The Wider Economic Benefits of Transport: Macro-, Meso and Micro Transport Planning and Investment Tools

A Macro-model for Nonlinear Analysis of 3D Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls

Architectural limitations in many situations make it necessary for the RC shear walls to be extended in plan in different directions at a single location that makes them a 3D configuration. Analysis of such walls is very challenging. In this research about 450 cases of 3D shear walls are considered with different shapes and heights. L, T and H-shape walls are studied. They are nonlinearly analy...

Governance: Blending Bureaucratic Rules with Day to Day Operational Realities; Comment on “Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models”

Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article “Governance, Government and the Search for New Provider Models,” and use two case studies of health policy changes in Sweden and Spain to shed light on the subject. In this commentary, I seek to link their conceptualization of governance, especially its interrelated roles at the macro, meso, and micro...

Regional Transport Development and Urban Economic Isolation; Analysis of Paradoxical Consequences in Qazvin- Rasht Highway Construction: Loshan City, Iran

DISTILLATE Improved Indicators for Sustainable Transport and Planning Deliverable C2 Measuring wider economic benefits of transport A case study in good practice for indicator selection

Investing the Impact of Expansion of the Rural-Urban Public Transport System on the Economic and Social Development in Rural Areas in the Eastern Region of Bandpey in Babol County

Purpose: In rural areas of developing countries, lack of facilities and geographical isolation can be considered as the major causes of poverty leading to limited opportunities in achieving sustainable economic and social improvement. Public transport system has a crucial role in the prevention of social and economic exclusion and marginalization of rural and remote areas. Access to public tran...