[PDF] Top 20 Efficiency and spatial equity impacts of high-speed rail extensions in urban areas

... Efficiency impacts are assessed in terms of the improvements in accessibility resulting from the HSR project, with a focus on major urban areas; and spatial equity implications are der[r] ... See full document

... potential of GIS as a support tool for accessibility is included ...capability of GIS to provide, at any time, appropriate information regarding trade-offs and efficiency of proposed ... See full document

... importance of finding appropriate measurement tools depending on the planning objective under ...included in this study constitutes an example of the ample variety of perspectives under which ... See full document

... territory in attempts to either adapt to it by accepting nature or attempting to establish a series of rules to modify the original nature (Shlomo et al, 2010; Ingram, ...one of the first things it ... See full document

... new in the so-called “Mediterranean European compact cities,” nowa- days it becomes unavoidable to describe their urban land- scape ...report in 2006 very concerned about the urban sprawl ... See full document

... adults in their ...quality of their travel time by transit in comparison with the time by car as the reference travel mode to university and leisure ...activities. Spatial equity ... See full document

... result of the interaction between entrepreneurs’ attributes and the surrounding ...environment. In this vein, recent literature reviews have suggested that a deeper research on the linkage between ... See full document

... The recent history of public and private investment in urban light rail systems in Spain underlines the clear wager by many Spanish Local and Regional Governments for this means of tra[r] ... See full document

... shows high values during the morning and evening rush hours on working days, and it is highly correlated with the “road-tra ffi c intensity/wind speed” ...material and elemental carbon ... See full document

... challenge of designing and implementing sustainable policies for improving access to housing that contribute to the reduction of social exclusion of minority groups in a sustainable ... See full document

... objective of urban policy in the context of neoliberalism is to open the economy to foreign markets, and to attract investments in the belief that new sources of ... See full document

... risks of climate change are grounded, explicitly or implic- itly, in the information deficit theory of risk communication, which posits that providing peo- ple with more and better information ... See full document

... turbulence and unsteady flows, another mechanism of sound generation is the vibration of solid bodies (structure-borne sound) which can also generate and radiate sound ...energy in ... See full document

... y of experiments based on statistics derived from the company consulted and in a Seville ...these and some estimates data was designing 30 different configurations in- tended to meet ... See full document

... illumination of the sample by green radiation with simultaneous filtration in the yellow-red region allows being detached from undesirable flare created by the ...emission of the burning sample at ... See full document

... (Information and Communication Technologies), innovation tends to satisfy the needs of urban inhabitants because they are more concentrated and richer than those living in rural ... See full document

... fate of alkylphenol polyethoxylates (APEOs) degradation products (DPs) and the occurrence of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) surfactants in urban ground water at field ...occurrence ... See full document

... application of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors for the monitoring of railway ...Spanish high speed line Madrid–Barcelona, with different types of trains (S-102 TALGO–BOMBARDIER, S-103 ... See full document

... In a previous contribution to the CST 2002 conference [9], the authors presented a formulation of the equations of motion of the SIM based on dimensionless parameters, very similar to [r] ... See full document

... a high aptitude to reproduce the characteristics of urban processes and are useful to explore future ...validation of their results poses a major challenge due to the absence of ... See full document