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      <title>Towards a sustainable public transportation: replacing the conventional taxis by a hybrid taxi efleet in the West Bank, Palestine</title>
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      <title>Groundwater impact assessment and minimisation for rail trenches proposed in a sensitive location</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two rail/road level crossings will be removed near Melbourne, Australia via 'rail under road' (rail trench) construction. The proposed grade separation project areas are sensitive owing to nearby Ramsar listed wetlands, numerous beneficial uses of groundwater and the complex urban coastal setting. This paper discusses the potential for groundwater impacts and approaches considered to achieve impact minimisation. The projects were subject to an Environment Effects Statement (EES) referral to the Victorian and Commonwealth Governments. A staged approach to groundwater impact assessment was undertaken to identify and address the requirements of relevant State and Commonwealth environmental approvals and relevant stakeholders. Geotechnical, hydrogeological and environmental site investigations were undertaken to inform desktop studies and numerical groundwater modelling of potential project impacts. Based on an initial assessment, groundwater level changes (either groundwater mounding or groundwater drawdown) were predicted to occur as a result of the tanked pile walls required to facilitate a rail trench construction. Groundwater levels were predicted to increase on the up gradient (inland) side of the pile wall and decrease on the down gradient (coastal) side of the pile wall, as groundwater throughflow is impeded by the pile walls. In assessing potential groundwater impacts, the predicted project induced changes to groundwater at Edithvale were considered to present unacceptable risks, owing primarily to potential exacerbation of existing waterlogging and the potential to impact Edithvale Wetland, which comprises part of the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Ramsar site. Numerous engineering design changes were proposed, with the aim to minimise predicted project induced groundwater impacts, including a passive horizontal drain - a similar precedent for which was not identified through literature review. Further numerical groundwater modelling, impact and risk assessments and reviews were undertaken, which indicated that at Edithvale, a passive horizontal drain could be installed to minimise project induced changes to groundwater levels. Numerous technical considerations were assessed in considering design and construction feasibility, including design effectiveness as a groundwater impact mitigation measure, constructability and installation in the context of the urban setting and long-term maintenance issues such as physical and chemical clogging.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:59:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Integrated environmental aspects in new railway design</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Design and construction of the MTRC's Airport Railway has utilized environmental criteria to progress cost effective designs in civil structures and electrical and mechanical systems. External noise from the rolling stock, as well as the design of the acoustics external to the railway stations are being addressed with Noise Assurance Plans. The intention and application of these plans will be presented. An Environmental Impact Study was used to ascertain the economic implications of the key environmental issues facing the Airport Railway. Of major concern is the rolling noise and the resulting requirements for barriers and enclosures. A strategy controlling the noise contribution of all electrical and mechanical equipment on the railway vehicle has been adopted. The wheel/rail noise has been approached by examining and designing this interface from the outset as a single system rather than as an assembly of individual disparate systems. A summary of the general principles and conclusions of this concept will be presented. A second application of the assurance plan is to design, manage and commission the multitude of electrical and mechanical systems within Airport Railway stations and facilities. This application will also be illustrated. An approach to cost-effective barrier implementation will also be presented.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:41:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>West Gate Tunnel project: environmental effects statement: summary report</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The West Gate Tunnel Project is a major new freeway project designed to relieve traffic pressure on the Monash/CityLink/West Gate Freeway (the M1 corridor – the main connecting route between Melbourne’s east and west), reduce the city’s reliance on the West Gate Bridge, provide a direct freight link to the Port of Melbourne and remove significant volumes of trucks from residential areas in the inner west. The West Gate Tunnel Project is set within a highly urbanised area that includes long-established and diverse neighbourhoods and communities, as well as shopping and commercial centres, industrial areas, parks and reserves, and community and recreational facilities. This urbanised setting influences the nature and extent of the impacts likely to be generated by the project. The EES for the West Gate Tunnel Project provides a comprehensive assessment of the potential environmental impacts associated with the construction and operation of the project. It details the risk-based approach adopted to identify and assess the potential impacts of the project, develop a transparent and accountable Environment Management Framework (EMF) for the project and identify Environmental Performance Requirements (EPRs) to avoid, minimise, offset or manage potential adverse impacts. The EES has concluded that the adoption of the EMF and EPRs would enable the West Gate Tunnel Project to achieve its project objectives, while minimising environmental impacts. This would also ensure that the project delivers significant transport, economic, social and business benefits not only for the inner west and the wider western region, but also for Melbourne and Victoria.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:29:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Light rail – a unique environmental impact assessment</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The aim of this paper is to investigate how light rail systems in Australia are considered through an environmental impact assessment. It explores some of the common misperceptions and differences between light rail and those of a road or rail project. Over the last 10 years, light rail has been re-introduced into many Australian cities, although each system has its local impacts, there are several key issues which are common to all light rail systems. This paper discusses the impacts associated with the traffic network, urban design, depot siting and community perception for light rail project and some of the management and mitigation measures developed to ensure the overall construction and operational risk of a project is reduced.]]></description>
