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According to a United States Transportation Research Board (TRB) case study report, the initial construction cost for the first phase of 41 km was US $240 million, or US $5.9 million/km. [citation needed] In a report presented later by the Ministry of Transport of Colombia, the total cost of the construction of Transmilenio phase one was ...
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
A style guide, or style manual, is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field. The implementation of a style guide provides uniformity in style and formatting within a document and across multiple documents.
Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.
A smoothness index for the road can be derived from a standard deviation analysis of the results. [4] As an example of a unit the Road Research Laboratory rolling straight-edge measures 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length with the sensor mounted at the midpoint. The unit was mounted on forty 127-millimetre (5.0 in) diameter road wheels mounted in pairs ...
Colombia has 3,034 kilometers (1,885 mi) of rail lines, 150 kilometers (93 mi) of which are 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge and 3,154 kilometers (1,960 mi) of which are 914 mm (3 ft) gauge. However, only 2,611 kilometers (1,622 mi) of lines are still in use. Rail transport in Colombia remains underdeveloped.
A guide book to the 1915 Panama–California Exposition An assortment of guide books in Japan. A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [1] It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities.
Forbes Travel Guide (formerly known as Mobil Guide or Mobil Travel Guide) is a star rating service and online travel guide for hotels, restaurants and spas. [1] In 2011, Forbes Travel Guide published its last set of guidebooks and, on November 15, 2011, launched its new online home, ForbesTravelGuide.com, [2] which covers numerous international destinations, including Hong Kong, Macau, Beijing ...