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Wheel slide protection and wheel slip protection are railway terms used to describe automatic systems used to detect and prevent wheel-slide during braking or wheel-slip during acceleration. This is analogous to ABS and traction control systems used on motor vehicles. It is particularly important in slippery rail conditions.
In the early 2000s a British manufacturer of rail crossing equipment, Rosehill Rail, worked with Network to develop the modern rubber anti-trespass panel. [17] Made of rubber recycled from used automobile tires , they were designed to be light and install quickly, the ease of cutting allowing for them to be adjusted to the area in which the ...
The blue car entering the grade-separated road, and both the red and blue car exiting must both change lanes in the short distance provided. On roadways with grade-separated interchanges, weaving is a result of placing an exit ramp a short distance after an entry ramp, causing conflicts between traffic attempting to leave the roadway at the ...
The inner section of a wheel that rides between the two rails. The angle between the wheel tread and flange is often specific to the rail to prevent wheel climb and possible derailments. The wheel flange is part of the wheel tire. [citation needed] Wheel flange The projecting edge or rim on the periphery of a car wheel for keeping it on the rail.
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Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...
“When done properly, they teach us to drive our feet through the floor to hit hip extension, in order to find a 'stacked' position where shoulders, hips, knees, ankles, all in line.”
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