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Each form of transportation not only carries, but translates and transforms the sender, the receiver, and the message.
The use of any kind of medium or extension of man alters the patterns of interdependence among people, as it alters the ratios among our senses.
Roads are made by engineer's designing and planning.
*All technologies are extensions of our physical and nervous systems to increase power and speed.
It was not until the advent of the telegraph that messages could travel faster than the messenger.
Before this, roads and the written word were closely interrelated.
The term "communication" has had an extensive use in connection with roads, bridges, sea routes, rivers and canals, even before it became transformed into "information movement" in the electric age.
Today we not only use roads, but trains and airplanes are playing a big part in the transportation of goods to and from countries all over the world.
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With air transport comes a further disruption of the old town-country complex that had occurred with wheel and road.
The road is, then, used less for travel, and more for business.
The alteration of social groupings, and the formation of new communities, occur with the increased speed of information movement by means of paper messages and road transportation.
Such speedup means much more control at much greater distances.
The traveler now turns to the airways, and thereby ceases to experience the act of traveling. He will begin to travel only after he lands.
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Settlements had created the impulse for exchange and for the increasing movement of raw material and produce from countryside to processing centers.
Glow In The Dark
Rather than spend a large budget on road lighting or other lighting options that span across thousands of miles of roads, the idea to use glow in the dark road markings is a better, more adoptable alternative. Such markings are already made available on the road in the N329 highway in Oss, Netherland. The markings are made using paint that contains photo-luminising powder that "charges up" during the day. These green glow markings will glow for up to 8 hours every night, transforming your driving experience.
Roads play a big part in the transportation of goods and services. It is estimated that 15.5 million trucks operate in the U.S. and of this figure 2 million are tractor trailers.
Interactive Light
The idea is to use motion-sensor lights. Interactive Light works in this sense: when a car approaches a particular stretch of a road, the motion sensors will light up only that section of the road. The lights will grow brighter as the car comes closer and will slowly dim away as it passes. Interactive Light is perfect for highways that are less-traveled or not always packed with cars. You can’t afford to play dice with the safety of road users, for the sake of saving a penny or two, and Interactive Lights help kill two birds with one stone, providing night visibility as and when required.
"Electric speeds create centers everywhere. Margins cease to exist on this planet."
Our electric extensions of ourselves simply by-pass space and time, and create problems of human involvement and organization for which there is no precedent.
We may yet wish for the simple days of the automobile and the superhighway.
Historically, it meant the formation of the Roman Empire and the disruption of the previous city-states of the Greek world.
Wind Powered Lights
Wind-powered lights will power up itself using pinwheels to generate electricity. It works by harnessing wind drafts from passing cars into electric. The electricity is used to light up the lights on the pinwheels, basically lighting up the road path. Since it requires wind to power up, these wind-powered lights will only light up as cars pass by the area. For this to work, these pinwheel generators will be set up along the car’s path at the roadside, to continuously light up paths as cars drive through.
"The city, having been formed for protection, unexpectedly generated fierce intensities and new hybrid energies from accelerated interplay of functions and knowledge. It burst forth into aggression."
The United States economy depends on trucks to deliver nearly 70% of all freight transported annually in the U.S. accounting for the $671 billion worth of manufactured and retail goods transported by truck in the U.S. alone. Add $295 billion in truck trade with Canada and $195.6 billion in truck trade with Mexico.
Improvement of the wheel and road brought the town to the country.
Electric Priority Lane
Another interesting idea by the same studio is the Electric Priority Lane where electric vehicles (EV) user can charge up their vehicle on the go. And they can do this just by driving on the right lane. The Induction Priority Lane will have embedded magnetic fields that can charge the vehicle while it is on the go. This is especially useful in countries like Netherland, where there are a lot of EVs on the road. This will ensure that electric cars do not require to look for charging stations, and can even keep their cars charged on long journeys.
