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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Djibouti's economic evolution over the past two decades reveals a distinct dual structure: a steadily expanding service sector that anchors the economy and a volatile industrial sector driven by episodic, foreign‐financed infrastructure projects.
Sadik Aden Dirir
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Trends of development Ukrainian railway transport
Science and Transport Progress, 2011 Main results of railway transport activities in Ukraine are analyzed in the article. The important role of railway transport in the state economy is defined and the basic directions of its development are formulated.
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Benefits and Costs of vertical Separation in Network Industries. The Case of Railway Transport in the European Environment [PDF]
The article is devoted to a phenomenon called vertical separation in the area of network industries. Vertical separation is understood as de-merging of infrastructure and delegating control over it to independent manager banned from operating on ...
Krol, Marcin
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Privatisation and Franchising of British Train Operations: the decline and derailment of the Great North Eastern Railway [PDF]
, 2007 As a result of the 1993 Railways Act, the British railways industry was privatised which resulted in the separation of ownership and control of the railway infrastructure (track, signals and stations) from that of passenger train operations.
Li, CA, Stittle, J
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A Method for Assessing the Risks to Sustainability Posed by Process Operations
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We present a framework for assessing the risks to sustainability posed by any given set of processes. The objective is to improve sustainability by enabling better decision‐making in policy and business contexts. The framework can be applied to any system of processes where available information supports discovery and quantification of ...
Richard C. Darton, Colin J. Axon
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Ukrainian railway transport reformation in crisis
Science and Transport Progress, 2010 In this article the essence of the railway transport sector of economy is examined. The dynamics of volumes of railway freight transportations in Ukraine is analysed.
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Design of a robust railway line system for severe winter conditions in The Netherlands [PDF]
, 2016 Winter weather has a major impact on railway operations in The Netherlands. To stay in control, the number of trains is reduced by half in a special “winter timetable”.
Goverde, R.M.P. (Rob) +2 more
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Greenway development and gentrification
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper presents research on expanding access to green spaces in developed areas. Critics claim greenway projects lead to gentrification by increasing the demand for housing and pushing out residents in nearby neighborhoods. We look for evidence of this phenomenon using a sorting model and panel data on aggregate populations in Atlanta ...
Jarron VanCeylon, Richard T. Melstrom
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