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The goal of Hamburg project is to replace roads with a ruenes netzor a green network of interconnected open areas covering 40%of the city.

The Danish capital Copenhagen is building bicycle superhighways radiating out from the city centre. These developments combined may make worrying reading for driving enthusiasts.

and where the costs of parking can far outweigh the cost of a purchase of a subway ticket.

AR could help see through that plastic. ay youe driving down the road, and a light comes on you freak out

If a customer breaks down at the side of the road at night, in the rain,

truck drivers, pilots and doctors are known also to take cognitive enhancers. Stimulant use has long been commonplace in the military,

or bike infrastructure#although the comprehensive rail system is usually faster. The transformation transcends the physical environment.

It's certainly not the Los angeles of today, the land of 20-lane interchanges and parking lots the size of football stadiums and mind-bending, soul-crushing,

and lives on the highway, then both problems would seem to share a single solution,

bike, drive or take public transport in a certain amount of time.##Google maps'addition of walking, biking and transport options to its directions has been the greatest game-changer for increasing walking.

or bike transit with points that can be exchanged for discounts from a wide range of partners.

auto rickshaws and motorcycles#rather than one-size-fits-all Western street design. Perhaps the biggest deterrent for walkers is the perception that it's unsafe

In emerging megacities Mumbai in India, narrow roads and paths designed for walking have now become overrun by vehicles.

These smart cars would act more like a fleet of shared, self-driving taxis. But another safety concern is our quickly aging population,

Cities have seen the value of turning tarmac over to walkers and bikers, if only for a few hours.

the city began to install permanent bike lanes and parklets along the routes where the festival happens.

or even by the side of the roads. They can usually charge a car twice as rapidly as a standard wall socket at home-often much faster#and in the case of Tesla,

As more and more computer-equipped, connected cars fill the roads, we will learn a great deal about how we actually drive,

Many experts in India feel that Silicon valley succeeded because of the kind of crossroads it provided for technical, creative minds with the right financial and marketing input.

With no reliable public transport available, Genpact provides cabs to take over 10,000 employees back home. It's a fully fledged operation,

or in an office or supermarket parking space during the day, and be topped up with electricity that is generated more efficiently in a centralised power station,

whether we have the infrastructure in place to cope with the swelling demand electric cars will place on our roads and cities.

The only sign of life is a dirt road zigzagging all the way to the top. But for astronomers like Joe Liske, this is arguably the world's most interesting mountain right now,

but believes that down the road, they could offer a low-power version that runs off solar for regions like Africa.

as the blood is the highway by which substances move around the body. This could explain why the receptors show up in so many places,

One option is ride sharing schemes, which aim to have fewer cars and more people on the streets.

"Very few people actually like to carpool.##His company's approach is different: shrink the car.

you could fit twice as many cars onto the streets, and into parking spaces.""We want to put less car on the road,

and the thrill, of a bike,#says Kim.""That still preserves the elements of freedom and independence that commuters today demand.#

and it was marketed on its ease of parking. Since its introduction 15 years ago it has become a common sight in European cities,

which include new designs specifically for countries where the bike or scooter is already a dominant form of urban transport.

In a nutshell, the problem is many of Africa rural farmers can get their produce to the markets in time, because of bad roads, lack of communication,

said Tsigelny. he discovery of Zone 2 as the distinguishing feature of the membrane-penetrating configurations of asyn paves the road to possible prevention of such a binding.

For this application Elbit Systems adapted a commercial sensor developed by Lifebeam, an Israeli start-up company that developed such a sensor to monitor peak performance for extreme sportsathletes such as marathon runners, bicyclists and mountain climbers.

