But Switzerland's train system is second only to Japan's for its comprehensiveness and frequency of use by locals.
And one example it used to point to as a source of pride was the world-beating high-speed train system.
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The accident prompted Chinese authorities to slow expansion of the bullet-train system.
Google's transit directions pulled in data from multiple services -- you could take a city bus to an unrelated train system traveling across state lines.
Matt Loxham, a medical biologist at Southampton University, collected minute dust particles of different sizes from at an underground train system in an unnamed European city.
"I think the bullet train system is not stable and may break down in extreme weather conditions, " said Professor Zhao Jian, a transportation expert with Beijing Jiaotong University.
Some railway routes were affected by the earthquake, but Trenitalia, the Italian train system, said late Tuesday afternoon that all had been reopened and that train service was returning to normal.
At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the agency was deploying additional staff and is assembling snow-fighting equipment for area's airports, bridges and tunnels, and the PATH train system.
Like the pre-election bombings in Madrid's train system last year, those today were timed to capitalize upon and affect a major political event: the G-8 summit meeting being hosted by Britain at Gleneagles, Scotland.
Despite worries from the public that the train system will not be up to the job, Peter Meades from National Express East Anglia believes improvements to the service are well underway to cope with the influx of tourists.
He said that by the end of 2003 all trains would be fitted with the TPWS train protection system.
But it looks more likely that the technology is in its infancy and will require users to train the system, and be patient with its errors.
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Nearly three decades ago, the average Indian consumer realized the awesome power of what automation could do for them when the Indian Railways computerized train ticketing system nationwide.
Peptide vaccines: These also train the immune system to recognize proteins associated with the HIV virus.
Bacterial vaccines, which used modified bacteria to try to train the immune system to fight the HIV virus.
The gut bacteria may train the immune system not to overreact to allergens.
Novavax's vaccines utilize what are called virus-like particles--genetically engineered molecules designed to train the immune system to recognize a particular virus.
Over the years numerous trials of anticancer vaccines designed to train the immune system to recognize cancer have shown mostly lackluster results.
Cancer vaccines attempt to train the immune system to identify cancer cells by the genes they are over-expressing, and then destroy them.
It is designed to train the immune system to attack tumors.
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His nearly 100 patented creations include a dictionary, a train-switching system and, most recently, a service that turns an ordinary pager into a personal security device.
On April 28 Dendreon of Seattle notched Food and Drug Administration approval for Provenge, its cell therapy designed to train the immune system to fight prostate cancer.
However, this approach requires drugs to make the virus active and a vaccine to train the immune system to finish it off - this is not just round the corner.
Schroeder developed the EvoSport system that is the foundation of Thomas's daily exercise regimen a method in which Thomas attaches electrodes to himself to stimulate and train his nervous system and, in turn, his muscles to work more efficiently.
Develop a system, train your staff, explain it to clients and implement it consistently.
One unique aspect of the conference is training provided by experts working within the UN system who train participants within the perspective of a diplomatic career.
But investigators are focused on a failure of the train tracks themselves, as opposed to an error by engineers or a failure of the train's signal system.
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This diverts resources from network enhancement or lower fares, which would do more to save lives overall than any investment in the train protection and warning system.
No train in the Amtrak system supports itself, even those in the corridors -- the Northeast Corridor, and a few other lines in Florida, the Midwest and the West Coast -- that are truly useful.
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