Holds almost 60% of the 1830 people who responded to an online survey conducted after the arrests, they are always or frequently struck by the safety of their luggage in the area of baggage claim, Trip Advisor said Friday. Only 11% said they were not affected.

The airline has said, however, they had almost all cases, the owners to restore the missing report, and only a small percentage actually lost – because they were wrong, misplaced, stolen, abandoned, or consolation – it is small for the hundreds of victims in Phoenix alone.

Here are 10 steps you can take to protect your belongings, took my research and interviews with security experts:

1. Do not put the bags: This is not always possible, I know. But if you learn, practice, you can manage a greater number of trips with one, you also avoid paying the ever increasing cost of his pocket. Check out these tips from Susan Foster, author of “Smart Packing for today’s traveler.

2. Keep all valuables with you; you do not believe everything that the Phoenix police say they found in the apartment of suspected stolen laptops, the adoption papers, valuable stamp collections, systems GPS, passports and more. What is a worse, airline typically do not compensate you for lost products precious and exotic, policies, United Airlines is typical.

And if you ask, on domestic routes, right in the dish together to compensate for lost or damaged bags is $ 3,300 per passenger, according to the U. S. Department of Transportation. (Compensation for international flights, based on secret laws, which may be even lower.)

3. Make your bag stand out: Why? “Criminals, by the banal, the common bag … because they do not want to draw attention to himself,” said Bruce McIndoe, president of iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, a security company in Annapolis tourist, Maryland based

If your bag looks like any other ABoards black-and-roll, “said McIndoe, a thief can just few steps away from the carousel, you slip drive, without realizing that you are. Try increasing color or unusual forms of luggage, or add neon or colored ribbons manage luggage end bypass you already have.

4. Bring a camera Discount: why the flash of your money? Through research on the history of lost luggage, three years ago, I learned that some thieves covet designer bags expensive packs as much or more of the article. In any case, the $ 800 bag is a very good round, expensive items that may be in the range.

5. Do not dwell: in March, the area in baggage claim as soon as you step off the plane and park in the exact place where the spill to the guillotine at the baggage carousel, beat McIndoe. You want to get as many people as possible for you and your luggage. Yes, I know, sometimes it is very much in the bags to appear on the carousel, but sometimes I think they have what I am.

6. Caution: It is tempting to leave the cart full of luggage to take one last bag from the carousel. Unfortunately, the baskets unsupervised no less tempting for thieves. Drive the car to the track, or ask your travel companion, so you can see.

7. Avoid changing flights: If you are selected for the flight at the airport, then at a later date, may be your bag on the initial flight to come stay at the baggage an hour before you. Anyone who looked at this moment? Hard to say. Alert personnel baggage can identify and preserve it – or not.

In my study of history in 2006, I saw many bags around the carousel for a few hours at a time when Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). I do not control officers to verify the claims, luggage tags that passengers of their claims, field practice, that there many years, the airline appears to the left.

Sometimes it is, of course, nobody can avoid passing the last minute, for example, if you miss a flight or pushed out of communication. But sometimes you can, for example, if you voluntarily renounced his seat in exchange for a voucher or other compensation.

8. Fly non-stop, the more connections you make, the more chances that your luggage May be wrong, experts say. And they can be processed to give the carousel at the airport; we would not even be able to visit.

9. Serve immediately claim: The airlines usually set deadlines for filing reports of missing pockets. If you miss this deadline, you may miss your chance to get balanced.

10. Consider insurance: The pooled travel insurance said, to combine several types of coverage, usually at least compensation for lost luggage. The differentiation of premiums by 5% to 8% of the cost of travel is widespread. As always, read the fine print.

NB: Since last week, police said Phoenix, a suspected theft of luggage placed on bail, while others are still behind bars.

What are the planners and regional rail to Denver, Las Vegas, Reno and Salt Lake City.

On Monday, Smith and Planning in Phoenix, Western High-Speed Rail Alliance, a new group, which aims to develop a network of high speed, trains Intercity met. They are aware that the $ 8 billion investment in economic recovery will be transferred to other regions.

“If you do not have a line on the map, you have nowhere,” said Smith, executive director of the Maricopa Association of Governments. “This is how it works burgeoning region will receive policy guidance?

Two independent studies to provide more places in Phoenix on its position.

Today, the Brookings Institution, a liberal leaning think tank in Washington, DC, the study of congestion at the airport, the researchers found that Phoenix, Los Angeles, the busiest corridor in the third short-hop Travel with a distance that is too heavy, high-speed trains will be competitive.

Independent published a research group to evaluate the name of America 2050 report, released last month that the lines at high speed rail makes sense. The organization has looked at population density, economic, transit networks, as well as air and traffic congestion in U.S. cities. Among the 27,000 pairs of the city of Phoenix to Los Angeles, 15.

This figure is higher in Los Angeles to Las Vegas and performs many other cards on the federal planning. Phoenix at San Diego, 22-th place.

