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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Road System"”.
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Virtual city testbed
… understanding how people move throughout various road systems. It can provide insight into the design of city streets and how well they can handle certain traffic patterns. There are various simulators available, ranging from free tools such as TRANSIMS to commercial implementations such as …
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Dense urbanism at the old edge: conflict and reconciliation of streets and buildings
… of land use increases, a secondary private road system is created, to take advantage of development potential and provide access to major building investments. The effective fragmentation of the large blocks suggests a pattern of metric convergence towards an optimum block size. In …
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The nature and development of Roman Corinth to the end of the Antonine period
… the city as a whole and to reconstruct the basic road system. The end of the Antonine period provides a convenient, if somewhat arbitrary, date at which to conclude the study in general, since most of the excavated areas and literary references date from before this time. My conclusion is that the …
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The Du Toitskloof Tunnel project : the construction of the (south) soft ground tunnel, Western Cape, South Africa
… The tunnel will form part of the new National road system, upgraded to a freeway standard, linking Johannesburg and Cape Town. The subject of this report is the construction of the Du Toitskloof tunnel, with emphasis on the excavation and construction of the soft ground tunnel, by means of …
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Evaluación de procesos de erosión en pistas forestales no pavimentadas: (Sistema Ibérico noroccidental, La Rioja)
… the construction of a dense network of forest road in the world that has caused a great variety of environmental impacts, a lot of them negative, specially geomorphological impacts. Road building in mountain areas has a notable geomorphological impact. Several factors like: the breaking of the …
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Multi-body dynamic and finite element modeling of ultra-large dump truck - haul road interactions for machine health and haul road structural integrity
… of scale in large-scale surface mine production systems. Ultra-large trucks impose high dynamic loads on haul roads. The dynamic loads are exacerbated by road surface roughness and truck over-loading. The dynamic forces also subject trucks to high torsional stresses, which affect truck health. …
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Vision-Based Over-Height Vehicle Detection for Warning Drivers
… an increased cost of bridge repairs, clogged up roadways and increased potential for catastrophic events: hazardous spillage and/or total collapse. Today, Network Rail reports on average a strike every 4.5 hours. There are a number of reasons why strikes occur, and why drivers of heavy goods …
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Love in the Fast Lane: Not-so-new Models for American Stewardship and Preservation
… of eight mile-long stretches of paved road across the Midwest, seedling miles, as part of the campaign to garner support for the Lincoln Highway project. In internal memoranda, the company called these seedlings “object lessons.” The seedlings, by creating a physical encounter of the …
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Development of a Comprehensive Framework for the Efficiency Measurement of Road Maintenance Strategies using Data Envelopment Analysis
For the last two decades, the road maintenance concept has been gaining tremendous attention. This has brought about new institutional changes, predominant of which is the challenge for maintenance managers to achieve maximum performance from the existing road system. Such challenge makes it …
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Transport and Trade in South Wales c.1100 - c.1400: A Study in Historical Geography
… but rarely considered in detail: namely the system of transport and trade. Due to the paucity of surviving evidence the study covers a time span of some three hundred years from the reign of Henry I (1100) to the Glyndwr rebellion (1400). It charts the development of trade in an age that saw …
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A Location - Allocation Model For Pedestrian Footbridge infrastructure: A Case Study on the South Africa's National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) Network in Gauteng
Road fatalities are one of the leading causes of unnatural deaths in developing countries, such as South Africa. According to the Road Traffic Management Corporation (2017), the number of road traffic fatalities were recorded to be 11 676 in the year 2016 and 42.6% of these road traffic fatalities …
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Integrated water design for a decentralized urban landscape: [text and figures]
… structures of the landscape fabric –like roads, field ditches, stream and river corridors, dirt roads, paths etc.-, as the very basis of the landscapeâ€TMs unique ecological diversity, and once used to convey the areaâ€TMs flows now risk general extinction. The existing road system is …
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Predicting Flood Risks to City Infrastructure Systems Utilizing Scalable, Time Sensitive Modeling
… to society. An example of this is the at-ground road system, which comprises 30-60% of a city’s area in the US, is highly susceptible to flood damage, while still needs to act as evacuation routes for local residents. Similarly, the underground built system is extremely vulnerable to flooding …
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Bringing To Life An Ancient Urban Center At Monte Albán, Mexico: Exploiting The Synergy Between The Micro, Meso, And Macro Levels In A Complex System
… intelligence, agent-based modeling, complex systems, and data-mining of existing archaeological data from the prehistoric urban center, Monte Albán. This real world application was selected because of its importance in understanding the emergence of modern economic and political systems. …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΟΔΙΚΩΝ ΕΜΠΟΡΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΤΑΦΟΡΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ
… THESIS IS TO EXAMINE THE ORGANISATION OF THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT SYSTEM (R.F.T.S.) IN GREECE, ITS ROLE AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THEREST TRANSPORT SYSTEM TO INDICATE THE MAIN FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO ITS EFFICIENCY AND FINALLY TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE ORIENTATION OF THE GREEK ECONOMY WITHIN …