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World Conference on Transport Research Society. The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) is an international research organization dedicated to transportation research. The scope of the society is multi-modal, multi-disciplinary, and multi-sectorial transportation research. The Society organizes every three years the World Conferences on Transportation Research in different parts of the world. The WCTRS has representatives and members in 67 countries and geographical areas around the World. Currently Professor Tae Hoon Oum from the University of British Columbia (Canada) is the president.

The Society and the Conference intend to play a strong leadership role in bridging the gaps between research and practice. The objective of the WCTRS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas among transportation researchers, managers, policy makers, and educators from all over the world, from a perspective which is multi-modal, multi-disciplinary, and multi-sectorial.

Conferences
The WCTRS organizes a triennial research conference. The next World Conference on Transportation Research will be organized in Toulouse, France, and will take place from July 6 to 10, 2026.

Previous conferences took place in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania
 16th WCTR : Montréal, Canada, 2023
 15th WCTR : Mumbai, India, 2019
 14th WCTR : Shanghai, China, 2016
 13th WCTR : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013 
 12th WCTR : Lisbon, Portugal, 2010
 11th WCTR : Berkeley, USA, 2007
 10th WCTR : Istanbul, Turkey, 2004
 9th WCTR : Seoul, Korea, 2001 
 8th WCTR : Antwerp, Belgium, 1998 
 7th WCTR : Sydney, Australia, 1995
 6th WCTR : Lyon, France, 1992 
 5th WCTR : Yokohama, Japan, 1989 
 4th WCTR : Vancouver, Canada, 1986 
 3rd WCTR : Hamburg, Germany, 1983 
 2nd WCTR : London, England, 1980 
 1st WCTR : Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1977 
 Pre-WCTR conference : Bruges, Belgium, 1973

See also
 Transportation Research Board

References

https://www.wctrs-society.com/conferences/

External links

Organizations established in 1977
Transport research organizations
Inspur K-UX. Inspur K-UX is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux produced by Inspur, a Chinese multinational company specializing in information technology. Inspur K-UX 2.0 and 3.0 for x86-64 were officially certified as UNIX systems by The Open Group.

Overview 
Inspur K-UX 1.0 was certified for the Linux Standard Base (LSB 4.0) in 2012. K-UX 1.0 was compiled for the IA-64 architecture (Itanium).

Inspur K-UX 2.0 was one of six commercial operating systems that have versions certified to The Open Group UNIX 03 standard (the others being macOS, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, and EulerOS). The operating system was certified running on the Inspur Tiansuo K1. The operating system was compiled for the x86-64 architecture. The UNIX 03 conformance statement for Inspur K-UX 2.0 shows that the standard C compiler is from the GNU Compiler Collection (), and the system is a Linux distribution in the Red Hat family tree.

Inspur K-UX 2.2 is featured in SPEC benchmark results, running on the Inspur K1 800 server. The benchmark results describe an Intel Xeon-based server running Inspur K-UX Server 2.2. The operating system appears to be based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for the x86-64 architecture.

Inspur K-UX 3.0 was also certified as a UNIX OS, although, according to the same website, its certification expired on 3 February 2019 and has not yet been renewed.

References

External links 
 Inspur: Mainframe for Key Applications

Enterprise Linux distributions
RPM-based Linux distributions
Unix variants
X86-64 Linux distributions
Linux distributions
Visakha Institute of Engineering & Technology. Visakha Institute of Engineering and Technology  (VSPT) is an educational institution located in Narava, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh was established in 2008 by Varaha Lakhmi Narasimha Swamy Educational Trust.

References

External links

Universities and colleges in Visakhapatnam
Engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
TeenTech. TeenTech is a not-for-profit Charity and Community Interest Company founded in 2008 by Maggie Philbin and Chris Dodson to help young people understand the real opportunities available in the contemporary STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) workplace and engender some  excitement about technology and entrepreneurship.

