Shipping costs are lower, transit times are faster, and his product is on the market quicker.

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This means that many web requests will never leave the extended infrastructure of AWS, reducing transit times to only a few milliseconds.

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The men whisper, in a kind of awe, the exact departure times, the ports of call - Brindisi, Venice - the transit times, the names of the ships.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A system using fingerprint scanning and face recognition systems, designed to speed up passenger transit times and increase security, is beginning a trial at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3.

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So fragmented is the transit system that many commuters have to change several times to get to their destinations.

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We believe there is a need for a scientific examination into the effect of journey times on the welfare of apes in transit and we intend to take this up with our EU partners.

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

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The down side of the current RFTA transit system, the second largest transit system in Colorado, and the largest rural transit system in the U.S., is that its bus travel times are not very convenient.

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