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Tag: transportation
American Airlines complains a number of times that the advertisements triggered by its trademarks lead to sites that sell both American Airlines tickets and those of its competitors. So what? Any retailer can advertise that it sells X even though, in its store, it displays X next to competitive offerings.
lame. why dont you fix your decrepit infrastructure instead, AA?
wow. talk about obsessive. tracks vessels around mostly northern european ports.
Developed internally at Virgin America, the system is named Red and provides live satellite tv, movies, mp3s, games and plane-wide chatting. Yes, chatting. There is a general chatroom, a private invite channel for your friends, and direct user-to-user mes
google maps comes to the washington metro. now when does the washington metro come to google maps?
content encyclopedia project dedicated to sharing knowledge about sustainable transportation policies and practices from around the world.
Today, the US is one of the most dangerous places to drive in the industrialized world.
SUVs, debunked.
Customers of both FedEx and UPS can now print out shipping labels that are easily scannable by computers. Meteorologists at both companies routinely outguess official Weather Service forecasts. And both are working with the Federal Aviation Administration to improve air safety and scheduling. UPS is collaborating with the FAA on a system — ADSB — that may make conventional radar obsolete. “We want to make ADSB the backbone of our future air traffic system.”
yay. UPS is working to overhaul the decrepit FAA air traffic control system, cause of most of the delays in air travel these days.
visualizing and analyzing cab patterns with gps and googlemaps and street view
Whether through competition, co-operation or both, a plethora of European directives such as the “Railway Interoperability Directive” and the “Third Railway Package” will encourage the emergence of this new era of international rail travel. Rail bosses note that on 6-hour journeys they are typically winning more than 60% of the leisure market from airlines. The same is happening with business travelers on 4-hour journeys. It may be a while before you can choose between a French TGV or a German ICE to ride to Bucharest or even Naples. But as when Lenin sped in his sealed carriage through war-torn Germany 90 years ago, the train of revolution has left the station.
london – paris at 2:20. suck it, airlines.
The facility marks the first time car parking spaces have been removed to accommodate bicycle parking in New York City.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 