A typical high-speed train together in Europe and Asia, you will receive from the city of Phoenix, in the heart of Los Angeles, just two hours.

High-speed rail system in the United States for many years from reality. And not all in the love of trains.

Some fiscal conservatives say that the country cannot afford the price to pay several billion dollars. Very skeptical about subsidizing rail, Amtrak, the year after another.

Some urban planners say, compared to Europe and China is not fair. Europe has a price of gasoline higher and shorter distances, and its model of development that contribute to the trains. China has a large population, demand for rail.

Recently, says Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, who outweighed the cost of the high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston, two major cities, the economic benefits. And Americans still love cars.

Arguments in favor of accelerating

The convenience and short visits to train high-tech to be attractive and in other parts of the world. The United States is hardly out of the blocks in a race to catch up.

No real high-speed systems are available in the United States, where the current guidelines need to work with a limit of 79 miles per hour speed on existing tracks. The only exception is the Boston-New York, Washington Acela corridor, where the train can reach 150 miles per hour, they rarely Top 100 kph, however.

The U.S. government gives high-speed intercity rail system as a system where regular trains faster than 125 miles per hour These systems are designed for business or pleasure trips of 200 to 500.

California, most in developing such a system. Planning for the 800-mile network has lasted for years and last year, voters approved bonds for dollars Top 10 U.S. dollars, working on a starter between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

In comparison, Japan has opened its first line of the ball in 1960, followed by France, then in 15 years.

In 2004, China had little investment, but now offers the largest, with a high-speed line in Europe. It also has the fastest train in the world, and writes to invest 300 billion dollars to 16,000 miles in 2020 to be capable.

Obama Administration urged its rail division issue of economic competitiveness.

Las Vegas consultant transport systems Skancke Tom are one of several national experts and consultants agree.

“If the United States will not invest in the system of high-speed rail, we do not claim that he had exhausted our global competitiveness. Aeronautics and road building. This should be a national system, and the interstate, said Skancke found an echo of the National Policy for Surface Transportation and Revenue Study Commission, on which he sat until last year.

The political impact of critical

The United States has proposed a number of regional networks.

California was introduced leading contender for a piece of the incentive of cash, but the network in Chicago and the north is also a good chance of funding. These areas are in the U. S. Department of Transportation and a shortlist will be judged by America 2050th

Competition between regions is high. In July, 40 states, including Arizona, used the system for high speed rail, a subsidy of 105 billion dollars in the requirements of the Federal Railroad Administration.

Applications may be taken into account when Congress renews the federal transportation law. Obama Administration another $ 1 billion per year, has vowed to launch high-speed rail planning system. Future funding of the likely destination for most States, including the West in search of money.

As a nation GAL Asian and European competitors, Phoenix and its partners, fear of falling behind the rest of the country.

“Now they have plans for the next 50 years or omitted, Skancke said that the new alliance management.

By law, the western regions, each contributing $ 60,000 per year to these efforts. The money will pay for studies and plans “to extend high speed rail system in the Intermountain west connections to the Pacific coast.

“We of the Confederation of large cities, Smith said. “Our goal is to raise funds for research.”

Following the announcement that ECOtality Inc. and its subsidiary Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. will receive $ 99.8 million in federal funding for the pulse of the electric vehicle infrastructure, in partnership with Nissan Motor Co., the local companies is limited to Time, for jobs and accommodation for services, “said Don Karner, president ETEC.

“This provision of the 5000-and the jobs that are part of Nissan initiative,” he said.

The agreement, announced Wednesday, Phoenix-based ETEC leading the charge to establish a network of charging stations in dozens of cities across the country, including Phoenix and Tucson.

Society in the past with the U. S. Department of Transportation projects on several charges, but later seek to obtain the largest infrastructure project to date in the United States, said Jonathan Read, president and CEO of Scottsdale-based ECOtality.

Some things have changed, including the promotion of the use of electric vehicles. Despite a record level of gas last year, the Obama administration, and efforts to find a replacement for alternative fuels.

ETEC announcement is part of 2.3 billion U.S. dollars grant for the recovery and reinvestment measures to strengthen the electric car company, investing in infrastructure and technology batteries. Karner said that attempts have been made in the past, have electric vehicles for mass markets, but this time it might take.

“The real difference is that today, Nissan has made a electrical machinery,” he said.

Truck, hand, made his debut on Saturday, and is responsible for production in late 2010. This all-electric based on the existing platform, Nissan, and may be more than 100 miles of the charge. Approximately 1000 of these cars are sent to Phoenix, and others in over 20 cities in 2012.

“In fact, we see electrical transport is used to accelerate very quickly,” said Karner.

Other manufacturers, including General Motors, or the introduction of all electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids, electric and gas engines. In the Chargers ETEC is the installation of all electric vehicles, “said Karner.

“We are not installing the infrastructure for the investigation of Nissan,” he says. “We will develop the collection infrastructure for America.”

From the outset, in infrastructure, said the estimated 1.5 million plug-in electric vehicles on the roads in May 2015 are low.