Policies on municipal actions to promote local competitiveness have typically focused in three areas: i) providing infrastructure (transportation, telecommunications, water & sanitation, etc.); ii) improving public services (education, health, public security, housing, etc.); and iii) reducing...

It's important to explore ways to integrate bus and rail transit by combining both the effects of the built environment and their competition. Using Wuhan city in China as a case study, this study develops gradient boosting decision trees(GBDTs) to examine the threshold range of built...

Purpose: To find out ships' optimum operating speed under low-carbon economy. Approach: First, it analyzes the relations between ship's carbon emission and the operating speed, gets the optimum speed under which the entire fleet emit minimum carbon, then establishes the relations between the...