Mr Griffin said there were benefits to decentralisation, including the reduction of the department's carbon footprint, and less traffic on the roads.
Fewer vehicles on the road means less traffic congestion and less pollution.
That would result in new fees to local governments and less access to traffic from U.S. "originating" companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple.
At the same time, well-planned and efficiently-operating cities will consume less energy and generate fewer traffic snarls.
With better networking, fed by a trillion connected devices, his projected efficiencies could include 50% energy savings, an 80% drop in water usage, along with less crime and traffic.
As the youngest network in the group, it likely enjoyed a competitive advantage by having less traffic (and thus congestion).
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K. would both operate much more freely and, since LaGuardia handles far less traffic than the other two airports, it is the obvious choice for shuttering.
This increased shopping behavior has reduced advertising efficiency and effectiveness as the traffic obtained becomes less likely to result in a purchase on the website.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin points to other benefits, too: greater mobility for people with disabilities, more productivity for commuters now stuck in traffic, less congestion and less pollution.
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What we do know now is, in the long-run, web traffic will matter less and less as services such as Twitter mature into companies that use the Internet to connect computers, set top boxes, phones, and other devices through specialized applications, rather than the boring old Web browser.
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Fewer car journeys means less pollution, fewer road accidents and shorter traffic jams, all of which would be welcomed my many.
This ensures important applications that require high-speed connectivity, such as online games and video chat, get priority over less important traffic, such as incoming email or system updates.
Those types of stores tend to get less traffic than stores at malls, and there are fewer options of retailers or other tenants who will move into them.
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But as data overtakes voice and as voice traffic gets packetized, the Titan line becomes less relevant.
Mr. Sitt hopes the trend will continue and even extend south of 42nd Street, which gets much less foot traffic.
But as data overtakes voice and as voice traffic is put into packets, the Titan line becomes less relevant.
Point One can charge 10% to 15% less than existing long-distance companies to handle such traffic and still earn gross margins above the 20% to 30% generated by the big long-distance firms.
They will claim that traffic jams are worse, trains are dirtier, less reliable and more overcrowded and motorists harder hit with taxes than ever before.
Driving is much less fun than it used to be because of increased traffic congestion and the fact that the kind of cars most people can afford are "utilitarian" and difficult to customise.
Passengers use a touch screen to choose their destination and the 21 pods, which carry up to four passengers and their luggage, are laser-guided and take an average of ten minutes less than the airport buses, mainly by avoiding traffic on the roads around Heathrow.
There are various ways that you can measure web traffic and all of them are going to be guesses that are more or less informed.
Mr. Soto said he was recently stopped and issued two tickets while waiting for a parking space: one for disorderly conduct because he was blocking traffic and the other for possession of a knife which he said was less than four inches and was being used for renovating a family property.
What happens when a less scrupulous company spoofs a profile update email and causes you to add a profile that redirects all your web traffic, for instance?
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But even as Pascarella tries to lure new traffic, "some are looking for ways to stay off the Visa railroad and run on less expensive tracks, " says Gwenn Bezard, an analyst with Celent.
Furthermore, while Facebook is currently only beginning to monetize mobile, more and more of the traffic is moving toward mobile, and there is a strong emerging consensus that advertising on mobile is less lucrative than advertising on the web.
Less vehicles piled up in endless traffic jams with their engines running for hours on end, day in and day out, in cities and towns across our country, is definitely worth the consideration alone.
And because traffic is essentially a local problem requiring local solutions, (a quarter of all car trips are less than two miles), it is also sensible to give local authorities the lead role in levying new charges, and to allow them to keep the revenues to spend on approved transport projects.
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