Sentences with phrase «kilometers traveled»

It's based on the number of steps taken and miles or kilometers traveled.

Five percent growth is still growth, however, so Newman and Kenworth show that vehicle kilometers traveled (vkt) per capita have declined in quite a few European cities as well as a few famous car - friendly U.S. cities - Altlanta's vkt per capita dropped 10.1 %, Houston's vkt went down 15.2 %, while Los Angeles» vkt dropped 2 %.

Despite the long - term storage and the unsure number of kilometers traveled, in this super-hot market it almost makes sense.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

ICAO President Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu said that 65 countries had already signed on for the voluntary phase, and these countries together represent nearly 83 percent of total aviation miles, measured in «revenue tonne kilometers» (RTKs), which translate into one metric ton of load (human passengers or cargo) per kilometer traveled.

Furthermore, if an «apples to apples» comparison was done for hydrocarbon consumption and the resulting greenhouse emissions, Nano would be found to be almost at par with the two wheelers, and would actually pull down the amount of harmful emissions per passenger per kilometer travelled.

Not exact matches

[Comments made during video: We're traveling at 27,000 kilometers per hour, or roughly 18,000 miles an hour.

It can travel a distance of up to 685 miles (1,100 kilometers) before it needs to refuel, making it a great, albeit flashy, way to travel.

One witness who was traveling behind the van said the driver was going about 70 or 80 kilometers an hour (about 45 miles an hour) when he veered onto the sidewalk and «just started hitting everybody,» the witness told CP24.

Several months after that meeting, Peter Diamandis, a space - travel fanatic in St. Louis, announced a new competition, the X-Prize (later named the Ansari X-Prize), for the first manned, non-government-funded flight to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, and then repeat the feat with the same vehicle within two weeks.

«Oumuamua slingshotted around the sun on September 9 at a speed of 315,000 kilometers an hour (196,000 mph) and is now traveling out of the solar system.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the missile was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, and traveled about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan within 370 nautical kilometers (200 nautical miles) of Japan's coast.

But even traveling at an incredible speed of 95,000 kilometers an hour (59,000 mph), it would have taken 300,000 years to reach Earth from Vega — and Vega wasn't in the same place 300,000 years ago.

«The drone was used to carry cocaine to Panama, it had capacity to transport 10 kilos [22 pounds] on each trip and to travel a distance of 100 kilometers [62 miles],» Acevedo said, adding that the drugs were hidden and awaiting transport to Panama, where another group of criminals would retrieve them.

CEO Elon Musk said the semi is capable of traveling 500 miles (804 kilometers) on an electric charge — even with a full 80,000 - pound (36,287 - kilogram) load — and will cost less than a diesel semi considering fuel savings, lower maintenance and other factors.

The big rig of the bunch is the CT - 120, with a gasoline engine and payload of as much as 15 kilograms that can travel 30 kilometers.

Traveling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second), the comet is headed away from the Earth and Sun on its way out of the solar sy... Read

In their journey around Mexico, the relics will travel more than 22,500 kilometers (13,980 miles).

They traveled to Bharatpur, about 150 kilometers west of Kathmandu, to make their public proclamation in Pastor Bishnu's church.

On August 9 and 10, we traveled overland 320 kilometers to the Bicol region in Southern Luzon in the Philippines.

The law requires motorists to travel at 50kph on standard roads, 80 kilometers per hour on a highway and 100 kilometers per hour on a motorway, but this is largely ignored.

In a scenario where a missile would have to travel a distance of 1,000 kilometers to reach its target, a subsonic system (at 800 km / h) would need 75 min, whereas a supersonic system (Mach 2.8) would need 17 min and 38 seconds and a hypersonic one (flying at mach 6) just 9 min and 30 seconds.

National Service Personnel who will complete their service in 2019 would be spared the hustle of traveling several kilometers to...

The signals generated by the magnitude - 9.1 quake that struck Japan were barely one - billionth g, the amount of Earth's gravitational field at sea level, but they traveled at the speed of light and were detected at seismometers hundreds of kilometers away, the researchers report today in Science.

One previous study of a single footprint of a large tyrannosaur suggests that the beast could have been traveling as fast as 11 kilometers per hour (6.8 miles per hour), says Eric Snively, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Provisionally designated A / 2017 U1, the object appears to be less than a half - kilometer in diameter and is traveling at just over 40 kilometers per second — faster than humanity's speediest outbound space probes.

For centuries, Viking seafarers ruled the North Atlantic, braving open seas peppered with icebergs to travel thousands of kilometers to their colonies in Iceland and Greenland — all without compasses.

But large slides (such as the 30 - million - cubic - meter flow that occurred in Mesa County, Colorado, and ran more than 4.5 kilometers in 2014, shown) can sometimes travel more than 20 times farther than they fall — and sometimes even, like a fluid, slosh up and over hills.

The river begins its journey from the snowpack in the central Rocky Mountains and travels south 1,450 miles (2,330 kilometers), draining an expansive yet arid area that encompasses parts of seven US and two Mexican states.

The volcanoes of Hawaii and Iceland may be fueled by hot rock that has traveled thousands of kilometers through the Earth's mantle.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

Hungry humpbacks travel thousands of kilometers to feast on a rich buffet of tiny crustaceans called krill, researchers reported here this week at the biennial meeting of the Society for Marine Mammalogy.

Four months later, the wasps had traveled more than 5 kilometers from the initial release site, and the sharpshooter population was down dramatically.

Note: The text originally stated that Mira A's velocity (130 kilometers per second) is three times that of a bullet; in fact a bullet travels at about one kilometer per second.

Launched on August 5, 2011, the probe has traveled about 2.8 billion kilometers to spend 20 months orbiting and scrutinizing the gas giant.

It is now looping back above the planetary plane and, traveling at 44 kilometers per second, is shooting toward the constellation Pegasus.

Turtles, fish and other marine creatures are similarly affected as the sound travels for thousands of kilometers.

The rest of that time they roamed more than 16,000 square kilometers of ocean, traveling nearly 2,000 kilometers from the safe Bahamian waters.

In discussing the Phoenix mission, Smith indicates the spacecraft traveled 600 million kilometers to Mars and estimates «the light travel time to Earth» as «about 15 minutes.»

Because the distance from Mars to Earth was about 250 million kilometers during the mission, the one - way light travel time was a little less than 15 minutes.

Plug - ins can also charge their batteries straight from the wall socket, which means they can travel 20 kilometers or more before the gasoline engine ever needs to fire up.

In one extreme instance, a family left the area at once, traveling more than a kilometer before they came to a halt — but they did so in response to the call of an elephant they all knew.

Measuring earthquake waves that travel deep inside the planet, the scientists were able to retrieve images of what goes on inside the earth's mantle at a depth of about 3,000 kilometers.

But even the bugs» life is unclear; some scientists tell me the bugs can only travel 100 meters but others say the insects can travel for kilometers.

New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that part of the effect might not be in the particles of dust but rather in bacteria that cling to them, traveling many kilometers in the air with the storms.

The comet traveled from the most distant region of our solar system called the Oort Cloud and made a close approach at 2:27 p.m. EDT within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet.

The ICBM was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, north of Pyongyang, and traveled east about 1,000 kilometers before splashing down in the Sea of Japan, according to the Pentagon.

In fact, those that travel inward from the Oort Cloud — a group of icy bodies beginning roughly 300 billion kilometers away from the sun — can have periods of thousands or even millions of years.

In similar simple boats, the ancestors of today's inhabitants travelled more than 350 kilometers across the open ocean to colonize the region.

Birds can travel thousands of kilometers and arrive at breeding and wintering grounds with pinpoint precision.