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Energy policy in Ecuador is driven by its need for energy security as a developing country as well as its conservation efforts. [1] Despite past and ongoing attempts to take charge in energy sustainability (as with the now defunct Yasuni-ITT initiative), oil production and exportation still supports its small $5,853 GDP/capita economy at an average of 549,000 barrels/day in 2016. [2]
Intermodal container traffic is commonly measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), rather than cargo weight, e.g. a TEU-km would be the equivalent of one twenty-foot container transported one kilometer. [6]
Empresa Metropolitana de Servicios y Administración del Transporte or EMSAT (Metropolitan Transport Services and Administration Company) is the transportation government agency of the municipality of Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
Ecuador has a variety of bus services. [1] The general types of service include: luxury buses — autobús de lujo, which travel the main routes between cities. [2] standard buses — these travel more local routes and will stop for any passengers that hails them. [2] minibuses — busetas which service the outer fringes of the bus networks [2]
Ferrocarril Ambato - Cururay. Commenced from Ambato (on the G&Q Southern Division), reached Pelileo (35 km) and was intended to continue to Baños de Agua Santa, located on the banks of the Pastaza River then intended to extend until it crossed the Arajuno River and reached a navigable point on the Curaray, a total length of 117 km. Construction commenced in 1912 and the company ceased ...
The MetrobusQ network, also known as "Red Integrada de Transporte Público", is the bus rapid transit system running in Quito, and it goes through the city from south to north. It's divided into three sections—the green line ( the central trolleybus , known as El Trole ), the red line (the north-east Ecovía ), and the blue line (the north ...
The SI comprises a coherent system of units of measurement starting with seven base units, which are the second (symbol s, the unit of time), metre (m, length), kilogram (kg, mass), ampere (A, electric current), kelvin (K, thermodynamic temperature), mole (mol, amount of substance), and candela (cd, luminous intensity).
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador: Transit type: Rapid transit: Number of lines: 1: Number of stations: 15: Website: Metro de Quito (in Spanish) Operation; Began operation: 1 December 2023: Number of vehicles: 18 CAF MQ117 EMUs [1] Technical; System length: 22 km (14 mi) [2] Track gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge: Electrification ...