THE TRAFFIC SAFETY PROBLEM IN URBAN AREAS J. ARCHER1 and K. VOGEL2 1 CTR‚ Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan‚ Stockholm‚ Sweden; 2 VTI‚ Linköping‚ Sweden E-mail: jeffery.archer@infra.kth.se; katja.vogel@vti.se As the number of people who reside and work in urban areas increases‚ so‚ too‚ do the needs and demands placed on the infrastructure. This has led to severe congestion in many European cities‚ a situation which affects not only the environment in terms of pollution‚ but most notably levels
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Viet Nam is a developing country. We have to face with many problems; one of which is traffic. Accident transport and the congestion of traffic are becoming serious day by day Traffic accidents in Vietnam have been increasing at the alarming growth rate in the recent years. In 2008‚ there are more than 10.000 dead. The number dead from traffic accidents is much more than the number dead of cancer. The main reason is poor awareness of traffic participants such as driving after drinking wine‚ not wearing
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Critically evaluate the way the city has been represented in two or more texts‚ films or visual images studied in this module. In Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights‚ Big City‚ the reader follows an unnamed protagonist through his tumultuous daily life living in New York City. The use of second person narrative‚ specifically through the word “you” distances our protagonist from himself‚ making him seem alienated and alone despite being surrounded by the huge bustling city and it’s inhabitants. His lack
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lessons that can be learned from them. They can be minor changes in a person’s character or they can completely alter the way people live their lives. These decisions can be for the better or for the worst as well. In Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights‚ Big City‚ the character of You faces these very dilemmas. He made mistakes in his life that have altered the way he works‚ his social life‚ and‚ most importantly‚ the way he interacts with his family. It is almost as if he is a completely different person
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1) Many residents were forced to stay in big cities because they could not afford moving to the suburbs or buying a property in the city. Rather‚ they rented properties in the cities whereas the landlords tried to earn as much as possible by overpopulate small spaces. As time went by‚ the cities became more populated and this lead to commute challenges. People started to realize that horse carriages were not fast enough as urban cities continuously were growing. In 1870‚ the first railroad was
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advantages of living in big cities better transport facilities:Shanghai has an extensive public transport system‚ largely based on buses‚ trolley buses‚ taxis‚ and a rapidly expanding metro system. There are 12 metro lines and 303 stations‚with an operating route length of 468 kilometres (291 mi)‚ making the system the second longest in the world. On 16 October 2013‚ with the extension of Line 11 into Kunshan‚ Jiangsu province‚ Shanghai Metro became the first rapid transit system in China to connect
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the whole community. A survey completed by Mason City residents concluded that the residents enjoy water sports as a form of recreation. If that is so evident‚ why has the river not been used? The blame can not be soley be placed on the city park department. The city park department can only do as much as they observe. The real issue is not the residents use of the river‚ but their desire for a more pleasant smell and a more pleasant sight. If the city government cleans the river‚ it might take years
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Traffic: A difficult question. Vietnam is a developing country. We have to face with many difficulties‚ and traffic is one of the most vital problems that should be solved immediately. Since accident transport and traffic congestion are becoming serious day by day is the real situation in our country‚ the Government has introduced a new law that is charging vehicles going into city. However‚ I believe that charging vehicles cannot solve traffic problems‚ but changing people awareness and improving
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are an important part of any city in America today. America is a racially diverse country but still seems to have many problems as far as racial equality‚ race relations‚ and encouraging diversity. My community is in‚ what I think‚ is a fairly unique situation in terms of race. According to the census and other sources I found on the internet‚ the population of Fulton NY is 95.9% white. This seems to be quite different from many places in this country today. The city of Syracuse is only about thirty
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read and write‚ likewise when we grow up we learn how to love. Psychologists believe that learning is a process through observations and reinforcements. However‚ in reality people can just learn from their own mistakes. Similarly to Bright lights‚ Big City by Jay McInerney‚ one of the whole main points of the story is learning‚ with the anonymous second-person ‘you’ ultimately perceives lessons through the narrator’s experiences. Moreover‚ the kind of learning in the novel also comes with the sense
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