Sentences with phrase «increase transport capacity»

In order to gauge whether waterways can increase transport capacity in any city, Garme says five basic conditions have to be taken into account.

Not exact matches

Company announcements suggest that another 15 per cent increase in transport capacity will come on line in the next two years, with further substantial expansion planned for later in the decade.

However, in the case of coal, major increases in export capacity will require better coordination between producers, infrastructure operators and governments, especially in respect of the financing and pricing of new transport infrastructure.

Transport secretary Ruth Kelly last month announced a # 10 billion investment in the railway network, designed to increase capacity and reduce bottlenecks.

But if we succeed in making a step - change in transport connectivity between the great northern cities, easing congestion, increasing capacity and reducing journey times, then ministers succeed when it comes to the Holy Grail of rebalancing the national economy and developing a much - needed counterweight to London and the south - east.

When Crossrail opens it will increase London's rail - based transport network capacity by 10 %, supporting regeneration and cutting journey times across the city.

The spokesman added that Heathrow is committed to increasing sustainable public transport to the airport and looks forward to the arrival of Crossrail next May as part of plans to treble Heathrow's rail capacity by 2040.

The most popular approach taken to replicate that function has been to create artificial hemoglobin - based oxygen carriers, tapping proteins in red blood cells called hemoglobin that act as oxygen's transport service, and chemically modifying them to increase oxygen - carrying capacity.

«We investigated whether coiling wire around the lower part of the plant stems to reduce the capacity of xylem to transport water to the shoot would result in low shoot moisture conditions and increase the sugar concentration of fruit like salt and water stresses,» the authors said.

Once at the interface, the team can study how the active molecules change the transport of electrons, increasing capacity or depleting it, for example.

For example, a study published by Japanese researchers in 2003 found that taking taurine supplements before working out for one week resulted in significant increases in VO2 max (which is the maximum capacity of the body to transport and use oxygen) in adult male subjects.

It also facilitates an increase in capillary density, which enhances the fibres» capacity to transport oxygen, and thus to create energy.

Split - folding rear seats further increase capacity and allow for the transport of longer items; they're standard on the XFR and XFR - S and optional on other XFs.

And the optionally available folding rear - seat backrests allow Mercedes customers to increase the load - carrying capacity depending on the transport task in hand as well as producing a practically flat load bay.

The center will increase the shelter's capacity and enable it to hold groups of adoptable pets — up to 87 animals at a time for 10 - 14 days — to ensure they're healthy for transport.

Due to the increased demand for his services, McCarthy has added a fourth bus and a new semi-rig which will potentially double the capacity of animals transported each year, especially after the natural disasters from flooding in Louisiana and Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

After the introduction of the trains, trains will run at 2.5 - minute intervals on the main section of the metro line and at 5 - minute intervals at the eastern and western ends, increasing the total transport capacity of the metro at this stage.

trade liberalisation may have economic benefits (increasing adaptive capacity) but also increases emissions from transport;

The basic results of this climate model analysis are that: (1) it is increase in atmospheric CO2 (and the other minor non-condensing greenhouse gases) that control the greenhouse warming of the climate system; (2) water vapor and clouds are feedback effects that magnify the strength of the greenhouse effect due to the non-condensing greenhouse gases by about a factor of three; (3) the large heat capacity of the ocean and the rate of heat transport into the ocean sets the time scale for the climate system to approach energy balance equilibrium.

The new pipeline would triple the amount of diluted bitumen transported through a seismically active area of the Southwest coast of British Columbia, double the oil storage tank capacity on Burnaby Mountain above heavily populated areas and dramatically increase the number of Aframax tankers required to ship the oil from Kinder Morgan's marine terminal through Burrard Inlet and coastal waters.