Transportation Archives
September 3, 2007
■ “The Bush administration can go ahead with a pilot program to allow as many as 100 Mexican trucking companies to freely haul their cargo anywhere within the U.S. for the next year, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.” [#]
September 2, 2007
■ “That’s a picture of runway 02 at Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal (elevation is more than 4,000 feet, as you can see via the green numbers on the right, with the snow-capped Himalayas in the distance), taken from the flight simulator in Google Earth. If you(r) reaction is “what flight simulator in Google Earth?” - not to worry.” [#]
August 13, 2007
August 8, 2007
■ “A man smuggled a monkey onto an airplane, stashing the fist-size primate under his hat until passengers spotted it perched on his ponytail, an airline official in New York said.” [#]
August 6, 2007
■ “Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.” [#]
July 31, 2007
■ “A Virginia man has filed a suit against CSX Transportation Inc. claiming he was not hired because he was colorblind when, in fact, he is not colorblind and has taken two tests to prove it.” [#]
July 27, 2007
■ dohop.com searches more than 660 airlines around the world for the best flights and connections. [#]
July 21, 2007
■ “One of Britain’s biggest engineering companies has banned staff from travelling on bicycles or motorbikes after declaring them too dangerous. Jacobs Babtie advises local authorities on sustainable transport projects - including how to get more people to switch from four wheels to two.” [#]
July 16, 2007
■ “A BRITISH Airways pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger reclined his seat, annoyed the man behind him - and sparked a mid-air riot.” [#]
October 26, 2006
■ Schneier on Security: Air Cargo Security: “Cargo planes are much less of a terrorist risk than passenger planes, because terrorism is about innocents dying. Blowing up a planeload of FedEx packages is annoying, but not nearly as terrorizing as blowing up a planeload of tourists. Hence, the security around air cargo doesn’t have to be as strict.” I got hooked on Schneier after his name kept on coming up in reading I was doing for work. If you care about the TSA, electronic voting or security in general, he’s a must-read. [#]
October 25, 2006
■ J.D. Powers Says Truck Diesel Engines are Causing Problems This is going to be a huge issue for the transportation/logistics industry. [#]