Transportation Control Measures: Steps taken by a locality to reduce vehicular emission and improve air quality by reducing or changing the flow of traffic; e.g.
Public Transportation: Fast Track to Fewer Emissions and Energy Independence
Families that use public transportation can save more than they spend on food ...
transportation - any means of conveying goods and people.
transportation planning - systems to improve the efficiency of the transportation system in order to enhance human access to goods and services.
Transportation Control Measures (TCMs) - strategies to reduce vehicle trips, vehicle use, vehicle miles traveled, vehicle idling or traffic congestion for the purpose of reducing motor vehicle emissions ...
Rural transportation land. A Land cover/use category which consists of all highways, roads, railroads and associated right-of-ways outside urban and built-up areas; also includes private roads to farmsteads or ranch headquarters, logging roads, ...
Public Transportation - Any form of transportation offered by a city or town to reduce the congestion of streets and the pollution of air.
Transportation of goods by ship, aircraft or other vehicles.
Synonyms (english only)
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Transportation Control Measure
TCP
Transportation Control Plan; Trichloropropane; ...
The transportation of soil material in suspension or in solution within the soil by the downward or lateral movement of water.
end moraine or terminal moraine ...
Ground Transportation Initiatives
Massport Connects
Bike Racks and Walking Paths
Overview Goals & Initiatives
Logan TMA
Alternative Fuel Vehicles ...
Use Public Transportation
Instead of taking a car to school, use the bus, subway, or other public transportation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The calculator assumes that you travel 3 miles to get to school.
Access to Public Transportation - In locations where public transportation is a viable alternative to private automobiles for access to work, school, ...
Carbon offsetting The reduction of carbon emissions created by transportation and manufacturing. Offsetting is typically performed by purchasing carbon offsets. Examples include going to the open market. Paying to have trees planted, etc.
Telecommuting A form of work arrangement that does not require riding transportation to an office, but rather telecommunications links such as internet and phone technologies.
Even as it is, almost half of green house gases come from agricultural monoculture, and its attendant long distance transportation and fertiliser production. organic This is often just a marketing buzzword with no meaning.
HMTA- Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
HMTR- Hazardous Materials Transportation Regulations
HOC- Halogenated Organic Carbons
HON- Hazardous Organic NESHAP
HOV- High-Occupancy Vehicle
HP- Horse Power ...
According to the EPA (as presented in the 2002 World Almanac), 97,441 thousand short tons of carbon monoxide were released in the United States during the year 1999, 75,151 of those caused by transportation related exhaust.
Elevated Temperature: A material which, when offered for transportation or transported in a bulk packaging is: in a liquid phase and at a temperature at or above 100 degrees Celsius ( 212 degrees Fahrenheit) or is in a liquid phase with a flash ...
Landfill Methane Outreach, to develop landfill gas-to-energy projects; Natural Gas Star, to reduce methane emissions from the natural gas industry; Ruminant Livestock Methane, to reduce methane emissions from ruminant livestock; Transportation ...
(1) Pertaining to processes or materials associated with transportation or deposition by running water.
(2) Pertaining to or composed of alluvium, or deposited by a stream or running water.
man-made disaster Any industrial, nuclear, or transportation accident, explosion, power failure, resource shortage, or other condition, except enemy action, resulting from man-made causes, which threaten or cause damage to property, ...
Transportation Partners, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector. Voluntary Aluminum Industrial Partnership, to reduce perfluorocarbon emissions from the primary aluminum industry.
Navigational water use: Water utilized as a means of commercial (and sometimes recreational) transportation. Includes water used to lift a vessel in a lock, or maintain a navigable channel level.
For example, the total economic value for a stretch of coastline would likely include factors for recreational value, fish and biomass production value, temperature mitigation value, housing price value, transportation value, ...
The industry-sponsored Chemical Transportation Emergency Center; provides information and/or emergency assistance to emergency responders.
Child Resistant Packaging (CRP) ...
Hazards Analysis: Procedures used to (1) identify potential sources of release of hazardous materials from fixed facilities or transportation accidents; (2) determine the vulnerability of a geographical area to a release of hazardous materials; ...
The location of an unexpected occurrence, failure or loss, either at a plant or along a transportation route, resulting in a release of hazardous materials.
Accuracy
The degree of agreement between a measured value and a true, expected value.
BALER Equipment that compacts and binds recyclable materials to reduce volume and transportation costs. (BALING).
BENEFICATION The mechanical processing of waste glass to decontaminate it and crush it to a more uniform size.
Solid Waste Management: related to storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid waste or resource recovery, and facilities necessary for such activities.
Exposure standards, permissible concentrations, rules for safe handling, regulations for transportation, regulations for industrial control of radiation and control of radioactive material by legislative means.
Radiation Warning Symbol ...
biofuels: Biofuels are fuels made from plants and animals. These fuels are usually used for transportation.
bioluminescence: Bioluminescence is when an animal, like a firefly or deep sea fish, gives off its own light.
All manufactured items, including gifts, require material and energy to be produced, and production and transportation of the items results in some level of pollution. Here are a couple of ways to make sure those resources aren't a waste: ...
Similar to alternative energy. Not fossil fuels, but different transportation fuels like natural gas, methanol, bio fuels and electricity.
Annual Consumption ...
Alternative fuels - similar to above. Not petrol or diesel but different transportation fuels like natural gas, methanol, bio fuels and electricity.
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A class of compounds that ignite easily and burn rapidly. The Department of Transportation requires that Vehicles transporting flammables must have special markings (placards).
Flash point ...
Flat-pack: Refers to furniture that is designed to pack flat, thereby reducing shipping costs and fuel used in transportation. Flat-pak designs are ready to assemble by the customer, right out of the box.
Metal (including precious metal) shaped into a convenient form for transportation and storage.
Inscription
The legend or lettering stamped on a coin or medal.
It is a major component of photochemical smog, a product of combustion from transportation and stationary sources, and a major contributor to the formation of ozone in the lower atmosphere and to acid deposition.
Gasoline - An oil derived hydrocarbon mixture used as fuel in internal combustion engines. In the US more than 40% of carbon dioxide emissions come from transportation engines burning gasoline. [Atmospheric Environment; V40; 8002-8019; 2006.] ...
nitrogen oxide : Product of combustion from transportation and stationary sources and a major contributor to the formation of ozone in the troposphere and to acid deposition.
cradle to grave: the whole of a product's life-cycle, from the extraction and processing of natural resources used to manufacture through to transportation, use and ultimate disposal.
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A facility allowing drop-off and consolidation of garbage and a range of recyclable materials. Transfer stations have become an integral part of municipal waste management by improving transportation economics associated with municipal waste disposal.
It also is created by burning coal and oil, from the operation of smelting industries and from transportation. In the atmosphere, these gases combine with water vapour to form acids, which then fall back to Earth.
Industrial and energy-generating facilities that burn fossil fuels, primarily coal, are the principal sources of increased sulfur oxides. These sources, plus the transportation sector, are the major originators of increased nitrogen oxides.
water, 3) is normally unstable, 4) contains cyanide or sulfide in sufficient quantity to evolve toxic fumes at high or low pH, 5) is capable of exploding if heated under pressure, or 6) is an explosive compound listed in Department of Transportation ...
For an event, like the Union for Reform Judaism North American Biennial, for example, the footprint includes attendee travel, ground transportation, energy use at the venues and other items related to the production of the Biennial.
For example, a trip blank is transported just like actual samples, but it doesn't contain the chemicals to be analyzed. It evaluates the possibility that a chemical could seep into the samples during transportation to the laboratory.
 See also: Environment, Environmental, Waste, Reduce, Water
  
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