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Strategic Approaches to Alleviate Traffic Congestion and Enhance Urban Mobility in Peshawar

Rapid urbanization, uncoordinated land-use growth, and insufficient integration of public transport have led to severe traffic congestion and declining mobility in Peshawar, Pakistan, even after the implementation of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. The
Costel Plescan, Hamid Abdrhman, Elena Loredana Plescan, Adnan Yousaf, Yanjun Qiu, Daniel Taus, Hanif Ullah, Hamza Shams   +7 more
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Volunteering, Crime and Secondary School Attendance: Evidence From Queensland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Student absenteeism is a critical issue in Australia and worldwide, with alarming declines in attendance rates further exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. While research has long highlighted the relevance of school and family factors, less is known about how the broader community context shapes attendance.
Matthias Kubler, Brooklyn Corbett, Annemaree Carroll, Martin Mills, Deborah Lynch, Wojtek Tomaszewski   +5 more
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Enhancing Urban Livability: Exploring the Impact of on-Demand Shared CCAM Shuttle Buses on City Life

Transport and Telecommunication
Livable cities involve such quality-of-life factors as transportation, convenience of daily life, education, and a safe and stable built and natural environment.
Raiyn Jamal
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Where Imprisonment, Housing Instability and Wellbeing Intersect: Evidence From Over Two Decades of Data

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on life event data on housed former prisoners from the nationwide indefinite life panel, Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, spanning more than two decades. This study investigates, using panel data methods, if social connectedness mediates the association between incarceration and unstable ...
Christopher L. Ambrey, Renee Zahnow
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Understanding of Subjective Liveability for People With Disability

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern liveability frameworks aim to enhance health and well‐being through equity‐based measures across built, natural, social, and economic environments, yet they often overlook the perspectives of people with disability. This study explored expectations of liveable neighbourhoods among adults with diverse disability experiences in urban and ...
Maria Hobbs, Kim Jose, Ceridwen Owen, Verity Cleland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers to scaling up electric bicycles in eight African countries: infrastructure, policy, cost, and perception

Sustainable Earth Reviews
Electric bicycles have experienced rapid growth over the past decade in several regions, while their emergence in African countries has been more recent.
Emilie Martin, Vera-Marie Andrieu, Rumbi Ebbefeld, Paschal Giki, Edna Mercy Manyasa, Chris Kost   +5 more
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RETRACTED: Improvement in Collision Avoidance in Cut-In Maneuvers Using Time-to-Collision Metrics

Smart Cities
This paper proposes a new strategy for a collision avoidance system leveraging time-to-collision (TTC) metrics for handling cut-in scenarios, which are particularly challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs).
Jamal Raiyn
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Study on the Relationship between Tram Stop Location Layout and Intersection Delay Time

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
［Objective］ In order to improve the operating service efficiency and reliability of trams, it is necessary to study the relationship between the layout of tram stop location and the intersection delay time.
ZHOU Weixia, TENG Jing, YAO Xing, ZHANG Zhongjie, SHEN Jialin   +4 more
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Morpho‐functional analyses of the jaw apparatus in the Blue‐and‐yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna, Psittaciformes, Aves): Adaptations to feeding behavior

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Macaws are renowned for processing dry, mechanically resistant fruits, yet the species‐level anatomical and functional correlates of this performance remain incompletely resolved. We examined the feeding apparatus of the Blue‐and‐yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) using an integrated approach that combines osteology, myology, and bite‐force estimates
Sérgio R. Posso, Ana Caroline M. Barbosa, Victor R. Caciatori   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Survey and Future Directions on Optimising Sustainable Urban Mobility

IEEE Access
Climate change is currently the biggest environmental threat, being the cities responsible for a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. In this sense, the transport sector is among the main causes for both emissions and the depletion of non ...
Tatiane Borchers, Dirk Wittowsky, Ricardo Augusto Souza Fernandes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source