Sentences with phrase «transportation system moves»

The nation's freight transportation system moves goods on ships, rails and roads.

Effective gas mileage standards and support for innovative technologies will keep our transportation system moving while greatly decreasing our environmental impact.

Not exact matches

Hyperloop One this week announced that it completed the first full - scale test of its high - speed transportation system, a move the company hailed as the burgeoning technology's «Kitty Hawk moment.»

The Hyperloop transportation system, the concept that was first popularized back in 2013 by Tesla Motors founder and CEO Elon Musk, is a high - speed way of moving people and cargo through depressurized tubes.

Since their introduction in 2015, dockless bike - sharing systems have moved from East to West as they sweep through urban transportation markets.

Year after year, decade after decade, we witness the spectacle of Detroit's efforts to sell ever - increasing numbers of cars designed for quick obsolescence, though it has been clear for some time now that considerations of both space and air quality dictate that we move toward some alternative transportation system.

The company developed a transportation and loading system it says improves the conditions under which chickens are handled during the moving process.

From it, systems can be tailor - made to optimize space in the transportation containers, which prevents damage to parts being moved during storage and transport.

After 70 years of stagnation, all 100 transformative LIRR capital projects are moving forward, including the Main Line Third Track, Double Track, Jamaica Station Reconstruction, 39 renovated Long Island Rail Road stations and grade crossing eliminations — modernizing transportation across the region to provide a state - of - the - art system for Long Island.

ASTORIA — Mayor Bill de Blasio has endorsed a plan to create a streetcar system that would connect burgeoning neighborhoods along the waterfront in Brooklyn and Queens — a transportation link that's needed as more residents, and jobs, move to the outer boroughs, he said.

Moving Dutchess 2 seeks to identify projects and plans necessary to maintain the transportation system in a state of good repair and meet travel needs through 2040.

«At the end of the day, what's going to truly decarbonize the transportation system is when we move to low - carbon fuel or completely battery - powered vehicles,» which will take decades to see widespread adoption, said Stepp.

Making tough choices before midcentury on what transportation systems to protect, move, retrofit or abandon.

Powered by heat from the sun's energy, the Hadley Circulation is a «transportation» system for warm and moist air moving away from the equator.

That may mean moving some children to other schools for the time being, improvising transportation systems, or reopening a district even if not all of the schools are ready for students.

It's about whether we have a transportation system that moves us forward or one that holds us back.

To help DOT promote a safe, economically efficient, and environmentally sustainable freight transportation system, the NFAC provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary on matters related to freight transportation in the United States including (1) implementation of the freight transportation requirements of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21); (2) establishment of the National Freight Network; (3) development of a National Freight Strategic Plan; (4) development of strategies to help States implement State Freight Advisory Committees and State Freight Plans; (5) development of measures of conditions and performance in freight transportation; (6) development of freight transportation investment, data, and planning tools; and (7) legislative recommendations.

«After disasters hit, our federal, state and local partners must be able to move quickly and make the necessary repairs to our nation's transit systems, roads, rails and bridges,» said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21) authorized FTA's Emergency Relief Program, granting FTA the primary responsibility for reimbursing emergency response and recovery costs after an emergency or major disaster that affects public transportation systems.

Walking and bicycling should be considered equally important as other transportation modes: The primary goal of a transportation system is to safely and efficiently move people and goods.

Using these resources, Columbus will work to reshape its transportation system to become part of a fully - integrated city that harnesses the power and potential of data, technology, and creativity to reimagine how people and goods move throughout their city.

This NPRM is also issued toward fulfillment of a statutory mandate set forth in the «Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act» (July 6, 2012), directing the Secretary of Transportation to issue a final rule amending FMVSS No. 213 to improve the protection of children seated in child restraint systems during side impacts.

«America today lacks a coordinated transportation system that permits travelers and goods to move conveniently and efficiently from one means of transportation to another, using the best characteristics of each.»

an analysis of emerging and long - term projected trends, including economic and national trade policies, that will impact the performance, needs, and uses of the national surface transportation system, including the system to move freight;

This transportation bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21), will sustain our Highway Trust Fund and provide states and communities with two years of steady funding to build needed roads, bridges, and transit systems.

Additionally, libraries that need to move items across multiple floors or buildings can now benefit from a new transportation system that will help get items back on the shelf.

More of a moving landmark than an effective means of transportation, the cable car system operates along three different routes.

A central theme of the Gallery's exhibition is the increasing mobility of the art world as a result of new modes of transportation including jet aviation and the interstate highway system during the late 1950s and 1960s, when artists, dealers, and works of art moved more swiftly between the coasts and Europe and with increasing regularity.

If it is purely for transportation, then look at alternatives, e.g. moving points A and B (say residence and work) closer together, improve public transit systems, use bicycles, walk.

Conversely, regions with the greatest technological, financial, and capacity advantages face much reduced opportunities for low ‐ cost strategies to move towards low ‐ carbon development, as they suffer from lock ‐ in in terms of energy systems, urbanization, and transportation patterns.

Okay, let's drive down oil demand — but the actual proposal includes natural gas vehicles, which is moving our transportation from one fossil foolish system to another.

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.

The good news is that moving away from fossil fuel dependency will create millions of new opportunities to rebuild our local energy grid, food system, transportation network, and regional infrastructure.

What's worse, by clinging to growth, we'll continue to give short - shrift to transformative solutions such as localizing our economies and phasing out fossil fuels from our food, water, energy, transportation, housing, and health systems — moves that will only remain viable while we still have the resources to invest in them.

Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics, and Portfolios (John Wiley & Sons) describes how a combination of high prices, national insecurity and environmental anxiety is causing the world to move away from a politically and economically vulnerable single - source (crude oil) transportation system to a multi-source system which, in addition to providing energy security for every nation, should benefit the global economy and environment - a win - win - win.

The installation of the pedestals by MOVE Systems is the first part of this project, which is co-managed by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) in partnership with the Town of East Hampton.

If indirect changes in transportation system emissions and fuel consumption are included, such as some theoretical impacts on congestion sometime in the future that may or may not happen, the move would risk undermining the foundation of the standards themselves.

In a move that eventually could lower auto insurance rates, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is urging automakers to incorporate technologies into new vehicles that would disable communication and navigation systems while someone's driving.