The role of railway stations in increasing transport demand

Creating the Urban Corridors: The Role of Colonial Railways in India

Sociological Bulletin ◽

10.1177/0038022920923207 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 69 (2) ◽

pp. 215-233

Author(s):

Dipsikha Sahoo

Keyword(s):

Social Space ◽

Railway Transportation ◽

Port Cities ◽

Employment Opportunities ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Infrastructural Development ◽

British Rule

This article argues that the pattern of urbanization in India has kept pace with the growth of railways during the British period. The colonial railways transformed India’s circulatory regime, which resulted in the emergence of social space. Towns and cities in the hinterlands of the port cities under the railways network became more urbanised. Railways, as a biggest British capitalist manoeuvre, helped in the process of industrialization and growth of trade and commerce. Some towns and cities grew up as major railway stations, terminals or junctions, divisional and zonal headquarters during the British period. The growth of railways is demonstrated in relation to the expansion in transportation of goods, passengers and employment opportunities generated. The article discerns the pattern of railway transportation and infrastructural development, which will help us to comprehend as one of the forces underlying the pattern of urbanisation in India during the British rule.

Download Full-text

Genesis and development of the spatial structures in former border railway centres Mysłowice – Szczakowa – Granica (Maczki), Poland

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies ◽

10.1515/environ-2015-0030 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 35-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robert Krzysztofik ◽

Weronika Dragan ◽

Dariusz Gierczak

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

The Political ◽

Border Crossings ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Functional Changes ◽

Spatial Changes ◽

International Transport ◽

Political Borders

AbstractThe article addresses the question of the emergence of urban centres with a gateway function in the area of contemporary Poland. The work concentrates on three urban centres – Mysłowice, Szczakowa and Granica (Maczki) – which gateway function was conditioned by the existence of railway border crossings in the past that provided services for international transport. The interpretation of settlements and their transformations followed the town plan analysis includes method of Conzen. The article indicates spatial consequences of this kind of function which influenced a significant part of the urban area in the indicated towns. The study highlights the dynamics of spatial changes contemporarily conditioned by the loss of the former gateway function and a fact that role of the border has been marginalized. From the other point of view the decreasing role of the political borders which have become in Europe in most cases barely a symbolic meaning. In the presented case studies the key aspect determining the marginalization of their role in the rail transport system and also their urban development was the change of the political borders and their negative consequences (demolition post-rail areas, formation of functionally derelict areas or depopulation). Former glory and role of these three towns are the still existing railway stations. Fortunately, presented railway stations – their potential and heritage give new possibilities for ideas of functional changes and future development.

Download Full-text

Urban History of Overseas Migration in Habsburg Central Europe: Vienna and Budapest in the Late Nineteenth Century

Journal of Migration History ◽

10.1163/23519924-00202006 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 330-351

Author(s):

Markian Prokopovych

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Central Europe ◽

Local Level ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Spatial Turn ◽

Railway Stations ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Police Detention

The complex routes taken by overseas migrants through nineteenth-century Central Europe included Vienna and Budapest as nodal points. In contrast to the ports of departure and arrival, and the role of labour migrants in urbanisation, the place of overseas migrants in larger urban histories of Vienna and Budapest remains largely unexplored. By using two case studies that represent the opposite sides on the spectrum of overseas travellers through Central Europe, this article aims to trace new directions such an exploration might take. Aiming to introduce the ‘spatial turn’ into the subject of overseas migration in Vienna and Budapest, it analyses how, on the local level, railway stations and the neighbouring areas functioned to accommodate shipping agencies, their agents and lodging houses, as well as the police, detention centres, and the local enterprise that helped to direct – facilitate or restrict – traffic through the urban fabric and between cities.

Download Full-text

The Rôle of Touts in Passenger Transport in Nigeria

The Journal of Modern African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022278x00010508 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 327-335 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Enoch E. Okpara

Keyword(s):

Road Transport ◽

The Self ◽

Passenger Transport ◽

Railway Stations ◽

The Public ◽

Private Entrepreneurs

Touts can be defined as free-lance workers at railway stations, airports, ferry points, and especially motor-parks, who undertake the self-imposed responsibility of recruiting and organising passengers who wish to travel by road, and for this work they receive a fee, or more appropriately, a ‘commission’, that is generally paid by the drivers of the vehicles just before their departure. All the owners are private entrepreneurs, who both compete and collaborate with one another to provide road transport for the public.

