Transportation

ISSUES

Transportation

People, merchandise, ideas, epidemics, circulate along pathways of communication. In the United States in the 19th century, the rush towards the West was associated with the development of railroads. In Amazonia, today, roads create openings in forests from which other roads can be opened for deforestation.
In Europe, each person daily travels distances that were still considerable a century ago: on average, each French person traveled 10km to go to work. (1) Products that we purchase downstairs in our homes have traveled around the world, and we only realize it when we look at the label. International tourism has become commonplace.
Intermodality.
Each mode of transportation is adapted to certain types of travelling. Largely, planes are adapted to transcontinental traveling, the train to distances on the order of thousands of kilometers, cars for several hundred kilometers, bikes for dozens of kilometers, feet for...

NEWS

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FRANCE - PARIS - Encourager les Français à plutôt privilégier le vélo ou le covoiturage, et ainsi mettre un frein à...

SWITZERLAND - GENEVE - Kenneth Feith, membre d'un groupe de l'ONU ayant travaillé pendant plus de 30 ans pour faire baisser les...

SWITZERLAND - ZURICH- L'équipe de l'avion expérimental Solar Impulse prépare un survol complet de la Suisse uniquement propulsé à...

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DEBATES

What Makes Europe Greener than the U.S.?

Elisabeth Rosenthal

It was late and raining this summer when I approached the information desk at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport to inquire about how...

Roads are ruining the rainforests

They are quite right. Roads are rainforest killers. Without...

However you look at it, subsidies for new cars do more harm than good

EU member states are falling over each other to support the...

INITIATIVE

Three Tibetan environmentalist brothers in Chinese jails

On July 3, 2010, the verdict was rendered: Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for “inciting separatism”; it was believed he supported the idea of a split between Tibet and China. This judgement came after his two brothers had...

VIDEOS

12/08/2010	Despite numerous attempts to explain why the construction of a road...	06/08/2010	En Chine, une entreprise propose une idée innovante pour résoudre les...
13/07/2010	A New-York, une équipe a testé quatre moyens de transport différents pour...	02/07/2010	Bicycles in free service are very popular in Europe. Now Australia is...

GREEN TIPS

The city's employees on bicycles

In 1997, the city of Grenoble decided to put bicycles at the disposal of its employees. This initiative gave...

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