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Hey kids! Here's a little ditty from the annals of psycho testing... er, psychometric testing.
Try your luck. See how you do. First prize: You're Hired! Second prize: set-onna-steakknife. Third prize: blacklist.
Instructions: Read the following passage. Answer the poll question. (btw, here you have unlimited time, but for the true experience try to limit yourself to the 30-60 seconds you would have if this were a real psychometric measurement instrument.)
Railroad Transport
Europe has long benefited from a dense railway network and is the world leader in the supply of railway systems. Employing 1 million people in rail operations and another 250,000 in manufacturing, the European railway sector has a 60% share of the world market and an annual turnover of €95 billion. Most railways in the EU are electrified. The electrified railway networks operate at a plethora of different voltages, both AC and DC varying from 750 to 25,000 volts. Electric railways offer better energy efficiency, lower emissions and are quieter.
Rail transport offers a viable and competitive means of shifting more cargo traffic away from the continent’s crowded roads, thus improving traffic circulation and cutting vehicle-emitted pollution. The EU places particular emphasis on stimulating new investment in trans-European transport infrastructure such as rail, and supports research efforts to create new methods of interoperability, improve access to the railway network for freight transport, create higher safety standards and reduce rail-related noise levels.
One of the main advances in the EU's railway system is the recently launched MODTRAIN project. The project brings together, for the first time, all the main European rail system manufacturers, sub-system suppliers and rail operators. Working towards interoperability of national rolling-stock systems, MODTRAIN offers a radical approach to rolling-stock construction. Its goal of reducing the number of single components in a railway carriage from 1,200 to 120 parts, cutting construction time by more than 50% and reducing total life cycle costs should give a huge boost to the sector’s competitiveness. Frédéric Sgarbi of the European Commission said: “The MODTRAIN project has delivered new definitions for common open rail vehicle architectures, crucial developments as we move towards full rail transport interoperability.”
Try your luck. See how you do. First prize: You're Hired! Second prize: set-onna-steakknife. Third prize: blacklist.
Instructions: Read the following passage. Answer the poll question. (btw, here you have unlimited time, but for the true experience try to limit yourself to the 30-60 seconds you would have if this were a real psychometric measurement instrument.)
Railroad Transport
Europe has long benefited from a dense railway network and is the world leader in the supply of railway systems. Employing 1 million people in rail operations and another 250,000 in manufacturing, the European railway sector has a 60% share of the world market and an annual turnover of €95 billion. Most railways in the EU are electrified. The electrified railway networks operate at a plethora of different voltages, both AC and DC varying from 750 to 25,000 volts. Electric railways offer better energy efficiency, lower emissions and are quieter.
Rail transport offers a viable and competitive means of shifting more cargo traffic away from the continent’s crowded roads, thus improving traffic circulation and cutting vehicle-emitted pollution. The EU places particular emphasis on stimulating new investment in trans-European transport infrastructure such as rail, and supports research efforts to create new methods of interoperability, improve access to the railway network for freight transport, create higher safety standards and reduce rail-related noise levels.
One of the main advances in the EU's railway system is the recently launched MODTRAIN project. The project brings together, for the first time, all the main European rail system manufacturers, sub-system suppliers and rail operators. Working towards interoperability of national rolling-stock systems, MODTRAIN offers a radical approach to rolling-stock construction. Its goal of reducing the number of single components in a railway carriage from 1,200 to 120 parts, cutting construction time by more than 50% and reducing total life cycle costs should give a huge boost to the sector’s competitiveness. Frédéric Sgarbi of the European Commission said: “The MODTRAIN project has delivered new definitions for common open rail vehicle architectures, crucial developments as we move towards full rail transport interoperability.”