#Barbados Is Beating the U s. on Road to Renewables Oil prices are soaring againhis time due to uncertainty over the fate of major producers like Russia and Iraq.

and manufacture the pods may eventually be extended to cars on major roads. Currently these pods are operational at Heathrow Airport;

enabling passengers to easily travel between terminals and car parks. Their ability to provide a safe and effortless mode of transportation for the general public has resulted in the government considering implementing the pods as part of an eventual national campaign to manufacture

Every day more drivers emerge on our roads, emitting harmful fossil fuel gases. If successful, these driverless pods could ultimately provide a clean, efficient solution to pollution issues,

buses are slow (the slowest bus lines in New york city average 3. 4 miles per hour), and tend to be inefficient.

city bus fleets around the world are preparing to introduce electric buses that use advanced technology. There are three main types of electric buses;

Benefits of commuting on electricity Though electric buses are not newhe first was introduced in Berlin in 1882lder models frequently required wires to hang over each bus route, marking bus paths through city streets.

#Feds Offer Money To Put More Green Buses On Roads The continued expansion of zero emissions buses across the United states got a boost from the federal government earlier this month

and elsewhere to finance the construction of bridges, roads, transit, and other public facilities. Current state of clean energy financing programs Connecticut The New york Green Bank will join the Connecticut Clean energy Finance and Investment Authority,

Carcharging has strategic partnerships across multiple business sectors including multifamily residential and commercial properties, parking garages, shopping malls, retail parking,

Green bus stop signs are on the Fourth Street route s

#Watch Bill gates Drink Water From Human waste We know that Bill gates made a lot of money from Microsoft

Also on the drawing board is oliagethat can be installed on rooftops and balconies and along roadsides to power variable-message signs.

and even smart parking guidance systems that help drivers to quickly find parking spaces,""he predicts.

"The TASS test sensors at Heathrow monitor everything from cargo to car parks added Hazzani:""We have the location of the different vehicles,

Hands-free driving hits the highway Known as"road trains,"a truck driven by a specially trained driver leads a procession of cars

And SARTRE can improve how roads are utilised, since vehicles can travel very close together or drive long distances at night

when roads are used less. For drivers, SARTRE can reduce their stress and increase their comfort.

which would allow SARTRE vehicles to use existing highways.""Project details Participants: United kingdom (Coordinator), Sweden, Spain, Germany FP7 Proj.

""I'm a bus driver. And now I have serious difficulties moving the steering wheel while driving.

The ruins of the USSR's secret nuclear citiesthe burn of wasabi may lead to new pain medsthe quiet revolution turning roadsides into nature reservessubscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue

When there is a local air quality alert residents can choose to take public transit bicycle or carpool to get to work

or school and thus reduce emissions and improve air quality. San jos known as the Capital of Silicon valley is installing a network of sensors to create a sustainability lens that uses Intel technology to measure characteristics such as particulates in the air noise pollution and traffic flow.

It s a surprisingly long road from Food and Drug Administration approval of a new drug or technique to doctors actually using the new drug in their practices notes Weiss whose research focuses on how to get doctors to adopt best practices.

##Before a new building is constructed the roads have to be in place so that the materials and equipment can be brought in##says Cao.##

if a newly seen segment is similar to previously observed events such as routine traffic on a highway.

But NEIL also makes associations between these things to obtain common sense information that people just seem to know without ever saying##that cars often are found on roads that buildings tend to be vertical

and solar cell industry is the first solution that seems to offer a practical road forward Cui says.

When higher risk is indicated Tabashnik describes a fork in the road with two paths:##Either take more stringent measures to delay resistance such as requiring larger refuges

and get on the road again. Benefits There are no batteries and no moving parts to break and since the TEG is made from solid state semiconductor elements,

Searching for a full-body workout Greenwood eschewed a bicycle-type mechanism in favor of the rowing-like mechanism

For the moment the Humancar is limited to non-highway or eighborhoodroads, but there are higher performance versions under development that are planned for highway travel.

There no doubt that in the race for green power the human body has been overlooked in favor of alternative fuel sources such as biofuels, hydrogen etc.

and a different ad is shown to the people waiting at the bus stop, "says Ferdinand Saint-Julien, CEO of Trilite Technologies.

the number of electric cars boats and bikes in operation continues to grow and it's essential for the future sustainability of the planet that these vehicles are able to cope with the increasing demands being put on them.

