Sentences with phrase «travel time and distance»

That proved best, because when I previewed some of the proposed detours, both travel time and distance were increased over the standard route.

If a person returned to the home location between trips, the total travel time and distance would be much larger.

The company also restructured the way the wait staff area, bar and dining room are configured in an effort to shorten the travel time and distance between the raw food, preparation area and the final destination — the customer's table.

These barriers include long bus rides, lack of school - provided bus services for after school programs, and impositions on families, including extra gas and car - related expenses related to getting students to and from activities and extra constraints created by extra travel times and distances.

Not exact matches

The team out of the University of California, Berkeley and University College London tested how people mentally estimate distance and travel times by having 20 foreign students in London draw, in detail, the neighborhood surrounding their residence.

In his written judgement Ouseley concluded that, «A taximeter, for the purposes of Section 11 of the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998, is not a device which receives GPS signals in the course of a journey, and forwards GPS data to a server located outside of the vehicle, which calculates a fare that is partially or wholly determined by reference to distance travelled and time taken, and sends the fare information back to the device.»

The goggles also track speed, vertical distance traveled and air time, which is probably what most buyers will be interested in.

There is no logical connection between force X and the distance the ball goes in B time, nor any logical connection between the distance the ball travels and the time it takes over that distance.

With each new store, Fox's Den Pizza plans out the best route that requires the least traveling distance and time, thereby reducing fuel costs.

Many producers were excited by the opportunity for this dialogue and were prepared to travel long distances, at their own time and expense, to take part in it.

Between a hectic work schedule, planning my wedding, and traveling to see my fiancé almost every other week (due to that whole long - distance business), I've been busy in a mostly great way — though I haven't been able to spend nearly as much time here as I'd like.

In the first place, tournaments are often held many miles — sometimes hundreds or thousands of miles — from where the angler lives, and he will travel that distance, take the time and pay the cost only if he can compete in a tournament.

«I see Giroud as almost like a backboard for midfield players travelling from distance to try and score goals and I think there are times when you have got to role it to the centre forward and he has to be the one that makes the difference.

Pace has skyrocketed recently (meaning a lot more miles traveled per minute, leading to more total distance per minute and also higher average speed so less time resting those legs at slow speed) and also defenses now have to be everywhere (before defense wasn't as tiring as it's now because every player didn't need to cover as much ground as they do now).

Other players are involved in long - distance travel to S. America or Africa, expend huge energy in travel, training and playing time, then return to AFC (their wage payers) Kerry Packered or injured.

Try recording the time taken for each rider to pass the finish line and the distance travelled by each scooter.

Even though we can get most any produce any time of year, the fruits and vegetables that have traveled long distances to get to us are no comparison to the foods that -LSB-...]

If you are still working out the holiday visitation schedule, be sure that the children have ample time with each parent and vary it up, from year to year if the children have to travel some distance between you and your soon - to - be ex-spouse.

To test for this, I use geographical coordinates of MPs» districts [11] to calculate the distance and travel time to Westminster in: 1) minutes it takes to drive by car; 2) minutes it takes by public transport; 3) kilometres covered by car; and 4) kilometres as the crow flies.

THE EDITORS REPLY: Space is expanding, carrying objects such as galaxies and photons with it, so light travels a greater distance than a simple calculation (such as speed multiplied by time) might suggest.

It travels almost five times faster than in air, and also over much longer distances.

«Traveling at over three times the speed of sound to a distance of around 360,000 feet above the Earth's surface, experience weightlessness and enjoy the breathtaking view.»

But she's baffled by how free radicals — which have very short lifetimes and travel short distances — could reach the nucleus of even adjacent cells in time to inflict DNA damage.

Long - distance travel can affect specific — and at times, crucial — baseball skills such as pitching and base running, a new study finds.

«We have a view of how diseases spread in the medieval times, and it is often said that the modern world is completely different as we have long distance high volume air travel.

Previous research on the pandemic found that environmental factors, timing of the end school holidays, population sizes and air travel contributed to its spread, but this new research has found that transmission occurred primarily over short distances and that school age children may have catalysed the spread.