Solar Roadways
Solar Roadways are an indiegogo project that wants to install solar panels on glass roads, complete with LEDs and microprocessors. Glass is renewable, environmentally friendly, and its strength can be improved to be even stronger than steel. Despite being glass, the surface can be engineered for cars to be able to stop safely even when traveling at speeds of up to 80 mph – like on regular roads. The solar panel roads can even melt snow during winter and of course the solar energy harnessed can be used to power electrical needs.
It is a process we have seen in this century with the motorcar.
Picture roads like the roots of a tree. They all branch out from one another. Some of them stopping at dead ends while others keep going, keep connecting. These roads keep us connected from one extreme to the other. From cities filled with buildings to wide open countryside with nothing but fields. Just like the media keeps us connected, whether it be the TV telling us what is going on in the world, or the internet, social media, or our cell phones. We are all connected to one another in many different ways.
Roads no longer remain as simply a medium to travel from one place to another.
"If we understood our older media, such as roads and the written word, and if we valued their human effects sufficiently, we could reduce or even eliminate the electronic factor from our lives."
Located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at the head of the Ohio River, Pittsburgh was referred to as the "Gateway to the West" from its early days as a frontier village. Easily navigable waterways with an abundance of natural resources, (coal, timber, natural gas, iron and limestone) helped Pittsburgh become the industrial center for a growing nation.
Today, when the Greatest volume of transport consists in the moving of information, the wheel and the road are undergoing recession and obsolescence; but in the first instance, given the pressure for, and from, wheels, there had to be roads to accommodate them. Nowadays roads are being used to move goods all over the country.
The road became a substitute for the country by the time people began talking about "taking a spin in the country.
With super highways the road became a wall between man and the country.
Then came the stage of the highway as city, a city stretching continuously across the continent, dissolving all earlier cities.
It was the railway that raised the art of war to unheard-of intensity, making the American Civil War the first major conflict fought by rail, and causing it to be studied and admired by all European general staffs, who had not yet had an opportunity to use railways for general blood-letting.
"War is never anything less than accelerated technological change."
It is the railroad that the American city owes its abstract grid layout, and the non organic separation of production, consumption, and residence.
It is the motorcar that scrambled the abstract shape of the industrial town, mixing up its separated functions.
It remained for the airplane to complete the confusion by amplifying the mobility of the citizen to the point where urban space as such was irrelevant.
The system was originally developed by Joseph White, an engineer with the Allegheny County Department of Public Works, in the late 1940's using a network of federal, state and municipal highways that would offer drivers alternate routes which did not lead into the congested Golden Triangle.
The Belt System was not intended as high speed or limited access roads, but instead their purpose was to define a road system away from the major arteries and the congestion that they suffered. The colors of the system are ordered like the colors in a rainbow with the outermost red, followed by orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. If you cross one color, you have an idea of how close you are to downtown and whether you are heading towards or away from the central business district.
The Civil War boosted the city's economy with increased iron and weapons demand. With his introduction of the Bessemer steel making process, Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie, completed his rise from obscurity to become the richest man in the world. Carnegie began steel production in 1875. Henry Clay Frick, grandson of western Pennsylvania whiskey distillers, made his fortune building and operating beehive coking ovens where coal was turned into coke, a necessary raw material in steel making. Soon, the two men came together to form the Carnegie Steel Co. In 1901, Carnegie and Frick merged several companies into United States Steel Corp.
Interstate and Parkway construction from the late 1950s though the early 1970s reduced the use and need of the Belt System. However, as urban sprawl took a hold of Pittsburgh, the system helped to reduce the effects of suburban congestion. Many of the roads selected more than fifty years ago still play a key role in the transportation plans for Allegheny County, the ones chosen for the belts have gone from country lanes to urban collectors to urban arterials.
Because Pittsburgh became such a booming city many highways began to be built for example the Allegheny Valley Expressway in 1910. These highways began to pop up everywhere and ultimately connected one city to another.
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