The trend includes linking production and energy resources in an efficient manner, and moving production closer to market demand in order to minimize transportation related costs.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued the order Tuesday and told residents who had no transportation to assemble at the convention center to take buses out of town.
The council's portfolio holder for planning and transportation, Jane Urquhart, said the rise was fixed by the original order issued by the Secretary of State for Transport and could not be altered.
Four months after the launch in San Francisco, Uber was served with a "cease and desist" order from the California Public Utility Commission and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
"We do need expeditious attention to this, but we need to make sure that these investments are made wisely and that we don't have to sacrifice speed in order to get smart investments, " says Robert Puentes, a transportation expert at the Brookings Institution.
President Obama could issue an executive order on Tuesday dictating cybersecurity standards for industries with vulnerable infrastructure, such as transportation.