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	Transport 2000 - Facts Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Carbon dioxide emissions from road transport in Britain in 2001 were 31 million tonnes with emissions per vehicle having fallen from 1.08 tonnes per vehicle in 1993 to 0.95 tonnes in 2001.
		A public transport survey in 2006 found only 16 per cent of mums-to-be were offered a seat while pregnant, 72 per cent of mums thought public transport was difficult for mums and babies to use and 60 per cent found bus drivers unhelpful.
		National rail use is increasing with over 1 billion passenger journeys made in 2003/04, the highest since 1959 and a rise of 3.9 per cent on the previous year.
	www.transport2000.org.uk /factsandfigures/Facts.asp#Schooltravel (12049 words)

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		Until the 1980s, transport infrastructure (rights of way, track, terminals and associated traffic management) in developing countries was primarily provided by the public sector, for all modes of transportation (road, rail, air, maritime and inland water) and at all levels (international, national, regional and local, both urban and rural).
		In transport “service” provision (conveyance of passengers and freight), railways were usually a public sector monopoly, while in air and maritime transport national “flag carriers” were also usually in the public sector.
		Bank financing of transport vehicle fleets has been decreasing as the Bank has concentrated on assisting the transfer of enterprises from the public to the private sector (as in the case of buses in Barbados) and in reducing the constraints on private initiative (as in the case of the Mexican trucking industry).
	www.worldbank.org /transport/pol_econ/tsr_docs/link2.doc (2265 words)

	Transport Canada - Quebec Region - Kuujjuaq Airport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In August 1945, the RCAF asked the Department of Transport to maintain the airport for photographic survey operations during 1946 and 1947; and by fall 1947, only twelve American civilians remained in charge for the airport, which was fully transferred to the RCAF in October 1949.
		On January 31, 1955, a temporary airport licence was issued to Boreal Airways, which operated the airport under lease from the Department of Transport.
		Upon completion of the DEW Line, Transport received complaints that the airport was not adequately maintained as an en route facility for aircraft flying to and from Frobisher Bay (Iqualuit).
	www.transportcanada.com /Quebec/en/airports/yvp_bac.htm (608 words)

	SEED PRODUCTION
		Indeed in certain parts of the world large level of transport of commercial fish in live condition from the areas of capture to the markets is a part of a highly organized industry, but we shall confine here to the transport of brood fish and fish seed, particularly the latter for culture purposes.
		Transport of fish seed in earthern pots, taken either as head loads or on slings from seed collection centres to spawn* markets and to nurseries for stocking is an ancient practice in certain parts of the world.
		Modern developments in transport technology are from two levels; one is from an understanding, as mentioned, of internal physiological mechanisms of the fish and the optimal requirements, ensuring maximum survival of fish under transport and the other is from a study of the environmental parameters of the medium in which fish are transported.
	www.fao.org /docrep/field/003/AC182E/AC182E04.htm (5207 words)

	Corporate Information
		Transport Service Co. ("TSC") was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1946 by John V. Crowe, II to transport fuel oil in the Midwest.
		However, during the war, the rail system's tank cars were dedicated to carrying oil to the coasts to fuel the war effort.
		Transport Service Co. is one of the largest tank truck carriers in the United States, and is also one of the leading independent tank truck carriers of Sweetener products.
	www.transportserviceco.com /corporat.htm (353 words)

	TRANSPORTOBELLO.COM: Rail Transport - Rapid Transit
		Suburban rail services, on the other hand, often share tracks and stations with long-distance trains (historically they were usually operated by the same company, which also owned the rails and ran freight, although this has become less common) and are subject to the same standards and regulations.
		It is now part of the Budapest Metro and remains largely in its original state, with the original cars modernised and the stations restored in keeping with their original design, and with the route the same except for a very short extension north to Mexikói út to connect with the city's tram network.
		Japan's rail system is quite different from others in that the vast majority of its rapid transit is above ground, and privately owned and operated, and train stations blur the dinstiction between vast underground malls and corporate skyscrapers and gigantic high rise department stores.
	www.transportobello.com /rail/rapid.html (3864 words)

