Sentences with phrase «subway network»

Nevertheless, Barthelemy contends that if local factors posed the most powerful influence on the shape of subway networks, then the team wouldn't have discovered these universal rules.

«New York is doing well because of its comprehensive subway network that operates 24 hours and the fact that trains go to Long Island and New Jersey,» said Jasper de Lange, transportation project manager at Arcadis.

Barthelemy says his team does not know which factors are guiding subway networks to follow these general rules; perhaps the rules maximize efficiency.

In a paper published May 16 in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, he and his co-authors concluded that the geometries of large subway networks are guided by simple, universal rules.

Understanding how subway networks grow and evolve might one day help to design better systems, Levinson says.

If walking isn't your thing (or if the weather isn't great) then the hotel sits on top of a mall which leads to Admiralty subway station (one stop from Central) from where you can travel the efficient Hong Kong subway network.

That may not shock you — this is China, after all — unless you know, as Lloyd's recent post reminds us, that Beijing currently has one of the world's weakest subway networks.

In just over a decade, Beijing is set to have the world's most extensive subway network.

As New York's and many other subway systems undergo some of their biggest economic hardships in history and attempt to plan for the future, it's high time for a look down below at some of the world's best subway networks.

Staten Island joined the city more than 120 years ago hoping to benefit from big city service improvements and a connection to the subway network — one that ultimately never materialized.

«If every city's subway network had exactly the same features, it'd be obvious the rules were really strong.»

New York City's haphazard rail system differs markedly from the highly organized Moscow Metro (above), or the tangled spaghetti of Tokyo's subway network.

First, subway networks can be divided into a core and branches, like a spider with many legs.

His team analyzed the geometry of all of the subway networks in the world that possess more than 100 stations — including Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Chicago, London, Madrid, Mexico, Moscow, New York City, Osaka, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo — without trying to control for differences in politics, population density, or planning.

Some scientists think that subway networks are an emergent phenomenon of large cities; each network is the product of hundreds of rational but uncoordinated decisions that take place over many years.

«There's an endless list of possible parameters that can influence the shape of a subway network,» says Marc Barthelemy, a theoretical physicist at France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission.

And whereas small cities rarely have subway networks, 25 percent of medium - sized cities (with populations between one million and two million) do have them.

Few bus routes run through Puerto Madero, no subway line reaches it and there are currently no official plans to extend the subway network to the neighborhood despite planned further extensions of the tramway slated to link the Retiro and Constitución train stations.

The game puts you up against a challenging task of designing and building a subway network in a dynamically developing metropolis.

They work similar to subway networks but above the ground, and cost a

They work similar to subway networks but above the ground, and cost a 1/20 to build.

Although its first metro line just opened, the city of Shenyang, in Liaoning province was one of the first Chinese cities to propose a subway network.

It's hard to keep track of Beijing's subway network — in its eight - year rush toward the Olympic Games, the city doubled its amount of track with the addition of five new lines.

This will be the first time Apple's new mobile contactless payment system will debut outside the US, and it's expected to be supported at over 250,000 locations, including London's bus and subway networks, major retailers, and a number of banks and financial institutions.