Americans lose around 3.7 billion hours and 2.3 billion gallons of fuel sitting in traffic jams.

The Beijing municipal government covered these deficits to encourage mass transit use, and reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

Today the average American spends about a week a year stuck in traffic jams, and that's a huge waste of time and resources.

Due to congestion, New Yorkers face the longest commutes in the US, and their children have the highest rate of asthma hospitalization.

We require a more concerted international effort, led by the United Nations, to speed up the distribution of donor funds and reduce system bottlenecks.

Now one of the major bottlenecks that we've found that's sort of preventing both the access in the first place and the safety of those surgeries that do happen is anesthesia.

The congestion and urban chaos that is typical in a port area, for example, must be eliminated through better planning.

Most of the bottlenecks were reported in Muharraq, where the Bahrain International Airport is located, in the country, which covers a total area of around 780 square kilometres.

However, in other cases, the ability of operators in developing countries to apply state of the art technologies might be constrained by bottlenecks related to lack of access to the necessary skills and know how.

G. Jehoel Gijsbers, L. Kok L. Janssen, Single parents, the combination scenario and child support, a study into bottlenecks and solutions in legislation and implementation, 2001.

Because of the ever increasing complexity of peacekeeping operations, a detailed management study should be conducted with a view to re engineering their operational structure, processes and flows and pinpointing bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

This chapter will highlight the continuing challenges of implementation of the international legal and policy framework on violence against women at the national level and examine the reasons for bottlenecks.

Optimistically, Brazilian officials believe that the government s Growth Acceleration Program will serve as a vaccine against global turbulence and help reduce bottlenecks in the economy.

Among its many innovations were a paternalistic approach to saving and use of the price mechanism to defeat urban traffic congestion (an approach later adopted by London).

Horizontal synchronization seeks to ensure a balance of the processing capacity across languages and against expected output to avoid bottlenecks in the simultaneous distribution of documents in all six official languages.

With a city budget of almost 50 billion, Luzhkov encouraged architectural vandalism, overlooked giant traffic jams, and saw his wife become the richest woman in Russia through her Moscow construction projects.

(Ironically, Vickery died while sitting in a traffic jam.)

At the December meeting of the Contact Group, donors identified the slow pace of disbursements as perhaps the most significant problem. We all agreed to look proactively at reducing bottlenecks and at strengthening support for capacity building in ministries that require assistance.

In cases where the administrative expulsion of an alien became impossible, the person concerned could stay in the country temporarily, subject to certain restrictions. Moreover, the regularization of alien documentation was helping to reduce congestion in police holding facilities and improve detention conditions.

Singapore achieved rich country status with a unique development strategy. Among its many innovations were a paternalistic approach to saving and use of the price mechanism to defeat urban traffic congestion (an approach later adopted by London).