Sentences with phrase «about transportation in»

That doesn't mean, though, they haven't been talking about transportation in Wisconsin.

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Budget 2016 announces that the Government will eliminate tariffs on about a dozen manufacturing inputs, providing an estimated $ 9 million in tariff savings over the next five years to Canadian manufacturers in the consumer goods and transportation sectors.

Oil transportation by rail has grown astronomically, to about 140,000 carloads of crude in 2013 from 500 carloads in 2009, according to the Railway Association of Canada.

The six - member investment team has examined nearly every type of MI startup — more than 2,000 companies in the enterprise, agriculture, healthcare, transportation and logistics sectors — but Zilis is picky about where she puts her money.

She was a staff writer at a news agency in Nebraska, covering transportation, and worked in South Korea for several years where she wrote about science while freelancing for publications like Women's Wear Daily and Groove Korea.

The Department of Transportation, which held discussions in 2016 with mental and physical disability rights groups about which animals should be allowed in airplane cabins, said it will monitor Delta's policy to make sure it is in line with the rights of passengers with disabilities who travel with service animals.

He was able to save about $ 25,000 in two years by cutting back on housing, as well as transportation and dining expenses.

The thing about transportation is it's in a continuum.

«Over the course of this trial, we'll be accepting hundreds of people with diverse backgrounds and transportation needs who want to ride in and give feedback about Waymo's self - driving cars,» CEO John Krafcik explained in a blog post.

«The project is about changing the world for people who are not well - served by transportation today,» Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, said Tuesday at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, according to an article by Re / code, the technology news site that hosted the event.

Concerns about the safety of DOT - 111 tank cars date back to the mid-1990s, when the Transportation Safety Board recommended Transport Canada «take immediate action to further reduce the potential for the accidental release of the most toxic and volatile dangerous goods transported in Class 111A tank cars.»

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said about 5,000 of the most dangerous tank cars will be pulled off the tracks within a month, part of a series of measures in response to recommendations by the Transportation Safety Board in the wake of last summer's deadly derailment and fire in Lac Megantic, Que.

(It's worth noting that on the day Uber launched UberPool, its carpooling feature, the news arrived in a blog post with this line: «Since the early days of Uber, we've been excited about the idea of providing transportation so inexpensive and reliable, people can actually sell their cars.»)

At a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on oversight of airline customer service, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz and other airline executives answer lawmaker questions about how to improve employee empowerment in tricky situations.

Home Depot has held internal discussions in recent months about a potential acquisition bid for XPO, a $ 9 billion publicly traded company that offers transportation, delivery and other logistics services for big retailers and brands, according to a person familiar with Home Depot's thinking.

The company also happens to own the largest fleet of privately - owned bomb - sniffing dogs in North America (about 200) stationed at government institutions, sports stadiums, transportation hubs and large corporations.

If the next decade of human space transportation is about private companies finding and developing cheaper and more efficient ways into Earth orbit, the decade following will be all about space agencies learning how to operate farther and farther from home, with an eventual eye to orbiting and eventually landing humans on Mars in the mid-2030s (per NASA's timeline).

British tycoon Richard Branson - backed Virgin Hyperloop One is proposing to build a super-fast transportation system in India that would connect the city of Pune with the planned new airport in Mumbai in 25 minutes, saving about three hours.

After reading about the 2011 famine in Somalia, she created the Rescue Travois, a simple and inexpensive transportation device to help families travel safely across inhospitable terrain.

When I stand in front of the athletes and start talking about the challenges of, say, Olympic transportation, they know I've been there.

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation asked Facebook chairman and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to answer questions about the company's news curation practices and its trending topics section.

Since I started bullet journaling in July and keeping track of my expenses, I've been better about using public transportation and my total should be far lower.

«We've got too many core issues that we need to be worried about in this state - education, transportation, water, many more.

How about the transportation industry, any idea on how all of those things in the store get delivered?

Amazon laid out very specific criteria for the new, second headquarters campus it's looking to build somewhere in North America, and dozens of cities are no doubt preparing pitches about why they present the ideal mix of talent, transportation access, quality of life amenities and so on to meet the company's requirements.

New Jersey alone employed about 370,260 employees in the transportation, logistics and distribution industry in 2015, according to statistics released by New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

At the Green Growth Fund (GGF) at KPCB, we are optimistic about and energized by the amount of transformation occurring in the transportation and mobility space.

Analysts from Societe Generale SA have valued Siemens's mobility unit at about 7.2 billion euros, while Veritas Investment Research Corp. has said Bombardier's 70 percent stake in its transportation business is worth at least $ 5 billion.

