** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

As the official show of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, the UK ’ s trade association for the bus, coach and light rail industry, the three day event offers visitors from Europe and beyond the chance to see and experience, at first hand, the very latest vehicles and product and service innovations right across the industry.

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.

International Air Transport Association airport codes are three-letter codes used to designate airports and used for bag tags.

In addition, the 1947 Transport Act improved provision of rural bus services, while the Agriculture Act 1947 established a more generous subsidy system for farmers.

In 1976, jurisdiction over telecommunications services, most of which were then delivered by monopoly common carriers ( for example, telephone companies ), was transferred to it from the Canadian Transport Commission although the abbreviation CRTC remained the same.

On 7 July 2010 it was announced that Coronation Street was working with The Mill and the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive ( responsible for the operation of Manchester Metrolink ) to film a spectacular and realistic tram crash.

The service is operated by London Tramlink, an arm of Transport for London ( TfL ).

The background to this purchase relates to the requirement that TfL ( who took over from London Regional Transport in 2000 ) compensates TCL for the consequences of any changes to the fares and ticketing policy introduced since 1996.

Although Diffie – Hellman key agreement itself is an anonymous ( non-authenticated ) key-agreement protocol, it provides the basis for a variety of authenticated protocols, and is used to provide perfect forward secrecy in Transport Layer Security's ephemeral modes ( referred to as EDH or DHE depending on the cipher suite ).

The DLR is operated under a concession awarded by Transport for London to Serco Limited, part of the Serco Group.

The system is owned by Docklands Light Rail Limited, part of the London Rail division of Transport for London.

* Siim Kallas ( ERP, Estonia ): Vice-President, European Commissioner for Transport

Today, state local presence on mainland Finland is provided by 6 regional administrative agencies ( aluehallintovirasto, avi ), and 15 Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment ( elinkeino -, liikenne-ja ympäristökeskus, ely-keskus ).

The Moriarty Tribunal has sat since 1997 and has investigated the granting of a mobile phone license to Esat Telecom by Michael Lowry when he was Fine Gael Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications in the Rainbow Coalition of the mid-1990s.

For the remainder, in particular for the Berbice River and the North West services, the Government provides a cross-subsidy funded out of the profits that are always realized by the Harbor Branch of the Transport and Harbors Department.

The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.

Lord Stonehaven ( as John Baird ) was Minister for Transport in the Cabinets of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin ; and after his return to Britain he became Chairman of the UK Conservative Party.

These can be possessed with an ordinary PAL, and are the only class of firearms which can be used for hunting, due to the ATT ( Authorization to Transport ) requirement for Restricted and Prohibited weapons, as well as provincial regulations.

* Wang L H, " In Search of a Sustainable Transport Development Strategy for Hong Kong "

In the Republic of Ireland, the Minister for Transport, acting through the Department of Transport, is responsible for the State's road network, rail network, public transport, airports and several other areas.

In 1990 Croydon Council with the then London Regional Transport ( LRT ) put the project to Parliament and the Croydon Tramlink Act 1994 resulted, which gave LRT the power to build and run Tramlink.

* Chartered Institute of Transport London

To give another example, the validity of a pass on London Regional Transport services is until the end of the " transport day " -- that is to say, until 4: 30 am on the day after the " expiry " date stamped on the pass.

Transport links have improved significantly, with the Isle of Dogs gaining a tube connection via the Jubilee Line Extension ( opened 1999 ) and the DLR being extended to Beckton, Lewisham, London City Airport, North Woolwich and Stratford.

They became part of an integrated transport system in 1933 when the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) or London Transport was created.

Since 2003 LUL has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London ( TfL ), the statutory corporation responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London, which is run by a board and a commissioner appointed by the Mayor of London.

* Frank Pick, Managing Director of the Underground Group from 1928 and Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board from its creation in 1933 until 1940.

* Lord Ashfield, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) from 1910 to 1933 and chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) from 1933 to 1947.

* London Underground ( Transport for London ) Home page

Local 8 of the Marine Transport Workers was led by Ben Fletcher, who organized predominantly African-American longshoremen on the Philadelphia and Baltimore waterfronts, but other leaders included the Swiss immigrant Waler Nef, Jack Walsh, E. F. Doree, and the Spanish sailor Manuel Rey.

