BEIJING (AFP) - The first freight train to link China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after covering over 12,000-kilometres (7,500 miles), making it the second-longest route in the world. The journey is the latest effort in China's drive to strengthen trade links with western Europe along a modern-day "Silk Road" route. The world's top trading nation launch
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About a dozen trucks from major manufacturers like Volvo and Daimler just completed a week of largely autonomous driving across Europe, the first such major exercise on the continent. The trucks set off from their bases in three European countries and completed their journeys in Rotterdam in the Netherlands today (Apr. 6). One set of trucks, made by the Volkswagen subsidiary Scania, traveled more
Investigators into the Amtrak crash in Philadelphia are focusing on excess speed, but there is a related issue: the overall condition of Amtrak and the nation’s infrastructure. One of the reasons that American trains should not travel 100 miles an hour in many places is that the state of our rail system — like the state of our bridges, highways and airports — is not good. Many airports here look d
A $0.09 hike in the price of a single bus fare in Sao Paulo ignited the biggest protests to hit Brazil in over 20 years. As we noted earlier today, the bus fare hike was merely the last straw in a long list of public grievances about the shaky Brazilian economy. But it’s worth noting that Sao Paulo’s bus riders are being majorly squeezed by fares. A fare price that sounds pretty minuscule in dolla
登下校中の子供たちが暴走車に突っ込まれる事故や、連休の行楽と関連した事故のニュースが多く、そうした事故の責任者探しの報道で、暗くなりがちになる今日この頃ですが、警察や国土交通省および自動車会社の努力の甲斐あって日本ではこの20年くらい路上での交通事故死者数が着実に減っているということは意外と知られていないような気がします。こちらが交通事故死亡者数の長期推移です。(社会実情データ図録より) いわゆる交通戦争と呼ばれた1970年をピークに、道路上での死者数は1980年までに一度急降下したもののその後じわじわと10年くらい増加に転じた後、今度は着実に減少を続けて今日に至っています。 そして今や年間5000人を割り込んでおり、ここ10数年毎年30000人を越え続けている自殺者の推移と好対照となっています。(こちらも社会実情データ図録より)
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