Passenger boats ran on the canal from 1783, and in 1809 fast boats were introduced, running from Edinburgh to Falkirk in 3 hours 30 minutes, providing such creature comforts as food, drink and newspapers.

Passenger boats of the Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano ( SNL ) provide services on the lake, principally for tourist purposes, but also connecting Lugano with other lake-side communities, some of which have no road access.

Passenger boats operated on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is operated and managed as a for-profit corporation and began operations on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States.

Passenger rail service is provide by New Jersey Transit via the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line, Raritan Valley Line, the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch.

Systems developed included the waggishly named ' Standardized Wing Overseas Operation Passenger System ' ( SWOOPS – developed to generate Air Force passenger manifests from personnel databases ) and ' Universal Random Integrity News Extract ' ( URINE – developed to provide names picked randomly from personnel databases for urinalysis screening ), FLEAS ( FLight Evaluation Administration System ).

Passenger air service began with one DC-3 and a C-46, and one of the early milestones was San Andres, where it was the first airline to provide service to the island.

Lautenberg is primary sponsor of the S. 294 " Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007 " ( Full Text ), which would fund Amtrak for the next five years and provide opportunity for expansion.

In 2011 congress finally responded to repeated calls for the United States government to pass an " Air Passenger Bill of Rights " to provide specific requirements about what must happen to air passengers in certain conditions.

Passenger vehicles were heated by steam from the locomotive boiler at that time, and the early diesel locomotives were provided with auxiliary boilers to provide the steam.

Passenger shuttle services on the Finchley Central to Edgware section ended on 11 September 1939 but, to provide quick rail access to Mill Hill Barracks, electrification of the short section between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East was completed although the track remained a single line.

Passenger services were introduced on 13 June 1905 to provide an interchange with the North London Railway which ran services from north London to the MDR's branch.

The TLC has mandated that by the end of January 2008 all taxis should be equipped with a Passenger Information Monitor ( PIM ) that is a screen in the backseat that can provide entertainment, a live GPS map of location, and be used to pay for rides by swiping a credit card.

Further to this, pieces of the Passenger Information Network installed at the station included previously unseen electronic displays on the upper bus decks designed to provide drivers with information so they could connect with appointed trains or communicate with bus depot control in the event of delays.

Further to this, pieces of the Passenger Information Network installed at the station included previously unseen electronic displays on the upper bus decks designed to provide drivers with information so they could connect with appointed trains or communicate with bus depot control in the event of delays.

Passenger services experienced a renaissance with the introduction of high-speed inter-city trains in the 1970s.

Passenger services in Great Britain are divided into regional franchises and run by private ( that is.

Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.

National Rail is used by the Association of Train Operating Companies ( ATOC ) as a generic term to define the passenger rail services operated in Great Britain-before the adoption of National Rail, " Great Britain Passenger Railway " was used.

* Greece-open-( Note: Passenger services as Express of Friendship / Filia suspended from 13 February 2012 )

Passenger facilities provided include: post office, telephone services, Skype phone booth, free Internet kiosks, free wireless Internet access, left luggage storage and baggage wrapping service.

Passenger services are provided by two rail service providers, PKP Intercity that provides intercity passengers trains ( express, intercity, eurocity, hotel and TLK ) and Przewozy Regionalne that operates only regional passenger trains financed by the voivodeship.

Passenger services between Drogheda and Navan were ended in 1958, however the line remains open for freight ( Tara Mines / Platin Cement ) traffic.

Passenger services between Kitwe and Livingstone only.

Passenger services on the railway line ceased in early 2006.

Passenger services operated across London through the Snow Hill Tunnel from mid-Victorian times until World War I, from when services terminated at Moorgate from the Midland line to the north, and at Holborn Viaduct from the south, at a time when most inner cross-London traffic had been lost to buses and trams.

Passenger trains at the station are operated by Southeastern and there are services to the central London terminals at Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Victoria station and London Bridge.

That was when British Rail ( BR ), Britain's old nationalised railway, had to withdraw its so-called Advanced Passenger Train after only three days of scheduled services.

Passenger services ended in 1929, conversion to standard gauge followed in 1944, when it was renamed the Waynesburg Secondary.

Passenger train service between Reading / Pottstown and Philadelphia was operated by Conrail under the auspices of SEPTA until July 29, 1981 when all diesel services were terminated.

Passenger services were suspended as a wartime economy on 3 May 1943 and to all traffic on 4 August 1947.

Passenger services generally on the SMJR were sparse, with often just three or four trains a day.

Local services from Snow Hill, like most local services in the West Midlands, are supported by Centro, the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive.

Passenger services would be withdrawn from around 5, 000 route miles accounting for an annual train mileage of 68 million and yielding, according to Beeching, a net saving of £ 18m per year.

Passenger services are usually operated by Class 158 DMUs, although Class 153 and Class 156 units can also be used ( the former to add additional capacity on certain services and the latter on the seasonal DalesRail trains from Preston and Blackpool ).

This depot was located on Birmingham Road and passed to West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive in 1973, along with operation of all bus services in Dudley.

Passenger 57 is a film starring Wesley Snipes as an airline security expert trapped on a passenger jet when terrorists seize control.

Most contracts are awarded by the Department for Transport ( DfT ), with the exception of Merseyrail, where the franchise is awarded by Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, and ScotRail, where the DfT awards on the advice of the Scottish Government.

* 1993 – The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.

The trains have always been fully automated and controlled by computer operations and have no driver ; a Passenger Service Agent ( PSA ) on each train, originally referred to as a " Train Captain ", is responsible for patrolling the train, checking tickets, making announcements and controlling the doors.

Passenger train in La Ceiba on January 11, 2005.

In 1961, SRI International issued a study on " The Economic Feasibility of Passenger Hydrofoil Craft in U. S. Domestic and Foreign Commerce ".

Passenger and freight service runs on these lines.

Cargo 9, Liquified Gas 3, Passenger / Cargo 2, Petroleum Tanker 1, Roll on / Roll off 2

In 1935, British movie, The Silent Passenger, was released, in which Lord Peter ( played by Peter Haddon ) solved a mystery on the boat train crossing the English Channel.

Martha, thought to be the world's last Passenger Pigeon, died on September 1, 1914, at the Cincinnati Zoo.

The Passenger Pigeon's closest living relative were thought to be the Zenaida doves based on morphological grounds.

The extinction of the Passenger Pigeon has two major causes: commercial exploitation of pigeon meat on a massive scale and loss of habitat.

In 1897, a bill was introduced in the Michigan legislature asking for a ten-year closed season on Passenger Pigeons.

* The Demise of the Passenger Pigeon ( as broadcast on NPR's Day to Day )

" Antonioni's films tend to have spare plots and dialogue, and much of the screen time is spent lingering on certain settings, such as the seven-minute continuous take in The Passenger, or the scene in L ' Eclisse in which Monica Vitti stares curiously at electrical posts accompanied by ambient sounds of wires clanking.

For example, some consider the screening of airline passengers based on static databases to have been Security Theater and Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System to have created a decrease in objective security.

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Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

Passenger trains are mostly run using electrical multiple units ( on electrified lines ) or rail buses.

Passenger service on the new Royal Gorge Route Railroad began in May 1999.

Passenger trips are the focus of transport engineering because they often represent the peak of demand on any transportation system.

An example was the June 1952 " Basic Policy for the Introduction of Foreign Investment into Japan's Passenger Car Industry " that placed quotas, tariffs and commodity taxes on imports, and when used car imports rose in the mid-1950s, additional measures were used to close that loophole.