Sentences with phrase «small vehicle transportation»

Our sprawling urban planning has created an infrastructure that locks us into a dependence on small vehicle transportation.

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The Transportation Department regulates the nation's vehicles, airplanes, railroads, pipelines, ports and highways - including whether to allow the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, over people and whether U.S. fuel efficiency standards should be revised.

Within the sector, light - duty vehicles like passenger cars and smaller trucks, including SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans, were responsible for more than 50 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

Says David Greene, a transportation researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: «If manufacturers were to take the available technologies and apply them to fuel economy over the next 10 to 15 years, they could cost - effectively achieve a 40 to 50 percent improvement without making vehicles smaller.»

Alone, each of those vehicles could cover only a small segment of the transportation network, but together they can have a big spread.

For instance, if the transportation sector one day shifts to a smaller fleet of self - driving vehicles and if builders are able to reduce steel demand by using alternate materials — like, say, wood - framed buildings — it could drastically reduce the overall metal footprint.

This is a vehicle aimed at people who need versatile transportation but have a smaller budget.

iQ is a radical change in vehicle design as well as environmentally friendly transportation, and away from the belief that small cars are basic and less safe.

Many local small and home business owners use one vehicle for personal and business transportation.

A few options include taking a flight from the Phillip Goldson International Airport (PGIA) to a small airport near Placencia Village, renting a vehicle and driving there, or taking public transportation (bus).

Take a small example: Moving away from internal - combustion automobiles and trucks means more than just swapping in electric vehicles and expanding public transit; it also means building the infrastructure to support the new transportation system (chargers, added bus lines, additional electric power plants), retraining the people whose livelihoods were based on maintaining conventional vehicles, changing how cities are laid out and much more.

No matter how small the quantity, and no matter how questionable the stop and search of a person and / or their vehicle (or home), quite often the district attorney will charge possession, possession for sale and transportation of controlled substances.

Bicycles are small and lightweight forms of transportation compared to the vehicles they share the roadways with that are hundreds of times their size and weight.

According to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, although large trucks make up only 4.3 % of all motor vehicles registered in the United States, and are involved in only 5.2 % of all traffic accidents, accidents involving large trucks account for nearly 10 % of all traffic accident fatalities — and most of those fatalities are to the occupants of smaller vehicles rather than the trucks.

Many local small and home business owners use one vehicle for personal and business transportation.

Most importantly, exchanges are used by a wide array of businesses including farmers and ranchers, commercial real estate investors, construction companies, conservationists, trucking and transportation companies as well as small family owned businesses that invest in real estate and vehicles,» commented President of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators Mary Cunningham.