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Linking climate and innovation in Kenya......The new electric bus line is a measure of how closely Kenya’s future is linked to climate action and innovative technologies. A leader in renewable energy, the country is increasing its investments in green technology, as well as encouraging businesses to be innovative and more willing to look across the continent for opportunities and growth. The country is developing initiatives to boost food supply, support small farms, improve exports, and be more inclusive towards disadvantaged parts of society. The electric bus is a key artery in the body of this forward-looking Kenya, where maize farmers walk through fields with their eyes trained on mobile apps to improve yields. Where mango producers use state-of-the-art cold-storage technology to preserve crops. And the country’s advanced geothermal plants are the model for renewable energy programmes replicated all over Africa.....read on https://www.eib.org/en/
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Cost: Advantage for Rail Shipping. When it comes to cost, rail transportation has the advantage. Rail shipping is much more cost-effective than truck shipping for several reasons. Rail is a much more fuel-efficient mode of transportation. Railcars can also carry much more volume than trucks. The below information is gathered from the Association of American Railroads. About 83 million more trucks would be needed to move freight in the United States if railroads did not move freight. Trucks also require about four times more fuel than rail to handle the freight shipping needs that Americans rely on everyday Environmental Impact: Advantage to Rail
Businesses and consumers are both increasingly prioritizing a strong environmental stance. Rail transit, compared to trucking, can significantly reduce the energy costs, carbon emissions, and pollution associated with transit.
- Since rail cars can hold three to four truckloads of cargo, a single freight train can haul a load that would otherwise require over 300 trucks.
- In the US, freight trains can move one ton of goods approximately 470 miles on a single gallon of fuel, compared to trucking’s approximately 134 miles per gallon of diesel.
- Businesses that seek to change their supply chain in favor of sustainability are looking at rail as an eco-friendly transportation mode. On average, rail is four times more fuel efficient than trucks.
- Rail emits 75% fewer GHG emissions than truck shipping
This fuel-efficiency can also help to reduce transportation costs significantly, while also reducing environmental impacts. When it comes to environmental impacts of rail vs truck, rail easily wins out.
Speed: Advantage to TruckingWhen comparing the speed of rail vs trucking shipping, the advantage goes to trucking. Extensive highways allow trucks to (usually) follow a shorter path between two points and deliver their cargo faster. Trucks are also generally easier to load and unload. However, the speed advantage of trucking over rail starts to fade over longer distances.Railroads utilize a network of track that includes large rail yards, which are a series of tracks for sorting, storing loading, and unloading of railcars. These vast yards are filled with railcars waiting for their next move, and these delays often mean rail is not as fast of a freight delivery mode when compared to trucking.Railcars also experience dwell time on a weekly basis. Dwell time refers to the amount of time a railcar spends waiting at a terminal to move to its next destination. According to the RSI Industry Yard Dwell report for the week of February 28th, 2024, railcars experience an average of 22.8 hours in weekly dwell time.
Flexibility: Advantage to TruckingFlexibility is the main advantage of trucking. While railcars must travel along fixed rail routes, trucks have access to a much wider range of roads and highways. This means that trucks are capable of accessing many more loading and unloading points across the nation. Trucks can also find a direct path more easily, while railcars may have to divert around some areas where rail infrastructure isn’t available.
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Transportation demand management (TDM), or simply demand management, is defined as a set of strategies aimed at maximizing traveler choices. Traditionally, TDM has been narrowly defined as commuter ridesharing and its planning application restricted to air quality mitigation (conformity analysis), development mitigation (reducing trip generation rates and parking needs), or efforts to increase multi-modalism in transportation plans. A more contemporary definition of TDM consists of maximizing travel choices, as stated in the definition provided in an FHWA report on TDM: Managing demand is about providing travelers, regardless of whether they drive alone, with travel choices, such as work location, route, time of travel and mode. In the broadest sense, demand management is defined as providing travelers with effective choices to improve travel reliability. While transportation systems management and operations is an umbrella term for a set of strategies that includes transportation demand management, it is helpful to focus on specific needs for integrating TDM into existing activities that are carried out under the transportation planning process by States, metropolitan planning organizations, and local agencies. TDM can be effectively integrated into the planning processes at all levels using an objectives-driven, performance-based approach that includes a process for setting specific, measurable objectives for TDM......READ THE COMPREHENSIVE STUDY & REPORT....... https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/plan4ops/trans_demand.htm#:~:text=Traditionally%2C%20TDM%20has%20been%20narrowly,multi%2Dmodalism%20in%20transportation%20plans.
Metro Vancouver Regional Transportation Plans and Projects.......Our vision is to create a better place to live that is built on transportation excellence. Guided by our regional transportation strategy, we work to connect the region and enhance its livability by providing a system network of sustainable transportation......check out all the projects...... https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects?page=1&pageSize=10&sort=Date
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Taking a train during a heat wave? Watch out for ‘sun kinks’. As tracks heat up, they expand and buckle. That's forcing rail operators to adapt as the climate heats. Grist Matt Simon Jul 09, 2024 There is a gap between the rails, and this gap is meant for such expansion,” said Dev Niyogi, who studies urban climate extremes at the University of Texas at Austin. Still, in a severe heat wave, the rail can swell until the underlying ties can no longer contain it. Then the rail gets visibly wavy, morphing into what’s known as a sun kink. That’s a serious hazard for trains, which can derail on misaligned tracks. In extreme cases, the track can violently buckle, going from a straight shot to grotesque curves almost instantly. So if it’s excessively hot out, rail services will slow their trains as a precaution, which provides less of the mechanical energy that can lead to buckling. Amtrak, for instance, restricts speeds to 80 miles per hour if the rail temperature hits 140 degrees. That was partly the reason behind Amtrak delays in the Northeast Corridor, which runs between Washington D.C. and Boston, during a brutal heat wave last month. (Amtrak did not respond to multiple requests to comment for this story.) As extreme heat waves get worse, more tracks will turn into sun kinks — disrupting commuter rail service that reduces carbon emissions and slows that warming. In 2019, a study estimated that the U.S. rail network could see additional delay costs totaling between $25 billion and $45 billion by the year 2100, in a scenario that assumed greenhouse gas emissions decline in the next 20 years. Compared to a tree falling on top of a track and blocking traffic, or a switch breaking, heat is a much larger, harder problem for rail operators to deal with. “Heat waves tend to be regional, so the impacts can be huge,” said Jacob Helman, one of the author’s of that 2019 study and a senior climate consultant at Resilient Analytics, which provides infrastructure vulnerability assessments. “It can impact the entire Northeast Corridor over the course of five days.”As climate change drives hotter and longerheat waves, companies are reevaluating their operations and adapting new technologies. Railroads already use remote sensors to determine the temperature of their rails, but are getting still more sophisticated as heat waves intensify......read on https://mail.google.com/
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