Download Full-text

The role of academician V. M. Obraztsov in the development of complex transport development issues

History of science and technology ◽

10.32703/2415-7422-2016-6-8-52-61 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (8) ◽

pp. 52-61

Author(s):

O. Strelko ◽

Yu. Berdnychenko

Keyword(s):

Technological Process ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Industrial Enterprises ◽

Combined Use ◽

Complex Development ◽

Transport Modes

The article highlights the role of academician V. M. Obraztsov in the development of complex transport development issues.The activity of V. M. Obraztsov as the founder of the science on railway stations and junctions, as the pioneer of a modern complex development school and combined use of all transport modes, the author of the theory on a single technological process of general use railways operation and industrial enterprises has been shown.

Download Full-text

Tsetse Flies carried by Railway Trains in Kenya Colony

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1017/s0007485300024421 ◽

1950 ◽

Vol 40 (4) ◽

pp. 511-531 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

E. Aneurin Lewis

Keyword(s):

Laboratory Experiments ◽

Trypanosoma Congolense ◽

Tsetse Flies ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Full Capacity ◽

Passenger Trains ◽

One Year ◽

Animal Trypanosomiasis

Railway trains running through tsetse-infested country between Mombasa and Nairobi in Kenya Colony carry G. longipennis, G. pcdlidipes and G. brevipalpis on to stock-farming areas beyond the natural limit of the fly belt, thus being largely responsible for outbreaks of animal trypanosomiasis and a reluctance on the part of European, Asian and African settlers to develop the land, affected by this form of fly dispersal, to its full capacity.The country through which the trains travel is described together with an account of a survey of the fly distribution.Tabulated figures are given of the monthly totals of tsetses collected from passenger and goods trains by teams of fly boys posted at Emali and Sultan Hamud railway stations about 17 and 25 miles respectively outside the fly belt towards Nairobi More than 24,000 flies were collected over a period of one year and many, not collected by the de-flying teams, were carried up-country even as far as Nairobi, 101 miles from the fly belt.Tsetses were collected from inside passenger trains, but very much larger numberswere taken from the outer surfaces and undercarriages of goods trucks.Reference is also made to the rôle of motor traffic, especially when in convoy in the dispersal of tsetses.The incidence of animal trypanosomiasis along the line of the railway is dealt with and the association of the disease with tsetses carried by trains is supported by results of laboratory experiments on the transmissibility of Trypanosoma congolense, T. vivax and T. brucei by the three species of flies concerned.Bush-clearing on stock farms outside the fly belt will not protect the cattle from infection carried by flies brought by trains but bush-clearing in specified localities of fly concentration in the infested country is recommended as a measure to reduce the numbers now attracted to trains. It is considered that the spraying of trains will bring considerable relief to farmers ; but, so far, no suitable spraying apparatus has been devised nor has a reasonably cheap insecticide been found for this purpose.

Download Full-text

Integration of Transportation Stations as Intermodal Stations

Journal of Engineering ◽

10.31026/j.eng.2018.04.09 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Bahjat Rahsad Shaheen ◽

Alaa Naeem Hasan

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Basic Feature ◽

Research Problem ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Intermodal Transportation ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Multimodal Transportation ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

Planning And Design

Ease of transfer between different modes of public transportation within the stations is a significant contribution to the movement that can be provided by transportation industries to develop solutions of integrated transportation. It is future integrated multimodal transportation, to make public transportation more enjoyable and interesting, in addition to passenger transportation and future movement of goods are also depend on multimodal transportation The importance of interchange promotion between multimodal as a basic feature of passengers buildings in modern Railway Stations the Research problem:" concedered about the gab of knowledge in the integrated of railway stations within intermodal transportation system in order to operate these stations efficiently, functionally, environmentally and socially".. The importance of this research is: the role of integrated multimodal transportation stations and the extent integration functional, environmentally and operationally, where this integration plays a major role by giving the expressionistic and Iconic. the hypothesis formulated from this problem is: the integrated railway stations are huge and multi-facilities of activities which works such a cities by one-system consists of the several systems integrated with each other in planning and a design that making integrated this building with other transportation stations as Intermodal Transportation systems within operation systems in planning and design levels, and posative action with environment functionally and operationally.

Download Full-text