The long-term resilience of 1930s socio-technical transport systems, despite our current awareness of negative side effects (congestion, pollution and energy cost), shows also the path-dependency of the whole transport sector, which seems locked into the (future) repetition of its past.
technical inspection, transport inspection, and shunting work.
The project appears to have been reasonably efficient and cost-effective, although the indirect costs of technical assistance, transport and project support are high at 50% of the total spending.
During inter-hospital transports, without extra personnel or technical assistance, the transport team is dependent on its own ability to resolve these problems.
Teams of physicians and ICU nurses are trained to work in narrow ambulances, have learned to deal with specific transport-related medical problems and have knowledge about the technical limitations of transport.
Imagine a documentary that depicted the Holocaust in a cool, disinterested way as a big industrial-logistic operation, focusing on the technical problems involved (transport, disposal of the bodies, preventing panic among the prisoners to be gassed).
A technical glitch in Transport for London's Oyster card system has been resolved after thousands of passengers in the capital were able to travel for free on Saturday morning.
Mr Bird said: "The course... covered everything from bombs and instruments, rigging, technical storage, motor transport engines and quartermaster stores.
Finally, a discussion of the physiological barriers to localized therapy (i.e. drug penetration, transport), technical hurdles, and future outlook of the field is presented.
"We are aware that, in the Channel Islands, service quality can depend on matters outside postal operators' control, such as weather and technical problems with transport to and from the islands.
The results of the behavioural analysis, in terms of ranking of potentially accepted policies, linked with the technical evaluations from transport network modelling tools, provide a sound basis for active participation and deliberation with stakeholders and policy-makers.