The experience gained from the investigation into the fire was one of the principal factors that led to the creation of the French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau ( Bureau d ' Enquêtes sur les Accidents de Transport Terrestre ).

When Chamberlain fell and Churchill became Prime Minister his long running feud with Reith led to the latter being moved to the Ministry of Transport.

A United Nations team led by Olaf Van Duin and Nisa Nurmohamed of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works inspected the dam over three days in September 2005 and confirmed that the natural lip had weakened.

He oversaw Bus deregulation in Great Britain with the Transport Act 1985 which led to a period of intense competition between rival bus companies, known at the time as the ' Bus wars ' and the dramatic subsequent growth of Stagecoach Group, First Group and the other major bus operators.

On his first day as mayor, Jan. 1, 1966, the Transport Workers Union of America ( TWU ) led by Mike Quill shut down the city with a complete halt of subway and bus service.

Workers Power members in the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers won support for a resolution calling for a conference to discuss the formation of a new workers party, which led to the RMT sponsored conference in London in January 2006 on the crisis of working class representation, which was attended by over 350 people.

In 2009, a government led by the National Party augmented the Act with the Land Transport ( Enforcement Powers ) Amendment Act and the Sentencing ( Vehicle Confiscation ) Amendment Act, which allow police to confiscate and " crush " ( correctly, dismantle for salable parts and destroy the remainder ) vehicles on the third offence within four years, issue infringements for " cruising " and prosecute street racing and " antisocial " behaviour, by creating temporary by-laws.

In 1965 the Ministry of Transport asked Sir William Halcrow & Partners to report on a route selected by the County Surveyor of Cheshire and this led, in stages, to the development of the design to partial urban and partial rural motorway standards.

After Rifkind left the Ministry of Transport in 1992 the Treasury view prevailed and this led to the creation of Railtrack.

The resulting Air Mail scandal led to the Air Mail Act of 1934, which mandated the separation of air carriers from their equipment manufacturers, breaking up companies such as the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation.

Growing opposition to Bolger's slow pace led Transport Minister Jenny Shipley to stage a caucus room coup in 1997.

Project Magnet, led by senior senior radio engineer Wilbert B. Smith from the Department of Transport, had the goal of studying magnetic phenomena, specifically geomagnetism, as a potential propulsion method for vehicles.

Transport improvements enabling daily commuting to London from the 1950s onwards also led to a further change with the growth in more affluent families which irrevocably changed the composition of the village community.

Transport improvements enabling daily commuting to London from the 1950s onwards also led to a further change with the growth in more affluent families which irrevocably changed the composition of the village community.

He revealed he had led other members of the team across Smith Square to jeer at Transport House, the former Labour headquarters.

The final years of the McKenna administration saw an agreement signed with a private consortium called Maritime Road Development Corporation ( led by former provincial Liberal leader and former federal Minister of Transport Douglas Young ) to privately finance and build a toll highway to carry the Trans-Canada Highway ( Route 2 ) in a new alignment from a point west of Fredericton to a point on the existing TCH west of Moncton at River Glade.

He won election to the Yukon legislature on behalf of the NDP in 1982 and became Minister of Education and Minister of Community and Transport when Tony Penikett led the NDP to power in 1985.

Belated reports of a UFO sighting in Australia on the night of the disappearance led Ken Williams, a spokesman for the Department of Transport, to tell Associated Press that " it's funny all these people ringing up with UFO reports well after Valentich's disappearance.

In the mid-1970s the expansion of the " Ministerial Air Transport Service " ( MATS ) following Ireland's accession to the European Economic Community ( now the European Union ) led to the acquisition of the Corps ' first business jet, a BAe 125-700.

In 1994 she led a delegation in the constitutional negotiations that preceded South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, and was then appointed to the position of Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Transport from 1994 – 1999.

He led the 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike.

The aftermath of the Hatfield crash led to severe financial difficulties for Railtrack and just under a year later-on 7 October 2001-the company was put into railway administration ( a special kind of insolvency for railway companies which ensures continuity of operation of railway services ) by the British High Court on the application of the then Secretary of State for Transport Stephen Byers.