In 2010 TeenTech won the Best Engineering Event in National Science and Engineering Week award and in 2011 was the only UK organisation to receive a Google RISE award. In 2012, CEO Maggie Philbin and TeenTech also won Best Communication and Outreach Award presented by UKRC/WISE (Women in Science and Engineering). In 2016 Maggie was announced as Digital Leader of the Year  and Most Influential Woman in UK IT for her work with TeenTech

TeenTech Events 
TeenTech runs regular events at venues across the UK, also in the Republic of Ireland. At each event around 300 pupils from 30 different schools attend and are shown hands-on exhibits and challenges run by companies, universities and business organisations.

The events aim to help young people see the wide range of career possibilities in science, engineering and technology and works with technology based industry to provide hands on experience for school students.

UK Digital Skills Taskforce 
Through Young Digital Taskforce, TeenTech encourages young people to input into the UK Digital Skills report which aims to address the disconnect between contemporary industry and their potential workforce. The steering group has members from across industry and education and a young persons advisory group (students, apprentices and young people seeking work) who will inform thinking and shape the approach.

An interim report Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World was delivered in July 2014.

References 

Engineering education in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2008
2008 establishments in the United Kingdom
British science and technology awards
Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom
IXS Enterprise. IXS Enterprise is a conceptual interstellar superluminal spacecraft designed by NASA scientist Dr. Harold G. White, revealed at SpaceVision 2013, designed for the goal of achieving warp travel. The conceptual spacecraft would make use of a modified version of the Alcubierre drive. Dr. White is currently running the White–Juday warp-field interferometer experiment in order to develop a proof of concept for Alcubierre-style warp travel, when possible. The Alcubierre drive uses exotic matter (not to be confused with antimatter) to travel faster than light.

While the concept had been out since 2013 the design of IXS Enterprise was popularized in June 2014 after a series of media outlets reported on the conceptual artwork done by Dutch artist Mark Rademaker in collaboration with NASA. According to Mark Rademaker, over 1,600 hours have been spent on the conceptual artwork that he created.

In 2012, NASA reported that it was experimenting with the concept of warp drive and the loophole within Einstein's theory of relativity. By 2014, it was announced that designer Mark Rademaker had created a CGI representation of a new vessel that would achieve warp velocity. The vessel he designed was the IXS Enterprise, named after the famed ship of the Star Trek franchise. The energy required to power the warp drive, according to White, is approximately the negative (negative energy is required for the Alcubierre drive concept to function) mass–energy equivalence of Voyager 1, which has a mass of approximately 700 kilograms. Using E=mc2, −700 kilograms of mass is equivalent to ~−63 exajoules of energy (this number is not definitive and can be further reduced). The ship has two thick outer rings (to reduce required energy) that generate the warp field—a contraction of space ahead, and expansion of space behind it. The space inside the rings is optimized to fit more space for cargo, crew and equipment.

See also

 Breakthrough Starshot
 Interstellar probe
 Interstellar travel
 Project Icarus
 Project Longshot
 Quantum vacuum plasma thruster (related technology)
 100 Year Starship
 Starship

References

External links 
 IXS Enterprise (IXS-110), images by Mark Rademaker (on Flickr)
 Warp Field Physics (PDF)
 
 

NASA
Interstellar travel
Theoretical physics
Spacecraft propulsion
Science in art
Faster-than-light travel
Proposed crewed spacecraft
Salmson 4. The Salmson 4 AB.2, or SAL-4 AB.2 (AB.2 - Reconnaissance Bomber two-seat) was a two-seat bomber designed and built in France during the closing stages of World War I.

Design and development
A variant of the Salmson 2, the Salmson 4 was essentially an enlarged version with a greater wingspan, three bay wings of greater area, enlarged vertical tail surfaces and detail changes to the engine installation. Twelve aircraft were built for l'Aéronautique Militaire before the end of World War I, all of which were assigned to operational escadrilles in anticipation of widespread deployment following orders for mass production, which were cancelled with the end of the war. They were withdrawn in 1920.

