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Evaluating the long term impacts of transport policy: the case of passenger rail privatisation in Great Britain

open access: yes, 2011
Britain’s national rail system was ‘privatised’ as a result of the 1993 Railways Act, with most of the organisational and ownership changes implemented by 1997.
Robins, Dawn
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Taxonomy of Predictive Maintenance as a Basis for Supra‐Regional Sustainability Monitoring—Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness 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   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rail Reform Strategies: The Australian Experience [PDF]

open access: yes
Widely different approaches to rail reform are evident across countries and within Australia. Reforms have involved structural separation (both vertical and horizontal) and varying degrees of private sector involvement.
Helen Owens
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Health initiatives to target obesity in surface transport industries: review and implications for action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Lifestyle-related chronic diseases pose a considerable burden to the individual and the wider society, with correspondingly negative effects on industry.
J Chapman (9858083)   +5 more
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Corporate ESG Greenwashing: Does Regulatory Proximity Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) greenwashing undermines sustainable development, yet the influence of regulatory proximity on oversight is understudied. By introducing the “distance decay effect” from geoeconomics into ESG misconduct research and using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this study reveals a ...
Weiqi Zhao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact on Car Ownership of Local Variation in Access to Public Transport [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reports on a project funded by the Volvo Research Foundations. It is international in nature and focuses on the impact of urban public transport, and light rail in particular, on restraining the growth of (or even reducing) local car ownership
Graham Robert Crampton
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Prediction of metal pm emission in rail tracks for condition monitoring application

open access: yes, 2011
Exposure to particulate material (PM) is a major health concern in megacities across the world which use trains as a primary public transport. PM emissions caused by railway traffic have hardly been investigated in the past, due to their obviously minor ...
Gu, Fengshou   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Driveability analysis of the european rail transport management system (ERTMS) : A systematic literature review

open access: yes, 2021
Train drivers in Sweden had the opportunity to test the new European Rail Transport Management System (ERTMS) during the early implementation of this signaling system in 2011 and 2012. Unfortunately, they have reported many implementation problems. These
Rosberg, Tomas,   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Defining Remanufacturing: A Key Business Strategy Advancing Industrial Circularity

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Remanufacturing is a key strategy in the circular economy, enabling substantial product value retention. However, inconsistent definitions across standards and legislation hinder global trade, core recovery and market acceptance. This study examines how remanufacturing is defined in laws and standards, and how these definitions impact industry
Erik Sundin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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