Sentences with phrase «at peak traffic»

It is the Lazarus of congestion plans: reduce traffic in New York City by charging drivers in crowded areas at peak traffic times.

«You have serious backups at peak traffic times in the morning and the afternoon,» Higgins said.

The basic idea is that charging a fee at peak traffic times can influence driver behavior so not everyone ends up on the same spit of asphalt, in the same way that hotels and airlines raise prices during holidays to manage limited inventories.

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Retailers also have become more efficient at scheduling more workers to be on duty during times when consumer traffic peaks, and reducing staff during slower periods.

The auction will feature donated pieces from top - tier organizations in the space, including an exclusive CryptoKitty from blockchain - based gaming phenomenon CryptoKitties, the world's most successful blockchain game that accounts for 25 percent of the traffic on the Ethereum network at peak times.

The self - order kiosks allow restaurants to allocate more labor to concentrate on superior food preparation, deliver a 20 - 30 % increase in revenue, help avoid crowds and long waits at traditional POS systems during peak traffic periods, and rate high on customer satisfaction for ease of use.

Flexible work hours (a different, but related issue) can allow people to work at the time of day when they are most productive, to avoid sitting in traffic at peak hours, to be at important events in their families lives, and more.

It was peak hour traffic at 5 pm when he returned.

We ask that you and your guests arrive in good time for your party as traffic can be busy in the local area, particularly at peak periods.

As a result, an average road improvement has induced an additional 10 % of base traffic in the short term and 20 % in the long term: individual schemes with induced traffic at double this level may not be very unusual, especially for peak periods.

The move would require legislative action as would Cuomo's congestion pricing plan, which is aimed at alleviating traffic during peak times in New York City and boost revenue for the ailing subway system.

She added: «We have to move away from nose to tail car traffic at peak times, endless engine idling, stop start travel and rising pollution and carbon emissions.

Schwartz is a renowned traffic engineer and the proposal Ryan referenced is Move New York, which involves reducing tolls at bridges with less traffic and increasing them in higher traffic areas, variable pricing for peak and off - peak hours, and adding tolls to the East River bridges, among other ideas.

Another way to reduce rush hour traffic is for employers to implement flex - time, which lets employees travel to and from work at off - peak traffic times to avoid rush hour.

It was easy to discount the «noise» in the data that peaked at noon and dropped to a minimum at 3 A.M.: that was Wuppertal traffic, easily eliminated by working at night.

Try to avoid high - pollution areas at peak times (ie rush hour traffic), be mindful of the outdoors when there are smog or air advisories, and clean your indoor air with air filters, charcoal bags or air - purifying plants.

~ 20 % of the site's users log on from their smartphones, with traffic to the dating site's app peaking at commuting times.

DownToEarth.com reached their traffic peak in March at almost 250 thousand unique visitors, since then the dating site's traffic has fallen by over half to 96 thousand unique visitors in September:

The X1's standard turbo four - cylinder is legitimately quick, but the Encore's drivetrain hits its torque peak at just 1,850 rpm, and the broad power band muscled our all - wheel - drive tester past slower traffic with little drama.

Peak power is developed relatively high in the rev range, with 221 horsepower at 6,250 rpm, nearly at the 6,650 redline, and 205 pound - feet of torque at 4,800 rpm, so it has to work hard for maximum acceleration, as when merging into fast highway traffic.

At off - peak freeway (70 - 75mph) or in local traffic (35 - 40mph), it is about 35mpg.

Increase that commute time to 60 minutes (or up to two hours each way during peak travel times) and you're looking at 43 days spent in traffic.

If they are easily excitable, or are a hunting breed like the JRTs they can lunge at something that suddenly peaked their interest, be it a small animal, a toy or another dog — in that instance their focus is primarily on the object without regard for their surroundings — such instances can lead to severe traffic injuries.

The traffic at peak hours is quite intense.

Demand quickly rises and falls - for example, an oncoming hurricane drives traffic to a weather website, or a sports team's pageviews peak when there is a big play at a game - so the resources can not be allocated systematically but must be continuously reorganized in response to a changing situation.

The streets in downtown Toronto with streetcar tracks that I navigate on a daily basis have a speed limit of 50km / h with cars often driving at speeds exceeding 50km / h outside of peak hours when traffic is less congested.

With traffic at its peak, law enforcement will be out in full force patrolling to keep roads safe.

Wednesday before Thanksgiving: Peak traffic time is between 3 pm and 7 pm, with an increase in traffic flow beginning at 11 am and continuing through the end of the day.

Tuesday before Thanksgiving: Peak traffic is between 4 pm and 8 pm, but heavy traffic begins at 1 pm.

Peak South Carolina traffic school is user friendly for everyone at all ages.

Start and stop the Twin Peaks California online traffic school at any time.

Sign up for traffic school today at Driving University and see why so many other Twin Peaks California drivers have done the same.

Operations Manager — Duties & Responsibilities Prepare complex technical standard operating procedures for organizational implementation Oversee organizational ethics and compliance training administration at facility level Develop and implement training to ensure workforce peak performance Perform safety management studies and approve / disapprove proposed procedures Administer employee appraisals and increase employee motivation and organizational citizenship Manage multi-million dollar air traffic control contracts Effectively lead culturally diverse workforce in domestic and international settings Develop and implement air traffic control flow procedures saving cliental thousands of dollars on a daily basis Serve as liaison with cliental customers and mediate solutions resulting in increased customer investments Develop and administer varied software solutions for clients including KPMG, USAF, and the Chicago Board of Trade Oversee software projects through the various facets of developmental lifecycle Develop software applications using Visual Basic and SQL Server increasing business operation efficiency Create safety management systems which track aircraft incidents and trends Network and manage numerous air traffic control systems decreasing system downtime Develop an employee management system increasing operational efficiency Represent company brand with poise, integrity, and positivity

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.

At least, not in peak hour traffic.