500,000 members, or "zipsters," with a fleet of over 8,000 self-service vehicles in urban areas throughout 28 North American states and parts of the United Kingdom.
What is Zipcar?
500
A peer-to-peer car-sharing company that facilitates the renting of personal cars to neighbors for an hourly fee when they would otherwise go unused.
What is Getaround?