Sentences with phrase «transportation system for»

In addition to tax incentives, the Virgin Islands are equipped with a functional freight and transportation system for container and bulk shipping, utilizing our harbors and deep water ports.
«O'Hare plays a critical role in the transportation system for the region, and we are pleased to invite the City of Chicago to apply for a TIFIA loan to improve mobility and sustainability around the airport.»
There is also an excellent public library and transportation system for students looking to make the commute to school each day.
(1) This section applies where a generator transfers subject waste in Ontario to a waste transportation system for transport to a receiving facility outside Ontario.
Charrette participants were asked to propose a holistic and multi-modal shipping and transportation system for the growing Quebec City - Windsor corridor.
If that doesn't sound like advantage enough, consider this: By exchanging a single - source (oil) transportation system for a multisource system that makes greater use of the nation's domestically obtainable fuel sources, America automatically enhances its national security, which in turn reduces the financial burden of having to defend America's sources of imported oil, which in turn frees up billions of tax dollars for more worthy endeavors.
I challenge the premise — although we may have adapted to life in Minnesota and places further north, with expensive heating oil, heavy clothing and a large transportation system for fresh foods, removing those adaptations (lowering our survival costs) would be of incredible benefit.
Keep in mind this stimulus is only part of what will fund the transition to a green transportation system for the country.
an integral part of an intermodal transportation system for the applicable State and the United States.
reasonable access to the national surface transportation system for all system users, including rural communities;
Conducts policy research on the economic impact of transportation investments and disruptions to the transportation system for significant freight and highway projects, in coordination with the OST - P40 office.
The unit challenges them to design a food transportation system for the journey that will keep their hot food hot and their cold food cold.
That test and a precursor flight without crew are part of the final development work Boeing is completing with NASA's Commercial Crew Program to certify a new crew transportation system for low - Earth orbit.
Ultimately, the judge's rulings could have a profound affect on the Northwest region by altering the way it manages hydropower, which provides cheap electricity to millions of residents and businesses and a river transportation system for farmers to ship their goods to international markets.
«Open road, cashless tolling exemplifies New York's commitment to a transportation system for a 21st - century economy,» Governor Cuomo said.
Governor Cuomo has put forward a plan to reimagine our transportation system for the 21st century and it will result in less traffic, increased capacity, and more durability to withstand natural disasters.
«Open road, Cashless Tolling is critical to modernizing our roadways, easing congestion, and reimagining our transportation system for the 21st century economy,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.
«As the oil and gas industry becomes mature there, companies are going to have to have a bunch of sub-sea systems that will have to be monitored,» said Dean Richter, a retired navy submarine captain and director of development for maritime transportation systems for New Jersey - based QinetiQ North America.
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) assists in developing improved mass transportation systems for cities and communities nationwide.
enhance intermodal use of intelligent transportation systems for diverse groups, including for emergency and health - related services;
Other places, like the UK and Japan, have made contactless payments available on public transportation systems for years.

Not exact matches

As the North American oil transportation system continues to evolve, with new pipelines, reversals of existing lines and a growing role for oil - by - rail, what is clear is that the North American oil market will eventually settle into a new era of pricing relationships which will be very different than those which prevailed prior to 2008.
This industrial internet of things startup develops hardware and software for transportation communications systems.
Musk also is CEO of electric car maker Tesla Motors and has made headlines for his vision of a high - speed transportation system that would shoot passengers through elevated tubes from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
«We're stressing a systems - based approach,» said Farley, based on building an open - source operating system for transportation available to all companies and also a network of services that stresses Ford's industrial - grade vehicles.
Additionally, the operating systems will lure private transportation services with data on where demand for their services is highest, and those services could bring millions of their existing users into the platform by joining.
A mission called STS - 1 — short for Space Transportation System - 1 — was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's space shuttle program.
NZ is the acronym for a separate operation called Nitro Zeus, which gave the US access into Iran's air defense systems so it could not shoot down planes, its command - and - control systems so communications would go dead, and infrastructure like the power grid, transportation, and financial systems.
One year earlier, in 1961, Clarke also published Dial F for Frankenstein, a short story of an interconnected telephone network that spontaneously acts like a newborn baby and leads to global chaos as it takes over financial, transportation, and military systems.
While these teams, along with larger companies such as Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are working on solving the technical issues of the hyperloop, other challenges exist ahead for the transportations system.
Unlike previous NASA programs, in which NASA handled all of the work and the funding, the Commercial Crew program entails a partnership between government and industry in which NASA set the final safety and functionality requirements for the transportation system, but left it to the companies themselves to figure out the best way to meet those requirements.
Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.
The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.
Matt Cole, Cubic Transportation Systems» president, said that the real goal was to develop a completely frictionless experience where the commuter would walk through a railway station or board a bus without having to make any physical gesture in order to pay for the journey.
In July, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill which included provisions for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to establish an eLoran system.
And in 2013, Musk unveiled a design for a new kind of transportation system called Hyperloop.
In contrast, spending on public infrastructure, such as transportation systems, that benefit not only the current generation but future ones as well, should also be paid for not just by current generation but also by future generations who will also use them.
For the last 300 years, the assumption of Europe and North America was that you were going to have a mixed economy, with governments investing in infrastructure, roads and other transportation, communications, water and sewer systems, gas and electricity.
The most obvious shortcoming for Baltimore (and the one where those other cities have us beat) is our public transportation system, a top consideration for Amazon.
Hyperloop One was founded in 2014 and was one of two original companies attempting to fulfill Musk's vision for a tunnel - based transportation system — the other is Hyperloop Transportationtransportation system — the other is Hyperloop TransportationTransportation Technologies.
ILRC actively advocates on transportation issues and is a lead plaintiff in a case against BART for failing to ensure that people with disabilities can access the regional mass transit system.
The tunneling startup currently stands as one of two final bidders for the proposed, high - profile downtown Chicago - O'Hare transportation system.
For the experimental transportation system to travel at such high speeds with minimal energy, all possible sources of friction must be minimized.
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Our robotic spacecraft systems will collapse the cost of access to the Moon, introduce a new commercial paradigm for government missions, democratize lunar research and exploration, and blaze the trail for commercial space transportation and exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
Prospero is an end - to - end transportation management system purpose built for the logistics - intensive grocery industry that improves the overall transportation process.
A committee of the Los Angeles City Council has approved an environmental review exemption for a tunnel that Elon Musk wants to dig to test a novel underground transportation system.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a group of about a hundred engineers from around the world, have come together via the JumpStartFund crowdsourcing platform to pitch together their ideas for a working Hyperloop system in exchange for potential equity.
This is true for transportation systems, public utility systems, education infrastructure, health care infrastructure, and senior care infrastructure, to mention only some of the areas where more infrastructure investments are needed.
Amazon executives say they are looking for a large metropolitan area with strong job growth, an educated labor pool, proximity to universities, relatively affordable housing and a strong transportation system.
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