STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN THE KOREAN HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY PROJECT

2005 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANG DON LEE
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Ecosystem Conservation ◽  
Environment Assessment ◽  
Development Site

Biological diversity (biodiversity) is an essential issue in conservation and environmental impact assessment (EIA). Though Korea is relatively small, the country harbours over 29,800 species, making biodiversity and ecosystem conservation a central issue when an EIA is undertaken during development site selection. Indeed, an unfavourable biodiversity evaluation can halt a proposed or in-progress development, creating a societal conflict between conservationists and developers. To solve this, the Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) legislation was created in Korea to provide a systematic instrument for improving decision-making through early-stage environmental assessment. The SEA legislation was recently passed by the President's cabinet and is poised for implementation during 2005. Adoption of the SEA will facilitate better assessments of biodiversity during the early stages of the developmental process, preventing late-stage interruptions such as those seen in the Korean High-speed Railway Project (KHRP), which was recently halted due to poor biodiversity conservation around the development site. The original EIA of the KHRP did not appropriately address the biodiversity issues because most of the developmental plan had been set in place prior to evaluation of biodiversity in the affected areas. The KHRP caused leakage of mountain groundwater such that high elevation wetlands marked as ecosystem conservation areas by the Ministry of Environment became dry and lost their endemic amphibian species. Upon learning this, several national NGOs filed court cases on behalf of the Korean clawed salamander (Onachodaytylus fisheri), halting the project for some time. Thus, the lack of biodiversity consideration at the earliest stages of the KHRP created a social conflict. This paper examines how the implementation of an SEA during the KHRP would have minimised the social conflicts between biodiversity conservation and developmental processes.

scholarly journals Study on the Calculation Method of the Diffusion Range of Grouting Slurry for a High-speed Railway Ballastless Track Subgrade

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Changwei Yang ◽  
Jinhao Guo ◽  
Shaowei Wei ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Sifeng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Soil Mass ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Grouting Pressure ◽  
Diffusion Curve ◽  
Practical Engineering ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Diffusion Form

Grouting engineering is the most convenient and quick way to deal with postconstruction settlement. Based on the investigation of the Beijing Shenyang high-speed railway in the early stage, the microdestructive force of grout on the soil mass in the process of grouting with the method of fluid solid coupling theory was analyzed. The numerical simulation results show that, in the grouting process, the greater the grouting pressure, the wider the diffusion range of the slurry and the greater the damage to the microscopic contact force of the slurry to the soil; in addition, when the grouting pressure is below 0.15 MPa, the diffusion form of the slurry in the soil is osmotic grouting; when the pressure is about 0.3 MPa, the diffusion form of the slurry in the soil is compacted grouting; on the basis of the simulation results, a deeper research is carried out, and the calculation formula of the slurry diffusion curve is obtained. It fills in the blank of the theoretical study of the slurry diffusion curve. In this paper, the diffusion formula of grouting slurry can be used in the theoretical study of clay grouting, and it can be used as a reference for practical engineering.

scholarly journals Negative External Cost Computing Model for Noise of China’s High-speed Railway and its Verification and Trend Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 261 ◽  
pp. 03029
Author(s):  
Xiaomei Xuan
Keyword(s):  
Noise Reduction ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Density Ratio ◽  
External Noise ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Cost Calculation ◽  
External Cost ◽  
High Speed Railway

The purpose of this paper is to calculate the external noise cost of China’s high-speed railway and forecast its future trend. Firstly, the unit value transfer method after correction is selected as a method of calculation. Secondly, the noise cost calculation model of China’s high-speed railway is established by introducing the correction factors such as GDP-PPP, population density ratio and CPI ratio. At last, the external noise cost since the opening of high-speed railway is calculated. The model validation results show that although the average external noise cost of high-speed railway increases year by year, it does not increase significantly. This is not only related to economic growth and improvement of noise reduction technology, but also related to the increase of investment in noise reduction facilities in the early stage. Compared with it, the total external cost of high-speed railway noise increases obviously, which is positively related to the rapid development of high-speed railway. With the increase of high-speed railway mileage and passenger turnover, the total noise cost increases significantly. It can be predicted that with the implementation of high-speed railway planning in the future, the negative external cost of noise will continue to increase.

A Museum Filled with Past, Present and Future in High Speed Railway^|^mdash;SCMAGLEV and Railway Park^|^mdash;

2012 ◽  
Vol 132 (10) ◽  
pp. 673-676
Author(s):  
Takaharu TAKESHITA ◽  
Wataru KITAGAWA ◽  
Inami ASAI ◽  
Hidehiko NAKAZAWA ◽  
Yusuke FURUHASHI
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Railway

APPLICATION OF THE EARLY DAMAGE DIAGNOSTICS TECHNIQUE TO EXAMINATION OF THE AVIATION PANEL

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. E. Vasil’ev ◽  
Yu. G. Matvienko ◽  
A. V. Pankov ◽  
A. G. Kalinin
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Video Data ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Damage Diagnostics ◽  
Subsurface Defect ◽  
Sensitive Coating ◽  
Early Damage

The results of using early damage diagnostics technique (developed in the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMASH RAN) for detecting the latent damage of an aviation panel made of composite material upon bench tensile tests are presented. We have assessed the capabilities of the developed technique and software regarding damage detection at the early stage of panel loading in conditions of elastic strain of the material using brittle strain-sensitive coating and simultaneous crack detection in the coating with a high-speed video camera “Video-print” and acoustic emission system “A-Line 32D.” When revealing a subsurface defect (a notch of the middle stringer) of the aviation panel, the general concept of damage detection at the early stage of loading in conditions of elastic behavior of the material was also tested in the course of the experiment, as well as the software specially developed for cluster analysis and classification of detected location pulses along with the equipment and software for simultaneous recording of video data flows and arrays of acoustic emission (AE) data. Synchronous recording of video images and AE pulses ensured precise control of the cracking process in the brittle strain-sensitive coating (tensocoating)at all stages of the experiment, whereas the use of structural-phenomenological approach kept track of the main trends in damage accumulation at different structural levels and identify the sources of their origin when classifying recorded AE data arrays. The combined use of oxide tensocoatings and high-speed video recording synchronized with the AE control system, provide the possibility of definite determination of the subsurface defect, reveal the maximum principal strains in the area of crack formation, quantify them and identify the main sources of AE signals upon monitoring the state of the aviation panel under loading P = 90 kN, which is about 12% of the critical load.

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