Anne Marie Chaker of The Wall Street Journal wrote an excellent review recently of the new bus services that have come onto the scene to cater to business travelers. Her story includes a charming video of her trip to Baltimore on ...READ»
It's a dream to make Joe Biden weep: trains that connect East Coast cities at 220 miles per hour. But it won't be finished until 2040. Hear that sound? That's Europe and Asia laughing. READ»
The past few weeks, Amtrak and the Public Broadcasting Service, two government-funded organizations, have had to do a bit of soul-searching. The nature of these public-private institutions is a curious one. While both Amtrak and PBS ...READ»
Taking Amtrak's Heartland Flyer train between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City sometime in the next year? You will be hitching a ride on the first beef byproducts-powered biodiesel train. The train, which runs on 80% regular diesel and ...READ»
With energy costs, pollution concerns, and traffic woes mounting, you better hope so. Hence the 400 new public transit projects that have been proposed in large and small regions from Massachusetts to Hawaii.READ»
Today, on one what is traditionally the busiest day of the year for Amtrak, thousands of passengers will call to make sure their train's on time and hear, "Hi, this is Amtrak. I'm Julie." The automated system at Amtrak has a name as ...READ»
This week in TreeHugger: the story of how one man used boat parts to make his car super-efficient. Plus, researchers invent printable lithium batteries, and a cell phone with a battery that runs on Coca-Cola.READ»
This week in TreeHugger: the story of how one man used boat parts to make his car super-efficient. Plus, researchers invent printable lithium batteries, and a cell phone with a battery that runs on Coca-Cola.READ»
Forty-odd years ago people were writing about something called The Summer of Love. I predict this is the year anyone who has to travel aloft on business will be writing instead about The Summer of Ugh. Meaning be prepared for ...READ»
Transit ridership is soaring amid concerns about gas prices, an aging population, and greater preference for city living. But public investments just haven't kept pace, and with state and local budgets hurting from the recession, ...READ»
Peter Fuller is the executive director of the Mobile Marketing Association. Carrie Himelfarb works as VP of sales for Vindigo. Nihal Mehta is president of ipsh! Mike Troiano is senior vice president of business development for ...READ»
Networking is not about how many bunches of business cards you can hand out in the least amount of time.
I was at an event last week and someone I didn’t know raced up to the booth, interrupted my conversation (body language ...READ»
Bullet train companies have probably been salivating ever since Obama allocated $8 billion for high speed rail in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. So it comes as no surprise to learn that Central Japan Railway Co. ...READ»
If you listen to the news, you'd think that President Obama's $819 billion stimulus package was drawn up in watercolor. What will get funded? Which states will get money? What are the parameters? A new website launched this week ...READ»
I bet the Griswolds are already packed and ready to go.
Environmentaland, the self-proclaimed first eco themed park, opened its doors this month in Hollywood. Said to offer entertainment for adults, kids, students, artists, and pets ...READ»
One of the last places on the planet to which you can still escape the Internet is in flight. That's about to change.
As Jason Fry reports in The Wall Street Journal, the Internet is coming to airplanes. It was inevitable.
The big ...READ»
In an effort to lure customers away from the expensive air shuttle and to out-cheap Amtrak's erratic Acela high-speed train, Fergus McCann wants travelers to take... the bus?
Dubbed the LimoLiner, the 28-seat luxury bus service ...READ»
It's all in the presentation. With crying babies, bad screens and rude chatter at the theater, maybe Hollywood alone cannot be blamed for the box office slump.READ»
