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  2. Electronic Road Pricing - Wikipedia

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    ERP gantry along the Bukit Timah Expressway. The Electronic Road Pricing ( ERP ) system is an electronic toll collection scheme adopted in Singapore to manage traffic by way of road pricing , and as a usage-based taxation mechanism to complement the purchase-based Certificate of Entitlement system.

  3. Self-propelled modular transporter - Wikipedia

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    Some shipbuilding companies have started to use SPMT instead of gantry cranes for carrying ship sections. This has reduced the cost of transporting huge loads by millions of dollars. [11] Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik Gen 1 14 axle line SPMT developed for Mammoet in the 1980s. In 2022 Mammoet and Scheuerle developed and employed world's first ...

  4. Rubber tyred gantry crane - Wikipedia

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    [1] Advantages:its mobility gives a rubber tyred gantry crane wide appliance Being mobile, RTGs are often powered by diesel generator systems (gensets) of 100 to 600 kW (134 to 805 hp). Due to the lack of an electrical grid to dump energy when containers are being lowered they often have large resistor packs to rapidly dissipate the energy of a ...

  5. Crane (machine) - Wikipedia

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    Gantry crane A gantry crane to put a stagecoach on a flat car. A gantry crane has a hoist in a fixed machinery house or on a trolley that runs horizontally along rails, usually fitted on a single beam (mono-girder) or two beams (twin-girder). The crane frame is supported on a gantry system with equalized beams and wheels that run on the gantry ...

  6. List of Singapore MRT and LRT rolling stock - Wikipedia

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    at least 2 4 (minimum) 32 tons 18 km/h (self-propelled), 40 km/h (max speed) Rail grinding vehicle: Re-profile the rail heads and eliminate rail corrugation to reduce track stresses and extend the service life of the rail Speno: 2 (2 earlier units were retired and presumably sold off. [36] [37]) 4 (minimum) 118 tons 18 km/h (self-propelled),

  7. Level luffing crane - Wikipedia

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    A 3d animated model of a level-luffing crane. A level-luffing crane is a crane mechanism where the hook remains at the same level while luffing: moving the jib up and down, so as to move the hook inwards and outwards relative to the base.

  8. Taisun - Wikipedia

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    The gantry crane holds the record for the heaviest weight lifted by a crane. [3] The amount of wire required to operate Taisun is nearly 50,000 meters or just over 31 miles, allowing it to lift a maximum of 80 meters. Taisun seen lifting the 14,000-ton deck box of the COSL Pioneer drilling semi-submersible.

  9. Gantry crane - Wikipedia

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    A gantry crane is a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace. They can range from enormous "full" gantry cranes, capable of lifting some of the heaviest loads in the world, to small shop cranes, used for tasks such as lifting automobile engines out of vehicles.