Sentences with phrase «on urban congestion»

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Britain needs to embrace more light rail, discourage workplace parking, improve links between planning and transport and encourage vehicle sharing if efforts to tackle urban congestion are to succeed, witnesses to a Transport Select Committee inquiry evidence session remarked on Monday.

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.

«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.

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 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.

It's especially pleasing to drive in the urban jungle, such as in heavy congestion and on the interstate.

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.»

«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.

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.

«A freeze on vehicle excise duty for hauliers and HGVs will, I'm sure, be welcomed by many, as will plans for a # 220 million transport fund for national roads and a # 690 million fund to tackle urban congestion.

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.

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.