FedEX to show off new plane

The largest U.S. airfreight company will show off one of its new airplanes that it flies to South Korea, Hong Kong, Dubai and India this week at a Washington area airport.

FedEx will celebrate the first full year of service for the 777F with an event Wednesday at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va.

The company has said it is the first cargo airline to fly 777F airplanes, which debuted in 2008, and says the planes improve its ability to deliver packages from the U.S. and Canada to Latin America and South Korea.

FedEx president Mike Ducker, who is also the chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's International Policy Committee, will speak at the event on the benefits of the 777 and the importance of new trade routes and international trade agreements.

Elsewhere this week, IBM, Time Magazine and the Rockefeller Foundation will host an "Intelligent Cities Forum" at the National Building Museum in Washington on Monday. The event will focus on how cities in a cash-crunch can use data and information technology to create "sustainable communities."

In California, the High Speed Rail Authority will hold a series of open houses on its proposed Los Angeles to San Diego project that has received the most of any individual project in the Obama administration's push to build more railways in the country. There will be meetings Tuesday in Covina, Calif., Wednesday in San Dimas and Thursday in South El Monte.

Additionally this week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will bike to work with Department of Transportation employees to celebrate "bike to work month."