However, the building of national rail networks brought swifter transport links to many coastal areas by mid-century.
Alex Burrows, head of strategy for Centro, is anticipating gathering a raft of new data as consumers in the West Midlands take up his company's new Swift public transport smartcards.
SWIFT will study ozone transport, transport across the sub-tropical mixing barrier, equatorial dynamics and data assimilation.
A former accountant and finance manager, she started off under the coalition as Osborne's economic secretary to the Treasury, before a swift promotion to transport secretary in 2011.
The research identified a need for swift, flexible urban food transport not hampered by traffic jams and one-way streets; hence Foodlogica's e-trikes.
The Stratospheric Wind Interferometer For Transport studies (SWIFT) is an instrument intended to measure winds to an accuracy of 5 m s−1 or better in the stratosphere, during both day and night, as well as ozone concentrations.
The current is relatively swift, and the river transports a considerable load of silt.
Dominique Bussereau, the French transport minister, said swift action was needed to restore the reputations of both companies.
The specific scientific areas of interest of SWIFT are tropical-wind climatologies, the transport of ozone, and data assimilation.
