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  2. Energy efficiency in transport - Wikipedia

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    Passenger transportation by rail systems requires less energy than by car or plane (one seventh of the energy needed to move a person by car in an urban context, [45]). This is the reason why, although accounting for 9% of world passenger transportation activity (expressed in pkm) in 2015, rail passenger services represented only 1% of final ...

  3. Commuting - Wikipedia

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    Ring Road, Vienna, Austria, June 2005 Commuters on the New York City Subway during rush hour Rush hour at Shinjuku Station, Tokyo Traffic jam in Baltimore, Maryland. Commuting is periodically recurring travel between a place of residence and place of work or study, where the traveler, referred to as a commuter, leaves the boundary of their home community. [1]

  4. Economics of car use - Wikipedia

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    Car washes; In the UK car travel has steadily become cheaper over the past five decades. According to the Department for Transport, the real cost of running a car has dropped by 9% between 1980 and 2007. [8] This development is in part due to more cost effective manufacturing technologies, and in part due to engines becoming more fuel-efficient.

  5. Rail transport - Wikipedia

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    A train is a connected series of rail vehicles that move along the track. Propulsion for the train is provided by a separate locomotive or from individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Most trains carry a revenue load, although non-revenue cars exist for the railway's own use, such as for maintenance-of-way purposes.

  6. Apple building a car ‘is a matter of when, not if’: Wedbush’s ...

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    Apple's work on its own electric vehicle is well underway now, sources say, and should be ready for launch in 2024 or 2025.

  7. Human-powered transport - Wikipedia

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    Human-powered transport is the transport of person(s) and/or goods using human muscle power. Unlike animal-powered transport , human-powered transport has existed since time immemorial in the form of walking , running and swimming , as well as small vehicles such as litters , rickshaws , wheelchairs and wheelbarrows .

  8. China’s Xiaomi dreams of building a car ‘as good as’ Porsche ...

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    Xiaomi has unveiled its first electric car, just days after Huawei launched another one of its own, showing that the efforts of Chinese tech giants to join the electric vehicle race are beginning ...

  9. Is It Ever Cheaper to Build a Home Instead of Buy One? - AOL

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