Based on such estimates, the New America Foundation report calls for a five-year public investment program of $1.2 trillion, encompassing transportation, energy, communications and water infrastructure as well as science and technology research and human capital.
A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found that, rather than adopting a standard for automotive gas-mileage ratings, the EU could achieve the same results at far lower cost to the economy by simply extending their existing emissions-trading system to encompass transportation rather than just electricity generation and energy intensive industry.
The tool — which encompasses the transportation authority's subways, buses and two commuter railroads, along with the PATH and New Jersey Transit commuter lines — appears far more sophisticated than existing online trip planners like Trips123, a site that was built with public financing.
The further science affects society, he said, the more far-reaching that science-industrial complex becomes, encompassing agriculture, transportation, and even Earth itself.
The Bay Area is known for bruising traffic jams, and not for all-encompassing public transportation.
The cost encompassed operating cost, annualized capital cost, transportation cost and biomass acquisition cost for each biomass type.
This IoT-based system encompasses the generation, collection, transportation and final disposal of RFW.
The plant he built in River Rouge embodied his idea of an integrated operation encompassing production, assembly, and transportation.
"My simple thesis," Mr. Lang told Consulting Engineer magazine in 1978, "is that man's total environment transcends pure air, food and water, and must also encompass employment, housing, energy, transportation and recreation".
The popularity of alternative mobility services such as bike-sharing and the advent of multi-modal routing that encompasses a variety of transportation methods is also growing.
