Additionally, trucks were involved in 15.8% of all fatal road transport-related accidents and 12.3% of all traffic fatalities in 2018. Rail emits about one-fifth of the GHG emissions from trucks. With IR expecting to become a net-zero carbon emitter by 2030, rail has the ability to reduce...
With in-built software dashboards and advanced analytics , one can continuously monitor performance, schedule maintenance and operations, conduct “what-if” scenarios, assign resources to various activities, take actions directly, or raise alarms in case of asset failures or accidents, and analyze ...
It is critical that our “Best Practice” examples influenceIndia, Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines. Collectively, they are forecast to become a larger economy than North A...
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These moves are viewed with suspicion in India, China’s biggest regional and economic rival, adding to an already tense situation where their borders meet. America's Amtrak moment could finally be here Although its trains are now among the fastest in the world, China is also spending billi...
We also excluded publications on actual crime, accidents, or suicide rather than perceived safety. Only empirical journal articles and books, book chapters, and reports were included. Thus, conference papers or publications that had no clear publication type were excluded as well as literature ...
The emission of atmospheric pollutants leads to other harmful effects on the environment besides the global warming. These are illustrated in Fig.2.9. There may be pollutant emissions, accidents, hazards, ecosystem degradation through air and water pollution, animal poisoning, greenhouse gas emission, ...
The risk factors considered during the evaluation process included human accidents and deaths, emission values and noise levels leading to the conclusion that their method produced a transportation system that was more economical and environmentally acceptable. Their study, however, also had a bias ...
The risk factors considered during the evaluation process included human accidents and deaths, emission values and noise levels leading to the conclusion that their method produced a transportation system that was more economical and environmentally acceptable. Their study, however, also had a bias ...
These defects, or technological complexity, may lead to inadequate safety protection measures during the construction process, resulting in accidents. For example, in the Guiyang-Nanning HSR project, due to insufficient assessment of the geological conditions that determine the stability of its rock ...