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Cuts in Business Travel on Both Sides of the Atlantic

The Find: Fed up travelers avoided 41 million trips last year, costing the U.S. economy $26 billion, and things aren't much better across the pond. The Source: A recent survey from the Travel Industry Association TIA. The Takeaway: Polling firms...

Tags: Jessica Stillman, Management Issues, Travel Industry Association

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Priceline.com Inc. (PCLN)

Now there's an Auntie Anne's Pretzels where that boring travel agency used to be. Thank you, Priceline.com Inc. PCLN

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Videos 2008-05-14

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Evaluation and enhancement of transport network reliability: network equilibrium based approach

In our daily life, we generally expect the transport system to be efficient, safe, and reliable. However, there exist several sources of uncertainties in the transportation system both on demand and supply sides. With a constant growth in economic activities most urban transport networks currently operate at or beyond their...

Articles 2008-09-22

Comparative analysis of three user equilibrium models under stochastic demand

Recent empirical studies on the value of time and reliability reveal that travel time variability plays an important role on travelers' route choice decision process. It can be considered as a risk to travelers making a trip. Therefore, travelers are not only interested in saving their travel time but also...

Articles 2008-09-22

Modelling rain effects on risk-taking behaviours of multi-user classes in road networks with uncertainty

This paper proposes a new travel time reliability-based traffic assignment model to investigate the rain effects on risk-taking behaviours of different road users in networks with day-to-day demand fluctuations and variations in travel time. A generalized link travel time function is used to capture the rain effects on vehicle travel...

Articles 2008-09-22

An analysis of instability in a departure time choice problem

This study performs a theoretical analysis of instability in a departure time choice problem. Stability of equilibrium is an important factor for reliability of travel time. If equilibrium is not stable, travel time changes over a period of days even if demand and network performance are stable. This study examines...

Articles 2008-09-22

Network reliability-based optimal toll design

Optimal toll design from a network reliability point of view is addressed in this paper. Improving network reliability is proposed as a policy objective of road pricing. A reliability-based optimal toll design model, where on the upper level network performance including travel time reliability is optimized, while on the lower...

Articles 2008-09-22

Rights watch: to plant a seed

"Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow."--Stevens Point Daily Journal, August 1897. "Who's a Rifleman?" Mike "Duke" Venturino asks in his May 2008 "Montana Musings" column. "No one ever became a rifleman by shooting a few dozen cartridges a year." The Appleseed Project helps answer his quesuon. Named after...

Articles 2008-08-01

Extraction and ejection: what goes in must come out, or should

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As said last time, an extractor is supposed to pull a spent case out of the chamber and the ejector is supposed to set it up to get tossed out the ejection port. Extractors got attention last time, so now it's ejectors. The ejector...

Articles 2008-08-01

Nate McLouth: getting big league attention in Pittsburgh: starting the season with a 19-game hitting streak and producing as Pirates' center fielder, he's getting noticed around the majors

NATE McLOUTH CARRIES HIMSELF as unpretentiously as anyone in the Pirates clubhouse. A starting center field job hasn't changed that. Neither did a major league-best 19-game hitting streak to begin the season. Nor did finishing April as one of baseball's best. Neither will continued success, which is something...

Articles 2008-08-01

Outdoor notes

OSPREY VIEWING DAY Osprey, the large fish-eating birds found in Utah, will be the focus of a free wildlife viewing field trip July 23 in Summit County. With their 5-foot wingspan, the ospreys are expected to be easy to see. Those attending may also...

Articles 2008-07-17

Tricia Crossey Joins Gulf Publishing Company's Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine

Tricia Crossey has been named as a new ProcessEditor of Hydrocarbon Processing, a monthly magazine serving the refining,petrochemical and gas processing industries since 1922. Based in Houston, Crossey will be involved with evaluating and editingarticles on liquefied natural gas LNG, gas processing, process andlaboratory analyzers, and plant safety and environment....

Articles 2008-07-17

Late-comers win Wednesday's roping

Cody Hintz and Ty Blasingame ought to try skipping warm-ups altogether. The team ropers arrived at the Days of '47 Rodeo at the Energy Solutions Arena Wednesday night just about five minutes before they were scheduled to compete. The duo, along with their traveling...

Articles 2008-07-17

Hill airman from Moldova excited for chance to vote

Some Americans have never registered to vote, and some who register don't always make it to the voting booth. And yet Hill Air Force Base Airman 1st Class Elena Dulger's face lights up the room when she talks about her first chance to participate in a democratic election. ...

Articles 2008-07-17

Lobbyist thrives on entertaining lawmakers

How would you like to eat a meal with a Utah legislator two days out of every three? And that would be when the 104 part-time lawmakers are not in their 45-day general session. When lawmakers are on Capitol Hill, you would be seeing them eight, 10,...

Articles 2008-07-17

HyPower Fuel Announces Key Stakeholder Summit Meeting on Biodiesel Opportunities

WILMINGTON, Del. -- HyPower Fuel Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HYPF) Mr. Douglas Bender, President of HyPower Fuel Inc., is pleased to announce that HyPower's key stakeholders including it's executives, directors, business advisors, consultants, contractors and sales agents will be traveling to a Key Stakeholder Summit Meeting to consider the Biodiesel opportunities that...

Articles 2008-07-16

Road Trip Essentials from Days Inns-Canada

With the summer right around the corner, it's time to start planning for the much-anticipated family road trip. To help you and your kids survive the summer drive, here are some essential tips to ease the stress and make your family vacation a trip to remember. 1. Involve...

Articles 2008-07-16

Frank Llyod Wright and Albright-Knox Art Gallery Provide a World Class Cultural Experience in Buffalo New York

Summer 2008-Upstate New York is home to some of the nation's most captivating art and architecture, set in a scenic landscape marked by great lakes and natural wonders. Visitors can discover one of the world's finest collections of modern art; tour landmarks by the nation's greatest architects, including five stunning...

Articles 2008-07-16

Deep Blue Marine, Inc. Completes Negotiations for Filing Form 10

Deep Blue Marine, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: DPBE) announced today that the company has chosen its legal team that willfile the form 10 and assist the company in moving off the Pink Sheets. Aspart of this effort the auditors will actually travel to Terry's site andwitness the recovery of artifacts as...

Articles 2008-07-16

Economy squeezes Wisconsin regional airport

More than $13 million worth of construction work will take place at Dane County Regional Airport again this year, despite a tough economy and fewer travelers. "This is a big airport, and infrastructure still needs to be maintained," said Director of Engineering Mike Kirchner. ...

Articles 2008-07-16