Honduras
The Honduras government has signed a deal with private investors to create three privately run cities with their own legal and tax systems.
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The future of in-car connectivity
While driving we can get connected to the world through the internet.
Everyday the world of automotive technology changes. Companies are designing very advanced in-car technology that needs to be secure but also easily usable to their customers. Now a days big automobile brands introduce the internet facility and secure navigation systems in cars. This is very beneficial to the consumers.
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The Curse of Infrastructure
Futurist Thomas Frey: Every time I drive to the office there are 11 separate stoplights along my route. Based on some cosmic luck-of-the-draw, two thirds of the stoplights will either be red or green, and the time it takes me will vary from 12 to 22 minutes.
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Top 10 worst airports in America
LaGuardia Airport tops the list of the worst airports in the U.S.
What you will find in America’s worst airports are outdated infrastructure, overcrowding, chronic delays, and demoralized staff, according to readers of Travel + Leisure.
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Mumbai to Delhi train travel time could be cut to only 7 hours
At present the train travel time from Mumbai to Delhi runs 16 hours.
Train travel time between the national and the commercial capitals of India could soon come down by at least half to only seven hours. The infrastructure for the Golden Rail Corridor, which will have trains running at semihigh speed (160-200 kmph) between New Delhi and Mumbai, is likely to cost around Rs 5,000 crore, according to railway officials. They say the cost is relatively low as the railways will not have to acquire land for the project.
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American cities built for the young strained by aging boomers
Atlanta Regional Commission project constructed the new ramp to accomodate the aging population in Atlanta.
People are getting old, fast, and they’re doing it in cities designed for the young. Cities in American are grappling with that fact as work on getting the communities ready for an older population has gotten a late start considering demographers have warned for a long time that the population is about to get older.
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China Planning World’s Largest Mega-City with 42 Million People
China planning to merge nine cities to create the world’s largest mega city.
China is planning to create the world’s biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million. City planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta.
