He added road transportation produced almost 14% of Wales' greenhouse gas emissions.
That, too, would lead to higher prices for almost every supply chain component and consumer good requiring road transportation, and set in motion a vicious cycle of economic headwinds.
"It's an outstanding site, close to major road and transportation infrastructure, " he said, citing Route 611 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
But in 1999, just a year after TEA-21 went into effect, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) began preparing for their next offensive.
And Category Three infrastructure items, despite their cost, generally bring lasting benefits to Olympic cities that are usually in need of road and transportation upgrades anyway.
So says Peter Ruane, chief executive of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), as he unveils a 70-page plan for updating legislation on federal surface transportation spending.
The road and transportation industry is already rolling its heavy equipment into town to lobby for the reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, which is set to expire this September.
Thousands of protesters from the low-caste communities -- called the Dalits, meaning the suppressed -- attacked road and rail transportation in the wake of the murder blamed on Sikh hardliners.
This year, Shell Pakistan invested in a network of storage facilities, road and rail transportation and pipelines to handle the estimated increase in Pakistan's petroleum product demand from 14 million tons today to 25 million tons by 2000.
"What I think we really need to focus on are more fuel-efficient vehicles, better city planning for the number and types of vehicles on the road, and more public transportation options, " Curtis Lewis said.
Companies that escaped damage from the earthquake and ensuing tsunamihave to cope with rolling power outages and disruptions to supplies of water, raw materials and transportation, suggesting the road to reconstruction could be long and halting.
"We are committed to taking unsafe bus companies off the road, " U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.
Local governments could mine the data to understand how to improve road safety, decrease congestion and upgrade transportation infrastructure, says Goddijn.
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Its products are used in the construction, road building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries.
Road funding has also been whittled away by other federal transportation projects like truck safety, transit grants and even high speed rail.
He hiked a few hundred yards to a road and flagged down workers with the Colorado Department of Transportation, Sheriff Don Kruger said.
The growth of road freight and the more widespread use of private vehicles have made transportation the second area of priority for Beijing's energy conservationists.
What that means is the road builders want spending determined by various assessments from the Department of Transportation and others of what's needed to maintain and improve the transportation infrastructure in the U.S. If receipts coming into the Highway Trust Fund fall short of those needs, the lobby argues Congress should close the gap.
Carmakers are also working with the U.S. Department of Transportation, which is testing applications through which vehicles would communicate with signals and road signs.
Even so, they face a three-year wait for a place in the Jingyuan Road housing project in Beijing's outer Shijingshan district, far away from any public transportation.
The highways that ring Manhattan along the water sit atop a series of tide gates that are designed to drain water from the road and keep water from gurgling up from below, said Sam Schwartz, a former city transportation commissioner who now works as a consultant.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has made transportation funding reform a key piece of his legislative agenda as he seeks to grapple with growing road-and-bridge costs.
When we were in the infrastructure section, there was a strong emphasis on needing to plan not just for existing road projects, but also how do we think about the fact that in the future we need a cleaner transportation industry.
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