Indian Railways is the largest railway network in Asia. With a modest beginning India on April 16, 1853, when first wheels rolled rails from Bombay to Thane, has emerged today as main vehicle for socio-economic development of country. Some services provided by are freight services, parcel carrier and catering, tourism other related owned Government India. 1.3 million employees, it employer orga...

Background Various aspects of the environment are correlated with obesity. Most of the previous work in this area centers on the built environment. We sought to better understand the association of the natural environment with obesity. Methods We used the Natural Amenities Scale to characterize the attractiveness of 2,545 US counties based on access to open water, varied topography, and mild cl...

BACKGROUND Neighborhood environment factors may influence physical activity (PA). The purpose of this study was to develop and test a brief instrument to systematically document and describe the type, features, amenities, quality and incivilities of a variety of PA resources. METHOD The one-page Physical Activity Resource Assessment (PARA) instrument was developed to assess all publicly avail...

In this paper a two period overlapping generation model with an urban and rural region is developed where the number of high skill individuals working in each region is determined endogenously. The basic model is modified to examine how migration behavior reacts to: 1) a knowledge externality introduced in the urban employment sector; and 2) introduction of rural amenities and the effect of an ...

Abstract We explore the impact of rising incomes at top distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. develop and quantify a model city with heterogeneous agents non-homothetic preferences for neighbourhoods endogenous amenity quality. As rich get richer, demand increases high-quality amenities available in downtown neighbourhoods. Rising drives up house prices spurs develo...

6.2.1 The traditional role of municipal bodies had been one of providing basic amenities of civic life. Services such as water supply and sanitation, roads and drains, street-lights, collection and disposal of solid waste, maintenance of public places, burial grounds and crematoria, cattle pounds, registration of births and deaths, maintenance of markets have long been seen as the function of m...