BDSM \u2013 Buses do so much<\/p>\n
BESS\u00a0\u2013 battery energy storage system<\/p>\n
Comment Colonels\u00a0\u2013 Armchair experts ready to comment to the death on their favourite topic, armed with nothing more than gusto and dodgy references.<\/p>\n
ETHEL \u2013 Electric Train Heating Ex-Locomotive, an old loco placed behind a steam engine to provide heat and light to to carriages not equipped with steam heating. All the ETHELS left us by 1994.<\/p>\n
FLIRT \u2013 Stadler\u2019s Fast Light Intercity and Regional Train diesel electric multiple unit (DEMU)<\/p>\n
HAROLD \u2013 Huddersfield Adhesion & Rolling contact Laboratory Dynamics hardware rig.<\/p>\n
IRENA \u2013 International Renewable Energy Agency<\/p>\n
JESSICA \u2013 Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas, initiative of the European Commission.<\/p>\n
LUCAS \u2013 London Underground Combined Access System smartcard scheme for construction and engineering workers to access their work on London Underground.<\/p>\n
MARA \u2013 Master Availability and Reliability Agreement, the contract between DfT Rail and the Train Service Provider for IEP.<\/p>\n
MOM \u2013 Network Rail\u2019s Mobile Operations Manager, who operates ground frames.<\/p>\n
NORA \u2013 National Organisation of Residents Associations. In effect, the collective noun for Karens.<\/p>\n
RAMSES \u2013 European research project which aims to deliver quantified evidence of climate change impacts, and the costs and benefits of a wide range of adaptation measures, focusing on cities.<\/p>\n
SUE \u2013 subsurface utility engineering<\/p>\n
TALIS \u2013\u00a0Thames Alternative Link to the International Rail System, alternative route to the Channel Tunnel.<\/p>\n
THOMoS\u00a0\u2013 Train Hi-fidelity Motion Simulator<\/p>\n
TOD\u00a0\u2013 Transit oriented development, term for higher density residential, retail and\/or entertainment development on, over or near transit stations.<\/p>\n
TOMAS \u2013\u00a0Train Management System used to manage trains in and out of service and in depots, including composition of trains, timetables, service allocations, departure and arrival movements. <\/p>\n
TRISTAN\u00a0\u2013 Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis.<\/p>\n
TWaTs \u2013 long distance commuters who travel to and from London mainly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. See also EuroTWaTs<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1st \u2013 Position of personal awkwardness<\/p>\n 2nd \u2013 Position of public awkwardness<\/p>\n 3rd \u2013 Face to face burn<\/p>\n 4th \u2013 Public burn<\/p>\n 5th \u2013 Workplace burn<\/p>\n 6th \u2013 Social media burn<\/p>\n 7th \u2013 Social media ostracisation<\/p>\n 8th \u2013 Burn on mainstream media<\/p>\n 9th \u2013 Ice cold societal ostracism<\/p>\n The convention was generally <\/em>for up to be towards one of:<\/p>\n London<\/p>\n the company\u2019s head office<\/p>\n (on a single-ended branch line) the junction with the mainline<\/p>\n the largest town on the line<\/p>\n a chain of escalators<\/p>\n a chase of wiring<\/p>\n a chorus of leafblowers<\/p>\n a cloud of witnesses<\/p>\n a cluster of gauges<\/p>\n a clutch of shops<\/p>\n a condescension of vegans<\/p>\n a dash of commuters<\/p>\n a pavement of good intentions<\/p>\n a sneer of vinyl record enthusiasts<\/p>\n a sprawl of malls<\/p>\n a squabble of factions<\/p>\n a stench of roadies<\/p>\n a suite of electronics<\/p>\n a swarm of drones<\/p>\n a throne of lies<\/p>\n a transplant of suburbanites<\/p>\n Heinrich proposed that, for every major injury, loss or event, there are 29 minor and 300 no-injury accidents, losses, or events. To reduce a major risk, it is incumbent to investigate and eliminate the greater number of minor and no-injury accidents or losses. Don\u2019t just look at the tip of the iceberg, think about what\u2019s below the surface. Heinrich\u2019s formulated his theory in 1931 and it was verified and revised by Frank Bird in the 1970s based on insurance company claim data.