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Average fares from the airport to downtown Houston will be $19 for the first person and $7 for a traveling companion. SuperShuttle plans on starting service with 50 blue and yellow vans and will be servicing the entire greater Houston metropolitan area including Sugar Land, Katy, the Woodlands, Clear Lake, Pasadena, Pearland and other outlying areas.
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Houston's earliest industry was cotton, which led to the city's emergence as a commercial and railroad hub by 1860. The discovery of oil at Spindletop in 1901 marked the birth of the petroleum industry in the region, and the opening of the Port of Houston in 1914 started the city down the path of international commerce. Aerospace has been a major industry in Houston since 1961, with the opening of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and has since earned the nickname "Space City." Today, Houston is a thriving metropolis of commerce, second only to New York City in Fortune 500 headquarters. Houston ... serves as the seat of the Texas Medical Center, the largest concentration of health care and research facilities in the world.
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Houston has a number of major highways that make getting around Houston fairly easy. (See list of freeways under the "Get In" section.) A number of obstacles... can make driving in Houston a less than pleasant experience. One is construction, which seems to be ever-present, and the other is traffic. Evening rush hour in Houston begins as early as 4pm and can last more than 2 hours. Morning rush hour is between 7 and 9. During rush hour, traffic on the highways can come to a halt.
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Houston has a large gay community concentrated primarily in Montrose, Neartown and Houston Heights. It is estimated that the Houston metropolitan area has the twelfth-largest number of lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals in the United States. [94]
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Houston TranStar, a national leader in freeway incident management, uses state-of-the-art technologies to reduce congestion on major roadways. Monitoring traffic incidents with more than 600 regional Closed Circuit Television Cameras (CCTVs), staff at the TranStar center dispatch vehicles to remove debris or hazardous materials, communicate with emergency vehicles about the most direct routes to an accident scene, and send tow trucks to stalled vehicles. Dynamic Message Signs (DMS), deployed from Houston TranStar, inform travelers about expected travel times and traffic issues ahead. Synchronized traffic signals, speed sensors, Highway Advisory Radio, ramp meters and other devices ... help keep the region’s traffic moving. more
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Houston Exploration uses eLynx's MeterLynx product and CompressorDOC solution for their monitoring. These products use the spread spectrum radio along with the fixed frequency network and the digital overhead channel of the cellular network, respectively, to provide real-time data on the Internet. This allows producers to view their data from wherever they can access the Internet. The system uses 128-bit encryption and a password is required for access.
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