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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"transport infrastructure"”.
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Dispersion of agglomeration through transport infrastructure
My dissertation aims to assess transport infrastructure's influence on the productivity, scale and distribution of urban economic activities through changing intercity accessibility. Standard project-level cost-benefit analysis fails to capture the economy-wide impacts in justifying investments in …
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The impact of transport infrastructure on the development of urban communities
… research has been to study how the provision of transport infrastructure in an urban environment influences developers’ decisions at a local level. This entailed understanding the factors that might influence the choices that developers, land owners and potential users of the developments make …
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Value creation & capture around transport infrastructure station nodes in South Africa
In the South African context, the infrastructure backlog is ever increasing and with limited government funding, the reality is that the gap will most likely never be closed. There are however, numerous value capturing mechanisms applied elsewhere in the world that can help with infrastructure …
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The use of near-surface geophysics for monitoring slopes that affect transport infrastructure
Landslides on transportation networks are becoming increasingly prevalent in response to environmental change, at the same time as demand placed on road and rail infrastructure is growing in line with population growth and economic development. To minimise the impact of slope instability on vital …
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Assessment of transport infrastructure plans : a strategic approach integrating efficiency, cohesion and environmental aspects
ABSTRACT Last decades have witnessed a shift in transport planning objectives from economic efficiency towards strategic policy goals, such as cohesion or environmental issues, intimately linked with the ‘sustainable transport’ paradigm. However, the treatment of these strategic aspects is uneven …
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The causal relationship between road transport infrastructure development and economic growth in Namibia (1990-2014)
… and directional causality flow between road transport infrastructure development and economic growth in Namibia for the period 1990-2014. To achieve this objective, the study adopted the auto regression distributive lag (ARDL) Bounds testing approach to co-integration, to examine the …
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The importance of road transport infrastructure development and maintenance in trade facilitation : a South African case
Road transportation is the most frequently used means of transporting goods and people in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, because of the region's geographic nature, where many of the countries are landlocked, imports and exports of goods happen primarily by land and in this case by road …
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Reclaiming residual space from elevated transport infrastructure : time, space, and activity under the Chicago Brown Line
This thesis studies the non-transport functions of the residual space generated by elevated transport infrastructure and its relationship with abutting neighborhoods The space under the Chicago Brown Line, among all other elevated train lines, is often considered as an undesirable and useless urban …
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Investigating the performance of transport infrastructure using real-time data and a scalable multi-modal agent based model
… on the sustainability of different modes of transport. The literature ultimately highlighted the need for context specific information; actual load factors, actual journey times considering traffic/engineering works and so on. Thus, rather than being explicitly an exercise in answering a …
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Data and Information as Our New Transport Infrastructure: An Exploration into How the Modern Transport System Is Being Shaped by Information Communication Technology
… has in creating and altering behavior related to transportation. To do so, it lays out a theoretical model of technological transition and then follows it up with three case studies. The theoretical model provides a structure to consider how different actors in our transportation ecosystem – …
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The impact of transport infrastruture in the econolic growth of South Africa
This study examines the impact of transport infrastructure on the economic growth of South Africa from the period 1970 to 2015. The researcher adopted a conceptual and theoretical framework related to infrastructure development and economic growth. The Johansen multivariate Co-integration and …
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A services operations performance measurement framework for multimodal logistics gateways in emerging megaregions
… in emerging megaregions have the available transport infrastructure that could support modal shift and sustainable development and more could be made of them. A gateway is not a defined administration area but rather a functional economic area. Typically it has some port, airport, rail hub …
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The return of the infrastructure "Muti-Platform City"
… construction over time, including all types of transport infrastructure roads, railways, highways, etc. This infrastructure reflects the city's history and evolution. The thesis studies the impact of infrastructural interventions on the urban environment, especially in terms of its morphological …
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A framework for Lean implementation in infrastructure construction in the UK
… government is keen to have a world class modern transport infrastructure operational in the UK that will provide opportunities for regeneration and enable the nation to be competitive in the global market. Modern transport infrastructure is the economic backbone of many first world nations. The …
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The impact of NMT infrastructure on pedestrian movement in the city: the case of Polokwane City, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… Africa has challenges, such as poor economic infrastructure that hinders growth and development. The transport infrastructure is one of the driving forces for economic growth and social development. Like most metropolitan cities, the City of Polokwane, as the economic hub of the Limpopo …
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The Meaning of Landscape for Communities: Integrating Perceptions of Change with Spatial Planning
… how they are influenced by change related to infrastructure development, and how this information may be used as part of the planning process. A sequential mixed method approach used participatory techniques including photo-voice and community workshops to explore the views of both planning …
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Industry concentration in South Africa
… close to a supply of labour, minimization of transport costs and proximity to a market or source of demand for output. The New Economic Geography also deals with the notion of the development of an industrial "core" of the economy and a deindustrialised "periphery". The development of …
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The accessibility and development impacts of new transit infrastructure : the Circle Line in Chicago
This thesis explores the impacts of new transit infrastructure projects on the land use transportation system. Land use and transportation systems are inherently interconnected and form an integrated system; and transport projects affect not just the transportation system, but also land use …
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Space Escalator
… when they are organized around nodes of transport infrastructure and there is easy passage between them. Public transit facilities extend into cities when their hollow innards are transposed onto their external forms, and when the boundaries between their insides and outsides are porous. …
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Breaching the walls: (un)restricted access - the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
… impacted by the Foreshore reclamation, growing transport infrastructure, the architecturally inappropriate military barracks, programmatic neglect and complacency. These factors have limited critical engagement between the Castle and the contemporary city. The military's continued occupancy and …
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