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Sustainable Transportation as a Corporate Strategy

Strategy Driven

Specifically, implementing a sustainable transportation policy as a corporate strategy offers significant value from environmental and financial benefits to increased efficiency and social advantages. Hence, a company or government entity can subsidize transportation costs or give free passes to employees.

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Growing Numbers Face Transport Insecurity

The Horizons Tracker

Inequality is a widespread problem across the developed world, but while income insecurity has been well documented, a recent study from the University of Michigan suggests that transportation insecurity deserves equal attention. The researchers developed the Transportation Security Index to measure transportation insecurity.

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Reconciling Climate-Friendly Urban Transport and Resident Wellbeing

The Horizons Tracker

Can urban transport in the world’s major cities become more environmentally friendly while ensuring minimal impact on residents? By implementing tailor-made climate policies in transportation without compromising the quality of life in these cities, greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by 22% within a 15-year timeframe.

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Are Rising Transport Costs Behind Higher Cost Of Living?

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from George Washington University suggests that higher transportation costs may actually play a bigger part. These approaches seldom use formal models of a city, however, and therefore ignore things like the cost of transport on the cost of living. Formal modeling.

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How Does Public Transport Affect Greenhouse Gases?

The Horizons Tracker

Public transport has long been touted as a greener way of getting around major towns and cities, but this has largely lacked any empirical evidence to support the claim. New research from the University of Utah has attempted to plug that gap by quantifying just how much public transport reduces pollution. Greener transit. ”

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The Story of U.S. Business Is the Story of Real Estate

Leading Blog

T HE STORY of American business is the story of real estate — a story of more than 200 years of claiming, seizing, developing, settling, and speculating in vast areas of land. Owning and improving land necessitated getting to that land, and so a booming real estate enterprise led to America’s transportation industry.

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Top 5 Best Cities in Bulgaria to Live In 2024

Strategy Driven

The Bulgarian economy is constantly developing. From the positive sides stands out the developed infrastructure and a calm rhythm. Businessmen in Stara Zagora invest capital in agricultural production, transportation and manufacturing. Foreign investors have invested in the development of Sofia.