Sentences with phrase «changes of public transport»

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Public transport is changing as a range of options - many of them using sustainable sources of power - become available.

From electric cars that can drive themselves to modernized public transport such as the Hyperloop to human - sized drones and hover boards (real ones, not those silly two - wheeled contraptions that catch on fire), we are entering an era of potentially dramatic change on the transportation front.

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A survey published by the Department for Transport on «Public attitudes towards road congestion», which was carried out between November 2009 and February 2010, found that over half of adults agreed that the current system of paying for road use should change so that the amount people paid was based on how often, when and where they used the roads.

Mr Khan said he would also focus on affordable public transport and confirmed he had changed his mind on the issue of a third runway at Heathrow Airport over air pollution fears, and would be campaigning against expansion.

The scientists hope that such investments would also cause positive changes of habits: For example, when parking is made more expensive in downtown areas, accompanied by an improvement of public transport, people might tend to give up driving and use other forms of transportation not just once, but for a longer time.

The ways to achieve change will be through increasing the share of public transport, and rethinking mobility and logistics services to include the views of the people who need the services,» VTT's Research Professor and TransSmart Programme Manager Nils - Olof Nylund says with emphasis.

It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect air quality and limit climate change.

Lucian Boyd Harte, director of finance and operations at Chelsea Academy in London, noted that parents were supporters of the change because it reduces risks: «This removes the students» need to carry cash into school on public transport, and makes paying for school items more secure and safer for our students.»

His art transports the pedestrian into a space of subtle strangeness and surprise, offering viewers a new way to participate as members of, and in the space within, a complex and changing «public.»

In Keiller's analysis of the populace's efforts to cope with these forces and the changes they set in motion, I recognize the projects of some of the artists in this book: «As individuals, we can't rebuild the public transport system, or re-empower local democracy, but we can poeticize our relationship with their dilapidation.»

The overall potential and cost for CO2 mitigation can only be partially estimated due to lack of data for heavy - duty vehicles, rail transport, shipping and modal split change / public transport promotion.

This new LRT is changing the face of public transport in a city where almost 60 % of the population walks to their destination.

The main issues under discussion were the link between climate change and a eucalypped forest that produced the catastrophic fires of 2017, the threat of underwater mining in the Azores region, the impact of the new mechanisms of international trade (Multilateral Investment Court) in climatic injustice, the necessary relationship between combating climate change and promoting public transport, threats to the exploitation of fossil fuels in Portugal, alternative sources of energy and the migration process linked to climate change.

The results can be exploited in climate change impact and adaptation studies for several sectors of the Finnish society, e.g., agriculture and forestry, construction and energy industry, public health, transport and rescue services.

Others argue that such moves deflect attention from public transport systems, which are more in need of a fiscal makeover and an behavioural change campaign.

I do nt see that as a limitation Not sure where Allan is getting the 25 - 30TW figure for business as usual, perhaps manufacturing synthetic oil and using it to power 2Billion low mpg SUV's This seemingly unavoidable shortfall between supply and demand needs to be brought to the attention of the general public, because massive improvements in efficiency, eradication of trivial uses of electricity, and lifestyle changes, particularly in relation to transport seem inevitable.

Nothing has changed, which is why this TreeHugger will continue being critical of any kind of car, and will continue to promote walkable cities, bicycles and public transport as the real solutions to the problem of decarbonizing our society.

After 12 years in the profession, he moved into commerce to take up the position of Group Legal Advisor and Company Secretary to Clan Holdings Ltd, one of Zimbabwe's largest transport companies, which later changed its name to Pioneer Corporation Africa Ltd, a public listed company.

London's transport regulator TfL has concluded a review of a public consultation into changes to the rules for private hire vehicles, dropping a raft of measures that would have substantially impacted ride - hailing app Uber.