Towards A regional resources strategy consultation

Report produced for emda to inform the agency's input into regional Waste and Resources Strategies. Reviews policy context, available data and views from key stakeholders

Labor Compliance Assessment Executive Summary (Mainland Headwear Holdings Limited (Dongguan))

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.  Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_Labor_Compliance_Assessment_Dongguan.pdf: 24 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Labor Compliance Assessment Executive Summary (Mainland Sewing Mills (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.)

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.  Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_Labor_Compliance_Assessment_Shenzhen.pdf: 97 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

RAILWAY RAIL-FASTENING ASSEMBLY

In a railway rail-fastening assembly 10 comprising at least one railway rail clip anchoring device for positioning adjacent to a flange of a railway rail 2, and at least one resilient railway rail clip 1 for installation in the railway rail clip anchoring device 5, the railway rail fastening clip 1 has an operative configuration in which a central portion 14 of the clip bears on the flange of the railway rail 2 and a longitudinal axis of the central portion 14 lies in a plane which is parallel, but not identical, to a plane containing longitudinal axes of outer legs 11, 17 of the clip. The railway rail clip anchoring device 5 provides passageways 53, for receiving the outer legs 11, 17 of the clip 1, which are shaped such that driving the clip 1 towards the rail 2 forces the outer legs 11, 17 downwardly with respect to the central portion 14, thereby at least partially deflecting the clip 1

RAILWAY RAIL BASEPLATE ASSEMBLY

A railway rail baseplate assembly 200 comprises two fastening assemblies 30A, 30B for securing a baseplate 20 to a concrete railway foundation 1, each comprising a screw-threaded fastener 31, having a head 315, and a clamp 32 having a base portion 320, providing a protrusion 322 configured to cooperate with a recess 95 in the railway foundation, and a clamping portion 325, having a clamping surface 326 arranged so as to overlie part 21 of the baseplate 20. The base portion 320 of the clamp 32 has a fastener throughhole 323 for receiving the fastener 31 such that, when a shank of the fastener 31 is fully inserted into the railway foundation 1, the head 315 of the fastener 31 bears on a floor 321 of the clamp 32. The baseplate 20 has clamp-locating holes 23 extending through the baseplate 20 for accommodating respective base portions 320 of the clamps 32

Alaska-Canada Rail Link Economic Benefits

Construction of the 1,740 km Alaska-Canada Rail Link (ACRL) between Fort Nelson, BC and Delta Junction, Alaska to join the North American rail system to the Alaska Railroad will result in tremendous economic benefits for Canada and the US. The ACRL will provide valuable additional east-west rail capacity and tidewater access to the Pacific, hugely benefitting not only the Yukon and Eastern Alaska regions, into which it will introduce rail transport for the first time, but throughout both countries. The economic benefits of ACRL construction are consistent with Canadian government’s desire to promote Northern development and comparable in significance to those of Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880’s and the St. Lawrence Seaway in the 1950’s. Construction of the ACRL alone will bring unprecedented economic stimulus to the region in terms of job creation, wages and income tax revenue over multiple years. Table 7-1 below summarizes the benefits from ACRL construction for the Yukon, BC and Canada as a whole. However, these estimates are conservative as they exclude benefits associated with pre-construction activities, railway operation post-construction, sales taxes and corporate taxes as well as all such benefits that will accrue to Alaska and the US

Corporate Governance, Competition and Firm Performance: Evidence from India.

The aim of this paper is to show the interaction effect of product market competition and corporate governance variables on firm performance. While the linkage between internal governance mechanism and firm performance is well established in several studies, the interaction between internal and external governance mechanism has received scanty attention in emerging market economies. Here we have shown the independent and interaction effect of ownership and competition variable on firm productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we document that competition has in reality become a discernible force in developing economies. The econometric modelling result shows while the standalone effect of ownership variable on productivity is mostly insignificant, there is a strong positive interaction effect with competition variables.

A rail network performance metric to capture passenger experience

For passenger rail operators worldwide a common concern is to better understand and improve passenger experience. Based on factors including train movement times and crowding, the Journey Time Metric and Disutility Metric can be used to quantitatively assess the journey experience of individual passengers. However an assessment of overall network performance is also desirable. This paper presents a whole-network assessment metric that captures passenger experience by aggregating and normalizing individual journey assessments. The newly developed metric is validated against customer satisfaction data measured in passenger surveys of the London Underground Limited Victoria Line with a statistically significant correlation (P < 0.005) between the predictions and the measurements. It is found that there is a high degree of correlation (ρ = 1.00, P < 0.005) between the network scores calculated using the new whole-network assessment metric with either the Journey Time Metric or Disutility Metric despite their different formulations and countries of origin. Through development of the new metric it is identified that many commonly used network assessment metrics (e.g. Public Performance Measure and the end-to-end journey time of passengers) are insensitive to crucial aspects of passenger experience. The newly developed metric could be used by rail operators to better select strategies for improving passenger experience