Each road is color-coded according to its level of congestion or average travel speed.
So bad, went the wisecrack, that the average travel speed of 8mph in the 1890s (by horse) was now, in the era of the automobile, still 8mph.
While the ship will not travel at warp speed, with an ion propulsion engine powered by a 1.5GW nuclear reactor, it can travel at a constant acceleration so that the ship can easily get to key points of interest in our solar system.
If pedestrians expect cyclists to only travel at walking speed then this is unrealistic.
One peculiarity of massless particles is that they have to travel at the speed of light.
On level ground, they were able to travel at a speed of seven metres a minute.
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We live in a world where sometimes we travel at warp speed, in terms of our attention to events.
The nerves that activate a squid's jet-propelled escape mechanism have particularly big axons, allowing signals to travel at great speed.
Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce, schools and colleges to train our workers.
Earth and Mars are so far apart that radio signals, which travel at the speed of light, take 13.8 minutes for a one-way journey.
My guide drove like a man possessed, crashing through ditches and racing across the plains, aware of the distance we had to travel and the speed of the setting sun.
These waves travel at the speed of sound, but when a jet travels at Mach 1 and above these waves merge into one single shock wave as they cannot get out of the way of each other quickly enough.
The August Bank Holiday is always one of the busiest weekends on the roads in Devon and Cornwall, and road safety advisors say it is a time when motorcyclists tend to travel in greater numbers and some travel at excessive speed.
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He said capital (meaning both money and ideas), when freed to travel at the speed of light, "will go where it is wanted, stay where it is well-treated...." By applying Wriston's Law of capital and talent flow, you can predict the fortunes of countries and companies.
Also, this same scientist erroneously believed that all colors in the light spectrum travel at the same speed.
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Trains travel at a top speed of 70 mph and can take up to half a mile to stop.
The latency cannot be less than the distance the electromagnetic signal has to travel divided by the speed of light.
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NASA, America's space agency, is paying for an experimental version of Inductrack that will travel at half the speed of sound.
The new rail station rule is intended to give passengers better access to intercity, commuter and high-speed train travel across the country.
So cargoes of cars and car parts, tractors, cookers and washing machines still travel at about the speed of a running man.
Refurbishment work at Reading station will mean trains travelling between London and Cheltenham Spa will travel at an average speed of less than 50mph.
That gravitational map may turn out to be a key to determine whether or not neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.
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The speed of travel and just-in-time global supply chains means a pandemic can spread faster than ever before, with greater economic and health impacts than even before.
And if air travel is more your speed, why not take to the skies aboard this zero-emission Elektra airplane, which spends its downtime soaking up the suns rays in a solar hangar.
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"The traffic lights can talk to cars, work out how long it's going to take to transit a road and then provide information back on what speed to travel to ensure that you pass through the traffic lights on green, " he said.
It seemed to him unreasonable that the earth, on the contrary, would always travel at the same speed regardless of its distance from the sun, and when he got that straightened out, he single-handedly improved the accuracy of predicted positions by an order of magnitude.
This time the Carnival Legend is having technical difficulties that are affecting its sailing speed, the travel company said Thursday.
Since the mid-1990s, the state has been building new lanes to speed up bus travel times from Staten Island through Brooklyn to the tunnel.
Viewing the Atlantis orbiter perched on the launch pad and protected by the service structure made it seem very fragile, even though it was made to travel over 100 times the speed of sound.
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