The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.

The road between Lubango and Namibe, for example, was completed recently with funding from the European Union, and is comparable to many European main routes.

Six astatine isotopes, with mass numbers of 214 to 219, are present in nature as the products of various decay routes of heavier elements, but neither the most stable isotope of astatine ( with mass number 210 ) nor astatine-211 ( which is used in medicine ) is produced naturally.

There are buses with specific routes and destinations, generally written on their windshields or shouted out by a barker riding in the front seat.

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

The small minibus operator M & M Coaches and its main competitor Transdev Lancashire United provide service in Accrington, with routes to places such as Blackburn, Oswaldtwistle, Rishton, Burnley and Clitheroe.

These streetcar lines were replaced with bus routes in the 1930s and 1940s.

Cameroon lies at a key point in the Trans-African Highway network, with three routes crossing its territory:

Following independence, Costa Ricans found themselves with no regular trade routes to get their coffee to European markets.

Rail transport is fairly developed, with dual track and electrification not very common, although high-speed tilting trains are used on some routes.

Other generally later canals took more direct routes requiring the use of various methods to deal with the change in level.

In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia.

Rides usually consist of several different routes, sorted by mileage, and with a certain number of rest stops that usually include refreshments, first aid and maintenance tools.

According to Homer, Circe suggested two alternative routes to Odysseus to return to Ithaca: toward the " Wandering Rocks " where King Aeolus reigned or passing between the dangerous Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, conventionally identified with the Strait of Messina.

These airlines were able to stop making debt payments, break their previously agreed upon labor union contracts, freeing up cash to expand routes or weather a price war against competitors — all with the bankruptcy court's approval.

One problem with some cable systems is the older amplifiers placed along the cable routes are unidirectional thus in order to allow for uploading of data the customer would need to use an analog telephone modem to provide for the upstream connection.

During the Cold War, the main role of the CVBG in case of conflict with the Soviet Union would have been to protect Atlantic supply routes between the United States and Europe, while the role of the Soviet Navy would have been to interrupt these sea lanes, a fundamentally easier task.

Bicycling infrastructure is a dominant feature of both city and countryside infrastructure with bicycle paths and bicycle ways in many places and an extensive network of bicycle routes extending more than nationwide ( in comparison Denmark's coastline is ).

They had trading routes with Southeast Asia ( see Macassan contact with Australia ), and imported goods from as far afield as South and Western Australia.

The network consists of two routes, the Red Line and Green Line, with a total 54 stations and of track.

In the new system of European routes, it was planned to have been a part of E 55, but it remains in the pre-1992 designation ( E 4 ) within Sweden, because the expenses connected with re-signing this long road portion would be too large.

Networking advances IEEE 802. 1aq ( SPB ) include the use of the link-state routing protocol IS-IS to allow larger networks with shortest path routes between devices.

* Automotive navigation systems become widely popular making it possible to direct vehicles to any destination in real-time as well as detect traffic and suggest alternate routes with the use of GPS navigation devices.

The Arctic Bridge shipping route is hoped to link North America to market s in Europe and Asia using ice-free routes across the Arctic OceanThe longer periods of ice-free navigation and the reduction of Arctic Ocean ice coverage have led to Russian and Canadian interest in the potential for commercial trade routes across the Arctic and into Hudson Bay.

The legislation also broke colonial precedent by defining future use of the natural navigation, transportation and communication routes ; it did so in a way that anticipated future acquisitions beyond the Northwest Territories, and established federal policy.

Although much of the upper reaches are now designated as leisure routes, there is still significant commencial traffic on the navigation.

At Brandenburg an der Havel, the navigation again splits into two routes.

Watkins believed that, in ancient times, when Britain was far more densely forested, the country was criss-crossed by a network of straight-line travel routes, with prominent features of the landscape being used as navigation points.

These references comprise the National Airspace System's method of allowing air traffic to select routes that yield efficient point to point navigation.

The underwater navigation through the cave system may be difficult and exit routes may be at considerable distance, requiring the diver to have sufficient breathing gas to make the journey.

In April 2007, MapQuest announced a partnership with General Motors ' OnStar that will allow OnStar subscribers to plan their driving routes on MapQuest. com and send their destination right to OnStar's turn-by-turn navigation service.

From the 1970s airliners used inertial navigation systems, especially on inter-continental routes, until the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983 prompted the US government to make GPS available for civilian use.

Pilots follow these routes by tracking radials across various navigation stations, and turning at some.

Locations along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway are defined in terms of statute miles ( as opposed to nautical miles, in which most marine routes are measured ) east and west of Harvey Lock, a navigation lock in the New Orleans area located at.

* Sailing Directions ( or pilots ): detailed descriptions of areas of the sea, shipping routes, harbours, aids to navigation, regulations etc.

The inuksuk may have been used for navigation, as a point of reference, a marker for travel routes, fishing places, camps, hunting grounds, places of veneration, drift fences used in hunting or as a food cache.

There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India.

* A Cunard Line report assesses that airlines do not pose a threat to the transatlantic ocean liner business because political interference with airline routes prevents aircraft from having the freedom of navigation that ships enjoy.

Unlike many in-car navigation systems, the Alpine DVD-based navigation unit allowed the driver to change destinations and routes " on the fly " while driving, rather than being locked out unless the car was in Park.

The river provides one of the principal routes of commercial navigation in the southern United States, navigable along much of its length through locks and connected in its upper reaches to the Tennessee River via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

As technology and navigation progressed these routes developed into a high-seas route into the Indian Ocean.

This resulted in an activation of the right hippocampus solely during recall of the complex routes which indicates that the right hippocampus is used for navigation in large scale spatial environments.

When data is integrated directly into a navigation system, traffic information can be used in the system's route calculation and the driver can have the option to take alternative routes to avoid traffic incidents.