Posted by transportgooru on September 7, 2010 in
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Travel Car-sharing started in Europe and spread to America in the late 1990s, when the first venture opened in Portland, Oregon, a traditional hangout of tree-huggers. For years it was organised by small co-operatives, often supported by local government. It still has a green tinge. One in five new cars added to club fleets is electric; such cars are good for short-range, urban use. But sharing is no longer small.
Tags: Car Fleets, Car Sharing, Car Sharing Statistics, Car2Go, Carsharing, London, Washington DC, ZipCar
The back-up stretches over 62 miles on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway. What’s worse, officials are saying that the jam could continue for up to a month (Sept. 13, the projected completion project for some of the projects causing this delay).
Tags: Beijing, Beijing Traffic Management Bureau, China, Epic Chinese Traffic Jam, National Expressway 110, Tibet, Traffic Congestion
Posted by transportgooru on August 23, 2010 in
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Research The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) seeks an experienced Environmental Protection Specialist to join the Energy Technology Division at the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center). The position is located at the Volpe Center in Cambridge, MA.
Tags: Clean Air Act, Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative TEchnology Administration, United States Department of Transportation
Uncle Sam goes for a “green & clean” image makeover – GSA Offers 5,600 Hybrids (Including 100 Plug-In Hybrids) To Federal Agencies
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Carbon Foot Print, ElectricVehicle, Emissions, Environmental Impact, EV, Federal government of the United States, Ford Fusion, FordFusion, Fuel Efficiency, General Services Administration, GSA, GSA Zero Emissions Goal, Hybrids, PHEV, Toyota Prius, U.S. General Services Administration, Vehicle Lease, Zero environmental Footprint
Now for the first time some of those potential customers got to see and hear Porsche’s latest creation in person. The 918 was flown over from Germany for the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Montery, California. The video above shows a covert shakedown drive before the car was shown to the public.
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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
Posted by transportgooru on August 17, 2010 in
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Travel TRB is sponsoring the Transportation Systems for Livable Communities Conference on October 18-19, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The conference is being supported by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration. The livability concept embraces cognate notions such as sustainability, quality of life, the character of place, the health of communities, and more. The conference is designed to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in this topic and will provide a timely opportunity to share research results, explore practical challenges, and identify potentially promising directions for future research. Space for this confernece is limited. Early bird registration ends August 26, 2010.
Tags: livability, Livable communities, Research, Research and Innovative TEchnology Administration, RITA, Transportation Planning, Transportation Research Board, TRB, Washington D.C.
Can the U.S. replace 100 percent of its gas consumption with electricity? By this math, yes, we can:
Tags: Alternative Energy Sources, Electric vehicles, Electricity, Energy, EV, Gasoline, Hybrid vehicles, Oil, Renewable resources
Posted by transportgooru on August 3, 2010 in
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Travel The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released a report that explores the components of plug-in electric vehicle infrastructure, challenges and opportunities related to the design and deployment of the infrastructure, and the potential benefits.
Tags: Alternative Energy, Department of Energy, Electric Vehicle, Electric vehicles, Energy, EV, Infrastructure, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, PHEV, Plug-in Electric Vehicle, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, United States
On July 18th, Germany shut down its busiest Autobahn for celebrating life – appropriately titled “Still-Life A40″. The “Still Life” festival on Sunday in the Ruhr region in western Germany offered some surreal images and video footage of the autobahn without cars and overrun with pedestrians.
A 37-mile stretch of Germany’s famous highway system, between Dortmund and Duisburg, was closed to motor vehicles for the street festival and replaced by a line of 20,000 tables, reports The Guardian. Around three million people attended the event.
Tags: 2010 European Capital of Culture, Autobahn, Autobahn A/40Europe, Dortmund, Duisburg, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr, Still Life A40/B1, Still-life RUHR.2010 Ruhrschnellweg, United States
