Until more tests are conducted, more passengers may be lugging a water bottle in addition to their plastic-wrapped sandwich or salad.
The stranded train finally started moving at about 11 25 a.m., with a conducting telling passengers: "There is light at the end of the tunnel".
While those responding were a self-selected group, and no definitive studies have been conducted of passengers' attitudes about civility, in interviews with some 30 travelers at airports serving Los Angeles, Atlanta, Newark, Philadelphia and Chicago, disgruntlement -- over service, crowds and manners -- was in plentiful supply.
(According to the agency, the "lookout" list "is usually the result of analysis conducted on passenger information submitted by the airline prior to the aircraft's arrival in the United States").
And Teterboro Airport in Bergen County, N.J., which serves only private planes and therefore conducts no passenger checks, is nevertheless hiring a consultant to survey the airport perimeter to improve security there.
To see things from a user perspective, he conducted a passenger satisfaction survey through interviews conducted aboard trains.
For example, we do not know when seniors had to give away their driving license or how large a share of their trips was conducted via passenger car during the time preceding the study.
An additional 41 measurement runs were conducted in passenger coaches and the workplaces of station masters.
(He was referring to a survey of passengers conducted by the Department of Transportation last August).
Mr. Magaña said the center was a terminal manager's idea when he saw some passengers conducting an impromptu yoga session in a gate area.
That was one of the findings of a recent survey on the travel preferences and habits of cruise passengers, conducted by Cruise Holidays, a cruise-specialty retailer, through its associated travel agents.
