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Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder, Olivia Crivari, Phillippa Carnemolla, Libby Callaway   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services [PDF]

, 2015
TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 175: Guidebook on Pedestrian Crossings of Public Transit Rail Services presents a wide array of engineering treatments designed to help improve pedestrian safety for three types of public transit ...
Brewer, Marcus A., Warner, Jeffery, Barlow, Janet M., Sperry, Benjamin, Fitzpatrick, Kay, Bentzen, Billie Louise   +5 more
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Changing a Winning Team—Replacement of Brominated Flame Retardant and Antimony Trioxide in Acrylonitrile–Butadiene–Styrene

Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.
This comprehensive study investigates reducing the amount of brominated flame retardant (Br) and/or antimony trioxide (ATO) in acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene. Therefore, condensed‐phase flame‐retardant mechanisms are introduced into the flame‐inhibition system.
Sebastian M. Goller, Bernhard Schartel, Simone Krüger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incorporating KPIs in the Quantification of Overall Efficiency of Rolling Stock of Railways

Engineering Proceedings
The overall efficiency of the rolling stock of railways can be calculated by taking into account three parameters: availability, performance, and quality.
Qamar Mahboob, Muhammad Aftab Aalam, Sanan Tahir, Zhiwen Wang, Qiyuan Mao, Zidong Tan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic Development Impacts of High Speed Rail [PDF]

This paper reviews the state of high-speed rail (HSR) planning in the United States c. 2010. The plans generally call for a set of barely inter-connected hub-and-spoke networks. The evidence from US transit systems shows that lines have two major impacts.
David Levinson
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Altered by Gold: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis of 19th to 20th Century Chinese and British Migrants in Ravenswood, a Northern Queensland Gold Mining Town

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gold discoveries transformed the 19th century British colony of Queensland, Australia, driving migration, a second wave of pastoral expansion northwards, and an increasingly diverse population. This study presents a comparative and contextual zooarchaeological analysis of British and southern Chinese food waste—globally significant migrant ...
Marc Cheeseman
wiley   +1 more source

Transit in Washington, D.C.: Current Benefits and Optimal Level of Provision [PDF]

The discrepancy between transit’s large share of local transportation resources and its generally low share of local trips has raised questions about the use of scarce transportation funds for this purpose.
Harrington, Winston, Safirova, Elena, Nelson, Peter, Lipman, Abram, Bagliano, Andrew   +4 more
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A generalized framework for complex urban rail transit network analysis [PDF]

, 2017
The paper introduces a new framework for analysis of complex urban rail transit networks based on generalized passenger costs. We have developed a robust framework for the long-term planning and modeling of rail transit networks that are idealized in a ...
S. C. Wirasinghe, Seyedshahab Esmaeilnejad, Wirasinghe, S. C, Esmaeilnejad, Seyedshahab, Saeid Saidi, Saidi, Saeid, Lina Kattan, Kattan, Lina   +7 more
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A Taxonomy of Predictive Maintenance as a Basis for Supra‐Regional Sustainability Monitoring—Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The concept of predictive maintenance in advanced manufacturing systems is crucial from the point of view of resource efficiency in the era of high competitiveness forced by energy transformation in the digital economy. Against the backdrop of sustainability and the opportunities a data cooperative offers, the combination of predictive ...
Christian Schachtner, Nadine Baumann, Marek Jabłoński, Adam Jabłoński, Mariusz Bednarek, Sławomir Luściński, Piotr Bilski   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cloud-edge cooperative optimization scheduling strategy of metro integrated supervision and control system based on edge computing

Complex & Intelligent Systems
Metro Integrated Supervision and Control System (MISCS) belongs to the category of integrated automation of electromechanical equipment of urban rail transit, through establishing the monitoring and control of each electromechanical equipment system ...
Yang Wang, Shusong Yang, Wei Zhang, Jiandi Jiang, Zetian Bai, Haojie Yang, Hui Fang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source