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      <title>Assessing environmental impacts of major transport infrastructure projects: where does human health fit?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report details an investigation of four cases of major transport infrastructure environmental assessments to determine the extent to which they include health issues. Sound infrastructure planning is crucial to ensure that investment achieves the maximum benefit and minimal risk to society. The sheer size and scale of transport infrastructure projects, often billions of dollars, means these investments have considerable influence on the health and wellbeing of current and future populations. Transport infrastructure impacts public health in various ways including occupational health and safety, mental health, traffic injuries, noise and vibration, air quality, opportunities for physical activity, and the creation or exacerbation of existing spatial or geographic inequalities. Environmental Assessments (EAs) provide a crucial decision making point within the policy and planning process for infrastructure to consider health and wellbeing impacts of projects. Research to date, however, has shown that such use is limited. The research has focussed on the content of EAs, usually Environmental Impact Statement (EISs), and has demonstrated that the principle of focus is environmental exposures, with human health issues or outcomes rarely considered explicitly, and the broader social determinants of health not considered at all. This body of research has not, however, systematically investigated the influence of institutional conditions surroundings EAs and how these influence the practice of including or excluding health issues. The research reported here focusses both on a comprehensive documentary analysis of the content of four EISs, and then, through interviews with stakeholders, the wider institutional influences on that content. The research addresses the following research question: ‘How, why, and to what extent, is human health considered in environmental assessments of major transport infrastructure projects?’]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:52:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Western Sydney Airport environmental impact statement 2016</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The EIS is a comprehensive study of the environmental, social and economic impact a Western Sydney Airport would have on the airport site and the surrounding area. The EIS draws on a number of specialist studies and site investigations undertaken as part of the environmental assessment. A submissions report details the issues raised in the submissions received on the draft EIS and how these have been addressed in the finalised EIS. This EIS addresses the EIS guidelines issued for the proposed airport under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 in January 2015.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:20:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The successful delivery of a Smarter Alliance Program for ARTC: the achievement of engaged people, powerful innovation and high performance on the Hexham Relief Roads project</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper examines the Upper Hunter Valley Alliance's (UHVA) experience and success in delivering the Hexham Relief Roads (HRR) project, the final project of a programme of works for the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) in the Hunter Valley, NSW. The projects delivered in the programme ranged in value from $15M to $100M and the Alliance’s remit included the progression of schemes through the design feasibility phase to construction, commissioning and handover. ARTC’s challenge throughout was to provide capacity on the network in advance of demand generated by the Hunter Valley’s growing freight and coal mining sectors. The Hexham project was an example of a project that would increase operational reliability within the network at Newcastle. Specifically the Relief Roads would provide the opportunity to sequence trains into the port of Newcastle, recognised as one of the world’s largest coal terminals. Depending on the value of the project ARTC were able to self-determine by undertaking a Review of Environmental Factors (REF) as part of the environmental approval. In the case of larger projects, of which HRR was one, the projects were deemed State Significant Infrastructure and therefore the project had to secure planning consent following a full Planning and Environmental assessment. The Hexham project was constructed adjacent to the existing rail infrastructure and an area of significant wetland. Responding to the environmentally sensitive area and sharing public interest in effective management of environmental impacts and outcomes the team worked to gain planning consent and introduced methodologies and regimes to ensure compliance was assured during the construction phase delivery.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:46:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Road ecology for environmental assessment</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Biodiversity is a component of sustainable development that is in many ways affected by road and railway construction, but which has been challenging to fully account for within the environmental assessment process. This thesis presents four studies on the role of biodiversity in environmental assessment of road and railway plans and projects. Paper I presents the state of the art of road and railway impacts on ecological patterns and processes sustaining biodiversity, and reviews the treatment of biodiversity in a selection of environmental assessment reports from Sweden and the UK. Paper II presents a quantitative assessment of the impact of the Swedish road network on birds and mammals, and how fragmentation and road disturbance might affect a selection of ecological profiles. Paper III demonstrates how scientific models, data and knowledge can be mobilized for the design and evaluation of railway corridors, and Paper IV analyses how habitat connectivity, as a prerequisite of genetic exchange, relates to landscape composition and size and number of fauna passages. This thesis demonstrates how quantitative assessment can benefit biodiversity impact analysis and address issues such as habitat connectivity and fragmentation, which have been difficult to account for in environmental assessment. It is recommended that biodiversity impact analysis moves towards an increasing use of quantitative methods and tools for prediction, evaluation and sensitivity analysis. Future challenges include verification and calibration of relevant spatial ecological models, and further integration of road ecology knowledge into road and railway planning.]]></description>
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      <title>Development of a quantitative methodology to assess the impacts of urban transport interventions and related noise on well-being</title>
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