On Sept. 30, 2016, Governor Chris Christie, alongside Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, announced a bipartisan agreement for broad-based tax cuts and funding for the Transportation Trust Fund. This was passed don Oct. 6. The TTF funding comes from a 23-cent gas tax increase that will cost the average New Jerseyan…
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Quebec’s largest agri-food firm to install multi-fuel stations
Agri-food cooperative La Coop fédérée has been chosen by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MERN) to install multi-fuel stations in Quebec, according to a company release. La Coop will participate in the government’s pilot project through its subsidiary Énergies Sonic, the largest energy products distributor in Quebec, and will join industry leaders namely…
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Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and stations: The future of transport?
Many experts suggest that hydrogen is the closest alternative to gasoline or diesel. It only takes a few minutes to fill up the tank of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV), providing a driving range that can go from 300 to 400 miles depending on the car. When in contact with oxygen, hydrogen can be…
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Transportation Ranks 1st in Emissions that Cause Climate Change
Transportation Ranks 1st in Emissions that Cause Climate Change The old adage, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” applies to transportation planning. When Congress passed MAP-21, a reauthorization of federal transportation legislation, it directed the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to set new performance measures to ensure that recipients of federal transportation funds spend the…
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