The fastest thing in the universe is light, and the amount of time it takes a photon (in a vacuum, absent of gravity), to transit a planck is called planck-time.

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And the Chicago Transit Authority has increased ridership with real-time bus tracking and arrival times.

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Provides real-time traffic, public transit and flight info, will also show you places of interest as you walk down the street.

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Despite New York City virtually revolving around its mass transit system, local subway riders haven't had a way to check the next arrival in real-time, even though some smaller cities already take live transit details for granted.

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Police said that a cash-in-transit vehicle was in the forecourt at the time.

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Together, they worked out a new route that would reduce the co-occurrence of whales and ships by 81% and increased the transit time of ships by between nine and 22 minutes.

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In time, specially trained state security employees -- possibly including state police or transit police officers -- will be able to assist airline security contractors at security checkpoints.

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New York's entire transit system of subways, buses and commuter rails stopped running at midday on Saturday - the first time officials have closed the network because of bad weather.

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In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.

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