Sentence examples for transport declined from inspiring English sources

Although coal and ore transport declined, there was an overall increase in the volume of transport until the mid-1960s; since then, however, freight tonnage has decreased significantly.

The Department for Transport declined to say whether other UK airports would enforce similar restrictions on flights to the US.

Traditional means of overland transport declined with the advent of motor vehicles, shipping and air freight, but caravans still travel along routes between Agadez and Bilma and between Timbuktu and Taoudenni carrying salt from the interior to desert-edge communities.

As regards extra-urban trips, the modal share is completely different; public transport declines to 27% (probably due to less frequent services with less extra-urban coverage), while the car is the preferred mode with about 70% of the total; motorbikes are less widely used for this trip type, amounting to 3% of the total.

However, the addition of ash reduces the boundary Reynolds number such that, at high ash concentrations and with fine-grained sediment, sediment transport declines as the flow becomes hydraulically smooth.

Transport distance declined because of an improvement in logistics and had a clear effect on transport content decline.

Malaysia Airlines could not be reached for comment and Malaysia's transport ministry declined to comment.

Lockheed launched fewer government and commercial satellites, while sales of its F-16 fighter aircraft and C-130J military transport planes declined.

From 1998 to 2002, a period during which economic fortunes were generally deteriorating, state and local transport investment declined by 4% while federal investment rose by 40%.

And despite the current furore over petrol prices, the cost of motoring relative to other forms of transport has declined sharply over the past 25 years, and is set to fall still further.

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).