Sentences with phrase «impact on our transport»

«The decisions we make now will have a profound impact on our transport system for generations to come.

«If they cut teacher assistants, it will have a major impact on transporting our students,» said Dr. Cheryl Benson, Assistant Superintendent for Franklin County Schools, a largely rural district just east of Wake County.

This analytical report gives an assessment of the current state of affairs with regard to the impact on the transport sector in developing countries by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Clean Technology Fund (CTF).

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availability of sufficient pipeline, gathering, and other transportation facilities and related infrastructure to process and transport its production and the impact of these facilities and regional capacity on the prices received for production;

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

Impact of pre-plasma on fast electron generation and transport from short pulse, high intensity lasers

While the building and maintaining of our roads and highways to ensure seamless transport across our states has had a positive impact on trucking, the lack of stable funding for the interstate system is threatening Eisenhower's vision.

We do so in a way that minimizes our impact on air quality through means of transporting our products as efficiently as possible by structuring pallet loads, reviewing product mixes and improving route planning.

Oxford University Sport is committed to reducing our impact on the environment and congestion in and around Oxford, therefore, where possible, ask members and visitors to make use of public transport.

This area of discussion is very interesting and also touch on practical issues such as transporting three kids across the back seat, side impact protection provided by interior of the car and the issue of kids using electronic devices in the car.

«As the pressure on funding for highways and transport services has increased it has become more important to understand the impact of safety interventions and how best to invest limited resources.

«The impacts on property are some of the most direct and personal effects of HS2,» then transport secretary Justine Greening said early in 2012.

Sue Percy, CIHT Chief Executive said: «Transport infrastructure plays a vital role across the whole spectrum of society and impacts on both economic and social development.

Weak transport links are a major barrier to business growth and can have a dramatic impact on business competitiveness and productivity.

The Government announced its intention to create a new framework for aviation in the UK, to replace the previous government's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which it said «failed to take sufficient account of climate change and the impact of aviation on local communities.»

Other objections frequently cited against airport expansion include the impact on overstretched ground transport infrastructure, the damaging impact on local house prices, and damage to the local landscape.

But with environmental concerns about the negative impact of aviation on carbon emissions growing, the tension between maintaining Britain's prominence as an air transport hub and its green credentials has never been stronger.

Former British Airways (BA) chief executive Rod Eddington today published the results of his year - long review into the UK's transport needs and their impact on the economy.

Current concerns about climate change have focused on the impact of transport on the environment.

Among the important factors that could cause Rio Tinto's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, among others, levels of actual production during any period, levels of demand and market prices, the ability to produce and transport products profitably, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on market prices and operating costs, operational problems, political uncertainty and economic conditions in relevant areas of the world, the actions of competitors, activities by governmental authorities such as changes in taxation or regulation and such other risk factors identified in Rio Tinto's most recent Annual Report on Form 20 - F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») or Form 6 - Ks furnished to the SEC.

«Transport infrastructure plays a vital role across the whole spectrum of society with an impact on both economic and social development.

The impact on our process manufacturing industry will be devastating and, at the margin, will ensure that electricity is produced on the continent and transported to the UK via the interconnector cables.

Sue Percy said: «Transport infrastructure plays a vital role across the whole spectrum of society and impacts on both economic and social development.

Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety executive director of David Davies commented: «It only takes a small percentage of slight casualties to be reclassified as serious to have a big impact on the figures.»

A spokesperson said they would reduce the impact of transport on the environment and that the obligation's gradual introduction would cut carbon emissions by around 2.5 million tonnes a year.

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Reliable, fit for purpose transport infrastructure can positively impact on this significant cost by facilitating uptake of greater levels of active and sustainable travel.

The Keene town board adopted a resolution of the board last Monday evening calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the NY DOT and the NY DEC to impose a moratorium on transport of Bakken Crude Oil by rail from Montreal to Albany, until a comprehensive study determines the public health, safety, economic and environmental impacts of a derailment.

This research in Transport aims to study the impact of cycle lanes on cyclist safety in terms of passing space given by overtaking vehicles.

«Determining the specific impact of intrinsic colloid formation by radioactive elements can aid in the development of migration models predicting radionuclide transport on a field - scale,» says Prof. Weisbrod.

Concurrently, coastlines of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy of wave - transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.

In addition, they applied the method to thermal transport in nanostructured silicon, a system of current interest with high potential impact on thermoelectric technology, using simulations of unprecedented size.

Thus, a group of researchers, including the Professor Ángel Martín from School of Aeronautics and Space Engineering, gathered to study the impact of the uncertainty on regular aerial transport.

In this way, researchers have developed a competition model − considering the multimodal competition between aerial transport and high - speed trains and the aerial competition between legacy companies and low - cost companies − that uses a nested logit model that captures the impacts of the decisions taken by aerial companies on passenger demand.

Unfortunately, current simulation models, which combine global climate models with aerosol transport models, consistently underestimate the amount of these aerosols in the Arctic compared to actual measurements during the spring and winter seasons, making it difficult to accurately assess the impact of these substances on the climate.

«We found that heat transported by oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area of a planet to be habitable.

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have determined for the first time the impact of a ring - shaped vortex on transporting blood flow in normal and abnormal ventricles within the human heart.

In March, the US State Department stated that the project was unlikely to have much impact on the rate at which Canada's oil sands are developed, suggesting that the oil would be transported by rail if the pipeline were not built.

«Our results show that subtle features such as this junction configuration have a significant impact on thermal transport,» said Shahsavari, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.

In the first large - scale and comprehensive study on the impacts of transporting honey bees to pollinate various crops, research from North Carolina State University shows that travel can adversely affect bee health and lifespan.

Britain's permanent green «think tank» has decided to launch an investigation intothe impact of transport on the environment.

By investigating the concrete implications of INDCs for the low - carbon transformation by and beyond 2030, from energy systems, buildings to transport and industry, it complements the upcoming cutting - edge assessments by UNFCCC and UNEP of the impact of INDCs on global emissions and the global temperature goal.

Zhang adds that «we need to do some future research on exactly how these aerosols are transported globally and impact climate.

The CTD sections show that the deeper layers are also warmer and slightly saltier and the observed sea level can be explained by steric expansion over the upper 2000 m. ENSO variability impacts on the northern part of the section, and a simple Sverdrup transport model shows how large - scale changes in the wind forcing, related to the Southern Annular Mode, may contribute to the deeper warming to the south.

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.

Research focused on estuarine and coastal dynamics and the impact that the resulting physical, chemical and biological processes have on the marine ecosystem; field programs to quantify physical transport and mixing to elucidate biogeochemical processes.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center say that their first - of - its - kind study of a telemedicine program which transports stroke specialists via computer desktop or even laptop to the patient's bedside, using highly sophisticated video, audio and Internet technology, could have an immediate and profound impact on the treatment of stroke patients throughout the world.

James J. Dooley • Expert Reviewer, «Carbon Dioxide Transport, Injection and Geological Storage,» IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2006) • Lead Author, «Economics of Carbon Capture and Disposal,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Cross-Cutting Chairman for «Market Deployment,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Lead Author, «Technical Summary,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Expert Reviewer, Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

Subsequently, the article presents a parameter variation study centered around these ideal and realistic cases that demonstrates the varying impact of each phenomenon (light absorption, charge transport, catalysis) on overall device efficiency and efficiency limits.