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Gateways, Corridors and Strategic City Pairs [PDF]
Advances in transportation technology may mean that topography matters less, but trade routes will continue to favour the paths of least resistance. The location of gateway cities and distribution hubs exhibit patterns of hierarchical systems.
Prentice, Barry E.
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, 2016 The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the concept of ‘green corridors’ as a means to develop integrated, efficient and environmentally friendly transportation of freight between major hubs and by relative long distances.
Panagakos, George, George Panagakos
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Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
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Green Liner Shipping Network Design
, 2019 Green Liner Shipping Network Design refers to the problems in green logistics related to the design of maritime services in liner shipping with a focus on reducing the environmental impact.
David Pisinger +7 more
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India, China and the China+1 Strategy: Trade, Investment and Policymaking in a Fragmented World
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT COVID‐19 and geopolitical tensions have compelled global firms to diversify parts of their operations to other countries. Although India looks primed to gain from this ‘China+1’, the authors' research, including interviews with 50 executives, officials and experts across India, America, Europe and Singapore, paints a more cautious picture ...
P. S. Srinivas +2 more
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Coffins From the Abusir Tomb of Nyankhseshat (AS 104) Through the Lens of Wood Analysis
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACTThis article presents the results of an integrated Egyptological and anatomical study of wooden coffin fragments from the mastaba of Nyankhseshat at Abusir South (AS 104), dated to the early Fourth Dynasty. The assemblage includes remains of at least three coffins and probably of two wooden boxes. Wood analysis identified predominantly imported
Marie Peterková Hlouchová +1 more
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, 2017 Corridors have been mapped in the Arctic Ocean as part of the Low Impact Shipping Corridors Initiative co-led by Transport Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard, and Canadian Hydrographic Service.
Dawson, Jackie +3 more
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The Relational Character of Canadian Nation‐Building Infrastructure in the 21st Century
Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Infrastructure development is central to Canada's nation‐building process. This article argues that the federal government has recalibrated its nation‐building mandate from unilateral state command to relational orchestration. Through thematic analysis of thirty‐eight policy documents related to three federal infrastructure plans (2007–2016 ...
Alaz Munzur, Katharina Koch
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Green and Sustainable Investments in Shipping in Asia
Asia’s dominant role in global maritime trade places the region at the centre of both shipping-related greenhouse gas emissions and the financing challenge associated with achieving the International Maritime Organisation’s net-zero emissions target by ...
Bhavana Venkata Ramalingeswara Rao +3 more
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Cladistics, EarlyView.Abstract The marronoid clade is a globally distributed, ecologically diverse group of spiders. It is an important faunal component in both natural and synanthropic environments, and even found in aquatic and extreme habitats such as desert salt flats. The systematics of the marronoid clade has been notoriously unstable due to the widespread character ...
Jonas O. Wolff +10 more
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