Sentences with phrase «increase road capacity»

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Some studies claim that for every 10 % increase in capacity, there is a 9 % increase in vehicle miles travelled four years after expansion, as drivers who previously parked their cars take to the roads.

On one side, you can either increase the supply of roads by laying more pavement, or use technology to squeeze more capacity out of the existing road system.

Nestlé Canada is planning to spend C$ 51.5 m ($ 39.6 m) to increase the production capacity of its London ice - cream factory located at Wilton Grove Road, Ontario.

The club wants to quit its Goodison Park home to move the short distance up the road, in order to increase capacity and operate from a modern stadium that would generate more revenue.

By exaggerating the economic benefits of road capacity increase and underestimating its negative effects, omission of induced traffic can result in overallocation of public money on road construction and correspondingly less focus on other ways of dealing with congestion and environmental problems in urban areas.

It would increase petrol consumption (at a time when the government was keen to be seen to be reducing CO2 emissions) Either drivers would have to separate, lowering road capacity, or safety would be compromised.

The department maintained increasing the road network's capacity was not enough, and instead motorists needed incentives to drive less.

Review of options to increase capacity and improve performance on the A14, some of which could be part funded through tolling - CIHT believe that Road pricing offers a solution; a shift away from taxation to charges at the point of use and the opportunity to attract private sector to the potential revenue streams available from tolling

«And they are not adopting necessarily the same model that the U.S. has adopted in trying to solve all their mobility needs through the construction of highways and increasing the capacity of their road network,» he said.

Designers also raised the beltline significantly, along with the rails of the load box, giving the Ranger a substantive presence on the road while increasing its functionality with the deeper box.At 5,359 mm long and 1,850 mm wide, the new model is 279 mm longer and 62 mm wider thanthe outgoing model, benefitting both interior space and load capacity.

To increase national capacity to co-ordinate Ministerial views, participate in the UNFCCC process, and negotiate positions within the timeframe of the Bali Road Map; and

Urbanization creates large areas of impervious surfaces (such as roads, pavement, parking lots, and buildings) that increased immediate runoff, and heavy downpours can exceed the capacity of storm drains and cause urban flooding.

EPRI's Bob Graham and SCE's Ed Kjaer countered by saying that it will take millions of plug - in hybrids on the road before we'd see any potential increase in pollution, largely because electric hybrids would be charged at night using spare electric utility generating capacity.

the addition of extra capacity to a road network often results in increased congestion and longer travel times.

This would allow huge convoys to be formed with small gaps between cars, giving aerodynamic benefits (drafting) and increasing the carrying capacity of existing roads.

However, inland road and rail infrastructure capacity has not increased in tandem, resulting in congestion.