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Interest in the roadside environment has been steadily increasing since the late 1970s, driven by possible links between poor air quality near heavily traveled roads and health outcomes in exposed individuals. Substantial generators of local traffic, such as marine terminals can bring the additional problems of noise and decreased pedestrian safety and accessibility to streets lined with schools and homes. This thesis has two aims: to synthesize the knowledge on observed air pollution concentrations near roadways, and to assess the air quality effects of a local diesel truck traffic mitigation project while providing an overview of its planning. Each is addressed in its own part. The first presents the results of a meta-analysis of observed near roadway air pollution concentrations. In total, 34 studies were identified from which 572 pollutant concentrations and their associated distances from the road were extracted. Normalization was necessary to increase data commensurability. Using the edge of road concentration to normalize grouped observations more closely than using the background concentration, but the results of two statistical analyses (local regression and analysis of variance) performed on both datasets showed broadly consistent results: carbon monoxide, elemental carbon and surrogates, metal deposition, oxides of nitrogen, non-alkane hydrocarbons, and ultrafine particle number are consistently elevated, reaching between 1.7-20 times above background at the edge of road, depending on pollutant and normalization method. Most pollutants decay to background by 150 m from the edge of road. The second part examined a series of measures to mitigate local diesel truck impacts at two port facilities while improving traffic operations in the communities of Barrio Logan, San Diego and Old Town, National City, both low-income communities of color. This subject moved the thesis beyond an exclusive focus on air quality and provided the first documentation of the unique process and solutions which emerged following the collaboration of all major stakeholders. Local truck impacts and heavily mixed land uses provided the impetus for the mitigation which resulted in a permanent rerouting of all trucks over five tons to roads outside of the communities. Previous assessments of the project described the extent to which mitigation strategies are expected to improve traffic operations or claimed air quality improvements without carrying out an emissions analysis. We performed a local-scale analysis of the effects of traffic volume and speed changes on diesel particulate matter (DPM) emissions in Barrio Logan. We find that, while the mitigation did not result in improved regional air quality, it did significantly improve local air quality in the primary affected corridor, resulting in a 99 percent reduction in DPM emissions, and an 87 percent reduction in diesel truck vehicle miles traveled.

‘GOD End-time Updates The Guardianship of Friends’ with eighty-six divinely selected scrolls dictated by Jesus: where The Curtain Call of God stimulates: in growth, in Faith, in righteousness, in expression, in quests, in being friendly and inviting. It affirms the value: of being under The Faith Field of Mortality, the confirmation of The Righteous Field of Morality, the requested availability of The Cleansing Field of Grace, the necessity of Seeking The Field of Preparation, The gifts of My Spirit as on The Day of Pentecost, the benefit of attaining fluency in The Heavenly Gift of Tongues, access to the given opportunity to select: the destiny of choice as the goal of life, to be so set in Faith for Freewill Activities— with righteousness prevailing as the destiny is assured. It closes out the time of Grace, opens up the time of Mercy at The Bema Seat. ‘Backstop to The Heating’ is an exceptional read in this book.

"A marvellous collection of original wartime colour photos...For both historians and modellers, the variations in uniforms and their colours will be a great reference..." — Military Model Scene Take a visual journey through North Africa during the Second World War with Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Spring as they chart the path of Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps through a series of stunning, rare color photographs. Taken from Ian Spring’s incredible digital archive of over 32,000 original color photographs dated between 1936 and 1946, more than 250 images in Rommel’s Afrika Korps In Color offer readers a vivid, detailed insight into this German expeditionary force and their long North African Campaign. Fascinating color photographs of German soldiers, weaponry, tanks and aircraft fill these pages, and are balanced by the equally captivating and rare photographs of the people and the landscapes of North Africa. Renowned author and military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones’ remarkable text accompanies Ian Spring’s collection of rare photographs, together making for a highly informative and utterly engrossing read. Rommel’s Afrika Korps In Color affords readers a new way of reading and learning about one of the most unique campaigns in the Second World War, and will stay with them long after they turn the final page.

The book looks at rail travel from the passenger’s point of view, beginning when a coach drawn by horses, rumbled down the newly laid tracks linking Swansea to Mumbles in 1807 and takes the reader right up to the present day. It was not long after that first service opened in Wales that the first steam passenger trains began to operate. The story broadens out from the first inter-city line connecting Liverpool to Manchester to spread first around Britain and eventually spread across the world. The book paints vivid pictures of how travel seemed to passengers in different countries, drawing on many first-hand accounts. The early days offered little in comfort – third class passengers had to make do with carriages that were simply open trucks. Gradually conditions improved and eventually there was an age of luxury travel epitomised by the famous Orient Express. Every aspect of rail travel is looked at, from tragic tales of fatal accidents to the role of railway travel in films and books. This lively account of the pioneering days and what many regard as the golden age of rail travel will be welcomed by anyone who enjoys taking the train.

Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.