scholarly journals A Field Study on Urban Rail Transits in City of Kuala Lumpur: Passenger Views on Train Noise and Vibration

2015 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 839-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Idrus bin Mohd Masirin ◽  
Nur Farrina Johari ◽  
Noor Hafiza Nordin ◽  
Abdul Halid Abdullah ◽  
Mohd Isom Azis
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Sound Level ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Vibration Velocity ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Rail ◽  
Noise Data ◽  
The City

Malaysia is a fast developing country which thrives on the growth of its population and economy. Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia with an area of 243 km2 has a population of 1.4 million [1]. From the statistics, the number of passengers using intercity train services in Malaysia in was 187,345,149 in the year 2012 [2]. Comfortability of a service is a major factor that influences the public. The research will be conducted at the City of Kuala Lumpur, PUTRA LRT (Kelana Jaya Line) and MONOREL Line is selected as the main focus of the research. The data collection will be conducted in the train coaches with two parameters. The noise and vibrations in the train coaches will be taken using the Sound Level Meter (NOR118) and Vibration Meter (Movipack 01dB-Steel) respectively. The noise data were obtained from the interior of the train coaches during operation, while the vibrations were obtained from the wall surface of the coach interior. The vibration aspect for this research is more focused on three parameters which are displacement (μm), vibration velocity (mm/s) and vibration frequency (Hz)[7]. Questionnaires were given out to the train passengers in order to obtain public opinions and satisfaction feedbacks relating their experiences on the train coaches. In this paper it also discusses on the outcomes of the field research work conducted and it was found that PUTRA LRT has a lower vibration value when compared to the MONOREL. The public opinion has also showed unanimous agreement to the field observations conducted by the researchers. However, MONOREL records lower noise levels compared to PUTRA LRT which means quieter journey experience to the commuters. It is hoped that this study will enable the operators to enhance their service weaknesses with the public playing a part in improving the urban rail transit in the City of Kuala Lumpur. Keywords:Comfortability,Noise,Vibration,LRT,MONOREL,

Research on the Elastic Pricing Theory Based on Ramsey Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 587-589 ◽  
pp. 2124-2127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Shu Yi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Pricing Policy ◽  
Ramsey Model ◽  
Ticket Pricing ◽  
Traffic Jam ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Rail ◽  
Pricing Theory ◽  
The City

Reasonable urban rail transit can not only make urban rail transit an effective way to relieve traffic jam in the city, but also achieve both the public benefit and economic benefit. The elastic pricing model based on the Ramsey model is researched and verified through an example in this paper, which lays a theoretical basis for implementation of the congestion-based pricing policy. Finally, some reasonable proposals for the development of urban rail ticket pricing are put forward.

scholarly journals Pentecostal cultures in urban peripheries: a socio-anthropological analysis of Pentecostalism in arts, grammars, crime and morality

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Vital da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City ◽  
Empirical Field

Abstract In past decades, Catholicism in Brazil has emerged as a privileged theme in the Social Sciences literature, coming to be recognised as a key element in the formation of a "national culture". For the less affluent residents of the city, Catholicism constituted what Sanchis (1997) called “traditional urban popular culture”. Despite the abstraction contained in the notion of a "popular culture", Sanchis’ perspective has had wide academic repercussion. With the growing presence of Pentecostal Evangelicals in the public sphere, and the percentage of people who claimed to be “Evangelical” in the IBGE censuses since 1990, part of the social science literature began to reflect on the possible establishment of a "Pentecostal culture" in Brazil. In this article, I analyse the formation of a Pentecostal culture in urban peripheries. To this end, I consider that the increase in the number of Pentecostal churches and their devotees in these localities provoked changes in different spheres of social life. This article is based on empirical field research carried out intermittently between the years of 1996 and 2015 in the Acari shantytown (Rio de Janeiro).

