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  2. Bus lanes in New York City - Wikipedia

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    One block north, Jamaica Avenue's lanes between Sutphin Boulevard and 168th Street carry bidirectional bus traffic, but about half of routes use only the westbound bus lane. [ 34 ] [ 62 ] A longer set of bus lanes in northern Jamaica, on Hillside Avenue between Merrick and Francis Lewis Boulevards, carry the Q1 , Q36 , and Q43 .

  3. Bus rapid transit - Wikipedia

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    The town was designed around the transport system, with most residents no more than five minutes walking distance, or 500 yards (460 m), from the Busway. [14] The Rede Integrada de Transporte in Curitiba, Brazil, was opened in 1974. The RIT was inspired by the National Urban Transport Company of Peru.

  4. List of bus rapid transit systems in North America - Wikipedia

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    Busway 1 Median 2 Bus Lanes 3 Bypass 2 Timed Lanes 5 Shoulder 6 HOV Lanes 7 Ltd. Stops 8 TSP 9 Bus signals 9 Regular 10 Curbside 11 Median 12 Station 13 POP 14; Brampton, Ontario: Züm: See note: See note: Five routes. Median busways and stations owned by Viva Rapid Transit: Calgary, Alberta: MAX (Calgary) Regional Municipality of Durham ...

  5. Headway - Wikipedia

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    This had the side-effect of limiting the maximum speed of the trains to the speed where they could stop in the distance of one block section. This was an important consideration for the Advanced Passenger Train in the United Kingdom, where the lengths of block sections limited speeds and demanded a new braking system be developed. [4]

  6. Span (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    In engineering, span is the distance between two adjacent structural supports (e.g., two piers) of a structural member (e.g., a beam). Span is measured in the horizontal direction either between the faces of the supports (clear span) or between the centers of the bearing surfaces (effective span): [1] A span can be closed by a solid beam or by ...

  7. Rebar spacer - Wikipedia

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    The plastic clip or fastening mechanism is incorporated at a depth of merely 5 mm into the spacer, thereby preserving the material's integrity at the surface of the product. This plastic component in the clip or fastening mechanism serves exclusively for attachment and securing of the reinforcement, allowing the concrete segment to fulfil the ...

  8. Singleton bound - Wikipedia

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    The minimum distance of a set of codewords of length is defined as = {,:} (,) where (,) is the Hamming distance between and .The expression (,) represents the maximum number of possible codewords in a -ary block code of length and minimum distance .

  9. Guided bus - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway between Cambridge and St Ives, at 25 kilometres (16 miles), is the world's longest guided busway. [11] Between 2004 and 2008, a 1-mile (1.5 km) section of guided busway was in operation between Stenhouse and Broomhouse in the west of Edinburgh.The route was later converted for use by Edinburgh trams. [12] [13]