According to this new analysis, school - age children accelerated the spread of the pandemic, which was transmitted over short distances, in contrast with widespread reports at the time linking the pandemic to international air travel and population density.

They came up with the Merton mean speed theorem, which holds that the distance a uniformly accelerating body travels in a given interval of time is the same distance it would travel if it were moving at a constant velocity (with that constant velocity being the average of the accelerating body's initial and final velocity).

Certainly by our current understanding there is very little chance of circumventing the enormous problems of energy, distance and time involved in interstellar travel, as Geraint Lewis writes (26 November 2016, p 20).

At the time of the observations, the asteroid was traveling away from the Earth, so its distance varied from 1.3 million to 1.6 million kilometers, or about three - and - a-half to four times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

By the time they travel enormous distances across space and reach Earth, however, the disturbances are only about one - thousandth the width of the smallest atomic nucleus, making them fiendishly difficult to detect.

«Our research shows that some larval fish are not traveling very long distances, and that pattern is likely stable over long - periods of time.

Larger animals have longer faeces and a longer rectum, but they have thicker mucus, which makes the faeces accelerate faster — so they travel a longer distance in the same amount of time.

Not according to the masses of shark - obsessed scuba divers who travel great distances — and pay big money — to get face time with the giant fish.

Less than four weeks after its initial flight, this remarkable vehicle repeated its performance, reaching three times the altitude and travelling twice the horizontal distance.

The technology computed the time of air transport versus ground transport, accounting for distance (and not just a straight line) for ground travel, as well as speed limits — estimating that ambulances would travel 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit.

After traveling for nine and a half years across nearly 5 billion kilometers — roughly the distance to the moon and back 6,700 times — New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, just 12,500 kilometers from its surface, close enough to see features the size of New York's Central Park.

In their analysis of protein movements, the Heidelberg researchers mapped distances and corresponding translocation times needed for this travel, resulting in the average distance between obstacles.

This could, however, help fix some of the kinks of long - distance space travel and enable explorers to receive real - time reports from robots on the surface of the planet, without the risk and cost of a landing.

The more distant planets (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) which move slower and have a greater distance to travel, complete just a fraction of their orbits in this time.

Both the patients and AD model mice were significantly impaired in terms of the distance traveled and the time it took for them to locate the hidden object.

From the rest wavelength of the Lyman - alpha break (121.6 nm), the spectroscopic redshift of GRB 000131 was then determined to be 4.500 + / - 0.015, corresponding to a travel time of more than 90 percent of the age of the Universe and making GRB 000131 the most ancient and remote gamma - ray burst detected at the time — for which its age and distance could be calculated (Andersen et al, 2000).

My trip to Salta and the OAT was the longest distance I have traveled and my longest stay away from home in a very long time, but a wonderful experience for multiple reasons.

Light that is emitted or reflected by objects takes time to travel, and the vast distances it must cross to reach us from the farthest parts of the universe means that we see the most distant galaxies as they were billions of years ago.

The most accepted theory establishes that the orbits of these objects, which travel beyond Neptune, should be distributed randomly, and by an observational bias, their paths must fulfil a series of characteristics: have a semi-major axis with a value close to 150 AU (astronomical units or times the distance between the Earth and the Sun), an inclination of almost 0 ° and an argument or angle of perihelion (closest point of the orbit to our Sun) also close to 0 ° or 180 °.

A fairly large near - Earth asteroid found 3 years ago will travel safely past Earth on April 19 at a range of approximately 1.1 million miles, or around 4.6 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.

It bounces a laser pulse off a target, and then measures the time (and distance) each pulse traveled.

It's too bad it can't last longer, but Pluto orbits the Sun at a distance of several billion kilometers, and you can either get there quickly and have a short encounter, or have a longer encounter but a travel time of decades.

The distance does not therefore account for travel time, geographic barriers and so forth.

Since local produce only travels short distances, fruits and vegetables can be picked at their proper times of ripeness, generally ensuring a higher nutrient content and better taste.