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	BTS \| The Importance of Transportation in the Canadian Economy
		Transportation commodities account for a large share of Canadian exports, 30.0% as of 1996, with a low of 26.0% in the fuel-price-generated recession of 1981 and a high of 34.8% in the recovery year of 1986 (table 9).
		Transportation commodities account for a slightly smaller share of Canadian imports, 25.9% as of 1996, with a low of 24.7% in the recession of 1981 and a high of 32.6% in the recovery year of 1986 (table 10).
		Transportation margins (TMs) are a concept unique to the CNA and represent an estimate of the transportation costs incurred in the distribution of commodities.
	www.bts.gov /publications/journal_of_transportation_and_statistics/volume_06_number_23/html/paper_02 (5891 words)

	Air Transport Industry - MSN Encarta
		Air Transport Industry, area of commerce in which aircraft are employed to carry passengers, freight, and mail.
		After the war the new long-range four-engine transports with fully pressurized cabins and advanced instrumentation were increasingly able to avoid storms and turbulent winds, enhancing passenger comfort and making operations more economical and consistent.
		Compared with truck, rail, and water transport, air cargo costs are still high in cost per mile, and air cargo still commands only a small share of total intercity tonnage moved by all forms of transport.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552091/Air_Transport_Industry.html (1325 words)

	Rail Versus Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The tonne-kilometres carried by rail increased by 28 percent from 1990 to 2002.
		Although rail carried more than half the surface freight in Canada in 2002, it accounted for only 9 percent of the total GHGs produced by the freight industry, as compared with 77 percent of the GHGs produced by road freight.
		Despite the 28 percent increase in freight (tonne-kilometres) carried by rail from 1990 to 2002, GHGs for the rail industry decreased by 15 percent.
	www.transport2000.ca /atlantic/railvsroad.html (763 words)

	09 Construction
		In 1976 the township lost 7 bridges during a severe downpour; all the bridges had the standard, angular abutment shapes, this prompted me to "redesign" the rounded form.
		Transport the ballast from the source forward by rail to the advancing construction side and cancel highway truck traffic, therefore lessen traffic congestion during construction.
		Rail in independent right of way, this is all welded rail on concrete tie's or sleepers, note the softeners between the rail and the tie
	www.lightrail-hartbeat.com /Construction_09.htm (5537 words)

	Transportation Series No. 11--State Rail Transportation Issues and Policies
		New momentum for passenger rail service, coupled with continuing consolidation of freight operations, has caused state lawmakers to increasingly focus on the effects of rail transportation in their states.
		Although rail is one of the safest modes of transportation, accidents at highway-railroad grade crossings remain a problem, as the March 1999 collision of a truck with an Amtrak train in Bourbonnais, Illinois, illustrates.
		The North Carolina Department of Transportation reimburses Amtrak for 100 percent of the net operating expenses of the Piedmont and 100 percent of the expenses of the Carolinian between Rocky Mount (which is near the Virginia border) and Charlotte.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/transportation/transr11.htm (13640 words)

	Skimping on safety will not put rail back on track - Editorial - Opinion
		Rail and road have co-existed uneasily since the first steam trains trumpeted speed and mobility in the 19th century's Industrial Revolution.
		These competing forms of transport were destined to clash and the flashpoint of that clash is the level crossing, where the heavy train's long braking distance is pitted against the often capricious moves of road vehicles.
		Rail transport for passengers has for at least half a century been pushed aside by the convenience and flexibility of the motor car.
	www.theage.com.au /news/editorial/skimping-on-safety-will-not-put-rail-back-on-track/2006/05/01/1146335666954.html (786 words)

	Transport Forum 2005: Urban Transport
		Bajpai is an engineer with urban and regional planning, and transportation backgound and hold a doctorate degree from the University of Paris.
		In 1967, he was appointed as Chair of Transport Economics at the University of Leeds where for most of the next twenty years he was Director of the Institute for Transport Studies.
		Gwilliam was transport economics assessor in the Greater London Development Plan Inquiry, advisor to the Director General of Transport of the European Community and the British Parliamentary Committee on Transport and, for seven years, a Director of the British National Bus Company.
	www.worldbank.org /transport/learning/urbantrans.html (1846 words)

	National Rail Infrastructure Financing Proposals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the same time, after having virtually halved the rail network after deregulation in the 1980s, railroads have begun to approach the limits of carrying capacity, while profits have been insufficient to cover the capital investment necessary to expand infrastructure.
		In the next twenty years, additional demands will be placed on the rail system by growth in existing freight traffic and increasing axle loads, as well as the potential for expanded commuter and intercity passenger service.
		Rail Infrastructure Development and Expansion Act for the 21st Century (RIDE 21): Chairman Young’s proposal in the 107th Congress (H.R. 2950) would authorize an expansion of the RRIF loan program to $35 billion, and authorize an additional $24 billion in tax-credit and tax exempt bond financing for improvement of high-speed rail corridors.
	www.house.gov /transportation/rail/06-26-03/06-26-03memo.html (690 words)

