Sentences with phrase «road congestion»

The company suggests a new «transit tax system» to fund subway repairs, that charges based on road congestion at given times, rather than on the type of travel vehicle.

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.

Today, plagued with swelling road congestion and rising air pollution, we tend to think of the two as increasingly incompatible.

The proposed coal export terminals have serious implications for rail congestion in the region as well as road congestion due to delays as coal trains pass through towns.

This takes into account many different financial factors, such as the loss of property, medical costs, road congestion after an accident, lost wages, and lost productivity in the workplace.

Sure it would be cool, but the underlying desire was to reduce / avoid road congestion.

The traffic jams and road congestion get you stuck at a single point.

Trains also serve a number of public benefits including reducing road congestion and corresponding accidents, fuel consumption and emissions, and infrastructure maintenance costs.

Ride - hailing offers a new option for the movement of people around the province and Lower Mainland and could serve as an integral tool in the management of road congestion and a complementary element to a public transit system that is nearing capacity in many communities.

The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) today released its highly regarded congestion report, 2010 Urban Mobility Report, which looked at road congestion in 439 United States urban areas.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon looks at the challenges Beijing faces in urbanization, including road congestion and pollution.

The CBT claims more affordable rail fares will help boost local economies and have a positive environmental impact by cutting road congestion and pollution.

A survey published by the Department for Transport on «Public attitudes towards road congestion», which was carried out between November 2009 and February 2010, found that over half of adults agreed that the current system of paying for road use should change so that the amount people paid was based on how often, when and where they used the roads.

One traditional way of dealing with congestion is building more roads, but in a press conference in London this morning, Sir Rod warned: «The UK can not build itself out of the current road congestion.»

There are numerous reopening campaigns across the country which if they succeeded would help stimulate growth, provide a green alternative to increasing road congestion and offer an important social focus and function for their communities.

A Long Island Sound crossing would reduce travel time and road congestion as well as improve air quality, access to jobs, evacuation routes and freight movement, the report's authors wrote.

Here in the U.S., road congestion now causes commuters to spend an average of a full work week each year sitting in traffic, according to the Texas Transportation Institute.

Bike sharing has been lauded as a solution to common urban problems by clearing road congestion, lowering carbon emissions, improving commuter transit times.

Commuters who do drive themselves to work spend about 70 hours a year in traffic delays, which means Washington, D.C. is viewed as having the worst road congestion in the United States.

During my workshops at the conference, I listened to teachers brainstorm project ideas about everything from reducing road congestion to turning schoolyards into wildlife habitats to celebrating the literary legacy of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.

This is argued in detail in the following peer reviewed scientific study The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US cities published in the American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol.

Using cheap wireless sensors, air pollution levels can be monitored to assess traffic issues, and congestion on the roads

Bell Canada president Cynthia Garneau said the funding could help efforts to develop air taxis designed to reduce road congestion.

Road congestion and rail punctuality public sector agreements were on track to be met the report notes.

Sir Rod Eddington's Transport Study published just before Christmas predicted that road congestion could cost our economy # 22 billion in lost time by 2025 if left unchecked.

Passengers can leave home without the worries of road congestion, arrive at Manston, park adjacent to the terminal and enjoy an easy check - in.

In advanced economies, «subsidies often take the form of taxes that are too low to capture the true costs to society of energy use, including pollution and road congestion,» the IMF said.

Road congestion, a problem in virtually all urban and suburban areas, would decrease.

Ma, however, believes that, after 10 years of work on the initiative, this year may finally be the «perfect storm» that gets the plan approved, due to rising gas prices, road congestion, endless lines at the airports and the latest airline crisis.

Stockholm's taken the goal of becoming CO2 - neutral by 2050, and introduced a road congestion tax and tax breaks for eco-friendlier cars to help reduce transport emissions.

Almost all cities could benefit from it, from reducing road congestions, to having better air, to healthier citizens, to all of the psychological benefits of biking.

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.

Along with improving access to jobs, such developments spur other benefits, including reductions in driving rates, road congestion, and greenhouse gas emissions.