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Coal Mining as a Driver of Land Use and Land Cover Change and Degradation: A Case in Moatize City, Mozambique

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coal remains a major global energy source despite ongoing environmental controversies, particularly, regarding climate change and landscape transformation. This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC) in the Moatize Coal Basin (MCB), Mozambique, between 1990 and 2024, with a specific focus on land ...
Ivan Latinho Naite, Basílio Fernandez Fernandez, Gilney Figueira Zebende   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land Use Transformation and Climate Resilience in Smart Cities: Role of ICT in Modern Urban Planning

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern urban planning is experiencing a transition from traditional planning to the integration of information technology, which defines the concept of a “smart city”. The study analyses the evolution of urban planning practices with an emphasis on the role of engineering and architecture in the process of urbanization, the transition to the ...
Dariusz Cichoń
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Intermodal Connectivity at California’s High Speed Rail Stations [PDF]

, 2015
High-speed rail (HSR) has emerged as one of the most revolutionary and transformative transportation technologies, having a profound impact on urban-regional accessibility and inter-city travel across Europe, Japan, and more recently China and other ...
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, Peters, Deike, Wei, Wenbin   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Robustness Assessment of Public Transport Networks in Various Graph Representations: Systematic Review, Decision Support, and Case Study

Networks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The analysis of certain properties of the underlying graph of a public transport network generates insights about the network's structure. Hereby, the choice of the graph representation depends on a trade‐off between complexity reduction and information preservation to adequately model a public transport network.
Michael Palk, Stefan Voß, Raka Jovanovic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative Assessment Method of Emergency Disposal Operation Complexity for Urban Rail Transit Key Driving Post Personnel in Unattended Train Operation Mode

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
Objective With the increasing automation levels in urban rail transit, drivers responsible for operation in GOA2 (semi-automated train operation) mode become the multitasking personnel responsible for monitoring and inspecting compartments in GOA4 ...
ZHAO Yanqun, ZHU Haiyan, LIU Zhigang
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies for Assessing Post‐Wildfire Geomorphic Resilience in Semiarid Rivers

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We review and summarize diverse components of a catchment that can be monitored after wildfire to assess the geomorphic resilience of the river corridor in semiarid regions. We distinguish upland portions of river catchments from river corridors.
Ellen Wohl, Shayla Triantafillou, Alex Thornton‐Dunwoody, Connor Mertz, Katie Larkin, William Keenan, Steven Griffin, Dylan Davis, Lindsey Blehm   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Testing of a Multi-Channel Temperature and Relative Humidity Acquisition System for Grain Storage

Agriculture
To ensure the safety and quality of grain during storage requires distributed monitoring of temperature and relative humidity within the bulk material, where hundreds of sensors may be needed.
Chenyi Wei, Jingyun Liu, Bingke Zhu
doaj   +1 more source

The Relation Between Ergonomics and Environmental Sustainability: A Bibliometric Analysis and Scoping Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between ergonomics and environmental sustainability through a combined bibliometric analysis and scoping review. A search across four major databases identified 1081 articles, of which 82 were included in the final analysis.
Matteo Gremo, Francesco Sguaizer, Raffaele Cioffi, Margherita Micheletti Cremasco, Federica Caffaro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subway door fault prediction employing stacking ensemble learning

Scientific Reports
This study investigates the prediction of metro door failures, which are low-frequency events characterized by severe class imbalance, limited fault samples, and feature redundancy.
Hongkang Song, Shaohu Tang, Jinghui Xia, Liang Zhang, Hailin Kang, Pengyu Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Planning for Complementarity: An Examination of the Roll and Opportunities of First-Tier and Second-Tier Cities Along the High-Speed Rail Network in California, Research Report 11-17 [PDF]

, 2012
The coming of California High-Speed Rail (HSR) offers opportunities for positive urban transformations in both first-tier and second-tier cities. The research in this report explores the different but complementary roles that first-tier and second-tier ...
Cuff, Dana, Higgins, Harrison, Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia   +2 more
core   +1 more source