scholarly journals Economic crisis and its influences on the interaction between land use and transport in Madrid Region

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
The Road ◽  
Statistical Institute ◽  
Land Use System ◽  
Close Relationship

The road transport system is closely linked to the land-use system. The road system connects territories at all spatial scale, on the other hand, passengers and freight travel behavior are strongly influenced both by land-use and the road transport system. Hence, research in the field of the interactions between land-use and the road transport system is still less, particular the influence of the economic crisis. This paper aims to find out if the statistical analysis of land use and mobility can help to answer the question of what happens during economic crisis on both land use and transport system, and unveiling key spatial relationships between them. The methodology for the analysis was developed accordingly with the data and resources available. First, an exploratory data analysis (EDA) is performed in order to identify the land use and mobility pattern during the last decade. This analysis focuses on six aspects, which are distribution of population and dwellings, employment and jobs, GDP, motorization and modal split. The second aspect consists on crossing the spatial patterns of the different aspects in order to find some explanatory relationships that indicate the presence of the key characteristics. The analysis is based on the case of Madrid Region. The land-use and transport data presented in this analysis are from 2004 to 2014, which are collected from the national statistical institute, the regional government database and two urban mobility surveys of Madrid. Through the exploration analysis, we find that there is close relationship between the land-use system and travel behavior in Madrid Region. With an increasing of new dwellings constructed in the outer periphery of Madrid Region, it leads longer trips distance and more travel cost particularly by car mode. Moreover, during the economic crisis, we also find the motorization level of Madrid keeps the same, as a result of the decreasing GDP and relatively decreasing household income.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.3452

Who is to blame for crashes involving autonomous vehicles? Exploring blame attribution across the road transport system

Ergonomics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Pöllänen ◽  
Gemma J. M. Read ◽  
Ben R. Lane ◽  
Jason Thompson ◽  
Paul M. Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Blame Attribution ◽  
The Road

scholarly journals The safe road transport system approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Vollpracht
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Calming ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
And Function

Abstract More than 1,24 million people die each year on the worlds roads and between 20 to 50 million suffer from nonfatal injuries. The UN Road Safety Collaboration Meetings under the leadership of WHO developed the Programme for the Decade of Actions for road safety taking nations into the responsibility of improving their accident figures by the five pillars of a national Road Safety Policy, safer Roads, safer Vehicles, safer Road Users and Post Crash Care. It is this Safe System Approach that takes into consideration the land use, infrastructure and transport planning, road user’s abilities and limitations and the close cooperation of all governmental and none governmental stakeholders involved. Following the European Transport Safety Council's (ETSC) 8th Road Safety Performance Index Report on Ranking EU Progress on Road Safety; June 2014 Romania has made progress during the last 10 year but had still the highest fatality rate of 93 fatalities per 1 million inhabitants in Europe. [1] The contribution will present the main activities of the fife pillars with a focus on PIARC's Road Infrastructure Management tools to improve safety and function of the road infrastructure based on the experiences with the land use problems in Asian, African and European countries. A GPS based accident data system will help researchers and practitioners to improve their countries road safety. The report will show the important steps for safer roads which had been developed in Romania and how actions of short and long term measures on all five pillars have reduced the number of traffic victims remarkable in Eastern Germany after reunification and in addition how the hierarchy of motorways, 2+1 express roads, the rural roads and traffic calming in built up areas, have improved the economic development of cities and villages in a safe way.

Contract Labour and Industrial Regulation: Owner-Drivers in the Sydney Ready-Mixed Concrete Industry

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bray
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
New South ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
The Road ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Transport Workers ◽  
Ready Mixed Concrete ◽  
Mixed Concrete

The study of contract labour and its implications for industrial regulation has been neglected in Australia. As an initial attempt to remedy past neglect, this paper offers an account of contract labour (in the form of self-employed o wner-drivers) and its regulation in one section of the road transport industry, namely, the delivery of ready-mixed concrete in the Sydney metropolitan area. This industry represents an unusual example of contractors becoming strongly unionised and establishing an effective pattern of joint regulation over their rates and conditions. The close relationship between the contractors and the Transport Workers Union has also led to the industry playing an important role in the wider struggle between unions and employers in New South Wales over legislation designed to regulate contract labour.

scholarly journals Transport Infrastructure Interdependency: Metro’s Failure Propagation in the Road Transport System in Mexico City

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santos-Reyes ◽  
Padilla-Perez ◽  
Beard
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
The Road ◽  
Failure Propagation ◽  
Coordination Function

On Friday, 3 March 2017, at about 18:19 h, a metro track failed, prompting about 50% of Mexico City’s metro line-C to a halt. The track failure occurred at a peak hour when tens of thousands of commuters were heading to their homes. Given the interdependency among the modes of transportation in the capital city, the incident caused heavy disruption; it is believed that about 45,000 commuters were affected. A systemic safety management system (‘SSMS’) model has been used for the analysis. The results showed that: a) the model demonstrated its potential to the analysis of the transport system interdependency; it has been found that failure propagates vertically and horizontally; b) the model highlighted that failure propagation has to do with a coordination function; c) in relation to the case study, it has been found that the actions taken by the decision-makers during the emergency were less than adequate; d) the commuters traveling patterns should be considered when designing emergency plans; and, e) more generally, there is a need for the creation of a system to manage critical infrastructure protection in the context of Mexico. It is hoped that by conducting such analyses, we may gain a better understanding of the complexity of cities.

The Yaroslavl regions transport infrastructure possibilities evaluation for motor-car tourism

10.12737/6694 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 140-157
Author(s):  
Инна Гладская ◽  
Inna Gladskaya ◽  
Людмила Ульянченко ◽  
Lyudmila Ulyanchenko
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Fitness Evaluation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Federal Highway

The article has a Yaroslavl region transport infrastructure study and evaluation. The authors regarded such transport infrastructure aspects, as the presence and composition of messages between the Yaroslavl region and neighboring regions, studied the availability, quality of roads of federal, regional and local importance, including road considered by category, traffic, etc parameters. The freight and passenger traffic on the railway and road transport volumes are presented as a comparison. The article has also the analysis of the cash rolling stock vehicles. As one of the transport security aspects is studied the road accidents and connected with it death dynamics. For Road Trips highways fitness evaluation had been taken an 11 Yaroslavl region companies pool on a range of issues, including the presence and transport infrastructure level and roadside service on the main tourist routes. In addition, were presented the federal highway M8 Holmogory from Moscow to Yaroslavl (of one or two ways directions) some audit service results. The article contents the research results, based on them, were concluded the main findings about the potentials and restrictions on the motor-car tourism as a most perspective one for the Central Federal District region. In general, the authors concluded the inadequate transport system developing in the Yaroslavl region. It is, of cause, the limiting factor. But, cause the transport system special program existing, the region authority is interesting in this tourism type developing.

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