He wanted to find a way to get personal travel information and traffic and flight delay data automatically delivered.

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Meanwhile, traffic has gotten worse, with delay hours growing from 44 hours a year in 1982 to 70 hours in 2007.

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Soon what I thought was a minor traffic hold-up became a frightening delay in sweltering, dry harmattan heat.

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Atlantic Southeast, which was sold to Skywest Airlines by Delta in 2005 but continues as Delta's connector partner, tends to get short shrift during weather delays by an Air Traffic Control system that would always rather delay flights with relatively fewer people on them.

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In comparison with cities of a similar size in population, drivers in the city of San Jose waste a cumulative of 10 million more annual hours sitting in traffic jams and suffer a 15% higher commute delay per peak-time traveler.

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If an airline can claim that a delay was caused by bad weather or air-traffic congestion, then it is not required to provide free lodging or other compensation to passengers.

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As detailed here, the FAA wants to create an air traffic system that uses satellites and sensor technology to improve safety and eliminate delay.

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Singhal pointed to Google Now, which is designed to send users information before they even search for it, such as flight delay information, or when someone should leave for a meeting, taking into account traffic.

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The serious delay in re-starting the computer would prompt a major investigation within the National Air Traffic Service.

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