These types of tailored traffic systems can make low - carbon forms of transportation more appealing and allow for overall
greater road capacity.
Sources say the truck will be offered in a crew cab and boast best - in - class off -
road capacity thanks in part to a permanent four - wheel drive system.
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.
Although the phenomenon of induced traffic has been theorized for more than 60 years and is now widely accepted among transport researchers, the traffic - generating effects of
road capacity expansion are still often neglected in transport modelling.
It provides quick access for business travellers and tourists while freeing - up valuable
road capacity for high - value commercial goods.»
The issue of
managing road capacity is only going to get more acute as urbanization progresses, handing the future to those who can best crack transportation as a service.
«Transporting the harvested logs would have required over 50,000 trucks driving on two - lane roads winding through the mountains from this remote region, which is far beyond belief (and
likely road capacity),» he wrote.
Disparate evidence indicates that the provision of
extra road capacity results in a greater volume of traffic.
Such omission can lead to serious bias in the assessments of environmental impacts as well as the economic viability of proposed road projects, especially in situations where there is a latent demand for
more road capacity.
If road capacity expansion does not involve widening of these bottleneck links, congestion may simply move to another part of the network without solving the congestion problem.
The evidence in the literature is summarized and an analysis of UK road expenditure data shows that expenditure is not a good measure of
actual road capacity that is built.
We're
adding road capacity where it's most needed, while making sure we honour our environmental commitments.
But the new work, Krauss says, offers the prospect that «simulations [could] become good enough to give a good forecast of things
like road capacity.»
In the 1960s, after Smeed released his report concluding that
expanding road capacity would not reduce congestion, Britain studied his report to death and did nothing.
It would increase petrol consumption (at a time when the government was keen to be seen to be reducing CO2 emissions) Either drivers would have to separate,
lowering road capacity, or safety would be compromised.
Assigned the tasks of analyzing traffic engineering operations for identifying the vehicular capacity of the road
If a city had increased
its road capacity by 10 percent between 1980 and 1990, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10 percent.
Five thousand new staff at our borders, new agencies for customs and immigration, new IT systems (and all the government procurement problems that entails) as well as
the road capacity to deal with parked lorries on the way to Dover and the Channel Tunnel.
Overall, the pricing reflected the balance between a larger vehicle and lower off -
road capacity.
True to its name, the Explorer is an adventuresome SUV with an off -
roading capacity you might have overlooked based on its sleek, refined appearance.
Several tech features also give the Bentayga's off -
road capacity a considerable boost.
It's consequently not as efficient as many of its more family - focused competitors, but few can match it in terms of ruggedness and off -
road capacity.