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Direction of urban expansion in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand under the impacts of a national strategy

Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021
The Eastern Economic Corridor project (EEC), which spans over three coastal provinces east of the Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA), aims to transform Thailand into a developed country progressively.
Can Trong Nguyen, Diep Nguyen Thi Hong, Iabchoon Sanwit   +2 more
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Neighborhood dynamics of urban expansion based on morphological spatial pattern analysis and geospatial techniques: a case study of the Colombo metropolitan area, Sri Lanka

Asian Geographer, 2021
This study examined neighborhood dynamics of urban expansion based on morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) and geospatial techniques in the Colombo Metropolitan Area (CMA) of Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2014.
S. Subasinghe, Ruci Wang, Matamyo Simwanda, Y. Murayama, L. Vitanova   +4 more
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Understanding the expansion of Italian metropolitan areas: A study based on entropy measures

Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, 2021
This work presents a study on the urban configuration of a number of Italian metropolitan areas and their development over time, with the aim of evaluating the size and shape of urban areas expansion.
L. Altieri, D. Cocchi
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Topological expansion of metropolitan area networks

Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1994
Abstract We describe models for solving Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) traffic estimation/routing/design problems for a profit maximizing carrier. The problem studied involves deciding which customers to offer service to by choosing the MAN topology.
Larry J. Leblanc, Sridhar Narasimhan
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Estimating induced travel for evaluation of metropolitan highway expansion

Transportation, 1999
This paper demonstrates how induced travel can be estimated for incorporation into the evaluation process for highway expansion projects, at a sketch planning level of analysis. The approach is useful especially in cases where four-step urban travel models are either unavailable or are unable to forecast the full induced demand effects. The methodology
Patrick DeCorla-Souza, Harry Cohen
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Optimal Expansion of Fiber-Optic Telecommunications Networks in Metropolitan Areas

Interfaces, 1993
Interoffice fiber-optic networks are already a multi-million dollar business for U S WEST Communications, with rapid expansion anticipated for the rest of the decade. U S WEST's operations research modeling group developed a mixed-integer programming model to help plan the least-cost expansion of interoffice fiber-optic networks in major metropolitan ...
Louis Anthony Cox, Warren E. Kuehner, Scott H. Parrish, Yuping Qiu   +3 more
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Population Movements and Metropolitan Expansion: London, 1960-61

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1969
CITY expansion is largely a function of new household formation, whether by in-migration from elsewhere or by persons already resident in the city either marrying or leaving the parental home to live alone. Much of the physical expansion takes place through the construction of new dwelling units on the urban periphery, although the redevelopment of ...
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Water Supply Expansion for Metropolitan Ankara

1990
Problems of managing urban water infrastructure for a rapidly expanding metropolis are demonstrated in the case example of Ankara. There has been a severe shortage of water (about 20% of the demand) in the last 20 year period in Ankara although a master plan was prepared and various facilities were added to the system.
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Urban land consolidation for metropolitan Jakarta expansion, 1990–2010

Habitat International, 1994
Abstract Urban land consolidation (LC) is an international technique for managing and financing the conversion of rural land to urban land, which can provide a number of advantages over the usual process of urban land development. It is now well established in Indonesia as the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs/National Land Agency (BPN — Badan Pertanahan ...
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Services and Metropolitan Centres: the Expansion and Location of Business Services

The Service Industries Journal, 1992
The expansion and localisation of business services cannot be understood or analysed just from the point of view of demand. Expansion and localisation depend very much on supply factors (specific advantages of production costs; access to information, etc.).
Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura, Clemente Del Río Gómez   +1 more
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