Specifications (SAL-4 AB.2)

See also

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

1910s French military reconnaissance aircraft
Biplanes
Salmson aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1918
Othmer Gold Medal. The Othmer Gold Medal recognizes outstanding individuals who contributed to progress in chemistry and science through their activities in areas including innovation, entrepreneurship, research, education, public understanding, legislation, and philanthropy. The medal is presented annually under the sponsorship of the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) and four affiliated organizations: the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), The Chemists' Club, and the American section of the Société de Chimie Industrielle, at the Science History Institute's Heritage Day.   

The Othmer Medal commemorates chemist Donald Othmer (1904–1995), a researcher, engineer, inventor, philanthropist, professor, and co-editor of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.  Each year, the recipient of the award designates an institution to receive a copy of the 26 volume Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Recipients 
The award is given yearly and was first presented in 1997.

Photo Gallery

See also

 List of chemistry awards

References

Chemistry awards
Dragon Dream. Dragon Dream (FAA registration: N866ML) is an experimental lighter than air (LTA) cargo rigid airship built by Worldwide Aeros Corp as a half-scale proof of concept prototype for a design which the manufacturer calls the "Aeroscraft". The development and design has been funded by the US government through the military Walrus HULA and then the  "Pelican" projects.

Design
The hull of the Dragon Dream has a flattened elliptic cross-section.

Buoyancy control is managed by pumping helium gas from the internal gas bag and compressing it into a storage cell, the reduction in lifting volume leading to a loss of buoyancy. The system can vary the airship's lift by 3,000–4,000 lb. The manufacturer uses the phrase "Control Of Static Heaviness" for this technology.

Specifications

Operational history
The airship was completed in 2013 and, after extensive systems tests in the construction hangar at MCAS Tustin, was granted an airworthiness certificate by the US Federal Aviation Administration in September 2013, following which some outdoor tethered trials were carried out.  Shortly afterwards it was badly damaged when part of the hangar roof collapsed, and the company sued the US Navy for $65 million in 2015.

References

External links

Worldwide Aeros website

Airships of the United States
2010s United States experimental aircraft
Lely Juno family. The Lely Juno family is a family of robot series produced by Excel Dairy Services, headquartered in the Netherlands. The robots' main function and purpose is to provide labor on farms such as supplying food to cows on farms and milking them.

The robots come in various models, including Juno 100 and Juno 150.

References

External links
Lely Juno on Lely company's main website. 
Lely Expands Line with New Automatic Feed Pusher, Juno 100
The Lely Juno 100: A Dairy Farmer’s Faithful Sidekick

Dairy farming technology
Agricultural robotics
Ernie and Erica Wisner. Ernie and Erica Wisner are a couple from Tonasket, Washington, United States, best known for their innovative rocket mass heater designs. They are often referred to as the worldwide leaders and trainers in rocket stove technology. They have made over 700 rocket stoves all over the world.

Background

The Wisners were introduced to this type of work when Ernie apprenticed with Ianto Evans for two years. Evans, of Cob Cottage Co., was the designer who originally developed this type of technology 30 years ago. Erica and Ernie initially planned to share information about all different types of natural building, but their fans demanded otherwise. People wanted to be taught how to build rocket mass heaters and custom cob rocket stoves.

Current work

Ernie and Erica now spend their time touring the world teaching workshops on how to build these energy-efficient, natural heaters. They are also working to design and build a stove that will get an Underwriters Laboratory (UL (safety organization)) listing, which would eliminate insurance issues.

The Wisners helped write the building code for Portland.

In 2013, they were featured in a four-DVD film series produced by Paul Wheaton. The films cover a workshop, and are titled Fire Science, Sneaky Heat, Boom Squish, and Hot Rocket. Village Video produced a film with Ernie and Erica called How To Build Rocket Mass Heaters in which they again teach how to build and maintain these heaters.

In 2015, they were featured in another 4-DVD series about rocket mass heaters, this time covering how to build 10 different styles of rocket mass heaters.

The Wisners have written two books, The Art of Fire and The Rocket Mass Heater Builder's Guide.

