Sentence examples for proportion of freight from inspiring English sources

Of the small proportion of freight passing through Italian airports, a majority of it is processed either at Malpensa Airport near Milan or at Leonardo da Vinci Airport (in Fiumicino) near Rome.

An analysis of the role of the proportion of freight trains in the total amount of railway traffic was conducted.

In addition, the allocation must not assign an overly high proportion of freight to the more expensive shipping companies servicing any particular lane, which we call the lane cost balancing constraint.

Rail traffic sometimes has a higher proportion of freight trains running at night, and it is therefore not unusual for the equivalent level at night (23 07) to be higher than during the day (07 19).

While residents are more likely to report annoyance with "freight traffic" generally, it has been found that after the effects of differing noise levels are removed, no consistent differences in dose response relations were found between routes with a small or high proportion of freight trains.

At the conference the Commission, Parliament, the Spanish Presidency and the EU transport ministers reconfirmed their diagnosis: the proportion of freight carried by rail is seriously declining, even in countries that were leaders in the field not long ago, such as Germany.

We think that for a growing proportion of European rail freight classification is irrelevant as point to point operations have developed to maximize asset productivity and commercial competitiveness using current technology and operating models.

There is a significant and fundamental change in the manufacturing and consumption pattern in Europe (and other developed countries) meaning that the share of raw material for heavy manufacturing as a proportion of the total freight transport has declined (Network 2013a, b, c).

Even rigorous biosecurity screening may fail to detect a substantial proportion of stowaways hidden in freight and cargo (Allen et al. 2006; Ward et al. 2006; Toy and Newfield 2010), which is a significant concern given the exponential increase in the inadvertent transportation of squamate reptiles over the last century (Kraus 2009).

For one thing, Vega said Brazil provides a big opportunity on its own, particularly because the lack of railroads means that an unusually high proportion of the country's freight gets shipped by trucks.

Cross-subsidy of freight.