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This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were significant attempts to develop steam carriages and omnibuses. That these attempts ultimately failed was largely due to opposition by road authorities and draconian legislation. Steam power did, however, find a real purpose in agriculture, where the traction engine was used for a variety of tasks from towing and working threshing machines, to ploughing. Once the value of the traction engine had been established, it soon found a use in many parts of the world for heavy haulage work and appeared in an exotic guise as the showman's engine. The latter was not only used to haul rides to fairgrounds but also powered a dynamo that could light up the fair at night. By the end of the nineteenth century, steam on the road took on a new life with the development of steam cars and trucks. For a time they vied the new internal combustion engine for supremacy on the road. The American Doble Company even developed a 100mph steam sports car. Ultimately steam lost the war, but steam vehicles survive and delight us still thanks to enthusiastic owners and restorers.

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This research project examined the speed characteristics of passenger cars and vehicles with high centers of gravity on freeway connectors to determine any discernable differences between the two vehicles types. Data to determine compliance with posted advisory speed limits and average speeds at points along connector ramps were collected on freeway connectors in Houston. Four different vehicles were driven through the curves at varying speeds while monitoring a manual ball-bank indicator as well as collecting lateral acceleration data electronically. The project determined that the general public often exceeds the posted advisory speed limits, often by more than 10 mph. While there are no seemingly discemable differences in lateral accelerations by different types of vehicles for a given speed along a curve, there may be a 5 to 10 mph difference in the driver's comfortable speed between vehicle types. The findings of this project indicate that there may be differences between the maximum comfortable speeds that drivers of heavy vehicles and passenger car type vehicles will accept for a freeway-to-freeway curve. The following conclusions confirmed by this project are applicable to freeway-to-freeway connectors and should be considered in their design, and especially in their re-design: to provide adequate deceleration and acceleration distances for tractor-trailers and other heavy vehicles, to reduce the side friction demand on trucks in the curve by developing superelevation more on the tangent, to place curve advisory speed signing with more regard to the deceleration needs of trucks. The results of this project indicate that modifying the current advisory speed setting criteria to use a 10-degree level to set a truck advisory speed and a 13-degree level for setting a more realistic passenger car advisory speed may be appropriate to more closely represent the 85th percentile speed of each vehicle on a curve.

This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were significant attempts to develop steam carriages and omnibuses. That these attempts ultimately failed was largely due to opposition by road authorities and draconian legislation. Steam power did, however, find a real purpose in agriculture, where the traction engine was used for a variety of tasks from towing and working threshing machines, to ploughing. Once the value of the traction engine had been established, it soon found a use in many parts of the world for heavy haulage work and appeared in an exotic guise as the showman's engine. The latter was not only used to haul rides to fairgrounds but also powered a dynamo that could light up the fair at night. By the end of the nineteenth century, steam on the road took on a new life with the development of steam cars and trucks. For a time they vied the new internal combustion engine for supremacy on the road. The American Doble Company even developed a 100mph steam sports car. Ultimately steam lost the war, but steam vehicles survive and delight us still thanks to enthusiastic owners and restorers.