In 2017, both were instructors for an Appropriate Technology Course hosted by Paul Wheaton. The course was recorded and is available as a streaming video.

See also 
Permaculture
Mike Oehler
Paul Wheaton
Appropriate Technology
Rocket mass heater

References 

Permaculture
Hamilton Glasair. The SH-1 tandem Glasair was an original homebuilt aircraft design by Tom Hamilton, who would use the lessons learned from this to build the Glasair I, II and III series of homebuilt aircraft.

Design
The Glasair was an all composite, low-wing tandem seat aircraft with conventional landing gear. The design was wind-tunnel tested prior to construction. The design was modified to a tricycle gear arrangement after visibility problems from the rear seat were noted on solo test flights. The design flew only three times. Hamilton's partner Ted Setzer burned the prototype before moving on to the next design.

Specifications (Glasair)

See also

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Glasair
1970s United States sport aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Draganflyer X6. Draganflyer X6 is a commercial unmanned aerial vehicle.

Description
Draganflyer X6 is a remote-controlled miniature helicopter that allows users to control it to a maximum height of . It allows for a fixed altitude to be set. The helicopter is mounted with a camera that can collect up to five hundred gigabytes of real-time recording data. It can be set to record at 1080 HD, low-light vision and thermal vision. The camera is mounted on the vibration-free bottom of the drone. The Draganflyer has six rotors and can fly up to a speed of .

The drone is controlled by a single operator with a handheld controller. The controller wears glasses, which display a live feed of what is recorded by the camera.

Privacy concerns
The drone is in use in Canada and the United States by law enforcement.

In Seattle, the use of the Draganflyer X6 by police was prohibited by mayor Mike McGinn due to protests from privacy advocates and the general public. The drones would have been used in missing persons cases and in limited criminal investigations, according to police.

In May 2014, the Los Angeles Police Department obtained two of the drones as a gift from the Seattle Police Department. An official from the police department stated that the drones would only be used in limited cases such as hostage situations and that they would not be used to spy on law-abiding citizens. However, this did not stop criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union, which questioned whether the marginal benefits of the drones justified their serious threat to privacy. On October 31, 2014, Los Angeles City Council instructed Los Angeles Police Department to create a drone policy in order to move forth with using their Draganflyer X6.

In February 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration allowed the Grand Forks, North Dakota police department to start using the drone. The University of North Dakota, in an attempt to preemptively solve objections regarding privacy, created a committee of private citizens and members of the government with the power to alter or completely stop the drone flights. However, the actual testing was met with little objection from the public.

References

External links
 

Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States
Mass surveillance
Aircraft first flown in 2008
Poornima College of Engineering. Poornima College of Engineering (PCE) is the main campus of Poornima Group of Colleges based in Jaipur, Rajasthan and established in 1999. It now has three institutions and has grown to 10,000 students.

History 
Poornima College of Engineering was founded in 1999 by the Shanti Education Society. 

Poornima Group of Colleges comprises Poornima College of Engineering (established 2000), Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology (established 2007), and Poornima Group of Institutions  (established 2009). It is a member of the IBM Software Centre of Excellence. Rajasthan.

Organisation and administration

Departments

 Computer Science and Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Information Technology
 Civil Engineering
 Agriculture Engineering

Sister Colleges 

 Poornima University
 Poornima Institute of Engineering and Technology
 Jodhpur Institute of Engineering and Technology

Student life

Technical Clubs

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE Club) 
SAE Club provide many benefits to members like tangible contact with their future profession & various objectives on engineering education. SAE Club is a Chapter of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE-INDIA), Northern Section established in 2018. Currently this collegiate club has more than 90 members from various departments.

Zircon Club 
Zircon Club was established in year 2010 at Poornima College of Engineering. Every year zircon club organizes various technical events and workshops for all the engineering students. Zircon Club guides the student of 1st year of Poornima College of Engineering in making various projects. Members of zircon club have won various prizes by participating in technical event of many IITs, NITs and reputed colleges.

