Sentences with phrase «reduce car traffic»

Amazingly, if we all drove just one less journey a week, together we'd reduce car traffic by 10 %.»

Paris has a transport diversification plan that also includes a prominent role for the bicycle and is intended to reduce car traffic by 40 percent.

«The Big Pedal is fun, inclusive and it helps schools to encourage whole families to lead more active lives, as well as reducing car traffic and pollution around the school gates.

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But distinguished software engineer Sebastian Thrun said that the company's goal is to «help prevent traffic accidents, free up people's time, and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use.»

While that study is in progress, the early data suggests that by getting «more butts in seats» — a phrase that has become a mantra at Uber's San Francisco headquarters — car - pooled services may already be reducing traffic, gas use and automobile emissions.

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Amsterdam city council is considering introducing tolls for city centre traffic in an effort to reduce the number of cars in...

Like the idea behind freeways, the Boring Company's proposal misses a fundamental principle in reducing traffic: limiting the number of cars on the road.

Google executives have said they're interested in self - driving cars primarily to reduce traffic accidents, which claim about 33,000 lives in the U.S. each year.

When used correctly, a car seat can reduce fatal injuries to your baby during an accident by 71 %, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Car seats have reduced traffic - related fatalities by 71 %, the authors note.

Starting early Saturday morning, all tolls on the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge were to be collected via E-ZPass or a bill will be mailed to the car's owner, with the cashless tolling meant to help reduce traffic woes generated by Amtrak's summer repair work.

Today at an Upper West Side elementary school down the street from where three people were recently killed by cars, Mayor Bill de Blasio said reducing traffic fatalities was «definitional to the work we do.»

Aside from sterilization, the city also plans to use other non-lethal methods of dealing with the animals including public education about living with deer to reduce car crashes and tick - borne illnesses, traffic safety measures like extra signage and to add deer - resistive plantings to the borough.

Those who find themselves stuck in toll booth - induced traffic on the Henry Hudson Bridge can look forward to a speedier commute: The M.T.A. is formulating a plan to speed up traffic and reduce car emissions by creating more efficient E-ZPass tolls (no more slowing to a halt, then passing).

Town Attorney Mario A. Giacobbe said having a temporary shelter in the town will help reduce police department overtime and avoid taking a patrol car off the road, «simply to take a dog to West Seneca, which could take up to two hours depending on traffic volume.»

Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said that efforts to remove cars from Central Park began five decades ago, when traffic hours were first reduced.

Easing traffic congestion in this way would not simply reduce commuting stress, but it would also cut down on air pollution from idling cars.

The best cure short of building more roadways and reducing the number of cars that drive on them, traffic experts say, is semiautonomous driving.

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

Using their state - of - the - art simulation facility in the School of Psychology scientists at The University of Nottingham are exploring the use of car driving simulators as tools for training and testing drivers in order to reduce road traffic accidents and fatalities.

The most direct is that the HOV - lane policy, when in effect, reduced the overall number of cars on the roads by encouraging car - sharing — and the ensuing, post-HOV conditions simply increased overall traffic levels everywhere.

There is a massive potential for reducing both traffic noise and fuel consumption linked to conventional cars by combining low - noise tyres and the right kind of road surfacing.

Of course, that car contributed to the pollution woes of passing pedestrians and prior research from Kaur and her collaborators showed that walking farther from traffic reduced pedestrian exposure to air pollution by up to 10 percent.

«The results show that there is a massive potential for reducing both traffic noise and fuel consumption linked to conventional cars by combining low - noise tires and the right kind of road surfacing,» says Truls Berge, an acoustics researcher at SINTEF.

The aim was to discover combinations beneficial to reducing both traffic noise and CO2 emissions produced by conventional cars, and for extending the range of electric cars.

I also enjoy learning how cars can solve problems whether it be in the form of reducing pollution, minimizing traffic, or helping people stay connected on the road.

Diverting 5 % of freight traffic from truck to rail would save 800 million gallons of fuel each year and reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 2 million cars for 1 year.