Experience and Reference of Implementing Public Transport Priority Strategy Dominated by Urban Rail Transit in Tokyo

2014 ◽  
Vol 505-506 ◽  
pp. 813-819
Author(s):  
Bin Ya Zhang ◽  
Hao Yue ◽  
Shuai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Paper Analysis ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
High Population Density ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Rail

Urban public transportation is the main effective way to solve the problem of increasingly congested city ground traffic, and public transport priority is the important guarantee to realize the way. Due to the short domestic history, there are problems to be solved in the respects of on the implementation of "public transport priority" in specific operation method, implementation measures and matters needing attention etc. Some oversea cities with high population density and serious traffic congestion have made some exploration in public transport priority development whose experiences are worthy of reference. Tokyo, the typical oversea city, has been selected out by this paper. Analysis has been down on the issue of the experiences and achievement of Tokyo in implementing the public transport priority strategy which is donated by urban rail transit, and experiences are summed up. On the basis of it, some suggestions have been proposed for the implementation of China's large cities public transport priority strategy.

On the Public Private Partnership Financing Strategies of Urban Rail Transit

2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 4095-4099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Xiao Chen ◽  
Jing Fang
Keyword(s):  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Rail

Introduction and innovation of PPP mode can attract more private capital to involve urban rail transit construction and enhance overall operating efficiency of URT. Based on analyzing the characters of URT PPP, through summarizing the PPP categories in application, this paper classifies the URT PPP practical approaches into four broad strategies, and provides a framework and some suggestions for assessing and managing risks associated with various URT PPP strategies.

Study on the Evaluation Principle of Xi'an Urban Rail Transit Network from the Perspective of Historic City Conservation

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 3258-3261
Author(s):  
Hai Qing Chang
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Transit Planning ◽  
Transit Network ◽  
Urban Rail ◽  
Urban Rail Transit Network ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

At present, China has entered a rapid developed stage of urban rail transit. As of the end of 2010, China approved the urban rail transit construction in 28 cities, of which 75% of the city is a state-level historic city. In this article, the author researches the Xi’an cultural resources and the experiences of historic city conservation planning of Xi'an, analyzes the Xi'an urban rail transit planning, and expresses the opinion that the historic city should be attached importance to the heritage impact assessment studies of urban rail transit network. Final the author summaries the evaluation principle of Xi'an urban rail transport planning from the perspective of historic city conservation, and hopes that all these experiences can be used by other historic city.

scholarly journals Where's the "Public" in Public Art. Three Narratives from documenta 14

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Giorgos Velegrakis ◽  
Danai Liodaki
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
The City

This paper analyses five public art projects exhibited in documenta 14 in Athens in 2017 that redefine and interact with the public space and therefore, form three different narratives on public space. These narratives are outlined according to the different interpretations of ‘public space’, ‘public sphere’ and democracy by the various artists. Our argument is structured as follows; firstly, we present an analysis of public art and its basic features drawing from contemporary literature. Secondly, we provide a number of key facts regarding documenta and documenta 14, outlining the main reasons we selected it as a reference point. Thirdly, we describe the three narratives about public space that we came up with after our field research and interviews with the respective artists: Sanja Iveković, Joar Nango, Rasheed Araeen, Mattin and Rick Lowe. We then discuss the relations between them and develop a model that unravels the way artists explore the public domain, look for locations, and redefine public space and the lived experience in the city. To do so, we engage with theoretical approaches as well as elaborations on specific artworks that engage the shifts and changes of the lived urban experience through art.

scholarly journals Risk Evaluation Study of Urban Rail Transit Network Based on Entropy-TOPSIS-Coupling Coordination Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Fawen Gao ◽  
Zhibin Zhang ◽  
Mengxing Shang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Evaluation ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Transit Network ◽  
Coordination Model ◽  
Urban Rail ◽  
Risk Situation ◽  
Urban Rail Transit Network ◽  
The City

