Building an Action Plan for the Holistic Transformation of the European Transport System

Author(s):  
Frauke Bierau-Delpont ◽  
Beate Müller ◽  
Linda Napoletano ◽  
Eleni Chalkia ◽  
Gereon Meyer
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darius Bazaras ◽  
Irina Yatskiv ◽  
Alminas Mačiulis ◽  
Ramūnas Palšaitis

Abstract Equitable access to efficient economic infrastructure and effective public services is essential to achieving the future economic growth. Insufficient transport infrastructure and long border crossing procedures limiting international accessibility for goods and passengers are the biggest present problems in the East-West transport corridor. The joint action plan must highlight the areas and components of the transport system, which are important for the effective interconnectivity of the individual networks, and/or for absorbing the steadily increasing intraregional and transcontinental freight flows. The successful East-West transport corridor activities' governance first of all needs to identify the corridor's administrative structure, non-governmental organizations' (NGO) place in the management structure, partnerships between the transport hubs in the EWTC mechanism and the possibility of cooperation between private and public sectors. The latest events and constantly changing environment show that the impact of political solutions on business is prevalent in the CIS and the EU countries. Thus, the analysis of economic, political, managerial, legal, even moral aspects that affect the interests of the stakeholders remain significant.


Author(s):  
G. Zampighi ◽  
M. Kreman

The plasma membranes of most animal cells contain transport proteins which function to provide passageways for the transported species across essentially impermeable lipid bilayers. The channel is a passive transport system which allows the movement of ions and low molecular weight molecules along their concentration gradients. The pump is an active transport system and can translocate cations against their natural concentration gradients. The actions and interplay of these two kinds of transport proteins control crucial cell functions such as active transport, excitability and cell communication. In this paper, we will describe and compare several features of the molecular organization of pumps and channels. As an example of an active transport system, we will discuss the structure of the sodium and potassium ion-activated triphosphatase [(Na+ +K+)-ATPase] and as an example of a passive transport system, the communicating channel of gap junctions and lens junctions.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Shullman ◽  
Arthur C. Evans
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