Nice has fantastic public transportation with high-speed trains, a modern tramway and comprehensive bus routes.
In Germany, high-speed trains now account for 97% of the air-rail market between Cologne and Frankfurt.
Hitachi trains are the front-runner in the competition to replace all of the UK's fleet of inter-city high-speed trains.
Earlier this year Hitachi confirmed a factory in County Durham would build rolling stock for high-speed trains.
Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, wants to push all short-haul travellers on to (as yet non-existent) high-speed trains.
All the other Shinkansen routes in Japan lose cart-loads of cash, as high-speed trains do elsewhere in the world.
This includes building new infrastructure, from high-speed trains to high-speed Internet, so that our economy can run faster and smarter.
"I think in parts of the country, taking high-speed trains will be like taking buses in the future, " she said.
The preferred route would take high-speed trains through Cold Hiendley, Woodlesford and Hunslet before reaching the new station in Leeds.
While Italy has had high-speed trains since the late 1970s, NTV is the country's first rail operator not run by the state.
Orient owns two dozen luxury hotels across the globe and runs ferries in the English Channel and high-speed trains from London to Scotland.
Gas turbines, steam turbines, nuclear power plants, high-speed trains, these are the areas he believes Hitachi can still be a world beater, especially in the developing world.
High-speed trains remain few and far between, and even Warsaw airport's new terminal, opened this year, has been a saga of delays and money rows.
The government has had a change of heart about rapidly expanding the high-speed rail network following a fatal crash of two high-speed trains in July.
High-speed trains between Paris and other French regions were also restored.
The development of high-speed trains across Europe encourages direct travel from one city centre to another, reinforcing the appeal of living and working near the centre.
"We would be moving to probably the most accessible place on the planet, with high-speed trains coming in and out of Stratford every few minutes, " he said.
The preferred route of phase two will take high-speed trains to the Church Fenton area, where they can connect with existing lines and run into York.
It is ideal terrain for airlines: a region dominated by sprawling archipelagoes, where planes therefore face little competition from roads and high-speed trains, as they do in Europe or America.
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France has a comparatively efficient public sector, thanks in part to years of investment in better roads, more high-speed trains, nuclear energy and even the restoration of old cathedrals (see article).
Public support for high-speed trains is muted.
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Meanwhile, the entry into service of Virgin Rail's new high-speed tilting trains on Britain's London-Glasgow line was marred by delays and cancellations: plainly Euston had a problem.
Thalys high-speed passenger trains may zip between Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne.
This means job-creating investments in roads, high-speed speed trains, and broadband.
The high-speed Eurostar and Thalys trains idled part of their service through Brussels as transport workers walked off the job.
Motorola says it is uniquely positioned to smooth the transition between home, work, automotive and mobile environments, providing high-speed internet access on trains, for example, e-mail in cars, video on phones, or mobile-phone coverage on planes.
Preliminary estimates suggest that the cost of constructing a high-speed railway line and acquiring trains to run on them would be in the range of Rs. 70 crore to Rs. 100 crore per km, translating to at least Rs. 37, 000 crore for a Mumbai-Ahmedabad line.
"Today's announcement isn't just about faster trains - high-speed rail will create up to 30, 000 station-supported jobs in Manchester and help to drive productivity in the region, bridging the economic gap between the North and the South, " he said.
To exploit the power of modern high-speed locomotives, engineers resort to tilting trains and special track free of sharp bends: it's cheaper than tearing up the existing rails and starting again.
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