Links related (sometimes loosely) to my research

• Forthcoming Conferences
• People
• Organisations
• Learned Societies
• Companies and Products
• Pages with Links
• Books and Papers on the Web
• Relevant Journals
• Various British and International Funding Bodies
• Funded Projects
• Travel-Related Links
• Jobs
• Other

Travel-Related Links

Air travel

• British Airways
• British Midland
• KLM
• KLM uk
• Lufthansa
• Sabena
• SAS
• Lists of various airlines:
• German site
• Airlines of the Web (a lot of info on air travel)
• Airlines, airports, shedules, info on cities served
• British teletext, see arrivals to some of the UK airports
• Dutch teletext, useful for Schiphol arrivals/departures
• Airports
• BAA site covers Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Southampton
• Manchester
• Leeds - Bradford
• Cheap flights
• LowestFare (primarily for the US destinations)
• Ebookers (my login name is v_toropov)
• TravelShoppe
• Expedia

Coach and bus

• National Express - Eurolines coach network
• Bus journey planner, covers Cumbria, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, West Yorkshire, Blackpool, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, London
• UK public transport information site

Trains

• British train timetable
• European train timetables
• Group of sites on British trains (types of tickets, etc.)
• Russian Train Timetable. It is helpful to know the following codes of major railway stations: Moscow-Kur: 2000001, Moscow-Yar: 2000002, Moscow-Kaz: 2000003, St Petersburg: 2004001, Nizhny Novgorod: 2060001

Ferry

• P&O North Sea Ferries
• Stena Line Ferries
• Various info on ferries

Car

• Shell GeoStar, the pan-european, car journey planner, it showes routes, maps of cities, etc.
• UK Street Maps - street maps for Greater London and road atlas maps for mainland Britain
• Shell Route Planner (in Dutch but it doesn't matter, dead easy to follow), a very good one

Hotels

• The Hotel Guide - an excellent site for hotel booking

Currency converters

• Currency converter - an excellent one
• An interactive list of currency exchange rates

Weather

• Weather in the UK.
• BBC on weather in the UK and beyond.

Various sites on travel

• CityNet - a great site on all about travel. Select Maps if you wish to see any place on a map, the zoom factor varies from World to Street in ten steps. In North America you can pinpoint a house if you know the address.
• Yahoo maps to find address in the USA or Canada on the map
• Internet Travel Netork - everything about travel
• UK travel guide
• UK maps
• World subway navigator
• London guide (travel, hotels, entertainments, etc)
• TravelShoppe
• Telephone codes in Russia

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Jobs

• The Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
• JobsUnlimited (former Guardian RecruitNet)
• Academic jobs in the UK
• Various jobs in the UK
• New Scientist's Job Service
• USACM Positions Available
• ASCE Job Service
• NISS (National Information Services and Systems) Job Service
• Careers in Construction (includes a section on CV writing)
• Searchable ASME Job Database
• Jobs at universities in the North of England:
• Bradford University
• Huddersfield University
• Leeds University
• Manchester University
• Salford University Telford Research Institute
• Sheffield University
• Sheffield Hallam University
• UMIST
• York University

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Other

• AltaVista
• Excite
• Infoseek
• Lycos
• Opentext
• WebCrawler
• Yahoo
• The Hunger Site - please click here
• ProMotion's animated GIFs
• The Times League Tables
• Malt Whisky Tour
• INMAC virtual superstore (computers, software, etc.)
• Software Warehouse (computers, software, etc.)
• CCL computers - very cheap
• BIDS (for Bradford University Civil and Environmental Engineering users only, password: cogm|dhge (encrypted).
• Hypertext Webster Gateway (dictionary)
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition (ARTFL Project)
• Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus
• Ghostscript and Ghostview Home Page
• Bradford University web-based email system
• Free email systems: Hotmail, WebMail, Yahoo, Net@ddress
• Free Internet providers: X-Stream, FreeServe, Yahoo Online, Yorks.Net
• Basics of various languages
• Want to buy a car? Try this. Or this. Also this. Here is info on the prices, performance, etc.

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