miasta-i-wioski: Suburb

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A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city. Suburbs can have their own political or legal jurisdictions, especially in the United States, but this is not always the case, especially in the United Kingdom, where most suburbs are located within the administrative boundaries of cities. In most English-speaking countries, suburban areas are defined in contrast to central city or inner city areas, but in Australian English and South African English, suburb has become largely synonymous with what is called a "neighborhood" in the U.S. Due in part to historical trends such as white fli…

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Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a mode of transport using wheeled vehicles running on tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed. Additionally, the track spreads the weight of the train which means larger amounts can be carried than with trucks on roads.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel…

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The Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is a rapid transit system currently under construction in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The system is divided into three distinct sections (anticlockwise from southeast): SRL East, SRL North and SRL West, connected by Melbourne Airport Rail between the North and West sections. The two main sections, SRL East and SRL North, are designed to form a single 60 km (37 mi) fully automated underground orbital metro line through the city's densely populated middle suburbs, with 13 stations between Cheltenham and Melbourne Airport connecting eight existing Melbourne rail lines and three major university campuses. The SRL is a key part of Victoria's "Big Build" infrastru…

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THE USE OF FOREIGN WORDS FROM TRANSPORT PUBLICATIONS OF THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. The article analyses foreign words (their origin, meaning and equivalents), selected from the transport publications of the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century: the conducted questionnaire method assesses the relevancy of foreign words nowadays, i.e. whether the respondents are aware of the equivalents of foreign words, as well as examines the usage frequency of foreign words. The research defines the respondents’ attitudes towards changing foreign words into their equivalents. It also examines the current usage of the foreign words in differ…

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Road Transport in 19th Century Colonial Odisha

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Integration of Road and Rail Freight Transport in the Development of Regional Multimodality. Regional rail lines represent an important yet still underused component of the freight transport system, particularly in their potential to support multimodal connections with road infrastructure and local logistics nodes. Although European transport strategies encourage a greater shift of freight to rail, many regions continue to rely primarily on road transport due to limited rail capacity, insufficiently developed terminals, weak coordination among actors and fragmented operational procedures. Analyses carried out across several regional case studies indicate that infrastructural constraints, in…

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Rail transport in Switzerland is noteworthy for the density of its network, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and a thriving domestic and trans-Alp freight system. It is made necessary by strong regulations on truck transport, and is enabled by properly coordinated intermodal logistics. With 5,200 kilometres (3,200 miles) network length, Switzerland has a dense railway network, and is the clear European leader in kilometres traveled: 2,505 km (1,557 mi) per inhabitant and year (2019). Worldwide, only the Japanese travel more by train. Virtually 100% of its network is electrified, except for the few tracks on which steam locomotives…