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The new 1.5 - litre petrol engine feels nice, and the automatic gearbox should make driving in city traffic more convenient.

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Here are a few things I learned at the J.P. Morgan Health Conference this week: (1) Vice-presidential motorcades tie up as much traffic as presidential ones; (2) San Francisco hotels have no compunction about charging pharma - sphere prices, especially when the city is overrun by pharma executives; (3) no one will ever know if you brought more than one blue blazer to a four - day meeting; and (4) in my next life I want to come back as Bryan Roberts.

We have talked a good game about installing new software and applications, some of which are even developed in our own city, and using those to provide for more advanced traffic management but we've done very little.

This becomes even more of a problem when you consider the fact that even traffic lights are connected to sensors in smart cities.

When we launch in Los Angeles, we'll need more than one warehouse because the city is too big for one central location; in Manhattan, because of traffic, we'll need to have multiple trucks on delivery routes.

Shenzhen has one of the most transient populations in China, so many people do not have their information registered in the database of the traffic police, even though anyone staying in the city for more than 30 days is required to do so.

Regardless of traffic volumes, traffic flow for given volumes is a major problem compared to other major Australian cities, more efficient use of the road asset is possible if merging is improved and if the «keep left unless overtaking» is promoted on freeways.

Nvidia is developing artificial intelligence systems that can take advantage of the more than 1 billion video cameras in cities to help manage everything from traffic congestion to parking.

City streets are much more difficult to navigate for autonomous systems (and humans) than highway roads, because the cars have to navigate around other cars, understand traffic signals and watch for pedestrians or other unexpected interferences.

Uber is opening up in an area where it might make sense competitively for it to stay more closed off: The ride - hailing company's new Movement website will offer up access to its data around traffic flow in scores where it operates, intended for use by city planners and researchers looking into ways to improve urban mobility.

Other cities have ambitious programs to apply the Internet of things and big data to cut carbon, relieve traffic congestion and air pollution, and generally make our cities more livable.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

Village Voice article on more than 1,000 cyclists, including BP Adams, protesting the City's response to traffic fatalities.

«It is time that New York City enact a congestion pricing plan that fully funds our mass transit system, improves traffic flow, and fairly applies fees so that outer - borough black car riders aren't forced to pay more than Manhattan residents who can easily hail a cab,» said Ira Goldstein, the Black Car Fund's executive director, in a statement.

Those clients include Forest City Ratner, the Brooklyn company leading the $ 260 million Nassau Coliseum renovations; KPMG, the financial advisers that want to help the county lease its sprawling sewer system to private investors for as much as $ 800 million; and American Traffic Solutions, the operators of the county's red - light camera program, which typically gets more than $ 5 million annually in ticket revenue.

The one - hour debate between Sutton and Yepsen focused on many of the issues facing Saratoga Springs voters — including the potential impact of an expanded Saratoga Casino and Raceway, calls for more EMS and fire department service in the city, and issues with downtown traffic and parking.

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In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

It will take more than 50 million vehicles a year across the river, from Manhattan commuters to truckers looking to skirt the traffic - choked city 40 km to the south.

Combined with less off - street parking, which is something that the city has been encouraging but could be pursued more aggressively, these policy changes can have a significant impact on relieving traffic congestion.

The city posted civilian traffic enforcement agents to manage traffic disrupted by security operations and more pedestrian flow.

He told The Real Deal he would like to make the city more business - friendly, complaining that his company's delivery trucks incur thousands of dollars in parking and traffic tickets near his warehouse in Hunts Point, and that regulations should be eased on large employers.

Mr. de Blasio left less wiggle room when it came to the request for more cops, which supporters, including Councilman Jimmy Vacca, have argued would save the city significant overtime money and would allow police to better handle the new administration's priorities, including increased traffic monitoring.

They slow drive times down and waste gas, but the city of Syracuse is working to upgrade its traffic light system, so drivers see more green.

This is not the expressway's first time at the number one spot in the INRIX study, and City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez on Tuesday also called for improving the expressway by taking trucks off of it and shifting more commercial traffic to trains.

From CDPHP Cycle, to traffic - calming projects that have made major thoroughfares more bikeable and walkable, to a police force that appears to now better understand the communities it is tasked with protecting — Albany feels more like the progressive city its political representatives always claimed it was.

