World Bank started to prepare an urban transport for Metro Manila‚ serious discussion of a pilot bikeways project took place. But where to pilot this idea in a metropolis notorious at that time for horrendous traffic jams and poor transport system? One would need a city where the leaders are not only willing to experiment‚ but also fully committed to make the cycling project work. Marikina City‚ a medium-sized city at the eastern edge of Metro Manila‚ with a population of 500‚000 was identified
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* Packaged tour on coaches * Urban and rural bus services to tourist location * Airport taxi and shuttle services * Excursion‚ day trip‚ sight seeing in urban or rural areas. III. ROAD TRANSFER – taxis and mini buses IV. RAIL – metro and intercity .‚e.g LRT mrt V. MARINE – cruise and ferries VI. NONMOTORIZE – horseback‚cycling‚walking‚ kayak HISTORY OF AIR TRAVEL * The earlier attempts to travel by air is the chinese using kites and hot air balloons to put
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Internal Assessment www.docstoc.com/docs/111206961/Management-of-Business... Cached Internal Assessment Report: Business Management Sector Panel or SSC: Business Education The purpose of this report is to provide feedback to ... METRO RAIL STRATEGY - Metrorail Western Cape www.capemetrorail.co.za/Strategic_Management/Business... Cached
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been introduced: the Maglev train. Maglev‚ derived from the term magnetic levitation‚ is a method of propulsion that uses magnetic levitation to propel vehicles with electromagnets rather than with wheels‚ which causes friction and can wear out the rails. With maglev‚ a vehicle is levitated a short distance away from a guide way using magnets to create a lift‚ using the push of the same polarities of an electromagnet. Many scientists foresee “high-speed maglev trains creating dramatic improvements
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the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) and construction of Line 1 (Mumbai Metro) i.e. Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar (VAG) corridor on the urban poor displaced thereby. This paper also briefly assesses the need for the above projects to nullify some of the many hardships faced by the common man due to poor planning and infrastructure in the domain of local transportation. MUMBAI & THE GROWING NEED FOR RAPID TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEMS Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of
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to traffic collisions. The traffic in India has increased over the years because people‚ especially the middle class and upper class people‚ are not keen on taking public transport. Slowly‚ this mindset is changing with the latest development of metro rail transport system in big cities in India. However‚ since safety and connectivity are major issues pertaining to public transport‚ people continue to use private vehicles for travel purposes. And this constitutes heavily to traffic congestion. In
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Porter’s Five Forces: Travel Agency : Industry Rivalry : Highly Fragmented Industry with Intense Rivalry Highly Fragmented Industry. Organized players would barely have 15-20% of the marketplace Most of organized players are present in metros & mini-metros Large disposable incomes in towns like Lucknow‚ Jaipur‚ Coimbatore etc. serviced by family run unorganized players Industry rivalry is intense but not cutthroat Rivalry Intense because of low switching costs‚ low levels of product differentiation
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Mobile ticketing service application in public trasportation Introduction Mobile commerce is a subset of e-commerce‚ which enables people use wireless devices to access to e-commerce system and conduct business transaction. It is believed that rapid development of radio-based wireless communication technology‚ together with the accessibility of the Internet contributes to the emerging of mobile commerce (Wu and Wang‚ 2005). Mobile commerce furnishes people a possible way to trade whenever it
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1.3 Introduction We use various products in our daily life. But do we know where are they produced? Many of them are produced at different places far away from our locality. So how do we get them? These are carried on from all those places through rail‚ road or air and are made available to us at our locality. You must have seen trucks‚ tempo‚ bullock carts; etc. Those would be carrying products and raw materials from a place to another. Similarly‚ you also must have seen people travelling from one
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in April 2003 First Train In INDIA LINKS Partition of India had its own problems in the beginning The truncated network of the North-East stood woefully incomplete and unconnected. Reason: bangladesh Assam Rail Link project was completed in 1950 providing a meter gauge (MG) rail link to Assam The broad gauge (BG) link was extended in phases to Guwahati between 1965 and 1985. Two massive bridges on the mighty Branhmaputra at Kamakhya and Jogighopa and later extension of a BG link up to Dibrugarh
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