Suburbs and highways, it seems, are always at the center of the conversation. The decentralization of jobs isn as easy to see;

manufacturing relocated to cheap exurban land near highways, to the American South and West, or to Mexico or Southeast asia.

Our growing Supercharger network has inspired Model S owners to hit the road in increasing numbers.

and ready to hit the road again. It clear that the Destination Charging locations Tesla is choosing are locations where owners would likely be staying for about 45 minutes

bus drivers, tellers, hairstylists, postal workers. ometimes I think I want to run away, she said. ut even the highest mountain,

The Mapo Center for Dementia perches at a busy crossroads of old and new, near a university and a shop selling naturopathic goat extracts.

17, was shaken to realize that dementia could explain why her grandfather recently grabbed a taxi

#At lunch, eating teriyaki chicken out of a styrofoam container from the deli by the bus station felt like heaven compared with the slog of the day.

That is the equivalent of removing 2. 1 million cars from the road or planting 262

##Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads

and has taken the cab industry by storm. Users can now hail actual taxis, black cars, lower cost Uberx drivers in regular cars,

or SUVS in the app. The company s success inspired a wave of startups such as Lyft, Sidecar, Instacab,

Big data in the Connected car,##researchers at#IHS Automotive#forecasts there will be 152 million actively connected cars on roads globally by 2020,

Car rental companies have used GPS systems in their cars to#give customers a ticket #even though the police never caught them.

One way to extend the range of electric vehicles may be to provide power wirelessly through coils placed under the surface of a road.

Initial models indicate that placing charging coils in 10 percent of a roadway would extend the driving range of an EV from about 60 miles to 300 miles,

Precisely controlling when the roadway coils produce a magnetic field is important for safety reasons; if the field misses the car s receiving coils,

With the Utah system a bus could charge from coils placed under the road surface where passengers load or at traffic lights.

even as hands-free parking has gained popularity, the idea of a completely driverless car is already being welcomed in some quarters.

is developing#unmanned autonomous bicycles. Photo credit: Veooz Via Venture Beat Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat e

For example#joggers, mountain bikers or even tourists can plug in their destinations and not have to stop to check their phones as they move

Of course, it wasn t an easy road for either company. Both had to survive significant regulatory scrutiny and approval by the SEC,

You could even tap into a large group of strangers to help you track down a stolen bike.

If wee moving down this road of increasing autonomy in robotics and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe

Later down the road, they could try to tackle electric cars. An electric car with a battery pack of dual-carbon batteries could charge much faster and last much longer on the road, giving it a higher resale value.

#Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden Volvo Car Group rive Meproject featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions is moving forward rapidly,

The customers will drive the 100 cars in everyday driving conditions on approximately 50 kilometers of selected roads in and around Gothenburg.

These roads are typical commuter arteries, including motorway conditions and frequent queues. rive Me self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science

which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.

In January, the Army successfully tested a robotic self-driving convoy that would reduce the number of personnel exposed to roadside explosives in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.

The cameras capture light reflected off small infrared reflective markers (like the material used in reflectors on bikes.

and show how and when to deploy delivery trucks to ensure immediate shipment an especially important factor in farmlands where the lack of paved roads can paralyze distribution.

That is especially critical in countries like Brazil where many of the roads are unpaved and heavy rain can cause trucks to get stuck in mud.

Equipment is driven manually to a transition zone, where the operator leaves the vehicle cab. The equipment operator then goes into the Integrated Remote Operations center (IROC) that contains two operator stations and a spotter.

The operator control station is designed to exactly mirror the control center in the cab, allowing seamless transitions for the workers between manual and remote control.

when it senses obstacles A new smart bicycle has been unveiled in The netherlands and its high-tech gadgetry might be the closest thing to a Pee-wee Herman bike on the market but far less accident prone.

In fact the bike is loaded with safety features and was designed specifically for the purpose of reducing the high accident rate in the bicycle-loving country particularly among elderly cyclists reports Discovery News. The bicycle

which is slated to officially go on sale within the next two years sports a radar system mounted below the handlebars that can detect approaching obstacles.

