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Share Guernsey car journeys with liftshare and save money and fuel
October 1st, 2012 by Liftshare
The liftshare.com website works for Guernsey car journeys. The service is free for individual users. Corporate clients can join the service for a fee to encourage their employees to share car journeys. Fill in a form on the liftshare website or register with a Facebook account. The liftshare service will become increasingly useful to Guernsey [...]
BMWs C evolution near-production electric scooter for the commuter
August 2nd, 2012 by BMW Group
BMW recognises that growing traffic volumes, rising energy costs, and increasingly stringent CO2 emission restrictions on vehicles are going to require drastic changes in the requirements for individual mobility. With this in mind, BMW Motorrad have developed the BMW C evolution, which is a near-production prototype electric scooter, which is designed for commuter traffic between [...]
Car-free travel in Guernsey
May 22nd, 2012 by Pat Wisher
A new Government is now in place in Guernsey, a new Environment Department and a commitment to bring back another Integrated Road Transport/Traffic Strategy within a year. This time it seems that the strategy must accommodate the fact that cars are essential to modern life. No one has ever said that cars are not useful [...]
Is sitting in your car killing you?
May 8th, 2012 by Elsevier
As populations move even further away from urban centers, more people spend longer hours behind the wheel on their way to and from work. While sedentary behavior is known to have adverse effects on cardiovascular and metabolic health, the impact of long commutes by automobile are less understood. A new study on “Commuting Distance, Cardiorespiratory [...]
Car clubs help improve London air
March 18th, 2012 by Carplus
Car Clubs make a considerable contribution to improving air quality and reducing carbon emissions in London, according to new independent research published by the Transport Research Laboratory. Building on studies done for each of the last three years, TRL have reaffirmed the positive effect of Car Clubs, as Londoners are shown again to be selling [...]
When fuel prices rise people would consider abandoning car ownership
March 14th, 2012 by Oliver Wyman
Urban dwellers in Western Europe and Asia would seriously consider a change in their primary mode of transport – including abandoning auto ownership – according to a recently released study by Oliver Wyman and the ESB Business School Reutlingen (Germany). The “Future of Mobility” found that, if fuel prices rose significantly by 2030, approximately 77% [...]
Liftshare.com reduces fuel costs, reduces traffic, reduces pollution and reduces parking difficulties
March 8th, 2012 by Liftshare
The typical UK commuter who car-shares every day saves about £800 a year, and reduces their CO2 emissions by about a tonne. To find someone who is going your way visit the free-to-use Liftshare website and add details of any journey you want to share.
UK figures show that cost of motoring fell in last decade while the cost of public transport has risen sharply
February 1st, 2011 by Friends of the Earth
New figures showing that the cost of motoring fell between 1997 and 2010, while bus and train fares rose sharply show that the UK Government transport policy must change direction to tackle the dual threats of climate change and higher oil prices, Friends of the Earth said on Tuesday 1 February 2011. The new figures, [...]
The High Cost of Free Parking
October 17th, 2010 by Richard Lord
Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and visiting scholar at Cambridge University, has studied car parking as a link between transportation and land use. His influential book, The High Cost of Free Parking is leading a growing number of cities to charge a fair market [...]
Montreal study probes link between breast cancer and traffic pollution
October 7th, 2010 by McGill University
Air pollution has already been linked to a range of health problems. Now, a ground-breaking new study suggests pollution from traffic may put women at risk for another deadly disease. The study, published in the prestigious journal Environmental Health Perspectives, by researchers from The Research Institute of the MUHC (RI MUHC; Dr. Mark Goldberg), McGill [...]
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