«Outlooks remained positive, but contacts in various sectors including manufacturing, agriculture and transportation expressed concern about the newly imposed and / or proposed tariffs,» the Fed said in its Beige Book report.

Since its 2014 high on December 29, the S&P 500 Index has gained 1.5 % (not including a fraction of a percent in dividends), the Dow Industrial Average has gained 1.3 %, the Dow Transportation Average is down -5.8 %, the Dow Utilities Average is down -8.9 %, market breadth has churned sideways, and investment grade corporate spreads are flat (though junk spreads have come in about two - tenths of a percent).

I want to be careful about our growth strategy in a way that will ensure that we don't sacrifice innovation,» the CEO said, adding that Uber had barely scratched the surface of the $ 5 trillion transportation sector.

The Vancouver Board of Trade has been helping lead conversations about transportation since our inception in 1887, and we will continue to be a strong voice for the business community in the years to come.

The publication cites an Electric Drive Transportation Association report about pure EVs, including Tesla's, but not counting hybrids, accounting for 71,064 of all vehicles sold in the country last year.

Peter Kurdock, director of regulatory affairs for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety in Washington, said the group sent a letter Monday to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao saying it is concerned about a lack of action and oversight by the department as autonomous vehicles are developed.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a group of about a hundred engineers from around the world, have come together via the JumpStartFund crowdsourcing platform to pitch together their ideas for a working Hyperloop system in exchange for potential equity.

Seth Clevenger, managing editor of features at Transport Topics — a print and digital industry newspaper covering trucking and freight transportation — is in the studio to talk about the impact of the new ELD mandate and the future of the trucking...

Get into the conversation about the future of transportation — don't be like the record companies who got smacked in the face by new technology

A 2009 report by the National Transportation Safety Board about a Canadian National derailment in Illinois called the design of those tank cars «inadequate» and found that it «made the cars subject to damage and catastrophic loss of hazardous materials.»

Since the July 2013 Lac - Megantic fatal train disaster and other recent incidents involving oil by rail, Transport Canada has faced questions about whether it adequately addressed safety oversight concerns surrounding the transportation of dangerous cargo, which were repeatedly raised in internal audits.

A podcast conversation with Uber's SVP of Business about how the company makes strategic business decisions in this evolving transportation economy.

Hogan (R) has not provided details about the other main element of the plan, which calls for $ 2 billion in transportation upgrades.

But as those deposits arrive, fast - growing startup Proterra, packed with ex-Tesla employees, got an order for 25 battery buses from the Los Angeles Department of Transportation in December, each priced at about $ 700,000, as the agency converts a 359 - vehicle fleet to electric.

Of course, the precipitous drop in oil prices (down about 40 % from last year) is helping some large manufacturing, consumer discretionary, and transportation companies (prominently including airlines) offset the negative impact of the rising dollar.

But even after telling media that his approach to these cuts would be to «look people in the eyes and talk to them about why it's necessary,» Transportation Minister Todd Stone failed to show up to a single meeting with affected communities,» said Trevena.

They are a murky regulatory environment, where states seem to be taking individual initiatives while the industry awaits rulings from the new administration's Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; concerns about both reliability and cybersecurity in hackable robot cars; and the as yet unknown liability guidelines in the inevitable event of autonomous vehicle crashes and human injuries.

In fact, in a series of separate tweets today, Musk responded to the National Transportation Safety Board, a safety agency that said it was «unhappy» with Tesla's decision on Friday to publish a blog post about the accident, given that investigations are ongoinIn fact, in a series of separate tweets today, Musk responded to the National Transportation Safety Board, a safety agency that said it was «unhappy» with Tesla's decision on Friday to publish a blog post about the accident, given that investigations are ongoinin a series of separate tweets today, Musk responded to the National Transportation Safety Board, a safety agency that said it was «unhappy» with Tesla's decision on Friday to publish a blog post about the accident, given that investigations are ongoing.

At the company's weekly all hands meeting, CEO Travis Kalanick addressed concerns about his working relationship with Trump by claiming it's necessary in order to fulfill Uber's mission of improving global transportation.

Despite telling media when announcing the cuts that his approach would be to «look people in the eyes and talk to them about why it's necessary,» Transportation Minister Todd Stone failed to show up to a single meeting with affected communities, said Trevena.

«We'll partner with anyone in the world as long they're about making transportation in cities better, creating job opportunities, making it easier to get around, getting pollution out of the air and traffic off the streets,» Kalanick told employees.

«SourceHOV began searching for new space about 18 months ago when the Texas Department of Transportation announced an expansion of State Highway 183, which would take away the firm's Irving production facility, under Eminent Domain,» said CBRE Vice President Dolores Wood - Euart, CCIM, who represented the firm in lease negotiations.