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CP: Market Alliances Can Serve As Means To Convert Truck Traffic
Thursday, July 29, 2021 - 1:00pm | 1273Read More...Canadian Pacific has a number of options it can pursue should the regulatory and market environments not be conducive to mergers and acquisitions, executives said during the railway's second-quarter 2021 earnings call on Wednesday. Besides CP's "unique origin strengths" and shorter lengths of...
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Lack Of Traffic Bottlenecks Helps Speed Freight
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 6:39pm | 946Read More...Rush hour slowdowns and traffic bottlenecks on major freeways are practically non-existent as millions of people stay off the roads during the coronavirus pandemic, allowing truckers to move freight faster. "Holy smokes, yes!" independent trucker Henry Albert responded when asked by FreightWaves...
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Too Much Traffic? Congestion Pricing Advocates Have A Solution
Friday, August 9, 2019 - 10:25am | 1342Read More...Ask any trucker and they will tell you traffic is a way of life – not a happy way of life, but one they must deal with on a daily basis. Americans are driving more than ever before, and that is making roadway congestion increasingly worse. The Federal Highway Administration said there were 3.22...
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Today's Pickup: Carmageddon Returns As California Begins Road Closures For Work Along SR-60 Between Ontario And Riverside
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - 11:55am | 973Read More...Good day, "Carmageddon" gripped the nation in 2011 and it is poised to do it again. The reality is outside of California, few people cared about Carmageddon in 2011, but those that moved freight certainly did. The original Carmageddon closed portions of I-405 for 55 hours as the California...
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Manhattan Traffic Bad? Fuhgeddaboudit! New York City Plans To Adopt First City Tolls By 2021
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 5:54pm | 1149Read More...New York's plan to toll vehicles entering the lower third of Manhattan is the unintended consequence of two of the hottest trends in transportation right now – ride-sharing and on-demand delivery. Companies in those sectors will bear yet another cost for operating in one of the most...
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Ivory Retail Trade Dips, But DC Now Leads Nation
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 - 1:30pm | 446Read More...The trade in elephant ivory is down but not out. And the nation’s capital has become a hotbed for hawking ivory, apparently because other places have made it harder to move stuff made from the tusks of slaughtered pachyderms. TRAFFIC, a nonprofit group that monitors wildlife trafficking, said...
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Air France KLM Traffic Drops In April
Monday, May 11, 2015 - 5:32am | 74Read More...Air France KLM SA (ADR) (OTC: AFLYY) reported a 1 percent decline in its April traffic. The company's traffic for the month slipped to 7.4 million passengers. Its traffic on Transavia unit gained 7.6 percent. Load factor shrank 0.6 percent to 84.2 percent, versus 84.8 percent. Available seat-...
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United Continental December Total Traffic Drops 4%
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 6:06am | 60Read More...United Continental Holdings (NYSE: UAL) reported a 4% decline in its December total traffic. UAL's load factor widened to 82.4%, from 81.2%, in the year-ago period. Its total traffic fell to 16.21 billion revenue passenger miles, from 16.88 billion RPMs, in the year-ago period. For 2012, UAL's...
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United Continental August Traffic Rises 0.4%
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 5:24am | 41Read More...United Continental Holdings (NYSE: UAL) reported a 0.4% rise in its traffic in August. United Continental's capacity climbed 0.6% in August, while consolidated load factor surged to 86.6% from 85.7%. United Continental gained 0.68% to $20.20 in after-hours trading.
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Obama Economy Leading to Declining Traffic Congestion
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 9:50am | 1464Read More...If it is true that every cloud has a silver lining, then there must be one for the weak US economy, right? USA Today's Larry Copeland may have found one. On May 21, 2012, Copeland reported that "higher gas prices and a spotty economy recovery" are responsible for the drop in traffic congestion...
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US Airways Consolidated March Traffic Rises 4.5%
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 8:48am | 50Read More...US Airways Group Inc (NYSE: LCC) reported a 4.5% rise in its consolidated March traffic. US Airways' load factor climbed to 84% from 82.9%, while capacity surged 3.1%. US Airways' consolidated passenger revenue per available seat mile gained 8%. US Airways shares gained 2.33% to $7.92 in pre-...
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Virgin Australia February Traffic Rises 7.2%
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 4:12am | 38Read More...Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd (OTC: VBHLF) reported a 7.2% rise in its passenger numbers in February. Virgin Australia's revenue load factor dropped 4.6 percentage points to 72.4%. Virgin Australia shares closed at $0.45 yesterday.
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Air France-KLM Posts 6.2% Rise In February Passenger Traffic
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 6:21am | 54Read More...Air France-KLM (OTC: AFLYY) reported a 6.2% rise in its passenger traffic in February. Air France-KLM's capacity climbed 2.5% in the month. Its load factor rose to 80.5%. Passenger numbers surged 5% to 5.34 million. Air France-KLM's cargo business traffic declined 5.1%, while its capacity rose 0....
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US Airways Reports Rise In February Traffic
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 8:30am | 66Read More...US Airways Group Inc (NYSE: LCC) reported a 7.9% y/y rise in its February traffic. US Airways' traffic climbed to 4.3 billion revenue passenger miles. Its mainline load factor came in at 78.3%, up 1.5 percentage points from the year-ago period. On a consolidated basis, passenger revenue per...
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Genesee & Wyoming Posts 12% Decline In January Traffic
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 8:24am | 55Read More...Genesee & Wyoming Inc (NYSE: GWR) reported a 12% y/y drop in its January traffic. Genesee & Wyoming's carloads declined to 72,887 last month, from 82,735, in the year-ago period. Excluding latest acquisitions, Genesee & Wyoming's traffic fell 14%. Metals traffic surged 22% to 8,946...
