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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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Research on wheel wear and fatigue of urban rail trains under different traction characteristics [PDF]
Journal of Hebei University of Science and TechnologyAiming at the problem that frequently train traction starting causes wheel wear and fatigue damage, on the basis of the constant traction force, the influence of the speed at the end of the constant power section of different traction characteristic ...
Aihua ZHU +5 more
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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Research on Urban Rail Transit 5G Public-private Network Wireless Coverage Scheme
Objective The urban rail transit 5G public-private network (PPN) is a vertical application of 5G public network in urban rail transit industry, which differs significantly from the wireless coverage scheme of the 5G public network when only catering to ...
Weijun LIU
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The marginal social cost of road and rail: Implications for rail investment and pricing [PDF]
, 1995 An important issue for transport policy is whether more investment should be devoted to rail schemes and less to road schemes and vice versa. This raises the problem of comparing the returns from investments in the two modes currently assessed on a ...
Al-Tony, F.E, Al-Tony, Fathy El-Sayed
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Rail Transit Impacts on Land Use: Evidence from Shanghai, China
, 2008 China has experienced a major boom in rail transit development in the past 10 years. Yet the evidence that rail transit is shaping urban travel and land development in Chinese cities has been scarcely studied and reported to the outside world. This paper
Pan, Haixiao, Zhang, Ming
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Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
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Study of Urban Rail Transit Operation Costs
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013 AbstractIn order to analyze variation of urban rail transit (URT) operation cost against the distance from the city center, the URT of Shenzhen was taken as an example to study in the three cases. The costs of URT operation were addressed through the real data of URT, and the skeleton planning method was used to estimate the costs of Shanghai and ...
Shang, Bin, Zhang, Xiaoning
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Independent Safety Assessment Strategy for Urban Rail Transit Vehicles
[Objective] China′s independent safety assessment (ISA) on urban rail transit vehicles is still in its initial development stage in that the relatively complete theories and standardization remain to be formed, and there are still deficiencies in ...
Xiaolin LI, Chengpeng CAO, Qiufu GAO
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Improving regional passenger rail services [PDF]
, 2014 This report reviews the options available for upgrading existing passenger train services, drawing from local and international case studies to inform the conclusions.
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