News tagged with road transport
Poor suffer disproportionately from road crashes: study
Jun 15, 2009 |
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The poor are disproportionately victims of road crashes, with the number of deaths set to nearly double in two decades, according to the first global assessment of road safety released on Monday.
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Vehicle pools for goods
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Web 2.0 can help companies located in the same region share haulage space when transporting consignments. Pooling benefits the environment, reduces CO2 output and saves costs -- experts put the figure at around 15 percent.
Aerodynamic trailer cuts fuel and emissions by up to 15 percent
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Creating an improved aerodynamic shape for truck trailers by mounting sideskirts can lead to a cut in fuel consumption and emissions of up to as much as 15%. Earlier promising predictions, based on mathematical ...
Road traffic deaths in China have soared almost 100 percent in 20 years
Jun 05, 2008 |
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The number of road traffic deaths in China has soared almost 100% in two decades, reveals a study published in the journal Injury Prevention.
EU unveils more precise satnav system
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The European Union has unveiled an updated satellite navigation system that is up to five times more precise than the current GPS system.
Maths Research Tackles Problems of Bike + Car
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The efforts to get more people out of cars and on their bikes in the UK could be being hampered by Governments' own transport strategies, claims new research from the University of Derby.
Virtual solution to driving phobias
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.
Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre
Nov 13, 2009 |
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The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.
New method proposed to calculate reduction in road accident deaths
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A team of engineers from the University of Almería (UAL, Spain) has developed a methodology to help meet the EU objective of cutting road deaths by 50% between 2000 and 2010. The researchers have calculated ...
Congestion Charge: potentially unsafe for motorcyclists, claim researchers
Aug 17, 2007 |
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The London congestion charge may be having an adverse effect on motorcyclist and cyclist casualties, according to research now published online in the journal Transportation.
Significant regional variations exist regarding proximity to burn centers
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Although nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population lives within 2 hours by ground or helicopter transport to a verified burn center, there is substantial state and regional variation in geographic access to these centers, ...
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