Posted by transportgooru on August 17, 2010 in
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Travel The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has released the latest issue of its annual statistical compendium designed to characterize transportation activity and explore data on other factors that influence transportation energy use.
Tags: Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, ORNL, Statistics, Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 29, U.S. Department of Energy, United States Department of Energy, USDOE
Expanding its effort to use infrastructure investments to spread its influence, the Chinese government has agreed to a $10 billion commitment to upgrade a series of intercity rail lines in Argentina and improve urban transit systems in Buenos Aires and Cordoba. Funds come from the China Development Bank and will require a 15% match from the Argentinian government.
Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Subway, Cardobo, China, China Development bank, China invests in Argentina's Rail network, Infrastructure, Latin America, People's Republic of China, Rail, Rail transport, South America, Transit, United States
Posted by transportgooru on July 12, 2010 in
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Society/Social Issues AASHTO released its latest report, Unlocking Freight, at a national news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, and at two regional news conferences in Tennessee and Pennsylvania on July 8th. The report includes new data, state examples of urgent capacity needs, and solutions to solve the pending transportation crisis in America’s freight system. The reports shows that investments are well below what are needed to maintain – much less improve – the movement of freight in this country. As a result, according to this report, the transportation system that supports the movement of freight across America is facing a crisis.
Tags: AASHTO, Commercial Shipping, CVO, FMCSA, Freight, Gridlock, Interstate Highway System, Transportation Planning, Transportation Reboot, Unlocking Freight
The Taiwanese-flagged former tanker named the “A Whale” is the length of 3 1/2 football fields and stands 10 stories high. It just emerged from an extensive retrofitting to prepare it specifically for the Gulf, where officials hope it will be able to suck up as much as 21 million gallons of oil-fouled water per day.
Tags: A Whale, BP, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Louisiana, Oil Skimmer, Oil Spill Cleanup, Oil tanker
Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Many of the world’s top innovative tools and applications, right from electricity to our modern computers, were all bron out of our existential necessities. The following story by Stephanie McCrummen brings to you another such invention that is not the best form of transportation around, but in a country that is shattered by years of a civil war and grinding poverty, it is very effective in getting the job done – moving people and goods, while enabling income generation for some of the poorest people in this world.
Tags: Africa, Chukudus, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Transporters
Posted by transportgooru on January 4, 2010 in
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Society/Social Issues I came across this excellent report, Aviation and Marine Transportation: GHG Mitigation Potential and Challenges, via an article on Washington Post and felt compelled to share with you all. This report published by The Pew Center on Global Climate Change examines growth projections for emissions from both aviation and marine transportation and options to reduce those emissions. Aviation and marine transportation combined are responsible for approximately 5 percent of total GHG emissions in the United States and 3 percent globally and are among the fastest growing modes in the transportation sector. Under business-as-usual forecasts, CO2 emissions from global aviation are estimated to grow 3.1 percent per year over the next 40 years, resulting in a 300 percent increase in emissions by 2050.International marine transportation emissions are estimated to grow by 1 to 2 percent per year, increasing by at least 50 percent over 2007 levels by 2050. Controlling the growth in aviation and marine transportation GHG emissions will be an important part of reducing emissions from the transportation sector.
Tags: Airline Industry, Aviation, Aviation and Marine Transportation: GHG Mitigation Potential and Challenges, Carbon Emissions, Green House Gases, Marine Transportation Emissions, Pollution, The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Posted by transportgooru on December 26, 2009 in
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Travel China on Saturday unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world — a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour.
The super-high-speed train reduces the 1,069 kilometre journey to a three hour ride and cuts the previous journey time by more than seven and a half hours, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Work on the project began in 2005 as part of plans to expand a high-speed network aimed at eventually linking Guangzhou, a business hub in southern China near Hong Kong, with the capital Beijing, Xinhua added.
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“It is designed with a service life of 120 years. It can withstand the impact of a strong wind with a speed of 51 meters a second, or equal to a maximum Beaufort scale 16 (184 to 201kmph),” said Zhu Yongling, an official in charge of the project construction. “It can also resist the impact of a magnitude-8 earthquake and a 300,000-tonne vessel.”
Tags: China Infrastructure Development, Chinese Road Infrastructure Project, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, HZMB, World's Longest Sea Bridge
Posted by transportgooru on December 7, 2009 in
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Travel In an historic step towards ending gridlock in urban areas across the country, the U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that the Dallas and San Diego areas will receive $14 million as the nation’s first demonstration sites for new Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies that help fight congestion and enhance travel. The Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) initiative will help the Dallas and San Diego metro areas become “living laboratories” in the fight against congestion.
Tags: Congestion Mitigation, ICM, ICM Pioneer Sites, Integrated Corridor Management, ITS Intelligent Transportation Systems, U.S. Department of Transportation, USDOT
Even as Chinese president Hu Jintao was telling an audience in Beijing that the government will stick to the path of socialism on October 1, a quite capitalistic revolution was taking place in distant Sanxi province in north China.
The first-ever private railway project began construction on the 60th anniversary of the Communist revolution. It may seem like a modest beginning for the project’s private owners but the business focus is clear as the project will link coal mines of Sanxi.
Tags: Broad Union Investment Management Group Co., Chinese Railway, Ltd, Private Sector Rail INvestment in China, Railway Bureau of Zhengzhou, Shanxi, Yufeng Railway Construction Investment Co.
