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Getting an Insight into the Effects of Traffic Calming Measures on Road Safety
AbstractThe objective of this paper is to assess the significance of urban traffic calming and to get an insight into the safety impacts of local and area-wide traffic calming interventions enabling a better understanding and therefore ‘better-informed’ decisions on different schemes.
Juhász, Mattias, Koren, Csaba
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ABSTRACT Background The preschool years (ages 3–5) represent a critical window for promoting development and lifelong health. However, in many low‐resource settings, developmental delays, sensory impairments and emerging health risks often go undetected.
Robyn Smith +12 more
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Priority Management for Urban Arterials. Transferability of Techniques: Otley/Kirkstall Road [PDF]
This paper describes the background and methodology employed in research funded by EPSRC to assess the effect of individual traffic control measures, both in isolation and in combination upon urban arterials.
Clark, S.D., May, A.D., Montgomery, F.O.
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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The Effect of Road Hump in Reducing Speed of Motorcars in a Residential Area in Kuala Lumpur [PDF]
In its most simple terms, traffic calming is about preserving the functions of local streets. As local streets are intended to provide primarily land-access services, hence, when traffic begins to use local streets for through movements, traffic volume ...
Noor Alyani Yaacob +1 more
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Redesigning the Scajaquada Expressway [PDF]
The Scajaquada Expressway was constructed in the early 1960’s and is now at the end of its functional life. The redesign and rebuilding of the roadway offers the opportunity to make it less dangerous and more compatible with the natural, historic, and ...
Booth, Justin, Cadzow, Daniel
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Dusty Streets: The Challenge of Dust‐Borne Pollutants in Low‐Income Countries
Generally, pollution impacts developed and low‐income countries (LICs) to different extents, and the disease burden due to roadway dust is not uniformly distributed across socio‐economic classes. Roadway dust materials from paved and unpaved urban and rural roads were reported to contain organic constituents which are toxic and affect public health ...
Abimbola E. Oluwalana‐Sanusi +9 more
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Leveraging LLMs for Smart Cities Qualitative Data Analysis
ABSTRACT Public authorities frequently conduct surveys and analyze data from citizens, a process that is often labor‐intensive when performed manually. This paper explores how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can assist in automating data analysis for public authorities.
Elisa Covato +5 more
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Assessing the Impact of Local Transport Policy Instruments.
This working paper brings together some relevant material to assist the process of assessing local transport policy instruments. The paper was written with the support of the DETR, but is unofficial. It is intended to be a helpful resource document for
Fowkes, A.S. +9 more
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The Indo‐Pacific humpback dolphin population in Xiamen Bay was divided into two geographically separated but socially associated communities inhabiting the West and East sub‐regions. Based on 3 years of boat‐based surveys, this study established baseline acoustic characteristics and investigated whether vocal patterns varied with habitat conditions ...
Xuming Peng +11 more
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