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So, the adults have a beer bike but what do the kids have? They got the bike bus to school!
The Dutch are bicycle fanatics. Almost half of daily travel in the Netherlands is by bicycle, while the country’s bike fleet comfortably outnumbers its 16 million people. Via Damien COLLIGNON Delete the scoop?
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Even during rush hour at a busy Metro entrance, Washingtonians are able to keep to themselves. Delete the scoop?
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Hot rods, exotics, and motorcycles, streaming out into the flat, open desert. It looks like the American West, but it's actually along the border between Namibia and Botswana. Delete the scoop?
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Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is tough if you don't know exactly where those gases are coming from. Scientists at Arizona State University have invented a new way to pinpoint those sources — down to individual buildings and highways.
collects piles of information about a city's energy diet — from utilities, transportation departments and air-pollution monitors.
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Best U.S.airlines based on canceled flights, on-time arrivals, mishandled bags, denied boardings and customer satisfaction, according to Airfarewatchdog ( tinyurl.com/cp7kmvg ):...
And the winner is....... Virgin America! Surprised to see Southwest Airlines featured 5th in this list! Delete the scoop?
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"The oil and gas industry is under pressures that will transform it. The effect of other industries on oil demand, the increasing opportunities for non-conventional oil and gas that offset perceptions of limits to conventional resources, and the shift of growth to Asia will all compel the industry to look for growth in value rather than volume, to distinguish between the expanding markets of developing countries and the declining markets of the private sector in developed countries, and to target technologies to a diversity of resource opportunities outside the state sector and to specialized partnerships within it."
New very interesting report from Chatham House. Via Willy De Backer Delete the scoop?
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Passengers in the North West will have more say on how local rail services are run after the service designation of the Bentham Line as a community rail service, Rail Minister Norman Baker announced. Delete the scoop?
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NEW YORK -- The world's longest commercial flight – Singapore to Newark, N.J. – is being cancelled. Singapore Airlines announced Wednesday that it will end its nonstop flight between Singapore and Newark, a distance of about 9,500 miles.
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For all but the last hundred years, walking has been humanity's primary mode of transportation. Today, though, simply strolling down the block in the evening might constitute an act of dissent. Some notes on the nascent pedestrian revolution. Delete the scoop?
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AwesomeX3! Three generations of Mars rovers (via Reddit). Delete the scoop?
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Regional climate policies depend largely on fiscal strategies and can have spiraling effects throughout the globe, a new MIT report further proves in the January edition of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. The report — titled “Biofuels, Climate Policy, and the European Vehicle Fleet” — uses the European transportation system as a test case and shows the significant impact various fiscal policies can have on emission reductions.
For decades, Europeans have relied on diesel to power their cars. While better for the environment, these drivers have traditionally chosen diesel because higher taxes on oil make diesel the cheaper alternative. But now, Europe is encouraging its drivers to consider greener options. The European Union has imposed a renewable fuel mandate that requires 10 percent of fuel to be based in renewable sources like biodiesel or ethanol by 2020.
Will the higher price tag that often comes with renewables cause the mandate to have a negative effect? The MIT researchers say no. Studying the system with and without the mandate, they find that the number of drivers using diesel and biodiesel continues to increase with time because of rising oil prices and a tax system that balances out the additional expense of using renewables. “So fueling up with biodiesel would still be 69 cents a gallon cheaper than oil,” says Sebastian Rausch, a co-author of the study and a research scientist at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, “and it has the added benefit of reducing European emissions by about 8 percent by 2030.”
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Hybrids on the move - Cumulative sales of Toyota Motor hybrids top 2M units in Japan, 4.6M worldwide
Global annual sales of TMC hybrids. Data: TMC. Click to enlarge. Delete the scoop?
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Traffic jam assistance allows a car to drive itself at slow speeds, and is part of Volvo's plan to become the leader in autonomous vehicle technology.
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A bicycle built for the 2% - Italian style titan Gucci, which has partnered with bicycle maker Bianchi to produce a $14,000 urban and off-road bike. Via Solenne Cucchi Delete the scoop?
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God Bless Texas. Land of the free, home of the batshit crazy. Crazy like John Hennessey who took his 1,226 VR1200 Cadillac CTS-V to test the 85 MPH highway's tag systems at higher speeds. Delete the scoop?
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Where the most traffic citations have been issued in the District, January through August 2012.
If you can believe this, a single speed camera in Washington, DC issued 116,734 tickets worth $11.6 million.. Some mindboggling numbers there. Read up the entire coverage from Wash. Post here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/single-district-speed-camera-116734-tickets-worth-116-million/2012/10/23/2b754b24-1c86-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_story.html Delete the scoop?
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Low prices for consumers. Big profits for bankers. But the gas glut in the United States has meant much pain for gas exploration companies and their investors.
Brilliant article on America's natural gas glut and the influence of financial capitalism on its boom and future bust. Must-read article for European policy-makers who dream of a Golden Age of Gas for Europe. Via Willy De Backer Delete the scoop?
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More than a half-century after streetcars were abandoned and burned, at least a dozen U.S. cities are working to revive them.
The revitalization of Portland, Ore.’s Pearl District, where empty warehouses were replaced with art galleries and abandoned rail yards gave way to multi-family housing, truly began for some when a streetcar line opened there in 2001. As the streetcar shuttled passengers around the once-decrepit neighborhood, it also swept billions of dollars of investments into the revived community. What’s more, streetcars can protect the environment. “If you have clean electrical energy sources and feed them into the tram system,” said Patrick Condon, a professor at the University of British Columbia and author of Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities- “it is greenhouse gas zero.” That combination of smart urban development and eco-friendly transit, he said, means more sustainable cities by 2050. “The real benefit of thinking about trams is not the vehicle itself,” Condon said, “but rather how the whole city works and how you move from place to place in a way that’s elegant, comfortable and greenhouse gas zero.”
Read on for details and examples that feature the potential positive benefits of reviving the streetcar- a 'clean alternative to cars'. Via Lauren Moss Delete the scoop?
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Which areas have the most bikers, the most walkers, and the most public transit riders? (RT @AtlanticCities: NYC dominates transit, with an estimated 2,686,406 commuters. Delete the scoop?
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The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) is dedicated solely to the advancement of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT, US DOT or DOT) research and innovative technology program.
This report is an update to the 2010 ITS Strategic Research Plan, which established a research agenda to prepare the next generation of intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies for widespread deployment throughout the nation. Research and development efforts have advanced notably over the last two and a half years in areas such as connected vehicle research; short-term intermodal research; ITS exploratory research; and ITS cross-cutting support. Documenting this halfway point offers an important resource for broad stakeholder review of program results and research progress. Delete the scoop?
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Kansas City StarRoad-Work Halt Days Away as Congress Argues Funding BillBloombergThe consequences of a highway-program shutdown would start with construction workers being laid off after states stop getting US reimbursements to pay them, said Pete... Delete the scoop?
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What is the common denominator for Nigerians, Indians, Americans these days - High gas prices! Delete the scoop?
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