This luxury hotel on wheels--more of a destination unto itself than a means of transportation--shuttles in vintage style between Singapore and Chiang Mai, as well as points in between.
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Apple has been chasing NFC patents for years, but it's just now been granted a US patent for its own approach to a transportation check-in -- one of the most common uses of the technology in the real world.
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Two foreigners, an American woman and a French man in their early 20s, boarded a public-transportation van in the city's Copacabana beach district shortly after midnight Saturday, police said.
Barr-Nunn Transportation, in a statement Monday, said Page was dismissed after he received an impaired-driving citation in North Carolina while driving a personal vehicle on his own time.
The Commerce Department also reported that orders for non-transportation durable goods in January rose by a stronger-than-expected 1.9% (the most in a year).
"I think they do need to maybe explain more, tell more about what's being done to make London ready for the Olympics in that sense -- transportation -- because that was one of the key issues before the vote in Singapore (when London won the Games in 2005), " said Ed Hula, the editor and founder of Olympics Web site Around the Rings.
However, how many serious investors really believe the economy can rebound without a boost in government-funded investment in transportation, communications and education infrastructure?
This program identifies, assesses, trains, and places community members, including military veterans, into careers in transportation and mixed-use development projects, which, in turn, grows the local workforce and strengthens the economy.
Both runways at Heathrow airport were closed while public transportation in London -- including all buses -- was brought to a near standstill.
Then, roll out the red carpet and start your morning in style with luxury one-way transportation to the downtown core in the hotel's Lexus LS460 limousine, available free each day from 7 am to 9 am.
Simon Washington, a civil-engineering professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, co-wrote a study for the Arizona Department of Transportation in 2005 that cited other work showing that extending yellow-light intervals can reduce red-light running by 50% to 70%.
The good news is that we can dramatically increase our energy self-sufficiency in the transportation sector where we currently consume 70 percent of the oil, some two-thirds of which is imported.
We just talked -- Governor Schwarzenegger and Mayor Villaraigosa -- here in Los Angeles, for example, there is an enormous opportunity to deal with traffic and transit and transportation -- (applause) -- in a way that will relieve congestion, make this economy more efficient, more productive.
One of those in attendance, Kevin Johnson, president of a local transportation-planning firm, says that even in the middle of a war, the economy can change votes.
By concentrating on areas where considerable progress is possible (rather than on such neuralgic issues as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or increased CAFE fuel-efficiency standards), America - and in particular its gas-guzzling transportation sector - could be made significantly less reliant on oil supplied by unstable or hostile regimes.
Biobutanol can blend effectively with gasoline and ethanol, and can be used in existing transportation-pipeline infrastructure, DuPont says.
We caught up with NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan in Times Square to discuss this effort.
Mr. Page was fired from his job as a driver for Barr-Nunn Transportation Inc. in August 2010, according to the truckload carrier company.
The ramifications of these types of discussions are clear for USV portfolio companies like Hailo, an e-hail transportation company based in London and New York.
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We must reduce our dependence on oil by requiring better vehicle fuel economy, and by increasing the use of alternative fuels and innovative transportation technology such as plug-in hybrids.
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Cable cars average about an accident a month and routinely rank among the most accident-prone mass transportation modes in the country per vehicle mile traveled annually, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
But if there is a strong large-scale push in general transportation, it might make the power industry fearful of having to compete against motorists for natural-gas supplies and thus more cautious about making a major commitment themselves.
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Then, mix in some sage advice from your local English-speaking escort in the included transportation from the airport to The Peninsula.
But it really is vital that Congress get its act together and pass some of these important pieces of legislation that have -- in the case of surface transportation and in the case of the aforementioned student loan rate legislation and a host of others -- have enjoyed bipartisan support in the past.
The solution is to provide something currently missing in our transportation sector - vehicle and fuel choice.
Further, corn-based bio-fuels used in transportation consume much greater amounts of water than does the drilling for traditional oil.
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The Nano is also transformational in India, which primarily relies on bikes and other two-wheeled transportation options, so the Nano could be competitive in other similar, developing markets, he says.
For generations, nearly all of these investments -- from transportation to education to retirement programs -- have been supported by people in both parties.
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First, China is generating a ton of energy jobs of all kinds--oil, coal, nuclear, renewable--precisely because their economy is in the middle phase of the electrification and transportation build-out that America experienced last century.
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