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SMART CITY CONTROL ROOMS: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Smart city control rooms are prominent components of the smart city discourse. They embody a long‐standing dream to visualize and manage multiple urban processes in real time through the collation of data flows. Previous research has produced important insights into the design, construction and operation of these facilities.
Devika Prakash +2 more
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Experimental Research of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Traction Motor for Metro Vehicle
Kongzhi Yu Xinxi Jishu, 2012 Based on the introduction of traction system of metro vehicle, the mathematic model for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is elaborated. According to the characteristics of PMSM and the metro vehicle operation, the constant torque control, flux ...
LIU Kean +5 more
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The Affordability Index: A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice [PDF]
, 2006 This brief describes a new information tool developed by the Urban Markets Initiative to quantify, for the first time, the impact of transportation costs on the affordability of housing choices.
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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BuildingsTransit-oriented development (TOD) and over-track buildings have been rapidly expanding in Chinese subways since their development. This new method is highly convenient for people while the influence of indoor vibration and noise in buildings is not yet ...
Mengting Xing +2 more
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Driven to Spend: Pumping Dollars Out of Our Households and Communities [PDF]
, 2005 This report examines the impacts of transportation spending on households in the 28 metro areas for which the federal government collects expenditure data and of rising gas prices on both households and regional economies.
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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A New Grounding Method of AC 400 V Power Supply System for Metro Vehicle
机车电传动, 2016 According to the contrast of different grounding methods of AC 400V power supply system for metro vehicle, a new grounding method was commended. The characteristic, the academic and selection principle of components of the earth method was described ...
LU Qing, LIANG Rujun, SHI Caixia
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Research on Energy Consumption and Energy Saving Measures of Metro Vehicles
机车电传动, 2020 Based on the current situation of metro vehicle operation energy consumption, the main components of metro energy consumption from two aspects of traction energy consumption and auxiliary energy consumption were analyzed, as well as the key influencing ...
Feilong TANG, Qingjun HAN
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Changes in Transit Use and Service and Associated Changes in Driving Near a New Light Rail Transit Line, MTI Report 12-44 [PDF]
, 2015 Los Angeles is pursuing possibly the most ambitious rail transit investment program in the nation with plans to open six new rail transit lines between now and 2019.
Boarnet, Marlon +3 more
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