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The Wiki Wiki Shuttle is a shuttle
Shuttle

The word shuttle can have several meanings. In general, it is something which travels back and forth between places in a regular and relatively frequent manner....
 bus system at the Honolulu International Airport
Honolulu International Airport

Honolulu International Airport is the principal aviation gateway of the Honolulu County, Hawaii and the Hawaii and is identified as one of the busiest airports in the United States, with traffic now exceeding 21 million passengers a year and rising....
. Free shuttles run every 20 to 25 minutes between 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM, carrying people and baggage between three stations located in the departure gate area.

In the Hawaiian language
Hawaiian language

The Hawaiian language is an Austronesian languages that takes its name from Hawaii , the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed....
 the word "wiki" means quick, and "wiki wiki" implies very quick. The shuttle's name inspired Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham

Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is the United States computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both Design pattern s and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Po...
 to call his new website technology "WikiWikiWeb
WikiWikiWeb

WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki application ever written. It was developed in 1994 by Ward Cunningham in order to make the exchange of ideas between programmers easier and was based on the ideas developed in HyperCard stacks that he built in the late 1980s....
", from which the concept of wiki
Wiki

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content , using a simplified markup language....
 software derives.

ovember 2007, local media reported that the shuttle would be replaced by an air-conditioned walkway
Walkway

A walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all formal surfaces which support the act of walking. This includes sidewalks, trails, paths, stairs, ramps and open paseos or passageways....
 by the end of 2008.

The airport is moving away from dependence on the Wiki Wiki buses, which were put in place in February 1970 as "an interim measure".






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The Wiki Wiki Shuttle is a shuttle
Shuttle

The word shuttle can have several meanings. In general, it is something which travels back and forth between places in a regular and relatively frequent manner....
 bus system at the Honolulu International Airport
Honolulu International Airport

Honolulu International Airport is the principal aviation gateway of the Honolulu County, Hawaii and the Hawaii and is identified as one of the busiest airports in the United States, with traffic now exceeding 21 million passengers a year and rising....
. Free shuttles run every 20 to 25 minutes between 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM, carrying people and baggage between three stations located in the departure gate area.

In the Hawaiian language
Hawaiian language

The Hawaiian language is an Austronesian languages that takes its name from Hawaii , the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed....
 the word "wiki" means quick, and "wiki wiki" implies very quick. The shuttle's name inspired Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham

Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is the United States computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both Design pattern s and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Po...
 to call his new website technology "WikiWikiWeb
WikiWikiWeb

WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki application ever written. It was developed in 1994 by Ward Cunningham in order to make the exchange of ideas between programmers easier and was based on the ideas developed in HyperCard stacks that he built in the late 1980s....
", from which the concept of wiki
Wiki

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content , using a simplified markup language....
 software derives.

Ceasing of operations

In November 2007, local media reported that the shuttle would be replaced by an air-conditioned walkway
Walkway

A walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all formal surfaces which support the act of walking. This includes sidewalks, trails, paths, stairs, ramps and open paseos or passageways....
 by the end of 2008.

The airport is moving away from dependence on the Wiki Wiki buses, which were put in place in February 1970 as "an interim measure". After more than three decades of operations, travelers still complain about the hot, slow, outdated buses. As was reported to the press, not only are the buses somewhat inconvenient and uncomfortable, they also put a huge strain on the building structure due to their weight and level of activity.

See also

  • Chance RT-52
    Chance RT-52

    The Chance RT-52 is a small bus built by Optima Bus Corporation measuring only in length. It is primarily used as shuttle bus and normally carries 19 passengers....
    , the bus used in the WikiWiki bus line
  • TheBus, the public transportation service of Honolulu
  • How wiki sites gained their name
    Wiki

    A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content , using a simplified markup language....


External links

  • - A documentary about the wiki phenomenon.