<\/p>\n Tube trains are made up of cars, railway trains are comprised of carriages. Whilst railways have always been called \u2018carriages\u2019, Charles Yerkes, the American financier who acquired and completed a number of Tube railways, imported the term \u2018cars\u2019 from the US. Hence the carriages on what were to become the Piccadilly, Bakerloo, and Northern lines, and the term extended to all Undergound lines.<\/p>\n backcasting\u00a0\u2013 verifying ridership or traffic modelling outcomes against actual data, ie the opposite of forecasting<\/p>\n BCR\u00a0\u2013 Bean Counters\u2019 Requirements, publicly called Benefit Cost Ratio.<\/p>\n commutershed \u2013 the travel to work area around a city.<\/p>\n isochrone\u00a0\u2013 a curve joining points of equal travel time from a location.<\/p>\n caballista \u2013 nickname of self-nominated individuals who join working groups and official Community Partnerships and\/or Local Enterprise Partnerships that produce Neighbourhood Plans. Caballistas choose and promote their own agendas in isolated and often unreviewed proposals.<\/p>\n POPS\u00a0\u2013 privately owned public space<\/p>\n SLOAP \u2013 Space Left Over After Planning, coined by critic Ian Nairn in the 1950s to describe those leftover triangles of grass on verges at road junctions and in housing estates that had no function, as well as the random mixture of carriageways, footways, traffic lights, bollards, islands, bus shelters and odd kiosks. The concept of placemakingwas developed to make the public environment much more pleasant.<\/p>\n social cleansing \u2013 nickname for gentrification effects when transport improves, which increases housing prices, pushing locals out of the area.<\/p>\n Engineers, scientists, even economists use various graphs to plot phenomena. We at LR Towers have referred to some of them:<\/p>\n The plot of reliability of any product throughout its life cycle, which looks like the cross section of a bathtub. That is, high initial teething problems, thence resolved for low ongoing failure rate for most of the lifespan of the product, followed by increasing failures as the product wears out.<\/p>\n Everett Rogers\u2019 1962 work Diffusion of Innovation Theory<\/em> explains how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread, and introduced the term \u2018early adopter\u2019. It shews that rates of adoption tend to follow an S-shaped pattern as it is affected by innovations, communication, social influences, and other factors.<\/p>\n In renewable electricity generation, the graph of electricity production over the course of a day shows the imbalance between peak demand after sunset and the decline of renewable energy production when the sun sets. The resulting graph resembles the silhouette of a duck due to the significant dip in demand during the afternoon and a sharp rise in demand during the evening as people come home from work and turn on appliances, lights, and heat. This misalignment leads to excess generation during the day when solar power is abundant and a shortage of power in the evening when solar power is no longer available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n This describes a straight and consistent plot, then a linear climb, as seen in climate and sometimes startup economic phenomena.<\/p>\n The relationship between energy density and power density for storage technologies. 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Is your Train headed Up or Down?<\/h2>\n
More Transport and Other Modern Collective Nouns<\/h2>\n
Heinrich Triangle Accident Theory<\/h2>\n
Is it called a Car or Carriage?<\/h2>\n
Transport Planning, and some people that confound it<\/h2>\n
Technical Curves useful in Transport<\/h2>\n
Bathtub Curve <\/strong><\/h4>\n
Diffusion of Innovation S Curve<\/strong> <\/h4>\n
Duck Curve<\/strong> <\/h4>\n
Hockey Stick Curve<\/strong> <\/h4>\n
Ragone Plot<\/strong> <\/h4>\n
Technology Maturity Curve<\/strong><\/h4>\n