Essays about: "railroad"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 68 essays containing the word railroad.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  3. 2. Safety analysis of Railway Transportation of Dangerous goods

    University essay from KTH/Transportplanering

    Author : Hengxu Liu; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In the past decade, the demand for dangerous goods (DG) that can be used forindustrial, farming, mining, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical products has surgedwith the rapid development of industrialization. Almost 55,000 billion tonnekilometersof Dangerous Goods (DG) are transported annually by the railroad,accounting for approximately 51% of the total DG traffic volume in Europe. READ MORE

  4. 3. Evaluating a method using pXRF for measuring sulphur along Ostlänken

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Malin Häägg; [2022-09-09]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Ostlänken (The Eastern link) is going to be a new main railway in Sweden, between Södertälje and Linköping. The railroad will go through areas where there could be high sulphide concentration in the rocks, and during the construction, large amounts of rock is going to be excavated. READ MORE

  5. 4. Effekten av dual-mode lokomotiv på transportkostnad för försörjningsystem med ofullständig elektrifiering : en kartläggning av Norgependeln

    University essay from SLU/Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology (from 131204)

    Author : Sixten Walheim; [2022]
    Keywords : järnvägstransporter; rundvirkestransporter; Norgependeln; elektrifieringsgrad; systemtåg;

    Abstract : Av Sveriges totala rundvirkestransporter sker ca 20 % av transportarbetet på järnväg med målet om att öka. Något som hindrar en ökning av järnvägstransporter förutom konkurrens från lastbil, är avsaknaden av fullständig elektrifiering. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Deep Learning Based Approach to Object Recognition from LiDAR Data Along Swedish Railroads

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : Egil Morast; [2022]
    Keywords : Deep learning; DGCNN; LiDAR; Object recognition; Railroad; Automatisation; Sweden; Point cloud; Djupinlärning; DGCNN; LiDAR; Objektigenkänning; Järnväg; Automatisering; Sverige; Punktmoln;

    Abstract : Malfunction in the overhead contact line system is a common cause of disturbances in the train traffic in Sweden. Due to the preventive methods being inefficient, the Swedish Transport Administration has stated the need to develop the railroad maintenance services and has identified Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an important tool for this undertaking. READ MORE