International agencies and national governments have overlooked how effective local transport providers can be in helping stop the spread of ebola in affected Central African companies.
Much advice has been given to airlines about how to clean and disinfect their airplanes and to hand out advice. But the majority of people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria don’t take airplanes. They take local transport, said Heather Allen, programme director for sustainable transport at the London-based Transpo
It’s live onsite auction day in Donington, UK and it’s noisy. It’s also raining in early morning but that doesn’t put off the gathering crowd Buyers are milling around parked machinery. They kick tyres and slam doors. Some are behind the wheel, gingerly nudging vehicles frontwards and backwards or raising and lowering booms. Their partners stand a few metres away scrutinising the machine’s movements.
Dr Michael Milford from Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Science and Engineering Faculty in Australia has revealed details of research that dispenses with GPS satellites and uses cameras instead to make road navigation a far cheaper and simpler task. "At the moment you need three satellites in order to get a decent GPS signal and even then it can take a minute or more to get a lock on your location," he said. "There are some places geographically, where you just can't get satellite signals and ev
After a life-changing accident, Swedish excavator operator Patrik Ketti worked with local Hyundai* dealer Orsa Maskin to find a solution for getting back into his cab.
