Sentences with phrase «subway networks»

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

- Denwa is the phone who tells Agent 8 how to navigate the Underground - Denwa gives you the NAMACO Terminal and the NAMACO Card that are required to use the Deep Sea Metro - when you're in a train car, the NAMACO Terminal allows you to display the Deep Sea Metro map - from that map, you can select a station and head there using the subway network - there's a ticket gate in each station, and it leads to the mysterious underground facility - using NAMACO Points, which are stored on the card, you can tackle various challenges - if you manage to clear one, you get some points as rewards - the amount of points you get depends on the weapon use

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

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

Not exact matches

Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

The proponents of the ICOs typically argue that the tokens they issue are not securities, but are instead a form of credit akin to subway tokens that give owners access to the network.

SUBWAY is teaming up with Food Network's Jeff Mauro to promote their Build It Better cross-platform program and to highlight their commitment to better ingredients and quality, flavorful sandwiches.

London has already installed a computerized signal network on four of its 10 main subway lines, with work is underway on four more.

BY MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT SCOTT M. STRINGER The future looked rosy 100 years ago, when New York undertook a revolutionary plan to build a vast network of subways and elevated trains.

The higher prices take effect March 22 and are part of a package of fare and toll increases affecting the sprawling network made up of commuter trains, subways, buses, bridges and tunnels.

The future looked rosy 100 years ago, when New York undertook a revolutionary plan to build a vast network of subways and...

«Overall, I'd say the city gets quite a bargain from its investments in our subway and bus network,» he continued.

«The subway and our unparalleled 24 - hour - a-day mass transit network are the engines that power a city economy that continues to grow and outpace the nation,» spokesman John McCarthy said.

But without a subway or extensive rail network, transit is still one of the most contentious issues on the Island.

New York City Transit's new president, brought in this winter from his job as the head of the Toronto Transit Commission, faces the unenviable task of fixing the city's ailing subway system and restoring faith in its vital transit network.

He took music classes at Columbia and — being just a subway ride from New York's Broadway theatres and TV network studios — got the show - business bug.

The storm surge breached New York City's hundred - year - old sea walls and flooded the underground network of subway tunnels — the most destructive event in the subway system's 108 - year history, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joseph Lhota.

This idea motivated the New York subway system's famous zero - tolerance policy on graffiti in the late 1980s (for which Kelling acted as a consultant), which is credited with improving the safety of the network.

For a cell to perform biological functions and respond to the environment, proteins must interact with one another in immensely complex networks, which when diagrammed can resemble a subway map out of a nightmare.

Using 3D laser scans of growing plants, Salk scientists found that the same universal design principles that humans use to engineer networks like subways also guide the shapes of plant branching architectures.

«How do transportation networks like a subway system or an electric grid resolve the tension between two competing objectives, such as cost and performance?

But both The Social Network and Black Swan practically flaunt new - school credentials (the latter shot its subway scenes using a D - SLR, for Christ's sake) in a category that, Anthony Dod Mantle aside, typically favors salt - of - the - earth artisan efforts.

In New York, students who attended all assigned mentoring and tutoring sessions received a MetroCard (worth about $ 100 a month), which gave them free access to the city's extensive subway and bus network.

Listen offline, while not connected to the wireless network (listen on subway, airplane, cottage, etc..)

The area has three subway stations and an excellent network of roads for guaranteed ease of movement around different parts.

Public transport: An efficient network of trams, buses and subways service The Netherlands, making it easy to get around the towns and cities.

Columnist Erin Sweeny ponders the «evolving network» engendered by a temporary art space - cum - subway station newsstand.

Convenient and sophisticated bus and subway transportation networks are also available, but mind the crowds during the morning and afternoon rush hours.

Driss Ouadahi's abstract compositions feature grid patterns with a density that evokes the tightly woven networks of high - rise urban housing projects, subways and fences.

He captured a moment at the end of the era of New York City's elevated train network, which, by the mid-1950s, was being dismantled after being supplanted by the subway.

As Governor Paterson put it, «The M.T.A.'s subway system, buses and extensive regional commuter rail network are the lifelines of the greatest city in the world.»

If the subway expansion doesn't work, there's always the world's largest underground city and road network... Despite China's passion for large numbers and larger record - setting superprojects (like the almost complete Three Gorges Dam), the chances of this actually happening (on schedule) seem as slim as a Beijing fried noodle.

Several urban transit projects were discussed, and Yishai Dotan, CEO of NTA (the company in charge of planning Tel Aviv's transit network), offered a convincing account of the benefits that the light rail / subway system is supposed to deliver.

Those of us who try to ride bikes in the winter often wonder why cars get their own big right - of - way, transit riders get expensive underground subways, pedestrians get an elaborate network of underground walkways, and we, if lucky, get a white line on pavement marking a so - called bike lane filled with snow or cars.

Chris proposes a network of tubes that act as express lanes - this does not separate cyclists from the City but act like the subways do - moving people efficiently to hubs where they re-enter the City streets.

By comparison, the city's other subway system, the metropolitan government - run Toei network transports has 109 kilometers of track and 106 stations on its four lines - a total of 304 km of subway tracks, in addition to ordinary railroads.

Kharkiv (Kharkov), Ukraine The country's second subway, and the fifth in the USSR when it opened in 1975, the Kharkiv metro is a simple three - line network, common to many former Eastern Bloc subways.

In 2009, the average Baltimore resident paid about $ 500 more a year for a car insurance premium than the national average, which may make you want to consider taking advantage of the city's bus network, light rail, or subway lines.