Sentences with phrase «of urban congestion»

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«The Boring Company's goal is to reduce urban congestion and further enable mass transit through the use of tunnels in Los Angeles, Hawthorne, and Culver City.

Public transit is a key piece of urban infrastructure, important for getting people where they want to go while limiting congestion and pollution.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

Jurisdictions have turned to mobility pricing to address a specific or combination of objectives, such as managing congestion in rapidly growing urban areas to facilitate the movement of people and goods, generating revenue for transportation infrastructure projects, maintenance and improvements, or environmental reasons.

English local authorities will compete for a share of # 690M to be spent on improving their transport networks and tackling urban congestion

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.

Also road congestion pricing schemes have been implemented in a limited number of urban areas as a transportation demand management tool to try to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

«They've played an invaluable role of maintaining the ongoing discourse on congestion pricing,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of the Regional Planning Association, an influential urban policy group, and another member of the state task force.

17 Self - driving cars could improve highway flow by regulating distances between cars and ease urban congestion by automating the search for parking (which causes up to three - quarters of city traffic).

By integrating methods of statistical physics, computational science, and geographic information systems with classical network theory, the researchers have been able to find patterns that could help address problems as diverse as urban traffic congestion and the spread of epidemics.

«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

Auto - dicted: Sans a Major Diversion of U.S. Transportation Dollars to Mass Transit, Urban Traffic Congestion May Not Ease

The automaker introduces its Electric Networked Vehicle prototypes, one third the size of a typical car, as a way to reduce big urban auto emissions and traffic congestion

The parking and traffic management sector is an under ‑ researched area, and one which covers a vast range of subjects including: the design and construction of car parks, the effect that parking provision has on traffic congestion and the urban landscape, the effective management of kerb space, and the many media and public concerns that managing on and off street parking raises.

The pro-P3 coalition now includes all of the urban Regional Transportation Agencies (RTA) that would procure and fund P3 managed lanes projects and other types of congestion relief projects.»

Major transit investments contribute to the livability of communities by reducing air pollution, offering additional travel capacity during periods of congestion (including peak commuting hours), and promoting compact urban land use patterns that reduce energy use.

Investment in transit infrastructure also contributes to the livability of our cities and communities by reducing air pollution, reducing congestion (during peak commuting periods) and promoting urban land use patterns (that reduce energy use).

The irony of holding everybody's favorite auto show in a town that epitomizes modern urban congestion is not lost on us, especially during the 45 - minute evening rush hour drive from the auto show to our hotel.

The Trumann area has many excellent school districts, 2 large hospitals in Jonesboro, low traffic congestion, easy commute, low crime rates, low cost of living, many options for home ownership, from urban to rural, and opportunities for outdoor activities are abundant, including duck hunting, and fishing.

«A development of this size would be like adding the city of Pleasant Hill to Concord and would affect not only people in the immediate vicinity, but other residents of Concord and nearby cities who would have to deal with increased traffic congestion, pollution, and urban sprawl,» said Gleason.

Channel Islands National Park provides a delightful break from the congestion and clamor of urban life.

While Downtown Santa Barbara is a world away from nearby big cities and urban congestion, all modes of transportation help serve visitors and residents alike.

It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.

In our analysis we found that an urban development strategy focused on access for all, rather than for a minority who use cars, with congestion pricing, realistic parking charges, and speed limits low enough to stop the slaughter of pedestrians and cyclists would as a co-benefit also reduce oil use and CO2 emissions from cars to barely more than twice today's levels in 2020, way below the trends.

I'm in Guangzhou, China's third largest city, for an «International Symposium on Analysis and Countermeasures of Traffic Congestion in Urban Centers.»

Influencing trends being noticed: urban planning with attention to more transit - oriented designs and streets that accommodate multiple modes of transportation; more people telecommuting; a rise in car - sharing as an alternative way to travel in cities; increased political interest in congestion pricing.

Other ecological crises of great importance are not, however, dealt with here: species extinction (and loss of biological diversity in general), deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, acid rain, the proliferation of toxic wastes (including in living tissues), market - regulated biotechnology, urban congestion, population growth, and animal rights.

«They've played an invaluable role of maintaining the ongoing discourse on congestion pricing,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of the Regional Planning Association, an influential urban policy group, and another member of the state task force.

Thus the congestion with pollution created urban - heat - island effect at the surface and as well upto the level of skyscrapers through temperature inversions.

There is also ample scope for reforming tax systems to deal much more effectively with broader environmental and related problems that can be a significant drag on economic growth, such as the health and productivity impacts of poor air quality, and severe congestion of major urban centers.

Urban congestion and the predictability of set patrol routes make electric cars a viable choice for urban law - enforcement work, and Seattle isn't the first to give them aUrban congestion and the predictability of set patrol routes make electric cars a viable choice for urban law - enforcement work, and Seattle isn't the first to give them aurban law - enforcement work, and Seattle isn't the first to give them a try.

Matthew Schuerman at the Observer reports that New York City congestion pricing opponents sought to commission UCLA urban planning guru Donald Shoup to do a study of New York City's parking policies.

«The Smart Fortwo fits perfectly with the New York lifestyle,» says Dave Schembri, president of Smart USA, «offering unique solutions to urban congestion.»

These two factors translate into 482,170 fewer tons of CO2 emissions and less travel congestion in urban areas.

Dense urbanization, with around 75 % living in urban areas in Europe, inherently leads to acute awareness of space limitations, road congestion and eco-degradation due to increased road transport emissions.

The combination of hazardous winter weather, highway traffic congestion in densely populated urban centers like Chicago, and the poor condition of rural roads can make Illinois a dangerous place for drivers.

Cities in North and South America, in Africa, in Asia, in Australasia and in Europe are waking up to the economic, social and environmental benefits of urban mass transit systems and how they can alleviate congestion.

A lack of huge urban areas and congestion that metro areas bring helps keep car insurance rates low.

And, according to Texas Transportation Institute's 2009 Urban Mobility Report, based on wasted fuel and lost productivity, the overall cost of traffic congestion reached $ 87.2 billion in 2007, which translates to $ 750 for every U.S. traveler.

Fifty - one percent of drivers who felt safer on rural highways than urban freeways said they felt this way because there were just fewer things on the road to worry about — less traffic, less congestion and less people.

According to Jeff Holden, Uber's chief product officer, flying taxis represent «the pinnacle of urban mobility — the reduction of congestion and pollution from transportation, giving people their time back, freeing up real estate dedicated to parking and providing access to mobility in all corners of a city.»

However, «there has been a growing concern that TNC (transportation network company) vehicles are creating urban congestion and constituting a meaningful share of vehicles on urban roadways,» he told TechNewsWorld.

Now, with congestion and air quality worsening, open space disappearing, and concerns growing over the abandonment of urban areas, many people are saying enough is enough.

The location and high levels of transport connectivity, substantially lower traffic congestion levels compared to other business precincts in the Metro, large available workforce of all skill levels and the Urban Development Zone (UDZ) tax incentive that is applicable to portions of the VRC all make the VRC an attractive area for investment.

While the 100RC programme identifies 11 shocks, from a nuclear incident to civil unrest, the one that stands out for Evangelinos in terms of a vibrant downtown is the possibility of «financial and / or economic crisis», while possible stresses (from a list of 37) could include aging infrastructure, crime, homelessness, lack of affordable housing, traffic congestion, uncontrolled urban development and an undiversified economy.

That trend, the cost and availability of parking, and the traffic congestion in the urban core are causing some tenants to seek out alternative markets, such as Coral Way, Coconut Grove or Miami Beach.