The rate at which airlines lost luggage dropped a sharp 26%, according to Department of Transportation data.
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U.S. Department of Transportation data shows five people died in three separate stretch limo accidents in 2010, and 21 people died in another three stretch limo accidents in 2011.
With proposals for innovations to solve transportation, education and data needs, one has to ask what have mayors been doing, anyways?
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In fact, according to data gathered by the Department of Transportation, 97% of vehicle trips are less than 50 miles and 88% of them are under 20.
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Airlines have posted an average 6.3% increase in the number of February passengers during leap year because of the extra day, based on the past eight years' data from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Piloting small aircraft represents the riskiest type of transportation, according to fatality data analyzed for the study.
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Early signs of economic recovery in 2012 are appearing with muted analyst opinions in the transportation space, even as manufacturing data are showing improvement.
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Last month, OSTP and the Department of Transportation co-hosted a Safety Data Jam at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building that brought together 40 leaders from technology, public safety, and government communities to discuss public safety challenges and to brainstorm creative new solutions that leverage open government safety data.
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Between 1995 and 2008, ground factors were responsible for one-third of major aviation accidents, according to data released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
Numbers related to security violations are not included because those cases are handled by the Transportation Security Administration, which keeps its own data.
In a recent survey conducted by Corenet, corporate real estate managers in the northeast corridor reported that Hurricane Sandy had affected a variety of functions, including the operation of mission-critical facilities, data storage, back up energy sources and access to transportation infrastructure.
And with advances in big data, he sees that as a possibility - he compares the management of big data combined with machine learning with the shipping container revolution in transportation.
But on Sunday the National Transportation Safety Board completed its examination of flight recorder data from the jet that caught fire in Boston, and determined that the affected battery did not exceed its designed voltage.
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Local governments could mine the data to understand how to improve road safety, decrease congestion and upgrade transportation infrastructure, says Goddijn.
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The spy program is a sophisticated rootkit designed to steal data from SCADA networks, the type of software that control energy utilities, transportation, and other vital systems.
This includes data that will result in developing engineering standards, tests and analyses of the crew transportation systems design.
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After a long day of studying data, including slope angles, solar energy, weather and powder patterns and nearby transportation facilities, Mr. Mathews occasionally goes to bed pondering problems and wakes up with solutions.
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The study looks at data that the airlines are mandated by law to report to the U.S. Department of Transportation over the last twelve months, focusing on four criteria: On-time arrivals, denied boardings, mishandled bags, and customer complaints.
Private researchers who analyzed federal data on airline performance also said in a report being released Monday that consumer complaints to the Department of Transportation surged by one-fifth last year even though other measures such as on-time arrivals and mishandled baggage show airlines are doing a better job.
If our testing also validates the low-temperature power capabilities that A123's data is showing, we believe Nanophosphate EXT could be a game-changing battery breakthrough for the electrification of transportation, including the emerging micro hybrid vehicle segment.
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Since the primary waves travel more quickly than the comparatively sluggish secondary waves, the system picks up on the magnitude and speed at which the quake is approaching, and beams the data over fiber optic networks to emergency relay stations setup in corporate towers, governmental buildings, hospitals, and transportation venues such as railways.
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Data for the report were compiled by the NHTSA, the traffic arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
In 2004 it engaged in a partnership with Minnesota Department of Transportation, U.S., to equip 100 state vehicles with sensors to collect traffic-related data including vehicle speed, location, heading and even localised weather conditions, with the aim of developing the next generation of transportation and driver information systems.
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