The estimated fuel consumption saving for high speed highway operation of road trains is in the region of 20 percent depending on vehicle spacing and geometry.
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Specifically, with the right type face male test subjects got their eyes back on the road quicker, to the tune of about 50 feet of travel down the road at highway speeds.
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Despite relatively easy access (the main park gate is just 60km south of the highway along a decent road), the Udzungwas remain very much off the beaten path, and hikers will often have trails to themselves.
The South African President, Nelson Mandela, and President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique have officially launched the construction of the Maputo Highway - a toll road between Johannesburg and the Mozambican port and capital of Maputo.
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Claudio Uberti is an Argentinean and the director of a government agency that since November, 2003 controls all freeway concessions (OCCOVI) and is in charge of collecting the fees on every toll booth of every road, highway and bridge in the country.
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And yes, 23, 000 state workers will be trying to figure out how to care for their families without a paycheck for the duration along with an estimated 5, 000 to 10, 000 construction workers who will be laid off as the state shuts down dozens of road and highway projects.
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It is like giving drivers on a six-lane highway access by a dirt road.
One example of a shovel-ready project is the Gallows Road-Lee Highway intersection in the notoriously traffic-clogged suburbs of Northern Virginia outside Washington, D.
Before the carretera (highway), the only road access to this remote part of Patagonia involved travelling through neighbouring Argentina, meaning that the region retains a spectacularly rugged, unspoiled environment and a strong identity.
In addition to the frontline duties in Helmand, since Christmas, B Company has been providing security for the rebuilding of the Highway 1 route, a road said to be vital to communications links across Afghanistan.
After an hour, he left the wide state highway for a snaky blacktop road, and deep in the woods he made a left turn down a gravel lane that ran as straight as a railroad for ten miles.
Blink and you will miss Mazama (population 230), little more than a gas station, a cosy mountain inn and a mercantile store that, between November and April, is the last stop on the road west when Highway 20 across the North Cascades to Seattle is closed due to snow.
However, much of the US Highway 36, the main road between Boulder and Estes Park, was washed away, and with it went much of the tourism the town depends during its elk-showcasing fall months, when hundreds of elk descend from the mountains and make their mating calls near prime viewing areas (one of which is the Estes Park golf course).
It is an hour's drive east of Springfield, on a highway where cars sometimes share the road with Amish buggies.
As the convoy growled down Highway One, the national ring road that encircles the whole country, the turret machine-gunner rotated left and right, scanning the roadside.
It was the two-lane U.S. Highway 70, technically a federal road that was so rough and so sway-backed, it resembled a horse destined for the glue factory.
Investing in a community college, just like investing in a new road or a new highway or broadband lines that go into rural communities, these investments are not part of some grand scheme to redistribute wealth.
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According to the Federal Highway Administration, almost two-thirds of all highway fatalities are categorized as "road departures, " as opposed to intersection or pedestrian accidents, an indication of tired drivers veering out of their lanes or off the road altogether.
"I am very aware that last winter's severe weather left a legacy of road potholes and that local highway authorities faced gritting pressures, " he added.
Now it takes a day-and-a-half, thanks to an upgrade of the Friendship Highway, as the China-Nepal road is called, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
When you enter the state via the interstate highway, the signs that usually announce road conditions now flash thank-yous to the out-of-state power crews that came to the rescue of Maine and other New England states.
Canaris had walked out onto the road that ran by his house, turned onto the highway that leads to the bottom of the college hill, then turned right, on to a road that crosses the river and leads to a walking trail running from Mount Vernon to Danville.
With the highway listed as a national historic landmark, road-widening was not an option.
Highway I-40, known as Tobacco Road, connects the universities of North Carolina, Duke and North Carolina State.
Following the Seward Highway south you can spot wildlife from the road.
Under the new agreement Quebec will complete 143 kilometers of the road as a two-lane highway, while Stornoway will be responsible for completing the final 97 kilometers.
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Back then, the nation was in the grips of another Iran-related oil crisis, and to many, this highway through the Utah desert seemed like the road to energy security.
The highway turns into a single-lane dirt road, and Dixon's uncle pulls the Rover into the final outpost this side of the mountain, the town of Chogoria Hospital, so named because it has the only healthcare facility for miles around.
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