Nearly six in ten New York City adults, 57 %, think it is better to raise taxes on those earning more than $ 500,000 annually to raise revenue to improve transit and reduce traffic rather than implement congestion pricing.

Miner said she did not hear of the proposal until December 2013, and wanted more information, such as funding, location and effect on city services like traffic.

Re-opening the site at East 91st Street along the East River was part of a larger plan the Bloomberg administration passed in 2006 to enable each borough to handle transportation of its own trash and help the city move more garbage onto barges to cut down long - haul truck traffic.

For decades, urban planners, economists, city officials and business leaders have revived again and again some version of a toll system both to manage the city's worsening traffic and provide more revenue for public transit.

Alternative to building more freeways Companies like Siemens AG, Xerox Corp. and Schneider Electric SA have already built adaptive traffic management systems in cities across the United States.

When you are not stopped in the ever more frequent bumper - to - bumper traffic of this bustling port city, care must be taken to avoid drivers making turns, who assume the right of way against oncoming traffic; reversing for missed turns; or executing a U-turn in the middle of a busy road.

Some urban planners still believe that the best way to ease traffic congestion is to build more roads — especially expressways that can take drivers around or over crowded city streets.

There are several in our city and there is a huge amount of truck traffic which slows down allowing exposure to particulate air pollution even more.»

Specifically, the group plans to use Cook County's air monitoring network, traffic data and meteorological data to learn how the concentration of air pollutants in the city may change under future — and most likely more congested — traffic scenarios.

Those rising seas will slowly inundate coastal cities; many already see more so - called sunny day flooding, impeding traffic and flooding basements.

In the big cities like Shanghai where I lived for my last 10 years in China there are also more and more subway lines that get you across town much quicker and smoother and without the crazy traffic jams that often clog up the streets.

Sure, there is more traffic during the holidays, but if someone told you the person you'd fall in love would be sitting next to you on an airplane and lived in another city, but you would be happy together for the rest of your life, would you expand your zip code?

The film's New York City feels more alive than ever before, right from the start when pedestrian conversations and traffic noises envelop both the tiny protagonist and us.

With traffic congestion on the forefront of concerns in Park City, is it acceptable to have very few students on a school bus that could fit dozens more — simply due to school district policy?

If an autonomous car had access to an entire city's traffic light status, it could more accurately plan its route to avoid congestion and time at rest.

And because traffic, particularly in city driving is so much more intense, automatic transmissions make more sense to a lot of people.

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Automatic climate control, power locks, windows and mirrors, dynamic cruise control, power front seats, heated front seats, 360 - degree camera, front / rear park distance control, iDrive infotainment system with an eight - inch screen, internet connectivity and navigation with real - time traffic, FM / satellite Harmon Kardon sound system with steering wheel - mounted controls, rain - sensing wipers, forward collision warning with City Braking, Driver Assist, head - up display, universal remote control and more

Rather than engine power and absolute speed, the most important consequence of the larger displacement was a marked increase in torque, available at lower engine speeds; the Dino 2400 had much better pickup, and it was found more usable, even in city traffic.

With 400 horsepower, 145 more than the CTS's most powerful V - 6, this engine and the six - speed manual transmission transform the CTS into a polite, well - mannered little monster that will cheerfully putter around all week in city traffic, then on the weekends, provide an absolutely eye - opening experience on the racetrack.

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The 2015 Volkswagen Passat will feature a range of safety equipment on board which includes Side Assist with Rear Traffic Alert; Traffic Jam Assist which is for making stop - and - go driving more comfortable; Emergency Assist, which can potentially halt a vehicle when the driver is incapacitated; and the latest Front Assist system with City Emergency Braking, which optionally combines both radar and camera sensors to add pedestrian detection.

More impressive, the eight - speed automatic transmission shifts incredibly smoothly, barely letting itself be felt during acceleration runs or dealing with the everyday stop - and - go of city traffic.

In more straight - forward terms, Mercedes and its partners wanted to make cars safer, to improve the flow of traffic in big cities, and to reduce harmful emissions — the very same issues that manufacturers are trying to solve today.