After assessing as to why the car was moving at a reduced rate of speed, the officer informed the operator and passengers of laws regarding impeding traffic.

Volvo believes autonomous cars will reduce traffic congestion and prevent car crashes; the automaker has set the ambitious goal of having nobody seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo by 2020.

Safe Pullaway is also being tested, which is designed to reduce low - speed collisions — both in traffic, and also with stationary objects such as garage doors, walls and parked cars.

In more straight - forward terms, Mercedes and its partners wanted to make cars safer, to improve the flow of traffic in big cities, and to reduce harmful emissions — the very same issues that manufacturers are trying to solve today.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates the installation of ESC reduces single - vehicle crashes of cars by 32 percent and single - vehicle crashes of SUVs by 57 percent.

This approach will eventually lead to remote vehicle operation, reduced traffic jams, more efficient car - sharing, and improved energy management.

The safety devices that were offered as extras included a system that warned by vibrating the steering wheel when the car showed a tendency to drift towards another lane and Active Cruise Control could be set to maintain a pre-defined time gap from a car in front, reducing speed to a complete halt if necessary; that even re-started and accelerated to the pre-programmed speed as soon the traffic began to move again.

A further new development is the standstill decoupling function: if the car is stopped at traffic lights or stuck in traffic, for example, the transmission shifts to «N» position and thus reduces the engine load.

Splash out on some extras and the new E-Class can be one of the most tech - filled cars on the road, with semi-autonomous functions like stop - go traffic assistance and self - parking, plus advanced safety features (one feature can help reduce hearing damage in the event of a collision).

Using a lap / shoulder belt reduces the chances of dying in a crash by 58 percent for people seated in the center rear seat of cars and 75 percent for people buckled up in minivans, pickups and SUVs, a new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report indicates.

This approach will eventually lead to remote vehicle operation, reduced traffic jams, more efficient car sharing, and improved energy management.

And here's a key point mentioned by the Cyclelicious blog: Those reduced greenhouse gas emissions and improvements to cyclist health far outweigh the risks from increased exposure to traffic and traffic's polluting byproducts.Researchers compared a car's occupants tootling around Barcelona's beautiful paseos with a cyclist traversing the bike lanes on the highly successful Bicing bike share.

The new METRO will ease traffic congestion, improve air quality and reduce citizen's reliance on cars.

Of course, the extent to which an individual can reduce his / her own traffic - risks might be different then that for AGW - risks — the later affecting people who can't afford a car.)

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Fortunately, people are beginning to think beyond their simple «cars good», or «cars bad» positions, and are seeking to find ways for society to enjoy the best of both worlds — the use of private cars when necessary, while still reducing overall traffic, noise and emissions.

The core of the argument is a disagreement over the issue of private car traffic in the city's streets, with the city hesitant to reduce road space for cars in favor of public transport solutions on the surface, while proponents of surface transit point out that less car traffic in the city center would create better urbanism.

The makeover of Broadway is part of Mayor Bloomberg's plan to reduce emissions and traffic in the city, and is a sign that although he failed to introduce congestion pricing in the city, Mr. Bloomberg «intends to push ahead with smaller - scale initiatives to wrest at least part of the street from cars and trucks.»

Some cities are reducing traffic congestion and air pollution by charging cars to enter the city, including Singapore, London, Stockholm, and Milan.

Another accident occurred following the five - car crash, which involved a truck, and it reduced traffic down to one lane on southbound Interstate 495 at Exit 13 A / B.

To reduce the risk of car accidents involving young children, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommends that parents select a car seat that matches a child's height and weight, have their child's car seat inspected, discard the seat after its expiration date, and keep all children under age 13 in the backseat.

Last year alone, the auto insurance industry collected approximately $ 195 billion in premiums from U.S. drivers, but with the dawn of safer cars that are expected to drastically reduce traffic accidents, these kinds of profits may soon be a thing of the past.

«We want to reduce the risk of these preventable deaths and help caregivers avoid accidentally harming a child, as well as address some of the misconceptions about the causes of child heatstroke in cars,» said National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) David Strickland.