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TRANSPORTATION TODAY

Amount that Panos Media. a research institute, estimates the 70 year lifespan of a Kenyan elephant is worth in tourist revenue

Estimated number of tołal rickshaws in Delhi.

1 O A n ⁰³¹⁶    ^ ^^rst documented air attack, when an

| Ol/ Austrian hot air baDoon dropped a 50 pound _ bomb on the island of Murano, near \fenice.

Avcragc numbcr of bags tost daily by the airtne industry Of cvcry 1000 bags handlcd, 5 arc bsl

VEHICLE TRAFFIC

$385 MILLION

Amount in airplane damages caused annually by bird strikes, according to the FAA

Number of buses in the worlds largest fleet, owned by the Andre Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation in India

6.1 MILLION

SomaliaS camel population, the worlds largesl

7.7 MILLION

SomaliaS human population.

WORLD S FASTEST TRAINS

FRANCE

Dis tance from Ethiopia to South Africa, walked by the nomadic Bantu people in pursuit of fresh cattle pastures in the 1700s. Along the way the Bantu "sowed their wild oats/ spawning the Masai of Kenya, the Żulu of South Africa, the Maukua of Tanzania, the Yau of Mozambiąue, the Tutsi/llutu of Rwanda, and the Baganda of Uganda, to name a lew

Average number of people Injured or killed in Armenia for every 1000 vehk;les, making Armenians the worWs worst drivers. In the USA, the number is 16.

PER 1000 PEOPLE

l\ŁJ PER 1000 PE0PIE

4 110 INDIA #25

GERMANY 55

MEXI(0 1 3

Length of the longest horse - drawn joumey completed in 199&Jj>v a British family who traveled 17,200 miles around thę wprjd in a tremer¹

Growthin number of mcga-yachts (80 fcet or morę) sincc 1996, from 2,800 to over 6000 today

« / r"' Cosi of the average US honeymoon, which «J O J 'typically lasts 9 days and involves a trip to the Caribbean, the Bahamas, or to Europę

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