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The Overland Track, marked in red, with Cradle Mountain in the north and Lake St Clair in the south. The Overland Track is an Australian bushwalking track, traversing Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. It is walked by more than nine thousand people each year, with numbers limited in ...
Overlanding or 4WD Touring is self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, but not exclusively, it is accomplished with mechanized off-road capable transport (from bicycles to trucks) where the principal form of lodging is camping, often lasting for extended lengths of time (months to years) and spanning international boundaries.
Waypoint. A waypoint is an intermediate point or place on a route or line of travel, a stopping point or point at which course is changed, [1] [2] the first use of the term tracing to 1880. [2] In modern terms, it most often refers to coordinates which specify one's position on the globe at the end of each "leg" (stage) of an air flight or sea ...
The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...
The railway network of Great Britain is operated with the aid of a number of documents, which have been sometimes termed "technical manuals", [1] because they are more detailed than the pocket-timetables which the public encounters every day. Historically, they were classified PRIVATE and not for publication, however since rail privatisation ...
Journey planner. A journey planner, trip planner, or route planner is a specialized search engine used to find an optimal means of travelling between two or more given locations, sometimes using more than one transport mode. [1] [2] Searches may be optimized on different criteria, for example fastest, shortest, fewest changes, cheapest. [3]
GPX, or GPS Exchange Format, is an XML schema designed as a common GPS data format for software applications. It can be used to describe waypoints, tracks, and routes. It is an open format [2] and can be used without the need to pay license fees. Location data (and optionally elevation, time, and other information) is stored in tags and can be ...
Bi-directional working, reversible working or multi-track lines that do not run parallel to each other. Locations where there is a significant reduction in line speed. Communication black spots. Complex signalling or track layout. For example, the approaches to major junctions and stations. Methods and assessment. Route learning can consist of: