RT @JimHarris: UPS has1,000 hubs around the world for critical service parts delivery. #LeonardoLive #Transportation #agile https://t.co/Af…

RT @mvollmer1: Meet the 89-Year-Old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard #future #train #Transportation #AutonomousVehicles…
Meet the 89-Year-Old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard #future #train #Transportation #AutonomousVehicles… https://t.co/6SoRmtUVFs
– Dr. Marcell Vollmer (mvollmer1) http://twitter.com/mvollmer1/status/875267065665339393

RT @JimHarris: WOW: What 300km/hr looks like on Trenitalia's high speed train #SAPIoT #transportation #train https://t.co/gixTXSZ9Fv
WOW: What 300km/hr looks like on Trenitalia's high speed train #SAPIoT #transportation #train https://t.co/gixTXSZ9Fv
– Jim Harris (JimHarris) http://twitter.com/JimHarris/status/781478515409555456

In the US Northwest states, 53 percent of our CO2 emissions from fossil fuels stem from transportation uses including commute traffic, freight, and planes. Our transportation sector produces more than three times as much climate pollution as electricity production does.

When we're looking at how to reduce our climate-changing emissions, we must look at how to reduce emissions in this sector.

Cisco has taken up a pilot program for a packaging diet, and will see a savings of about $24 million just by getting smart and rethinking the materials and size of packaging, and the transportation of products

"European environment ministers have agreed to cut global emissions by 10 percent from planes and 20 percent from ships. "

Does morning rush hour make you crazy? Are you sick of traffic?

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), in partnership with IBM and Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations, has launched a global challenge to identify innovative ideas for combating transportation congestion.

According to recent statistics, U.S. motorists have responded to record-high prices at the pump by driving less. Any hope that this cutback will significantly restrain global oil prices is misplaced, however: fundamental factors of supply and demand in the world economy will keep oil costly for years to come.

For better or worse, the presidential campaign has kicked into high gear and both Barack Obama and John McCain are touting platforms covering everything from the economy to Iraq. However neither candidate considers transportation a top-tier issue.

Transportation isn't even listed under the "issues" tab each candidate has on his website (McCain here, Obama here). That's a big mistake because transportation lies at the heart of some of the biggest issues we face -- energy, the environment, public infrastructure and competitiveness in the global economy, to name a few.

An opinion poll in five major European countries—France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK— found a strong majority (87%) of those surveyed support an urgent reduction in new car fuel consumption of 25%—equivalent to the 120 g CO2/km target being discussed by the European Parliament.

Not sure about using food crops or land for growing fuel for transportation (can only drive up prices) but in experiments, sweet potatoes grown in Maryland and Alabama yielded two to three times as much carbohydrate for fuel ethanol production as field corn grown in those states, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists report. The same was true of tropical cassava in Alabama.

As the ports of LA and Long Beach defend their right to implement the Clean Truck Program, two major national carriers sign up.


The Port of LA has received letters of intent from Swift Transportation and Knight Transportation, two major national motor carriers that plan to become port drayage concessionaires under the Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program (CTP).