This article discusses a second meeting of the North-West Public Transport Users' Forum that was held in Preston, Lancashire, England in May 2004. The Institute of Logistics and Transport was represented by its Northern Regional Officer Bill Oakes. The meeting heard Les Lumsdon, a professor at...
The North West University (NWU) is currently in a process of transformation because of the integration of higher education entities as a result of the democratization process that commenced in 1994. NWU is faced with various problems that are related to transport planning, parking provision, congest...
The North West Provincial Government is one of the departments of the South African government. The Office of the Premier department is responsible for providing leadership for efficient, coordinated and integrated service delivery that will enable the growth and development of the province and its res...
Transit succeeds when it has a mass of people to transport, and without TOD this BRT will fail, just like the many other transit plans that Raleigh has drawn up over my lifetime. In a 2016 referendum, 262,634 Wake County voters said yes to this specific Bus Rapid Transit line, obliging...
My family’s familiarity with these neighborhoods is why we are invested in property there – and why we’re now working with the City of Raleigh’s real estate department to sell land that we own within this area for subsidized affordable housing development. We are selling at a discount to...
Studies carried out on renewal areas by Couch and Gill (1993) and by Austin and Young for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR, 1997) reported considerable progress with policy implementation, and whilst identifying a number of problems and weaknesses in the approach...
1c). The northern NEC region centered between 14°–15°N and west of 150°E appears to be the most favored region for TC RI for both major TCs and CAT5 TCs (Fig. 1b, c). As indicated similarly in Fig.1b, TCs moving through the NEC have a much higher probability (mean 27.6%...
Kanawha and Ohio riversThe confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio rivers at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, U.S. Industry has been strengthened by the ease of movement in North America. Waterways, widely used by the Indians and early Europeans, are still important. In spite of the barriers of ...
WN West Nile WNV West Nile Virus 1. Introduction Wetlands are valuable habitats that provide important social, economic, and ecological services such as flood control, water quality improvement, carbon sequestration, pollutant removal, and primary/secondary production export to terrestrial and aquatic foo...
North Macedonia,landlocked countryof the south-centralBalkans. It is bordered to the north byKosovoandSerbia, to the east byBulgaria, to the south byGreece, and to the west byAlbania. The capital isSkopje. North Macedonia The Republic of North Macedonia is located in the northern part of the...