Flight Centre Limited (ASX:FLT) is Australia’s largest travel agent. It is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation of $1.145 billion as at March 2006. It has 1000 stores in eight different countries with over 8000 staff. Flight Centre was founded by Graham Turner in 1981. Turner had previously run a successful [...]

Artist’s depiction of a hypothetical Wormhole Induction Propelled Spacecraft, based loosely on the 1994 “warp drive” paper of Miguel Alcubierre. Credit: NASA CD-98-76634 by Les Bossinas. Interstellar space travel is unmanned or manned travel between stars. The concept of interstellar travel in starships is a staple in science fiction. Interstellar travel is tremendously more difficult [...]

“First Transcontinental Railroad” is the name of the railway completed in 1869 between Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa to Sacramento, California which connnected to other railways going respectively to the Atlantic and Pacific to establish the first coast-to-coast U.S. transcontinental rail route. Shown is the ceremony for the driving of the “Last Spike” signifying the joining [...]

already coupled “Fifth wheel” redirects here. For other uses, see Fifth wheel (disambiguation). The fifth wheel coupling provides the link between a semi-trailer and the towing truck, tractor unit, leading trailer or dolly. Some recreational vehicles RVs are in a fifth wheel configuration, requiring the coupling to be installed in the bed of a pickup [...]

A rockoon (derived from the terms rocket and balloon) was an extension to the rocket, which allowed the rocket to achieve further distance. The rockoon was a solid fuel rocket that, rather than being immediately lit while on the ground, was first carried into the upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, and then separated from [...]

A porter is a railroad employee assigned to assist passengers aboard a passenger train or to handle their baggage; it may be used particularly to refer to employees assigned to assisting passengers in the sleeping cars. In Australia, a Railway Porter had various roles. A Baggage Porter assisted with luggage; an Operating Porter assisted with [...]

Main article: Merchant ship Loading a ro-ro passenger car ferry Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are ferries designed to carry wheeled cargo such as automobiles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers or railroad cars. This is in contrast to lo-lo (lift on-lift off) vessels which use a crane to load and unload cargo. RORO vessels have built-in [...]

The Lions Gate Bridge from the south end in Stanley Park, Vancouver. A reversible lane (called a counterflow lane or contraflow lane in transport engineering nomenclature) is a lane in which traffic may travel in either direction, depending on certain conditions. Typically, it is meant to improve traffic flow during rush hours, by having overhead [...]

Green transport is a category of sustainable transport which uses human power, animal power and renewable energy. In common usage public transport is considered a green transport option in comparison with private vehicles, as is car pooling. But some people prefer a definition that does not include public transport or vehicle movements which relies on [...]

This article is about rail industry occupation. Train Dispatcher is also a computer simulation by Softrail. A Train Dispatcher is employed by a railroad to direct and facilitate the movement of trains over an assigned territory, which is usually part, or all, of a railroad operating division. In Canada the train dispatcher is known as [...]