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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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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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.
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.
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.
We'll be repairing major roads and bridges and other essential means of transportation as quickly as possible.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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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