Browsing by Subject "transportation"

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    The relationship between land-use and urban freeway interchanges
    (1969) Speed, Ivan Douglas
    Transportation is the movement of people and goods to achieve the social and economic goals of society. It has long been accepted that there is a relationship between land-use and transportation. Transportation facilities influence the location and intensity of land-use activities while these activities generate the need for transportation. The thesis assumes that in general such a relationship exists and, in particular, becomes apparent when freeways and interchanges are introduced into urban areas. There is at present controversy as to whether freeways should be built in urban areas. It is alleged that freeways disrupt urban land-uses, are costly and are, in the long term, ineffective in meeting the demand for urban transportation. In order to provide more information on freeways in urban areas it is proposes to study the relationship from the particular aspect of freeway interchanges in relation to urban land-uses. In this way the extent of the study is limited and concentrated to a field where the land-use/transportation relationship could be expected to be most intense.
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    The rotterdam rules: do they solve the problems arising from multimodal transportation?
    (2015) Kituri, Catherine Wanjala; Bradfield, Graham
    The Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the 11th of December 2008.1 Shortly afterwards, a signing ceremony in Rotterdam was authorised and a recommendation was made for the new Convention to be known as the ‘Rotterdam Rules.'2 The signing ceremony took place on the 23rd of September 2009 and the Convention has thus far found wide acceptance with over 19 States having signed it.3 Given that the Convention requires only 20 ratifications to come into force, the number of signatories seems a fair indication that the Convention will come into force and, perhaps, in the near future.