The European Commission has announced a plan to boost employment and save euro2.4 billion ($3.1 billion) by cutting red tape in the EU maritime transport sector.
The European Union has approved euro1.7 billion (US$2.15 billion) in funding for 11 railway projects aimed at clearing bottlenecks in Europe's transport grid.
The EU transport commissioner says European and African countries should work to build a single highway system connecting northern and southern Africa.
Railway and mass transit workers in Italy staged a strike Monday, creating chaos for commuters, while a wildcat protest by some of Alitalia's staff forced the national airline to scrap dozens of flights.
A truck carrying a rocket booster for an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile tipped over on a northwestern North Dakota road on Thursday, but no one was injured and there was no threat to the public, an Air Force official said.
Transport workers in Italy have gone on strike, forcing the cancellation of thousands of bus, tram and subway lines and snarling traffic across the country.
Transportation workers have walked off their jobs across Italy in a dispute over contracts.
A medical transport service overcharged the federal government nearly $2 million to evacuate sick or injured people during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a government audit found.
The micro-copter uses a simple optical trick to fly gracefully (Image: Hubert Raguet)
Caption: Ibeo's laser scanner keeps track of vehicles in the road ahead (Image: Ibeo)
California is unlikely to win its lawsuit against six of the world’s largest car manufacturers, which it filed earlier this week, say legal experts. The state is suing the automakers for the costs it says are associated with the vehicles’ greenhouse gas emissions.
THE State Government will spend $175 million building a three-lane bridge over Iron Cove even though it concedes the existing bridge could be modified to take all the extra traffic.
Amputees and people with difficulty standing could soon move using a 'wearable transportation device' that gives the effect of walking.
It is technically illegal not to bag Fido's faeces in German cities, but notoriously poor Berlin just hasn't had the resources to enforce fines – much less hire poop scoopers to maintain public areas, Schauffel said.
Officers managed to save some 4,200 trout from certain death on the autobahn after an emergency call from a truck driver, Bavarian police reported on Wednesday.
The fastest, most frequent train service in the world could run between London and the North within 12 years, according to the chairman of the government-owned company planning the high-speed link.
Call it poverty or lack of infrastructural growth, this article in in itself lends a wonderous insight into the variety called life. Isn't it amazing to find that human beings are capable of being so accomodating!
Spanish police arrested a man arriving at Barcelona's airport from Chile after determining that the cast on his fractured left leg was made of cocaine, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday.
Yes, I am very happy where I live because I live in the Royal Borough of Berkshire, which is a very leafy county in England.
One hundred and fifty six passengers and 33 crew have been stranded overnight on a Stena Voyager just off the port of Stranraer. The ferry, bound for Belfast, had to return to Stranraer after a lorry was discovered hanging off the back.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled a plan Tuesday to avoid airport parking fees by transporting inmates on the Metro light rail, but officials claim that parking is already free.
BUS and train fares will be lowered soon, the Public Transport Council (PTC) announced on Friday. The council said the two public transport operators - SBS Transit and SMRT Corp - will not be applying for their annual fare adjustment.
In September, after attending the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula, he sailed with some friends to Seattle on his sloop the Whisper. It was laden with the organic-farm produce from a farm on the peninsula.
For sale: second-hand spaceship, one previous owner, launchpad and crew not included. Price: $36 million, plus $6 million for shipping and handling.
Hundreds of Berliners who end up in prison each year for riding public transportation without tickets are stressing the city's already overcrowded prisons, daily Der Tagesspiegel reported on Monday.
The global air industry is set to lose $5bn (£3.32bn) in 2008 and $2.5bn next year because of the global economic downturn, an industry body has said.
Who knew America's highways were a hotbed of cybercrime?
UPDATE: On the dog in Clay County, who died while being transported to the animal shelter: The dog died of shock, not neglect. He was a very sick dog. Dear; Animal Control Officer.
Auckland is New Zealand's largest city. Town planning took a holiday last century and back in the day we did have one mayor advocating a subway system but he was shouted down in the political arena where all good decisions go to die.
An airplane from Icelandair Cargo transported unloaded rifles from the US to Georgia at the end of last month as confirmed by Gunnar Már Sigurfinnsson, managing director of Icelandair Cargo. The rifles were not categorized as hazardous cargo.
The luxury train belonging to former ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein is to return to service. Since the 1970s, the French-built train has been kept in a secret place in Baghdad.
The Green Train, or Grona Taget, will cut energy use on rail lines by 30 percent through lowered operational costs and journey times. Top speeds reached 183 MPH on a test run.
The London congestion charge is losing its battle against gridlock after it was revealed that the capital's streets are as gridlocked now as they were before the levy was introduced.