A small camera in the rear mudguard keeps a watchful eye on your backside. When an obstacle approaches from the front

and talk to the bicycle through a dedicated application. The full medley of devices will be particularly useful for cyclists propelled along by the bicycle's electrical motor

which can reach a top speed of 16 miles per hour h

#What's a Twike? It's half-bike half-electric car Meet the Twike. It a made-in-Germany combination of an electric bicycle with an EV.

It may be that wel see more of these hybrids popping up as our cities get less friendly to gas guzzlers.

Driving 60 miles is going to cost you $2 the company says. The Twike youe looking at is one of the few in the U s

There are about 1000 Twikes on European roads that have covered 37 million miles but very few in the U s. It can be registered as a motorcycle

It's also possible to extend the range by adding extra e-bike type li-ion battery packs.

Highway friendly they're not but OK on lightly trafficked local roads. The smart battery research at the University of Cincinnati is interesting.

According to Jay Lee the IMS director the cells in a battery pack typically degrade (and charge) at different rates and that throws off the efficiency and longevity.

The computer had to detect people, bicyclists, cars and other vehicles in a photo, and identify each object correctly.

and turns it into purified air Billboards often line busy roads and highways where there's lots of traffic and by association lots of air pollution.

But what if those billboards could be transformed into giant air purifiers scrubbing the air and turning polluted areas into fresh ones?

#Cargo bikes: The new way to move kids stuff and pizza Order a Domino pizza in Portland, Ore.

and chances are it will arrive by bicycle. The Portland Mercury newspaper is delivered that way, too,

and the local Splendid Cycles which specializes in cargo bikes is expanding. Now, admittedly, Portland is ground zero for cargo bikes parodied on"Portlandia"and everything.

But moving kids, pizzas and even entire households with pedal power is catching on big time in the U s. Cargo bikes are he new station wagon,

says the Wall street journal. It not just Amsterdam and Copenhagen anymore biking is having a renaissance,

Jim Motavalli on a carbo bike The author investigates a Belgian Ecopostale van at the International Transport Forum.

000. always loved riding my bike, Canning said, ut it got so I couldn pull my twins in our double trailerhe hill to our house was too steep.

even though I was already a fit cyclist who commuted into San francisco, it changed my life.

Now there was no reason not to take the bike everywhere. Bike with a wheelbarrow in front You can watch the trailer for"Less Car More Go"here:

In part because most of her o-directorssent in footage of them ferrying their kids around,

but Canning agrees that cargo bikes can work for a living. She said the finished film will have pedicabs, bicycle messengers, food delivery and, yes,

pizza guys. t would be great if a big company, like Whole Foods, launched a large fleet of electric cargo bikes,

Canning said. e need something on that scale. Less Car More Go DHL's courier services are mounted often bike in Europe.

Photo courtesy of"Less Car More Go")Cargo bikes have reached scale in Europe. For instance, DHL Netherlands,

which does parcel delivery, replaced 33 trucks with cargo bikes, saving 152 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Arne Melse of DHL says that 10 percent of the company vehicles are bikes. rom our pilots in four EU countries,

we see that it is indeed possible to deliver by cycle. There are already 2, 000 to 3, 000 cargo bikes in London,

and importer Andrea Casalotti estimates that sales will be up 20 percent this year. Ecopostale is using bike vans to deliver the mail in Belgium (see photo above.

UPS is testing pedal-power delivery vans in Germany. According to Dr. Randy Rzewnicki, a transplanted Bostonian who now works for Europe-based Cyclelogistics,

t is boom time for cargo bikes. Up to 70 percent of delivery costs are in the last mile,

and these bikes can save money and increase efficiency. It a credible solution for young businesses.

but you have to watch this local cyclists band together to move an entire apartment. And it looks like theye having loads of fun doing it t

#Poop-powered airport shuttle bus hits the road in the U k. A supermarket powered by its own expired comestibles.

Bio-Bus which boasts CO2 EMISSIONS that are 30 percent less than buses with conventional diesel engines couldn hit the road at a better time.

