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Framework for public transport integration at railway stations and its implications for quality of life

Nag, Dipanjan; Manoj, B. S.; Goswami, Arkopal K.; … - 2019

Integration of public transport modes has been cited by many as one of the primary factors that enhances public transport ridership and makes public transport investments more viable. Asian cities are witnessing huge investments in high-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure, which will be instrumental...

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Travel and land-use impacts of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail in the Mumbai metropolitan region

Hanni, Chetan Kumar; Yewale, Akash; Chintawar, Soham; … - 2019

the Boisar area, just outside the MMR, which is the next HSR station after Virar. The improvement in accessibility of such …

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Heterogeneous effect of out-migration on informal employment in rural Nepal

Katwal, Saurav; Uematsu, Hiroki; Niraula, Baburam - 2024

This research examines the heterogeneous impact of out-migration on the informal employment within the framework of … household-level migration on the informal employment choices made by non-migrating household members. In the rural Nepalese … context, subsistence farming predominantly characterizes informal employment, but a diverse range of informal employment …

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Role of policy interventions in limiting emissions from vehicles in Delhi, 2020-2030

Pohit, Sanjib; Rishabh Singh; Chowdhury, Soumi Roy - 2021

Urban India, particularly metros, is a major hotspot of air pollution with a PM2.5 concentration level ranging above the permissible limits defined by the WHO for most of the year. Unsurprisingly, special efforts have been made by the Government of India in recent years to improve air quality....

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Middle corridor - policy development and trade potential of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route

Kenderdine, Tristan; Bucsky, Péter - 2021

The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), known as the Middle Corridor, is a multilateral institutional development linking the containerized rail freight transport networks of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the European Union through the economies of Central Asia, the...

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Sustainable transport infrastructure : road asset management in the CAREC region

Zakir, Dildar; Greenwood, Ian; Ayoobi, Ayoob - 2024

The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region has historically been an important route for global trade - connecting Asia to Europe (and vice versa) and beyond through the ancient Silk Road before the evolution of maritime trade and commerce in the 1500s. The Asian Development...

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Infrastructure in Central Asia and Caucasia

Samad, Ghulam; Abbas, Qaisar - 2020

Without realizing the importance of soft infrastructure, hard infrastructure cannot ensure a significant impact on sustained economic development. Unfortunately, Central Asia and Caucasia regions have continued to rely on a physical development model that has resulted in generating revenue but...

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Managing multinational infrastructure : an analysis of European Union institutional structures and best practice

Van der Geest, Willem; Núñez-Ferrer, Jorge - 2011

Creating the framework for cross-border infrastructure cooperation often requires the active role of a third party, an "honest broker", to forge convergence of interests. It is often argued that "deep" European Union (EU)-style integration is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for...

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Globalization and environment in India

Marjit, Sugata; Yu, Eden Siu-hung - 2018

India embarked on a path of liberal economic reform in the 1990s after years of nurturing an intensively regulated and controlled economic environment that was loosened slightly in the mid-1980s. The most important and critical segments of this reform were trade and foreign investment. India has...

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Informal labor regulations, firm boundaries, and global sourcing

Bansal, Renu; Maiti, Dibyendu - 2024

This paper extends the global sourcing model with informal labor, which spawns reputation and legal costs for violating the rules and regulations imposed on foreign firms regarding accessing informal labor under integration. Under these circumstances, foreign firms, facing a higher cost than...

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