Sentences with phrase «reducing transportation needs»

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We need to begin reducing the number of vehicles on our roadways, and the best ways to accomplish that is to invest in public transit infrastructure and embrace innovative transportation options that offer alternatives to conventional driving and car ownership,» says Black.

New cities could be even better constructed to reduce the need for public transportation as well.

«We've got three different locations we're evaluating at this point,» Duffy says, noting that this will allow its clients on the West Coast to reduce the size of their carbon footprint as Biodegradable Food Service decreases the amount of transportation needed to move the products.

It would reduce congestion, get more people to take public transit, and provide $ 1.5 billion per year for badly - needed transportation infrastructure.

The program's flexibility also reduced the need for childcare and transportation, resulting in a compliance rate of 100 percent, the authors report.

13) Illinois: As Chicago Mayor Emanuel announces 1,400 school layoffs, maintenance cutbacks and reduced transportation services, the Chicago Teachers Union releases a report «that highlighted CPS» false claims about central office cuts, the misplaced priorities of the administration, reckless outsourcing approved by the Board, dangerous indebtedness to banks, and ways by which CPS should prioritize their budget to meet the needs of students.»

To support attendance, schools must first establish a positive and engaging school climate.87 To reduce chronic absenteeism, however, schools may need to implement more rigorous interventions.88 For example, schools can increase parent engagement to educate guardians on the risks associated with accumulated absences, which they often underestimate.89 Schools may also need to address systemic barriers to attendance by providing safe transportation or high - quality afterschool programs.90

enhancement of surface transportation efficiency and facilitation of intermodalism and international trade to enable existing facilities to meet a significant portion of future transportation needs, including public access to employment, goods, and services and to reduce regulatory, financial, and other transaction costs to public agencies and system users;

The goal of this program is to build stronger communities by encouraging people to live closer to their jobs, reducing the need for cars and increasing the use of alternative transportation like walking, biking and public transit.

About Lyft Business Lyft Business offers travel, commute, event, and courtesy ride programs that provide customers with the tools they need to reduce cost, save time, and streamline their transportation programs.

O'Rourke always hated the bike (in print, at least), and now that it's becoming more of a needed transportation mainstay on crowded American city streets, reducing pollution and carbon dioxide emissions and improving health, O'Rourke is airing his feelings once again.

They also challenged the claim that «Reduced CO2 gas emissions; No transportation needed, fur animals are born, raised and die on the farm» was misleading because it did not take into account other transportation factors such as delivering food to the farm and the transportation of pelts.

But the transportation safety board has an annual Most Wanted List of what it sees as «the most critical changes needed to reduce transportation accidents and save lives.»

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

A price on carbon will create an economic incentive to reduce emissions from the electricity, heating, and transportation sectors, and will also create a revenue stream that can be used to fund programs needed to implement the Clean Energy DC Plan.

It discriminates both on its face, and as applied, against transportation fuels and fuel feedstocks imported from outside of California with the intended effect of (i) promoting in - state production of transportation fuels, and (ii) «keep [ing] consumer dollars local by reducing the need to make fuel purchases from beyond [California's] borders.»

My point is that to reduce the need for drilling for oil, we must focus our efforts on making our current primary form of transportation, the internal combustion engine, more efficient and less polluting.

«California has been a world leader in reducing air pollution from vehicles, and now we need to lead on diversifying our transportation fuels and using cleaner alternative fuels.»

Additional regulations will probably be needed to reduce emissions from residential and commercial buildings, as well as from transportation and industrial uses.

This approach has reduced the need for costly transportation and landfill space while providing green jobs for waste pickers.

The other solution to passenger vehicles is reducing commuting times by solving that housing crisis, and getting people out of their cars by increasing infill and density via building out proper public transportation systems (which themselves will need to be electrified).

Transportation systems will also need to smarten up, with public transit systems and congestion charges reducing driving, and high - speed trains replacing short - haul aviation.

Our advancements in real - time communication and reaction for the smart grid will reduce our energy consumption overall, creating highly networked and streamlined transportation networks of efficient vehicles for moving people and things all over the globe can radically reduce our oil use, and so too can creating and running smarter buildings that minimize the need for heating and cooling.

Every bit of technical knowhow needed to make heavy truck transport electric (and reduce carbon emissions from transportation) is already available.

Any move to ban ICE powered cars and replace them with electric cars should be done together with other actions that reduce the need for cars, including changing planning rules to promote walkable cities, changing building codes to dramatically reduce demand for electricity for air conditioning, changing transportation priorities to encourage cycling and walking, and do a massive rollout of new sources of renewable energy.

Clearly, both a switch to less polluting electricity combined with vehicle electrification would be needed to reduce the majority of environmental damages associated with emissions from transportation via electrification.

While simplifying transportation needs for today's technology age and helping to reduce the high number of drunk driving accidents, an accident involving an Uber / Lyft vehicle raises issues of insurance coverage with regard to...

While simplifying transportation needs for today's technology age and helping to reduce the high number of drunk driving accidents, an accident involving an Uber / Lyft vehicle raises issues of insurance coverage with regard to passengers, rideshare drivers, as well as drivers of other vehicles involved.

About Lyft Business Lyft Business offers travel, commute, event, and courtesy ride programs that provide customers with the tools they need to reduce cost, save time, and streamline their transportation programs.

Bird also says it welcomes the letter from Reiskin, SFMTA's director of transportation, and looks forward to «working with him to develop a regulatory framework to bring these new electric vehicles to San Francisco so we can curb traffic, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help more people get where they need to go.»

The order created DriveOhio to, in part, «bring together those who are responsible for building infrastructure in Ohio with those who are developing the advanced mobility technologies needed to allow our transportation system to reach its full potential by reducing serious and fatal crashes and improving traffic flow.»

• Personal Assistant to Professional Athlete — Los Angeles, CA04 / 16 to Current • Manage client's daily schedule, including training, practice, and athletic events • Make local transportation arrangements • Book domestic and international travel for more than 150 events per year • Schedule client's training at three major facilities • Book physical therapy and recovery sessions • Personal Assistant to Senior Publishing Executive — New York, NY01 / 13 to Current • Assist client with managing daily schedule and long - range deadlines • Answer client phone and respond to 98 percent of work - related email queries • Satisfy client's personal needs with regard to acquiring food and making reservations • Reduce the amount of time client spends managing records by at least 90 percent • Manage at least 95 percent of client's social media presence

Financial stability means that basic needs, such as housing and transportation, are more dependable and family stress may be reduced.

This program involves the family or other support systems in the individual's treatment: Other family / support structures are used such as pre-removal conferences to reduce the trauma of the removal and identify potential caregivers, prioritizing kinship care at the outset of cases, family team meetings, Child - Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), early intervention screening / services, assisting with parent - child contact (e.g., supervising visits, providing transportation), and identifying services for extended family as needed.

Meals, transportation (when needed), incentives and babysitting recommended to reduce barriers to attendance in the group class versions

When asked to choose the best long - term answer to reducing traffic and improving transportation in their state, more people named improving public transportation (41 %) and developing more communities where people don't need to drive long distances to work or shop (29 %) than chose building new roads (20 %).