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Significant research has been undertaken on how changes in speed limit-for example, the introduction of 30 kilometers per hour, or kph (20 miles per hour, or mph) speed limits-impact safety both when combined with, and without "traffic-calming" engineering treatments such as speed humps or...
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There is an increasing recognition that policy initiatives at the regional level can complement and strengthen country road safety strategies and programs. This is certainly the case in the South Asia region, with implications for regional road safety investment priorities and potential for...
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India has the world's highest reported number of annual road crash fatalities. According to the World Health Organization, road crash fatalities in India account for approximately 11 percent of the estimated 1.35 million global toll each year. Vulnerable road users, primarily pedestrians,...
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Road crash deaths and injuries in Nepal have been on a sharp upward trajectory since the early 2000s. In fi scal year 2017-18, 2,541 road deaths were offi cially reported in Nepal, which is equivalent to a fatality rate of 8.59 per 100,000 population. In the same period, 4,144 serious injury and...
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High road crash fatality and injury rates on Sri Lanka's roads are undermining the economic growth and progress made over the past decade on reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Estimated annual road crash deaths per capita in Sri Lanka are twice the average rate in high-income countries...
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Low, and middle-income countries (LMICs) are facing a major challenge in road safety. Each year, 1.35 million people are killed on the worlds' roads, and a further 50 million are injured, with the vast majority of these (over 90 percent) occurring in LMICs. There is an upward trend in road crash...
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Coal gasification is seen as an attractive way for hydrogen production. The main advantage of this approach is the low …, pressure-swing adsorption process for hydrogen separation, combined cycle for power production and essential auxiliary … loss takes place in the gasifier. The overall exergy efficiency of the coal-to-hydrogen system is equal to ca. 57%, while …
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gas), methanol, Fischer–Tropsch fuels, hydrogen, as well as heat and electricity, from several biowastes generated in the … synthesis is preferred when exergetic efficiency is the objective parameter, but hydrogen process is more efficient when the …
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An exergetic analysis has been performed on a gasification-based bio-hydrogen generation system consisting of an ASU … operating parameters on the hydrogen yield and cold gas efficiency. It is observed that, with 95% oxygen in the gasifying agent … and with gasifier equivalence ratio of 4.0, the process generates 107.8 g hydrogen per kg of dry biomass (on ash free …
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