	RENEWABLES.com : Sustainable Transportation
		On this scale the 10,000 years of human history equals 5/8 of an inch (16 mm) and the last 100 years of automobile and air travel, which have consumed almost half of the petroleum resource is represented by the thickness of a piece of paper.
		This rail system would not interfere with wildlife, agriculture or ground traffic because it would be raised 15 feet (4.5 m) off the ground.
		The two-directional rail is only 8 feet wide and would carry as many people at 60 mph (96 km/hr) as 12 lanes of freeway.
	www.mcn.org /a/mendomotive/Transport/sustrans.htm (3538 words)

	Light Rail and Omaha
		Rail transit needs to be integrated with bus services to provide a reliable, efficient, and cost effective choice for Omahans.
		Finally, commuter rail southwest to Lincoln on the BNSF mainline and northwest to Fremont on the UP mainline are also important for serving the Omaha metropolitan area commuter's needs.
		Dallas opened their its rail system in 1996, and it is responsible for a recent highly successful trend in transit-oriented development.
	www.newcolonist.com /omaha_rail.html (1032 words)

	Public Transport with or without Fares
		For example, within the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York in the United States, the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority uses its tolls to subsidize the New York City Bus and exempt these buses from tolls.
		Certain fines for violating the public transport, such as disorderly conduct on public transport, driving illegally in bus lanes and parking in bus stops, should support public transport, but fines should be imposed to deter problems but not to generate revenues.
		BAD: Transportation Alternatives Message Board: Bicycles and the Bus: Someone claiming to drive a bus of the New York City Bus provided useful and detailed information on admissibility of folded bicycles on buses, but his or her attitude became worse while talking to apparently no one but himself or herself.
	www.geocities.com /jusjih/publictransport.html (4703 words)

	Tearing up the Tracks. Public transport in the UK pulled to pieces to make way for death, pollution, stress..... and ...
		Rail privatisation is the best step ever towards making the railways succesful and encouraging investment but you are only going to see that on long distance peak lines and dense commuter networks.
		One of the many criticisms of the former British Transport Commission regime was that, of their 15 members of the BTC board, only 2 were railwaymen.
		The aim should be to harmonise and co-ordinate the newer and older forms of transport with the objective of obtaining from each the maximum of advantage to th e public.
	members.tripod.com /copy_bilderberg/railways.htm (5681 words)

	Cassens - Company History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Then, due to the demands of the growing transport business, the space was converted into the transport company home office, and no more cars were sold out of that building.
		Cassens Transport got the business and was in place and ready to ship the first load of automobiles from the plant.
		In 1979 the transport company had shown revenue of $40 million, but by 1980 the figure had dropped to $31 million.
	www.cassens.com /transport/companyhistory.html (2452 words)

	CMI - SINGAPORE
		Only relatively few provisions are peculiar to sea transport and these could be put into a section or sections dealing with carriage by sea only, or with movements involving a sea leg as the principal mode of transport, i.e.
		However it is clear that where the place of receipt and/or the place of delivery are inland, outside the port area, and involve a movement by truck, rail or barge preceding or subsequent to the maritime carriage, such movement is presently considered only to the extent that it is subsidiary to the carriage by sea.
		The latter situation is where more than one means of transport is contemplated by the contract of carriage and the carrier acts as an agent on behalf of the owner of the goods in arranging for any part of the transportation not actually performed by himself.
	www.comitemaritime.org /singapore/issue/issue_door.html (1533 words)

	Planning Air Operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rail transport was indeed essential to the enemy effort in the field.
		In many cases, trains were shuttled the short distances between rail cuts and the cargo unloaded and transferred to another existing rail line in order to complete the journey to the front.
		But the FEAF staff study that would end the Rail Interdiction Program concluded that interdiction of rail lines was not worth the effort and that--given the restrictions placed upon them in terms of unclear objectives, lack of effective munitions, and geographical restrictions along the northern border of Korea--air power could not be decisive in Korea.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/kirtland.html (4047 words)