As one of the core systems of a city, urban rail transit plays a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, rational, and efficient operation of the city. Therefore, it is of great significance to ensure the safe operation of urban rail transit network to improve the operation efficiency and economic level of the city. The prerequisite to ensure the safety of urban rail transit network is whether the risk situation of urban rail transit network can be reasonably and accurately evaluated. In order to evaluate the risk level of urban rail transit network reasonably and accurately, firstly, with full consideration of the characteristics of urban rail transit, the risk evaluation system of urban rail transit network was established in this paper based on the three levels of regional economy, social resources, and rail transit. Secondly, based on the entropy-TOPSIS-coupling coordination model, the single-factor influence and multifactor coupling influence in the index system are calculated and analyzed, respectively; thus the coupling coordination degree of urban rail transit system is obtained, so as to quantitatively evaluate and analyze the risk situation in urban rail transit network. Finally, based on the actual data of Shanghai from 2000 to 2016, the case simulation and analysis are carried out. The results show that the two indicators of regional economy and social resources are more likely to affect the safety state of urban rail transit. At the same time, the safety factor of urban rail transit coupling system is increasing year by year and gradually develops from disorder to order. This is more in line with current urban rail transit condition, demonstrating the rationality and accuracy of the entropy-TOPSIS-coupling coordination model proposed in this study.

scholarly journals A proposal for an Atmospheric Discharge Protection System (ADPS) for a Public School in the City of Manaus-AM

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 1030-1037
Author(s):  
José Augusto Da Costa Brandão ◽  
Livia Da Silva Oliveira ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar ◽  
Carlos Alberto Oliveira de Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Field Research ◽  
School Management ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Electric Discharges ◽  
The Public ◽  
Atmospheric Discharge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Atmospheric Discharges ◽  
The City

The present study sought to highlight the importance of protection against electric discharges to a school in the public school of the city of Manaus-AM, based on the basic recommendations and guidelines for making decisions presented in the elaboration of a ADPS proposal. The methodology of the work was based on the collection of information on the subject from the theoretical-bibliographic research, as well as the accomplishment of the field research in the school through the technical visits for data collection. The results of the research were presented in the technical verification report of the ADPS need at school, so the study carried out a detailed study on the protection risk management, the analysis of the risk components to the atmospheric discharges, general risk assessment, evaluation the design of the protection system. Based on the report, the research presented the appropriate recommendations to assist school management in decision making, considering the importance of protecting the public heritage from the damages caused by the atmospheric discharges.

scholarly journals Dinâmica locacional dos espaços públicos de lazer na cidade de Teresina-PI / Locational dynamics of public leisure spaces in the city of Teresina-PI

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Laudenides Pontes Dos Santos ◽  
Silvia Aparecida Guarnieri Ortigoza
Keyword(s):  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The City

<p>Este artigo visa analisar como o lazer tem sido vivenciado na cidade de Teresina-PI, através da caracterização da dinâmica locacional dos espaços públicos utilizados para esse fim. Os objetivos foram constatar os tipos de espaços mais presentes, verificar a distribuição destes nas zonas e bairros e analisar as causas de tal distribuição. Como procedimento metodológico adotou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental e pesquisa de campo através de entrevistas junto aos órgãos de planejamento da cidade e moradores, visitas e mapeamento dos espaços. Como resultados verificou-se uma má distribuição desses espaços dentro das zonas, ou seja, alguns bairros centralizam os espaços enquanto outros não os possuem. O espaço em maior número são as praças, há uma centralização dos espaços culturais e que a zona com menos equipamentos é a Sudeste, apesar de apresentar uma forte expansão urbana.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chaves:</strong> Espaços Públicos. Lazer. Teresina-PI.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article aims to analyze how leisure has been experienced in the city of Teresina-PI, through the characterization of the locational dynamics of the public spaces used for this purpose. The objectives were to verify the most common types of leisure spaces, to verify their distribution in the areas and in the neighborhoods of the city and to analyze the causes of such distribution. As a methodological procedure were adopted a bibliographic research, documentary research and field research through interviews with the planning sectors of the city and residents, visits and mapping of the spaces. As a result, it was verified a poor distribution of these spaces through the areas of the city, in other words, some neighborhoods concentrate such spaces while other neighborhoods have none of them. The most found leisure spaces present in the city are squares, there is a centralization of cultural spaces and the area with the least number of equipment is the Southeast region of the city, although this region has a strong urban expansion.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Public Spaces. Leisure. Teresina-PI.</p>

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