Sentence examples for transit freight from inspiring English sources

Because of the location of the country, Polish lines were important in the carriage of transit freight among the socialist countries of eastern Europe, notably between the Soviet Union and East Germany and between Czechoslovakia and Poland's ports.

Among other things, they are investing around SFr30 billion in their main north-south rail routes, partly to speed up rail passenger traffic and partly to move all transit freight traffic from road to rail to stop an endless procession of noisy, polluting lorries through their valleys.

Most of the freight volume (59%% in tonnes) carried by the railways in 2012 was domestic (with 36%% international and 6%% transit freight).

Exploring the opportunity to use the metro line overnight for the transit of freight trains, it was found that restrictions in scheduling freight trains in parallel to passenger trains could be avoided, leading to shorter times between freight trips and ultimately more trains per hour.

The underlying problem, say many, is that some of the region's monopoly train operators are intimately bound with Russia's, and make their profits from the transit of freight between the Baltic ports and Russia, Central Asia and China.

A simple representation of the mode-to-mode switching options is introduced that results in a substantially improved design, with computational complexity independent of the number of modes and fixed schedule lines for typical transit and freight networks.

An investigation by USA Today "identified almost 2,000 additional water systems spanning all 50 states where testing has shown excessive levels of lead contamination over the past four years". The American Society for Civil Engineers has identified various pressing projects in America: repairing bridges and airports, dams and levees, seaports and waterways, and mass transit and freight rail.

- Retrofitting buildings to improve energy efficiency - Expanding mass transit and freight rail - Constructing smart electrical grid transmission systems - Wind power - Solar power - Next-generation biofuels.

PERI's study suggests initiatives for each state in the areas of energy efficiency retrofits to buildings, solar and wind investments, mass transit and freight rail improvements, smart grid and finally, 'advanced' biofuels investments.

Freight transit through the country is lucrative for Russian business.

"Even Beeching's bitterest enemy should recognise he was visionary on the reform of freight transit".