The phrase "access on board" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts related to gaining entry or permission to use something while on a vehicle or vessel, but it is not commonly phrased this way.
Example: "Passengers will have access on board to the Wi-Fi service during the flight."
Alternatives: "access aboard" or "access while on board".
The company recently introduced wireless Internet access on board its Norwegian Sun and four other ships and plans to add it to the rest of its fleet this month.
Today, only around a dozen rail lines and about 100 trains are equipped with broadband, but by the end of 2007 scores of lines and several hundred trains are due to offer the service.Driving the market is a combination of passenger demand, the rail operators' own needs and improved technologies that make access on board feasible and cost-effective.
The BBC's Mike Bushell was given exclusive access on board.
Access on board is free apart from a ticketed showing of the Hollywood film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which is showing on Thursday night.
There had been concerns in some quarters that a short extension of the franchise, rather than the 15-year length originally planned, would mean a delay to running time improvements and internet access on board.
This month, ExecConnect America began offering four trips a day in each direction between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, using buses with 27 leather seats (versus the 56 seats typical for that size bus), data ports, free Internet access, on-board attendants, TV screens with news channels, meal service and a restroom.
Smartphones allows for network connection and access, on-board processing, and application in resource-limited settings [30 34].
Starting in March, I am told, American Airlines will start offering Web access on-board, followed shortly by Virgin America.
For this purpose, the challenges to providing a continuous mobile signal on the train have been described and the architecture required to provide Internet access on-board the train has been analyzed, which in turn allows the dimensioning of the on-board, train-to-wayside and wayside resources.
With this expansion, nearly 60 percent of Amtrak's passengers have access to on-board Wi-Fi, the company said.
In addition, an Open Garden-enabled car could also just use a driver's phone to provide Internet access to on-board apps.
