They reported two main contributing factors to this situation: a lack of capacity in terms of transport (inadequate cars, and those that are available are not reliable due to poor maintenance) and inadequate staff to carry out frequent supervision.
One-dimensional random field model of pavement surface is adequate for two-wheel vehicles, such as bicycles and motor-cycles but inadequate for cars and trucks having two or more wheel per axle.
Other types of flow batteries under development, such as those using vanadium bromide, could double the density of storage, but probably would still be inadequate for cars.
Instead nobody even bothered to maintain the inadequate, overpriced station car park, until last year when half of it was requisitioned to create a car park for the O2, as the Dome is now to be known.
A 2009 report by the National Transportation Safety Board about a Canadian National derailment in Illinois called the design of those tank cars "inadequate" and found that it "made the cars subject to damage and catastrophic loss of hazardous materials".
Its engine proved unreliable – plagued with cooling problems and related component failure – and because of inadequate rustproofing, the cars' Fisher-built bodies rusted with legendary speed.
Trying to get to the East River, we had to risk crossing a traffic circle with inadequate crosswalks, as cars left the F.D.R. Drive.
If you consider that Mexico City combines the biggest concentration of cars, inadequate road infrastructure, and a total lack of road safety culture, it is not surprising that there are more deaths on the city's streets than on any others in Mexico.
The already inadequate DOT-111 cars are designed to carry typical crude, but since Bakken oil is more flammable than conventional crude oil, the cars are even more at risk of danger while transporting their sensitive loads.
The FTA said it believes the barriers that originally were installed on the new trains, which look like two black rubber tail fins sticking out from the edge of each train car, are inadequate and unsafe.
