Sentences with phrase «in transportation by»

Zero fossil fuels in transportation by change to renewable electric.

TEL AVIV (Reuters)- Israel plans to cut oil use in transportation by 60 percent by 2025, an aggressive target by world standards, and will tap into its newfound natural gas deposits to make it happen.

Israel plans to cut oil use in transportation by 60 percent by 2025, an aggressive target by world standards, and will tap into its newfound natural gas deposits to make it happen.

Currently an Executive Member of the Board of Directors for both the Ontario Trucking Association and the Canadian Trucking Alliance, Dan got his start in transportation by driving trucks as a teenager.

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CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail to market amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

Pipeline reversal projects such as the Enbridge Seaway reversal and the TransCanada Gulf Coast Marketlink project in the U.S. have begun to drain the glut of crude from the midwest by more cost - effective transportation options, and some significant refinery outages have finished in the U.S. midwest, adding demand.

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 switch to cleaner transportation is definitely under way, driven by China, the future global leader in sustainable mobility.

Invented by the Wright brothers as a psychological experiment to test the boundaries of human patience and basic comfort, airplanes are the in - demand, out - of - shape transportation of the future.

Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 % less CO2 by doing the same things you did before.

Designed and engineered by NEXT Future Transportation Inc., the pods work using electromechanical technologies and are designed to travel short and medium distances in dedicated lanes.

Usage of public transportation has gone up by 20 % in the past four years.

That speed is crucial for Bombardier; many foreign firms are attracted by Brazil's huge investment in transportation infrastructure, and competition is fierce.

While pricey, cost of living in New York City is offset by its top public transportation system, diverse population, and electric atmosphere.

«Continuing our momentum from record sales in 2017, we again achieved record sales in the first quarter, driven by ChoiceLease and Dedicated Transportation Solutions.

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

According to research conducted by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, 26 per cent of all fatal and injury crashes are attributed to driver fatigue, and in 2006, as many as 167,000 Ontario drivers were involved in at least one crash due to fatigue or drowsiness.

A report released in mid-April by the Transportation Safety Board showed the near - disaster was the result of «sleep inertia,» the disoriented and drowsy feeling caused by fatigue and taking naps for too long.

The reality, however, is that these on - demand platforms are doing a great job at supplying needed work to the unskilled workforce (i.e., delivery, transportation, etc.), however for skilled small business owners («SMBs»)-- like in the home services sector — the jobs are low paying and the clients are «owned» by the platforms themselves.

So there's no saying whether the directive will in fact help reduce emissions from transportation by 6 % by 2020 as it's designed to do.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

Dockless bicycles booked via an app are growing fast in popularity, pushed by a new flock of transportation startups.

If you're in the oil transportation business, these are negative impacts, whether you move oil by rail or by pipeline.

Ford, by contrast, issued two voluntary recalls, and did so in such a straightforward manner that the head of the National Highway Transportation Safety Agency commended the company for «stepping forward to resolve [the] issue.»

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

Transportation policy experts say that high - speed transit in the United States has been stymied not so much by technological challenges as by the challenges of acquiring rights of way and getting enough money for the required infrastructure.

«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.

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.

All the while, regulators in both countries are coming down hard on the pipeline companies in the wake of a scathing assessment by the National Transportation Safety Board, released in Washington in July, of the causes behind a disastrous Enbridge spill in Kalamazoo, Mich., two years ago.

The country signed a formal agreement this week with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to explore building a Hyperloop system in Europe, the first such agreement signed by a federal government.

On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board said that after a series of public disclosures by Tesla it had taken the unusual step of revoking Tesla's status as a formal party to its investigation of a March 23 crash in California that killed a driver who was using Autopilot.

This fundamental shift will reshape urban transportation, and is being driven by changes in the regulation, pricing, and workforce policies of ride - hailing services.

Branson is touting the tube - based transportation system — first theorized in 2013 by billionaire Elon Musk — to help address the infrastructure bottlenecks India is struggling with amid rapid urbanization.

With all the innovations in space travel, Bigelow believes at least one rocket - powered transportation company will be operational by 2018.

Excluding transportation, orders advanced for only the second time in nine months by just 0.8 %.

In a followup statement to the press, a MoviePass spokesperson said the company was «exploring utilizing location based marketing as a way to help enhance the overall experience,» including by using data «to better inform how to market potential customer benefits including discounts on transportation, coupons for nearby restaurants, and other similar opportunities.»

That doesn't mean there won't be new developments, Boeing's Ferguson said, but that it's possible to get a pretty good look at the future of human space transportation — even space transportation to places far beyond what technology is currently capable of — by looking at the various technologies already under development today and imagining how they'll complement each other in the future.

In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minuteIn addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutein theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

A survey by Statistics Canada in 2009 found that the average household spends 64.4 % of its income on personal taxes, food, shelter and transportation combined — the so - called necessities.

99 % of San Francisco's population lives within a half - mile of transit, and 11.1 % commute by walking in addition to taking other forms of public transportation.

Shipments of manufactured goods increased a modest 0.1 % in June, an increase that was driven by transportation equipment.

Robert Kokonis, president of transportation consulting firm AirTrav Inc. in Toronto, expects to see fares drop between 25 % and 50 % on the routes targeted by Encore, though they might fluctuate over the next little while.

The Obama administration and former Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx laid the groundwork in January 2016 with a series of voluntary safety guidelines and by offering $ 4 billion in federal funding to foster the testing and development of self - driving technology.

In 2008, PCWorld magazine reported that a U.S. District Court judge ordered the cancellation of a Defcon talk by three MIT students who planned to reveal design flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's electronic ticketing systeIn 2008, PCWorld magazine reported that a U.S. District Court judge ordered the cancellation of a Defcon talk by three MIT students who planned to reveal design flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's electronic ticketing systein the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's electronic ticketing system.

On the one hand, says Haff, we can no longer live without the «support structure and the services provided by technology» — the communication, transportation, energy, and other networks that developed to make human life on an increasingly crowded planet function in the first place.

TORONTO — Metrolinx, the agency created by the Ontario government to help co-ordinate and integrate all modes of transportation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area, has released a short list of possible investment tools to help pay for transit upgrades in the region.

Western Canadian production is discounted somewhat both by quality and transportation costs, but has spiked several times in the past decade as pipeline space runs tight.

Big investors are shaping transportation in 2039 by betting on relatively boring fixes to bridges, airports and roads.»

GE's new CEO, John Flannery, announced plans this October to unload $ 20 billion in assets of the ailing conglomerate, in a sale that may include two of its oldest divisions: transportation, and the remainder of the lighting business started by Thomas Edison.