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Relationship between distance driven and economic activity: 1946-2017

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from 2000 to 2017. in 2000 to 0.7% in 2000 to 8.9% However, a recent analysis did not find a decrease in the amount of time people spend traveling using all modes of transportation in connection with purchasing goods and services between 2007 and 2017.).

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Traditional retail sales steady despite e-commerce

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In comparison, the corresponding percentage in 2000 was only 0.9%. That is consistent with a recent finding that, between 2007 and 2017, there was no significant reduction in the amount of travel in connection with purchasing goods and services. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. of all retail sales— the highest percentage yet.

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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Laker worked with the IEEE Board of Directors in the early 1990s to purchase personal computers for the organization’s leaders to make it easier to conduct IEEE business via the Internet. The US $10,000 scholarship is administered by IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study.

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Study finds that replacing older, highly polluting school buses could lead to 1.3 million fewer daily absences annually

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million fewer daily absences annually, according to a University of Michigan study. Applying their results nationwide, the researchers extrapolated that replacing all pre-2000 model school buses would lead to more than 1.3 Replacing all of the oldest, highly polluting school buses in the US could lead to 1.3

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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IEA: improving efficiency of road-freight transport critical to reduce oil-demand growth; three areas of focus

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Yet the growth in oil demand from trucks has outpaced all other sectors—including passenger cars, aviation, industry and petrochemical feedstocks—since 2000 and contributed 40% to global oil demand growth, a similar contribution as cars.

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Toyota Appoints New Head of European R&D

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Katsumata joined Toyota in 1987 after graduating with a degree in hydrodynamics from Tokyo University. He started his career as a chassis engineer before making the shift to product planning in 1993 and product management in 2000. In 2003, he returned to the Planning Division (R&D), where he managed mid-term R&D strategy.

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