Sentence examples for share of freight from inspiring English sources

In other parts of the country, a larger share of freight is carried by rail.

DB actually has a bigger share of freight traffic in Britain through its subsidiary EWS than it does in Germany.

The share of freight going by rail has risen from 16% in 1999 to 26% in 2008 and could reach 35% by 2020, according to a study by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), a government-linked think-tank.

Chuck McQuaid, co-manager of the Liberty Acorn fund in Chicago, which owns about 4 million shares of Expeditors and 575,000 shares of UTi Worldwide, said the leading companies in the field were likely to use their size and expertise to gain an increasing share of freight business in coming months.

This further confirms research findings where figures between 50 and 86 % were revealed for the share of freight vehicles that park illegally or in situations prone to cause traffic disturbances [18, 20, 32, 33].

In fact, the share of freight deliveries to non-retail (e.g., services establishments, offices, small manufacturing) activities is largely unknown, and in some cases with offices being reported as a considerable generator of freight movement [5].

Today our railroads' share of freight-ton-miles is four times that of Europe.

What happens in the three scenarios with up to 10% of the share of light freight movements is that the positive effect of using electric cargo bikes is more relevant than the speed restriction.

Rail's share of intercity freight had slumped to 35% from 75% in the 1920s.

INEXORABLY, western Europe's railways have seen their share of the freight market shrink.

The largest share of surface freight is now carried by road, with lesser amounts carried by river and railroad.