	Transport
		H.W. Stewart, then the General Manager of Burlington Transportation Company, to found an umbrella association of privately-owned and independent carriers to increase passenger traffic between and within members' respective territories; newly-organized association operated under name Trailways; served 24,023 miles of routes, principally in the Midwest.
		December 12, 1955 - Christopher Cockerell, father of the hovercraft air-cushion vehicle, filed his first patent for the hovercraft; 1956 - formed a company known as Hovercraft Ltd. to apply this new approach of reducing the problem of hydrodynamic drag on the hull of a boat by using air as lubrication.
		First reliable, consistent form of transportation in the area for commuters, tourists, and business travelers (1000 passengers); essential to manufacturers in the industrial communities of central New England.
	www.kipnotes.com /Transport.htm (4089 words)

	Waste-by-Rail Information
		For some sites, such as the Mesquite Regional Landfill in Imperial County, rail transport is an efficient means to transport refuse to remote disposal sites.
		Transitioning to remote disposal of refuse that involves rail transport requires that new infrastructure be developed.
		Ideally, the rail yards would be located at the remote landfill and be connected by a rail spur to the railroad mainline.
	www.lacsd.org /swaste/Facilities/MRF_TS/PHMRF/WastebyRailProgram.htm (1010 words)

	TRANSPORTOBELLO.COM: Road Transport - Bus
		When motorized transport proved successful after ca 1905, a motorized omnibus was for a time sometimes called an autobus.
		In the period after the American Civil War ended in 1865, racial segregation in public accommodations, including public transport such as rail and bus services, was enforced through Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
		In 1955, after a long day of work, Rosa Parks, a fl seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus, bringing attention to the injustice of differential and degrading treatment based solely upon race.
	www.transportobello.com /road/bus.html (1111 words)

	U.S. Transportation Subsidies
		Between 1942 and 1962 a 10% rail ticket tax was levied on railroads as a war measure to discourage unnecessary travel.
		Federal support for transit and intercity rail is relatively recent: 1964 for transit and 1971 for intercity rail.
		Because it is in the public interest and transit or rail should not be subject to an unrealistic set of expectations no other mode has to live up to.
	www.trainweb.org /moksrail/advocacy/resources/subsidies/transport.htm (1362 words)

	Rail Heritage WA
		The Rail Transport Museum at Bassendean, Perth Western Australia is Western Australia's premier museum devoted to railway history.
		The Society ran rail tours to raise funds and in 1969 serious work commenced to develop a museum to display the collection of locomotives, rollingstock and items of railway memorabilia that had been collected over the years.
		You are welcome to assist in the preservation of the unique rail heritage of Western Australia by becoming a member of the society.
	www.railheritagewa.org.au /museum/museum.htm (849 words)

	National Railway Museum Port Adelaide - Rail History
		The final boundary of land under the plough and the extent of the rail system is largely south of the 254 mm isohyet.
		In 1955 the Commonwealth Railways built a new standard gauge line from Stirling Nth to Marree, primarily for the transport of Leigh Creek coal to Stirling Nth.
		This was perhaps inevitable once the Government repealed in 1963 the Road and Railways Transport Act of 1930, thus exposing the railways to intense competition from road transport.
	www.natrailmuseum.org.au /common/nrm_a01_index.html (2112 words)

	Urban Light Rail Transportation Systems
		Urban light rail-based transportation sytems are among the most efficient, as well as the most environmental friendly, ways of moving people around cities.
		There are several kinds of urban light rail services, characterized by different kinds of access, speed and other considerations.
		Similar to Regional Rail, but with little or no role in carrying passengers within the city; some services may be quite slow.
	www.tundria.com /Transport/urban-rail.shtml (610 words)

