This could mean having a better home or having a better means of transportation.
There are no guarantees, but air travel is still much safer than other means of transportation.
We'll be repairing major roads and bridges and other essential means of transportation as quickly as possible.
Most of all, it would give millions of people now relegated to lesser means of transportation the chance to drive cars.
This left Russia's Soyuz capsules as the only means of transportation to and from the space station, reducing Russia's ability to sell seats on its rockets.
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As part of its stimulus package, China provided incentives for those in its rural economy to trade in their less fuel-efficient vehicles for more conventional means of transportation.
While the SUV has replaced the camel as a means of transportation in the modern Emirates, it's clear the animal retains an important place in the nation's heart.
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This luxury hotel on wheels--more of a destination unto itself than a means of transportation--shuttles in vintage style between Singapore and Chiang Mai, as well as points in between.
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Gerald Ollivier, a senior infrastructure specialist at the World Bank in Beijing, pointed out that trains in China are still by far one of the safest means of transportation.
We're also encouraged to keep our food miles down - the distance our meals have traveled and their means of transportation add to the carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change.
Next appointment feature will tell you how long it will take you to get to your next appointment, calculating time needed to travel on foot or by another means of transportation.
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Although I have not done this research for electric vehicles, I think it would be worth talking to cross-section of 100 potential customers to ask them whether they see an electric vehicle as a cost-effective means of transportation.
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In the comparative study of the cost of mass transit, analysts at Mercer selected the most convenient and popular means of transportation between bus and subway in a given city and gauged the price based upon a ride in the city center for one adult, according to the Mercer analysis team.
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GM's vice president for research and development, Lawrence Burns, says consumers have to start thinking of their car as a power-supplying appliance as well as a means of transportation. (A hybrid car, for example, might be an alternative to an emergency generator during an ice storm.) Meanwhile, GM is endorsing Huber's thinking with plans to introduce plug-in versions of the Chevrolet Volt and a Saturn vue crossover by 2010.
Majestic monuments cast their shadow over every citizen, and sky rails are as much a thrillride as they are a means of alternate transportation.
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After all, rail is the least-polluting means of mass transportation.
Every port and airport was placed on full alert, and it seemed safe to assume that if Harling left the country he did not do so by any means of public transportation, unless under a convincing and ingenious disguise.
No matter how you slice it, this is significantly faster than any other possible means of public transportation, and there is a decent chance that after departing your hotel at exactly the same time, you will be sipping coffee and nibbling on a croissant in Paris before your plane will have even left the ground at Heathrow.
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The least painful and most sensible would be to expand dramatically the availability and use of alcohol-based fuels and electricity as means of powering the transportation sector, where most of our oil is currently consumed.
Certainly, it is likely that algae will become an essential component of the mix of means to keep transportation going by means other than crude oil.
Now the delay in passage of the transportation-bill reauthorization and the dearth of state contracts means he's planning to lay off as many as 200 more employees by the end of the year.
There is still no means to maintaining global transportation and globalisation in the absence of cheap oil, and the time limit for this gargantuan and conceptual change is perhaps a decade.
They hope that means he will give a Russian say-so to the transportation of supplies for the 47, 000 NATO troops in Afghanistan across Russian territory.
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.
Auto makers have been increasing production after the cutbacks of recent years but slowly, which means rising sales are keeping pace with what dealerships have on hand, says Lincoln Merrihew, vice president of transportation at Compete Inc.
That means measuring and reducing the embodied energy of a product throughout the supply chain, from materials extraction to processing to transportation to product use and disposal.
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