"The quantum entanglement idea gives a road to get X-ray resolution using only visible light. In the future, this could lead to inexpensive microscopes that use ordinary lasers to get this resolution,

and the huge infrastructure investments in them are made on a whim for political reasons for pork a highway here and a bridge to nowhere there.

and expand a highway instead there are hard data on how much it will cost to treat the asthma cases that are caused by the extra pollution.

If you put in a bike lane instead of a car lane there are data that show how it increases the health of the population.

As Stewart noted in her Economist articlethey are following up with modules for transit roads highways and buildings.

So when those politicians want to ram another highway down our throats or rip out another bike lane there are real data that people can show on the true costs both economic and social.

This a difficult concept to write about for a nonprofessional readership. However as an architect who was an early adopter of Computer aided design (CAD) over 30 years agowhen all it did was draw

and swerved off to the side of the road, says Cirtain. We knew immediately that we had discovered something fantastic.

Janila Shulu s team are out in the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighbourhood in a predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria.

since it could be transported easily by road, he says r

#Circular RNAS throw genetics for a loop Behold the latest curio in the cabinet of RNA oddities:

Personalis, down the road in Menlo Park, offers sequencing services and interpretation for clinicians and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

#Swallows may be evolving to dodge traffic Roadside-nesting cliff swallows have evolved shorter, more manoeuvrable wings, which may have helped them to make hasty retreats from oncoming vehicles,

They suggest that the two findings provide evidence of roadway-related adaptation.""I m not saying that it s all because of wing length,

Together with Mary Bomberger Brown, a ornithologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Brown tracked roadside populations of cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) in western Nebraska for 30 years, mostly to study the birds social

but have taken also to living under bridges and highway overpasses. As the two researchers checked the roadside colonies, Brown, an amateur taxidermist,

collected dead swallows for skinning and stuffing#gathering 104 vehicle-killed adults and 134 adults killed accidentally in nets used for the study.

It is hard to definitely prove that animals are adapting to living around roads, says behavioural ecologist Colleen St clair at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

Five years down the road I expect really portable MRIS based on TRASE to be everywhere Sarty says.

Predicting retail activity a key economic indicator could be done by counting vehicles in the car parks of supermarkets and malls.

If not we'll get on the road. In the immediate future Curiosity will be going temporarily silent.

so trucks can safely haul them on highways and under bridges. This means that in the United states, most towers for 2-or 3-megawatt turbines are limited to about 260 feet.

If all midsized carrier networks were to replace current radio amplifiers with Eta Devices technology he says the reduction in greenhouse gases would be equivalent to taking about 5 million cars off the road.

#Ride sharing could cut cabs road time by 30 percent Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity:

and even as it faces legal wrangles a number of companies that provide similar services with licensed taxi cabs have sprung up.

What if the taxi-service app on your cellphone had a button on it that let you indicate that you were willing to share a ride with another passenger?

How drastically could cab-sharing reduce traffic fares and carbon dioxide emissions? Authoritatively answering that question requires analyzing huge volumes of data

and the Italian National Research Council s Institute for Informatics and Telematics present a new technique that enabled them to exhaustively analyze 150 million trip records collected from more than 13000 New york city cabs over the course of a year.

In analyzing taxi data for ride sharing opportunities Typically the approach that was taken was a variation of the so-called traveling-salesman problem Santi explains.

First they characterize every taxi trip according to four measurements: the time and GPS coordinates of both the pickup and the dropoff.

if it ran on a server used to coordinate data from cellphones running a taxi-sharing app.

whereas the GPS data indicated that on average about 300 new taxi trips were initiated in New york every minute.

Finally an online application designed by Szell Hubcab allows people to explore the taxi data themselves using a map of New york as an interface.

David Mahfouda the CEO of the car-and taxi-hailing company Bandwagon whose business model is built specifically around ride sharing says that his company hired analysts to examine the same data set that Santi

Mahfouda says that his company is founded on the assumption that a very significant number of taxi rides are shareable.

Over a four-day period he says ride sharing saved $18000 in fares and operational costs and more than 1000 pounds in carbon emissions.

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