Transportation

ISSUES

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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JAPAN - TOKYO - Quatre constructeurs automobiles et une compagnie d'électricité japonais ont lancé lundi des travaux de...

PERU - LIMA - Une centaine de cyclistes peu vêtus ou entièrement nus ont participé samedi à une manifestation dans le centre...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - With the click of a mouse, the new feature allows you to plot the best (and flattest!) ride from Point A to Point B....

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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...

FOCUS

Saving energy

The cheapest least polluting energy is energy that is not consumed. We can save energy in all areas of everyday life: transport, housing, domestic and electric appliances… Saving energy on a daily basis is the...

VIDEOS

11/03/2010	On the small Danish island of Bornholm, a coalition of governments,...	10/03/2010	Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder...
06/01/2010	"A working day without travel", dernière campagne du WWF milite pour uen...	22/12/2009	PHP is the best conditioned ship breaking site in Chittagong, a home to...

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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