Land Transportation Vocab

Question 0

battery

Answer 0

a container consisting of one or more cells carrying an electric charge that can be used as a source of power.

Question 1

autonomous vehicle

Answer 1

a driverless car that can navigate on its own from one point to another without assistance from a human.

Question 2

biocoal

Answer 2

a solid fuel made from converting agricultural waste into high density, energy-concentrated fuel briquettes.

Question 3

biofuel

Answer 3

a type of fuel in liquid and/or gas form produced directly from renewable plant and animal materials that have undergone biological carbon fixation.

Question 4

biogas

Answer 4

a biofuel made up of digested organic material, like animal manure.

Question 5

bus rapid transit

Answer 5

any form of public transport system which uses buses to provide services that are faster and more efficient than traditional bus lines.

Question 6

carpooling

Answer 6

the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car.

Question 7

commute

Answer 7

the travel of some distance from one’s home to his or her place of work which occurs on a regular basis.

Question 8

electric vehicle (EV)

Answer 8

a vehicle which uses one or more electric or traction motors for propulsion.

Question 9

emissions

Answer 9

substances or fumes discharged into the air, especially by internal combustion engines; in many countries these discharges are checked and regulated to help prevent air pollution.

Question 10

ethanol

Answer 10

an alcohol obtained from the fermentation of sugars and starches or by chemical synethesis, which is typically used as an additive to or replacement for petroleum-based fuels.

Question 11

Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT)

Answer 11

the concept of a magnetic levitation train in low-pressure vacuum tunnels to achieve high-speed railroad transport of up to 5,000 miles per hour (8,000 km/h).

Question 12

fossil fuels

Answer 12

naturally occurring fuels, such as gas or coal, that are formed by decomposition over time and used by mankind as sources of energy.

Question 13

freight

Answer 13

goods that are transported by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

Question 14

fuel cell

Answer 14

a device that converts chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen or another oxidizing agent.

Question 15

gasoline

Answer 15

a mixture of highly flammable liquid hydrocarbons created from petroleum that is used as a fuel for internal combustion enginges.

Question 16

German autobahns

Answer 16

the nationally coordinated motorway system in Germany that typically allows higher speed limits than most other expressways.

Question 17

green diesel

Answer 17

biofuels made from algae and other plant resources.

Question 18

highway

Answer 18

a main public road connecting major towns or cities (a free way or expressway).

Question 19

hybrid vehicle

Answer 19

a vehicle containing both an electriv motor and a gasoline engine, each of which can move the car.

Question 20

infrastructure

Answer 20

the underlying foundation and basic framework that makes up a system of highway or roads.

Question 21

internal combustion engine

Answer 21

an engine that generates the power to move by burning gasoline, oil, or air inside the engine where the gasses produced drive a piston, creating motion.

Question 22

interstate

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a highway that is part of the federal network of major wroads.

Question 23

interstate commerce

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commerce that involves the transportation of goods across state lines

Question 24

maglev

Answer 24

a system of transportation which uses magnetic levitation to suspend, guide, and propel vehicles using magnets.

Question 25

mass transit

Answer 25

a system of large-scale public transportation that is usually made up of buses, subways, and elevated trains to move a large number of people.

Question 26

monorail

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a rail-based transportation system that consist of a single rail that is typically elevated so the trains suspend from it or balance on it.

Question 27

pedestrian

Answer 27

a person walking, typically oalongside a road or sidewalk or witihin a developed area.

Question 28

personal rapid transit (PRT)

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a public means of transport featuring small, automated vehicles that operate on specially built guide ways; sometimes called personal automated transport (PAT) or podcars.

Question 29

platooning

Answer 29

the lining up of cars forming road trains where the lead car acts as a pace setter, allowing all the vehicles to act simultaneously and move as a single unit.

Question 30

public transportation

Answer 30

a shared passenger transport service which is available for use to the general public and may include buses, trains, and subwaus which run on fixed routes.

Question 31

Roll-On, Roll-Off (RORO)

Answer 31

trucks used to transport a wide variety of wheeled cargo from state to state.

Question 32

speed limit

Answer 32

the maximum legal speed permitted on a stretch of road.

Question 33

steam engine

Answer 33

an engine which uses the energy from the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate nechanical power.

Question 34

streetcar

Answer 34

a vehicle propelled by electricity that runs on rails or tracks along public urban streets.

Question 35

subway

Answer 35

an underground railroad traditionally operated by electricity and typically found in large cities.

Question 36

tarmac

Answer 36

a paving material that consists of crushed stone rolled and bound with a mixture of tar and bitumen that is used for a road or airport runway.

Question 37

taxi

Answer 37

a vehicle used to transport passengers in return for aa payment or fare.

Question 38

toll road

Answer 38

a privately or publicly built road that drivers must pay to use.

Question 39

traffic congestion

Answer 39

a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move; a gridlock or a traffic jam

Question 40

transportation

Answer 40

the use of a device to move people or goods from one location to another

Question 41

Vehicle-to-Vehicle 9V2V) communication

Answer 41

the software and hardware which allos cars int he same proximity to read one another’s locations and velocities.

Question 42

Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I)

Answer 42

the software and hardware that enable vehicles and the infrastucture surrounding them to send and collect data from one another.