Udaan Aeromodelling Club 
It is an Aeromodelling Club of Poornima Group of Colleges.

Formula Student Teams

Crusade Motorsports 
Crusade Motorsports is a Formula Student team of PCE, Jaipur involved in designing, manufacturing and racing a Formula prototype racecar. This Formula Student team participates in national level student competition Supra SAEINDIA organized by SAE International.

Team Hayagriva 
Hayagriva is a student organization. 30+ students with a formal 3-tier team structure spread across various disciplines design, engineer and race their vehicles at various competitions. The team has always operated independently, transferring the knowledge obtained from year to year. Team Hayagriva participates in Formula Imperial competition organized by ISIE.

See also
 List of universities in India
 Universities and colleges in India
 Education in India
 University Grants Commission (India)

References

External links 
 

Engineering colleges in Jaipur
Educational institutions established in 2000
2000 establishments in Rajasthan
KiHa 52. The  is a Japanese diesel multiple unit (DMU) type formerly operated by Japanese National Railways (JNR); JR Group companies such as JR East, JR West, JR Shikoku & JR Kyushu; and later by the private railway operator Isumi Railway based in Chiba, Japan, by overseas operators such as Myanmar Railways in Myanmar, and the Philippine National Railways in the Philippines.

112 KiHa 52 cars were built for Japanese National Railways between 1958 and 1966. The design was based on the KiHa 20 series "general purpose" DMU type, but with two engines for use on mountainous lines.

Variants
 KiHa 52 1 – 56: Built 1958–1962
 KiHa 52 101 – 156: Built 1963–1966
 KiHa 52 651: Converted from KiHa 52 101

Livery variations

JNR-era liveries

JR-era regional liveries

Resale
Following withdrawal of the last remaining examples operated by JR-West, one car, KiHa 52 125, was resold to the private operator Isumi Railway in Chiba Prefecture in April 2011. This unit was built in 1965, and formerly operated on the Etsumi-Hoku Line and Ōito Line in the Hokuriku region until 2010.

Overseas operations

Myanmar

Seventeen former KiHa 52 Diesel Railcars were shipped to Myanmar to be operated by Myanmar Railways between 2007 and 2008.
The following cars were transferred to Myanmar as shown:

Philippines

Seven former JR East KiHa 52 cars originally based at JR East Niitsu Transportation Zone were donated in September 2011 to the Philippine National Railways (PNR), where they were used on commuter services in the Manila area. In October 2013, the trains were normally operated as two 3-car formations. The seventh car, KiHa 52 123, in Niigata livery, was taken out of service after operating for only seven months, and is stored at Tutuban Depot as a source of spare parts for the rest of the fleet.

The trainsets were retired from passenger service in 2020 and they were replaced by Indonesian-built PNR 8000 class DMUs on the PNR North Main Line. KiHa 52-122 was later refurbished as the newest member of PNR's maintenance fleet in Caloocan, named the "Rescue Train" with the orange livery. The other two units from the KiHa-O trainset are still in storage in Tutuban as of October 2021. KiHa-B trainsets on the other hand were already retired in 2016 and Bicol trainsets were replaced by KiHa 35s.

The former toilets in each car are locked out of use.

Formation
During their service as commuter trains, the two three-car sets were referred to as "KiHa-O" (for orange) and "KiHa-B" (for blue) named after the liveries they carry. They were formed as shown below.

Preserved examples

In addition to KiHa 52 125 operated on the Isumi Railway,  three Kiha 52 cars are preserved in Japan, as listed below.
 KiHa 52 115: Former Tsuyama Depot roundhouse, Tsuyama, Okayama
 KiHa 52 130: Osumi Line Memorial Park, Shibushi, Kagoshima
 KiHa 52 156: Inside Itoigawa Geostation Geopal at Itoigawa Station in Itoigawa, Niigata

References

52
Diesel multiple units of the Philippines
Japanese National Railways
East Japan Railway Company
Kyushu Railway Company
West Japan Railway Company
Philippine National Railways
Train-related introductions in 1958

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