We surveyed 7318 customers from 275 randomly selected restaurants of 11 fast food chains. Participants purchased a mean of 827 calories, with 34% purchasing 1000 calories or more. Unlike other chains, Subway posted calorie information at point of purchase and its patrons more often reported seeing calorie information than patrons of other chains (32% vs 4%; P<.001); Subway patrons who saw calor...

Increasingly, many American fast food restaurants are marketing their food as being healthier, often by introducing new menu items that have less fat, fewer calories, and that fit into a broader range of nondiscretionary categories of the food pyramid. However, no fast food restaurant has focused on the “healthiness” of its products to the extent that Subway Restaurant has over the past near de...

With the rapid progress of modern cities, the railway construction must be developing quickly in China.As a typical high-density country, shopping center on the subway should be one important factor during the process of urban development. The paper discusses the influence of the layout of shopping center on the subway, and put it in the time and space’s axis of Shanghai urban development. We u...

The fast pace of urbanization has given rise to complex transportation networks, such as subway systems, that deploy smart card readers generating detailed transactions of mobility. Predictions of human movement based on these transaction streams represents tremendous new opportunities from optimizing fleet allocation of on-demand transportation such as UBER and LYFT to dynamic pricing of servi...

Many cooperated web cache systems and protocols have been proposed. But, these systems need the expensive resources, such as core-link bandwidth and proxy cpu or storage, and need administrative cost to achive enough performance when the client population increases. This paper suggests a self-organizable caching system, called Subway, which is scalable and fault tolerant, with a distributed pee...

Commuters can complete their “home-work-home” trips by three options: subway-only mode, auto-only mode, and park-and-ride mode on a bottleneck-constrained corridor. The purpose of this paper is to enhance the insights into pricing mechanism for subway and parking and corresponding mode choice behavior on the corridor with elastic demand. A nested logit-based stochastic user equilibrium model is...

Taking as examples of South Gate tunnel project and Metro Line 2 crossing project in Xi’an, this paper analyses the dynamic response of motor vehicle and train loads acting on a tunnel structure .based on finite element model of three-dimensional dynamics. By comprehensive use of load numerical fixation method and analytic formula method, the vibrating load curves of motor vehicle and subway tr...

An integrated urban transportation system usually consists of multiple transport modes that have complementary characteristics of capacities, speeds, and costs, facilitating smooth passenger transfers according to planned schedules. However, such an integration is not designed to operate under disruptive events, e.g., a signal failure at a subway station or a breakdown of a bus, which have ripp...

Outdoor and indoor (subway) samples were collected by passive sampling in urban Seoul (Korea) and analyzed with computer-controlled scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (CCSEM-EDX). Soil/road dust particles accounted for 42%-60% (by weight) of fine particulate matter larger than 1 µm (PM(2.5-1.0)) in outdoor samples and 18% of PM2.5-1.0 in subway sample...