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Synopsis: Highlighting the needs, problems, and pleasures of transportation and shows the role of the United States Department of Transportation in this giant industry. Explains how the Department of Transportation helps develop all forms of transportation and makes a balanced transportation network of moving people and goods throughout the world possible.
Many different modes of travel and movement of cargo shown; automobile, cars, trucks, buses, commercial aircraft, trains, boats, cargo ships, ferry.
Scenes Include: Street scenes and dress styles of the 1970’s, Lombard Street San Francisco, airport terminal and passengers, commercial aviation, freeways, vehicle traffic congestion, mass transit, automobile crash tests, airbag deployment (slow motion), passive restraint, crash dummy, Coast Guard rescue, sinking ship, truck inspection station, railroad track inspection and repair, serving passengers on train and on a commercial aircraft, Amtrak, test high speed train. |
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Information: 1974 28 min COL |
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