But it believes automobile companies will have to integrate themselves into a transportation system for a high-population, low-emission future.
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To successfully overcome these challenges requires effective leadership with a clear vision of a transportation system that is safer, more efficient, and designed for all who use it.
An automaker could, for example, take the lead in the Big Venture Play scenario that I described in Part 3 of this series and launch a shared, driverless transportation system as a test.
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Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us a economic superpower.
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But we've got the makings, I think, of a very fine transportation system.
The US space agency is due to retire its shuttles next year and is working on a new crew transportation system, to be introduced in about 2014-15.
Without a comprehensive public transportation system to overcome the greater city's distances, the middle class has become mostly car-bound and wary of the city's reputation for violent crime.
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While Jackson and his successors framed economic policy as a matter of limited-government principle, Howe argues that the practical difference was that the Whigs sought to create a coherent national transportation system, while Jackson preferred to dole out projects on an ad-hoc basis to individual states.
Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us an economic superpower.
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Building a world-class transportation system is one of the reasons that America became an economic superpower in the first place.
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But we're not trying to create something that will replace the car, but something that will be a part of an integrated transportation system.
In particular, Japan's limited useful land mass makes such a system an imperative for its transportation needs in the 1990s and beyond.
Several major transportation projects like a new light rail system have helped lure new businesses and residents to the area as well.
CCIT's mission is to accelerate the implementation of research results and the deployment of technical solutions to enable a safer, cleaner, and more efficient surface transportation system.
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The high court identified five factors -- facilities, staff, faculty, extracurricular activities and transportation -- to be used to measure a school system's compliance with the mandate of Brown.
However, with the number of US passengers set to rise to one billion per year by 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is planning a move to a new satellite-based system, called Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen.
From the people we buy our seed from to the people we use to process our meat to the transportation system to haul our grain, we create a lot of jobs in rural Missouri, so we want to make sure that's not overlooked.
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Like UPS, Landstar System ( LSTR) is a supply chain, logistics and transportation expert for all sorts of commercial needs.
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Because Nanophosphate EXT is designed to reduce or eliminate the need for costly thermal management, it is expected to deliver these performance advantages while also increasing reliability, minimizing complexity and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) over the life of the battery system for a number of applications, including those within the transportation and telecommunications industries.
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Moving America requires a dedicated workforce that is committed to addressing every aspect of our nation's transportation system.
A.T. (People and Things) Prototype, a conceptual system of driverless vehicles that's currently on display at the Move Transportation Expo in Toronto.
In another case, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority was granted an injunction two years ago to prevent a group of college students from detailing vulnerabilities in the transportation authority's automated fare system.
Safety is essential to any transportation system whether on land, sea or air, and space shuttles are a vivid example of that axiom.
Many customers say they are upset that Apple has removed mentions of public transportation routes or stations from its new map service, a popular feature on the Google system which allowed users to see bus and train schedules at individual stations.
America has become a country that routinely hunts down and kills individual terrorist enemies overseas - apparently now in preference to capturing and detaining them indefinitely - and its citizens put up with more burdensome security restrictions in transportation and in public places than before, as well as with a somewhat less constricted system of domestic electronic surveillance.
For example, IBM developed a smart traffic system for Stockholm that resulted in drop in traffic, increased green vehicle and public transportation use, and an improved overall quality of life for the city's residents.
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Silver and copper are smaller markets, but their adherents argue that the industrial demands for the shiny stuff by nations that must build out their infrastructure products such as the fast speed transportation system in China or the ports of India, Thailand another emerging markets clearly suggest a shortage of silver and copper, possibly iron ore as well.
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"We have received a proposal from Apple that has the potential to bring a great new shopping destination to iconic Grand Central Terminal and significantly increase revenues for the MTA's transportation system, " said Julie Glave, MTA spokeswoman.
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For local transportation system managers, inspecting and ensuring the structural integrity of standing infrastructure is the top priority following a disaster.
WeCU has received grants from the Transportation Security Administration within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which hopes to implement a system to pinpoint internal threats such as airline employees intending terrorist acts.
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