	Transport Blog
		Concorde got me thinking (again) about how pretty airplanes can be, on the day Concorde did its last commercial flights, and again today because of a photo David Farrer took of Concorde in Edinburgh.
		The American rail system has essentially done away with passengers and has been optimised for freight, and many of the trains are really long and really tall.
		Culture is culture, and rail systems being "optimised for freight" is, I feel, straying from the subject a little.
	www.transportblog.com /archives/002801.html (1527 words)

	Trains- Photos of trains of the South Australian Railway, STA & now TransAdelaide
		The 75 Class Rail Car #30 Entered Service with the SAR on 4/8/1926.
		To improve services & where the provision of steam trains was not justified, a new model rail car was built.
		The replacement for the metropolitan lines was the introduction of the 300 Class, single end Rail Cars.
	satrains.8m.net /railcars.html (584 words)

	1955: Transportation - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		1955: Transportation - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		Momentous issues divided the transport industries during 1955, but all domestic transport agencies enjoyed higher levels of freight traffic, a reflection of the rising industrial production and gross national product in a boom year.
		Rail freight carloadings recovered most of the 1954 losses and...
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461509267/1955_Transportation.html (134 words)

	1955 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1955.
		January 24 - British Transport Commission produces a report on Modernisation and Re-Equipment of British Railways which proposes the large-scale replacement of the steam locomotive by diesel and electrification together with major resignalling projects.
		March 28 - SNCF in France sets a new world rail speed record of 331 km/h using 1500V dc electric traction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1955_in_rail_transport (763 words)

	The Third Rail - "American Ground Transport" page 4
		In April of that year, a Chicago Federal jury convicted GM of having criminally conspired with Standard Oil of California, Firestone Tire and others to replace electric transportation with gas- or diesel-powered buses and to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to local transportation companies throughout the country.
		But the last chapter of mass transit history has not been written and the Snell report views the present and anticipates the future as it looks at “the political restraint of rail transit” by the continuing efforts of auto makers.
		The Third Rail and The Third Rail logo are trademarks of The Composing Stack Inc.
	rapidtransit.com /net/thirdrail/9905/agt4.htm (623 words)

	50 years of innovation Railway Age - Find Articles
		Jan. 10, 1955 * Inauguration by the Pennsylvania on February 1 of a new form of "TrucTrain" service, to provide rail transport between New York and Chicago, and Pennsylvania and Chicago, has been announced by James M. Symes, president.
		December 5, 1955 * Beginning November 14, the Norfolk and Western began piggybacking common carrier trailers in interline movements with the Pennsylvania--the first such arrangement among railroads.
		December 26, 1955 * PRR, Rail-Trailer Co. Form T-O-F-C Firm with Car Pool: Entrance into the field of highway trailer transportation by rail was announced last week by the newly organized Trailer Train Company, which will provide railroads with special flat cars for transporting trailers in local and interchange service on a national basis.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1215/is_4_206/ai_n13665659 (916 words)

	St Louis County Parks and Recreation Museum of Transportation
		General Motors built the experimental "Aerotrain" in 1955, using bus bodies on railroad wheels as its coaches.
		Switchers were used in rail yards to sort and assemble freight trains, and large industries also had them for moving rail cars in their plants.
		E-2 is the only survivor of five famous ‘Bi-Polar’ electrics built in 1919 to carry passengers in the Cascade Mountains for the Milwaukee Road.
	www.museumoftransport.org /collection.htm (928 words)

	British Transport Films
		This film catches all the atmosphere of a traditional holiday by the sea, along with the zest and good humour of ordinary people released from their everyday routine.
		E for Experimental - An account of the development of British Rail's experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT) The film explains in simple terms some of the many novel design features of the APT, including the tilt mechanism and the hydro-kinetic brake, and shows the train in action during its trials.
		The DVDs are a ‘must’, not only for the transport enthusiast, but also for anyone who enjoys historical documentary films.
	two.fsphost.com /usabyrail/index/html/british_transport_films.html (839 words)

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