	About SA - Transport
		The Department of Transport is always ready to assist provincial and local governments to improve and develop the state of their roads.
		The Department of Transport supports provincial departments of transport and of public works in the construction of intermodal facilities and in their efforts to achieve integration between bus and taxi operations.
		The Department of Transport is responsible for the provision of a search-and-rescue function in South Africa.
	www.info.gov.za /aboutsa/transport.htm (12356 words)

	Sutherland Shire Environment Centre - Transport
		Transport is one of the most intractable problems facing urban areas.
		Inadequate public transport, a lack of comprehensive cycleway networks, increasing road traffic congestion and air and noise pollution from cars are just some of the elements that need to be addressed.
		The Centre is also promoting the Bay Light Express light rail proposal as a way of increasing coverage of the public transport network for short and medium distance trips.
	www.ssec.org.au /our_environment/issues_campaigns/transport/index.htm (1086 words)

	SPI: REVIEW OF RAIL ACCESS AND COMPETITION ISSUES
		Inherent in the rail industry cost structure are large amounts of joint and common costs that cannot be attributed to particular traffic.
		Under demand-based differential pricing, shippers with greater transportation alternatives are offered lower markups to keep their traffic (and their contribution to the carrier's unattributable costs) on the rail network.
		The shape and condition of the rail system that open access would produce is a significant issue that was not resolved at the hearings.
	www.plasticsindustry.org /membersonly/public/transportation/issues/stb575.htm (3537 words)

	The 2nd ASEAN Transport Ministers Meeting, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 28 February 1997
		The ASEAN Transport Minister recalled the decision of the 28 th AE.M the First Informal Summit, of the Heads of Government of ASEAN in the development of Facilitaion of Goods in Transit as a new initiative.
		Transport and Communications The Ministers further noted some projects have been successfully completed while others are in advanced stage of implementation.
		They agreed, that the participation of the senior transport officials of the CLM countries in the activities of STOM would enable them to be familiar with this, ASEAN transport cooperation programmes.
	www.aseansec.org /1976.htm (828 words)

	5.6 Marketing systems evaluation
		Examination of the economics of transport requires a comparison of the merits and disadvantages of different modes of livestock transport (trekking, trucking and railing), a comparison which is usually made on the basis of cost.
		Transporting live animals is usually more cost effective than transporting slaughtered animals because of refrigeration costs.
		The further producers are from the consumer market, the greater the transport costs and the lower the producers' profits (all costs of transportation are passed from the trader to the producer).
	www.fao.org /wairdocs/ilri/x5547e/x5547e1a.htm (5336 words)

	Road transport - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Road transport or road transportation is transport on roads, i.e.
		most transport over land which is not rail transport in the wide sense.
		Of notable interest is that common British rail gauge is the same width as the Roman chariot wheelbase, as that was the common width for carts ever since.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/Road_transport (1238 words)

	HVCEO - HISTORY OF RAIL LINES IN THE HOUSATONIC VALLEY, CT REGION
		In 1835 a rail charter was granted by the Connecticut Legislature to an enterprise known as the "Fairfield County Railroad." The charter was established only to build a railroad between Danbury and Long Island Sound.
		Raising the necessary construction funds, $230,000, proved difficult for the size of the population the rail line was to serve.
		In October of 1970, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (Conn DOT) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York (MTA) entered into an agreement effective 1/1/1971 to oversee the operation of the New Haven Line by Penn Central and to jointly fund the operating deficit.
	www.hvceo.org /transport/railhistory.php (3383 words)

	Worldwide Light Rail BOOM
		This activity is a testimonial to the fact that transportation planners, decisionmakers, and operators - in scores of cities across the globe - see LRT as a viable, cost-effective, and essential component of their urban transportation systems.
		Light rail's development in Europe is particularly vigorous - and that's the focus of the following Fact Sheet, prepared by the British-based Light Rail Transit Association and its UK Development Group, and dated January 1999.
		European attitudes are that light rail is a superior transport mode to buses.
	www.lightrailnow.org /features/f_000005.htm (1581 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.
		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.
		Transportation Research; Information Services (TRIS) Http://Tris.Amti.Com/Search.Cfm Database is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information." (400,000 bibliographic records).
	www.kipnotes.com /Transport.htm (4281 words)

	1976 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1976.
		October 31 - Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway issue the first joint VIA Rail timetable.
		(July 26, 1976) "Short and Significant: Santa Fe's Fred Gurley dies at 87".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1976_in_rail_transport (408 words)

	Bulletin FAL No. 172 - December 2000 - Facilitation of Trade and Transport in Latin America and the Caribbean
		Apart from the numerous studies on multimodal transport and facilitation of international transport in South America, in 1977, the findings were published of a series of studies for determining the most feasible ways of improving road infrastructure in the Andean subregion, covering also subjects such as standards of weight per axle for transport vehicles.
		The growing trend towards the concessioning of infrastructure and transport services has enhanced the importance of considering the distribution of the benefits of infrastructure projects and not only its total amount, with a view to identifying the extent to which each beneficiary should contribute to investment costs.
		The Integrated Transit System for the import of goods into Bolivia, developed and applied between 1973 and 1976 and currently in use, was one of the major advances in terms of transport facilitation, both in South America and in the rest of the world.
	www.eclac.cl /Transporte/noticias/bolfall/9/6209/FAL172e.htm (1848 words)

	Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. Chapter 9 URBAN RAIL AND BICYCLE SYSTEMS Redesigning Cities for People ...
		The bicycle is not only a flexible means of transportation, it is an ideal way of restoring a balance between caloric intake and expenditure.
		In Japan, the use of bicycles for commuting to rail transportation has reached the point where some stations invested in vertical parking garages for bicycles, much as is often done for automobiles.
		The combination of rail and bicycle, and particularly their integration into a single, overall transport system, makes cities eminently more livable than those centered around car transport systems.
	www.earth-policy.org /Books/Eco/EEch9_ss5.htm (1376 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rail fares in the UK are now the third highest in Europe
		Even the government admits Britain's road and rail network is amongst the worst in Europe
		Although the rail network employs 130,000 people, it has a shortage of skilled engineers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/hottopics/transport (550 words)

	Transport Blog
		And there's generally a transport academic arguing for an rational, national and totally integrated transport policy organised along lines ordained by his noble and all-knowing self.
		Too many transport talking heads (including me) talk as if the plain fact of and necessity of travel, of some kind, is a given that can't be queried.
		Yet all discussions of transport must surely include the option of staying at home and doing the thing in question by phone or by email or by some modern contrivance such as teleconferencing, or doing it one minute's walk away from home rather than an hour away by car or bus or train.
	www.transportblog.com /archives/2002_06.html (9209 words)

	Schwarzburg Modelleisenbahn: New South Wales Rail Transport Museum
		The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum (NSWRTM) was formed in 1962, preserve examples of steam locomotives that did service on the NSW Government Railways during the last century and one half.
		The new authorities turned their backs on the past and in 1973 it was announced that the Enfield roundhouse would be demolished to make way for a container terminal that in fact was never built.
		The Rail Transport Museum at Thirlmere is situated along disused Picton - Mittagong loop line, this line was the original main southern railway until it was bypassed to ease the grades.
	www.ddavid.com /schwarzburg/2006/07/new-south-wales-rail-transport-museum.html (422 words)

	Transport Direct Information \| Who are we? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In this period he held a number of posts, initially in local operational management in both the freight and passenger sectors, and for the last 17 years in the South East.
		For his last three years in the rail industry Nick held the position of Chief Executive at National Rail Enquiries, a period in which NRES went from being the only part of the industry subject to regulatory enforcement to being voted Rail Business of the Year for 2001.
		Sir Malcom Field retired from Transport Direct at the end of 2005 but was responsible for bringing together a number of partnerships for Transport Direct.
	www.transportdirect.gov.uk /who (207 words)

	IPCC Technical Paper I: Transport Sector
		Transport has many stakeholders, including private and commercial transport users, manufacturers of vehicles, suppliers of fuels, builders of roads, planners, and transport service providers.
		Modal shifts from road to rail may result in energy savings of 0-50%, often resulting in commensurate or greater GHG emission reductions, especially where trains are powered by electricity from non-fossil fuel sources (SAR II, 21.3.4, 21.4.2).
		Enhancing rail infrastructure may indeed be able to contribute to GHG mitigation, when combined with constraints on the use of road freight, and disincentives such as tolls (SAR II, 21.4.3).
	www.gcrio.org /ipcc/techrepI/transport.html (3197 words)

	National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Transport - Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Commonwealth was first involved in rail transport when they acquired administration of the Northern Territory in 1911.
		was established to advise on land transport in relation to railways.
		In 1976 Australian National Railways transferred its head office to Adelaide, thus the majority of records about Australian National Railways and the Commonwealth Railways Commissioner are held in our Adelaide office.
	www.naa.gov.au /the_collection/transport/rail.html (677 words)

	Qwika - similar:1977
		1976, 1977, 1978 Years in rail transport1976 in rail transport1977 in rail transport1978 in rail transport This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1977.
		See also: 1976 in television, other events of 1977, 1978 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
		1974, 1975, 1976 Years in rail transport1974 in rail transport1975 in rail transport1976 in rail transport This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1975.
	www.qwika.com /rels/1977 (1056 words)

	TPWD: History of the Texas State Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The railroad was acquired by Legislative Act in 1971 and was restored by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, with help from the Texas Department of Corrections, and was opened to the public in 1976.
		In 1906, prison crews extended the rail line to Maydelle, and in 1909 the Texas State Railroad reached its final destination of Palestine.
		The Texas State Railroad State Park was opened to the public on July 4, 1976, as part of the nation's Bicentennial Celebration.
	www.tpwd.state.tx.us /spdest/findadest/parks/texas_state_railroad/hist.phtml (423 words)

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