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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"megaregion"”.
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Understanding Urban, Metropolitan and Megaregion Development to Improve Transportation Governance
… have expanded America's urban, metropolitan and megaregion development forms. Using a net worker exchange model, the geographic extent of commuter sheds is documented for 22 metropolitan areas within the continental United States. In addition to commuting patterns, county-to-county migration data …
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Financial impacts of and financing methods for high-speed rail in Portugal
… innovative financing methods and identifies megaregion revenues to make HSR investments more financially viable. We find that HSR investments crowd out other transportation investments based on the worldwide experience. In the end, we propose the use of monoline wrapped bonds and the …
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Cluster-based Delineation of Megaregions in the United States: Identifying administrative boundaries that reflect meta-communities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government
… reducing the bureaucratic burden on society. Megaregional research and delineation has largely focused on scholarly inquiry into specific relationships using narrow datasets or on private efforts to identify market opportunities with opaque analysis methods. This work aims to provide a …
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Forest Change Dynamics Across Levels of Urbanization in the Eastern US
… of forest change within the Piedmont Atlantic megaregion, largely attributed to the forestry industry. This is by far the most dominant change phenomenon in the region but is not necessarily indicative of permanent forest change. A longer temporal analysis may be required to separate the …
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Chinese Speed
… symbolic connecting feature of the Jing-Jin-Ji megaregion proposed in the 2035 Beijing Master Plan. I study the high-speed rail (HSR) in China utilizing ethnographic methods in the train, in HSR stations, and in place-based communities on sites around new and proposed HSR stations. I am …