The " Urban Network " is JR West's name for its commuter rail lines in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.

JR West's Urban Network competes with a number of private commuter rail operators around Osaka, the " Big 4 " being Hankyu Railway / Hanshin Railway ( Hankyu bought Hanshin in 2005 ), Keihan Railway, Kintetsu, and Nankai Railway.

Euskotren Trena, formerly known just as Euskotren is a commuter, Inter-city and Urban transit train operating company that operates local and inter-city passenger services in the provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country.

It is a suburb in the London commuter belt and is part of the Greater London Urban Area, some of the housing is expensive: as of 2008, six of the ten most expensive streets in South East England ( defined as the official government region, which excludes Greater London ) were in Weybridge.

The commuter railway is operated by TransLink, the transportation authority of the Metro Vancouver region, and a member of Canadian Urban Transit Association.

It is part of the London commuter belt and Greater London Urban Area, and is about south-west of central London on the River Thames and near junction 13 of the M25 motorway.

It is a dormitory town and part of the Greater London Urban Area and London commuter belt served by Cheshunt railway station.

It is part of the London commuter belt, and included in the government-defined Greater London Urban Area.

By the late 20th century, Poynton had emerged as a commuter town, partly because of the transport links and because it forms part of the Greater Manchester Urban Area.

Along with the commuter trains of the Nara Line and the Hanshin Namba Line, some intercity trains including the " Urban Liner " connecting Osaka and Nagoya, also run on the line.

It is 12 miles from the City of London and immediately north of the M25 motorway, forming part of the Greater London Urban Area and London commuter belt.

Urban rail services operate in Wellington and Auckland, and interurban services run between Palmerston North and Wellington ( the Capital Connection ) and Masterton and Wellington ( the Wairarapa Connection ).

Urban rail networks exist in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast, Leeds and Liverpool.

The term light rail was devised in 1972 by the U. S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration ( UMTA ) to describe new streetcar transformations that were taking place in Europe and the United States.

The basic concepts of light rail were put forward by H. Dean Quinby in 1962 in an article in Traffic Quarterly called " Major Urban Corridor Facilities: A New Concept ".

The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 provided $ 375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states and created the Urban Mass Transit Administration ( now the Federal Transit Administration ).

Rather than the standard ( and relatively large ) Toronto Transit Commission subway cars used by the three other rapid-transit lines, it runs smaller, fully automated, medium-capacity rail transport system using Intermediate Capacity Transit System ( ICTS ) Mark I vehicles built by Urban Transportation Development Corporation ( UTDC ) and powered by linear induction motors.

Szybka Kolej Miejska ( English: Urban Rapid Railway ) is a rail operator providing services in the Warsaw metropolitan area.

* Urban rail transit

Several Oregon institutions, buildings and facilities are named in his honor, including the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, the Mark O. Hatfield Library at Willamette University ( his alma mater ), the Hatfield Government Center light rail station, the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University, and the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.

Urban decay has no single cause ; it results from combinations of inter-related socio-economic conditions — including the city ’ s urban planning decisions, the poverty of the local populace, the construction of neighborhood-excluding freeway roads and rail road lines, depopulation by suburbanization of peripheral lands, real estate neighborhood redlining, immigration restrictions, and racial discrimination.

It is part of the Blackpool Urban Area and approximately from Blackpool town centre ; there are rail links to Blackpool and Preston, and bus routes to the larger towns and villages of the Fylde.

Urban growth accelerated in Preston during the 1920s, thanks largely to the establishment of a direct rail link between Collingwood and Flinders Street in 1904 ( later electrified in 1926 ), and a building of a tram line linking Melbourne and the city in 1920.

* Urban rail transit systems in different cities and metropolitan areas named:

Queensland Rail, in partnership with TransLink, provides Urban and Interurban rail and bus services throughout South East Queensland.

It was the last vehicle, an attempt at a standardized light rail vehicle promoted by the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration, that led to the company's ending rail production due to myriad problems.

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Urban decay has no single cause ; it results from combinations of inter-related socio-economic conditions — including the city ’ s urban planning decisions, the poverty of the local populace, the construction of freeway roads and rail road lines that bypass the area, depopulation by suburbanization of peripheral lands, real estate neighborhood redlining, and xenophobic immigration restrictions.

Urban rail transit is an all-encompassing term for various types of local rail systems providing passenger service within and around urban or suburban areas.

The Urban Transportation Development Corporation, or UTDC as it was commonly known, was an Ontario, Canada, Crown corporation created in the 1970s as a way to enter what was then expected to be a burgeoning market in advanced light rail mass transit systems.

Urban tram networks exist in Antwerp ( the Antwerp Pre-metro ), Ghent and Brussels ( the Brussels trams ), and are gradually being extended.

Urban planning ( urban, city, and town planning ) is a technical and political process concerned with the control of the use of land and design of the urban environment, including transportation networks, to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities.

University of Tehran is appointed as a Center of Excellence ( fa: قطب علمی ) by Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology in the fields of " Evaluation and improvement of irrigation networks ", " Breeding and Biotechnology of trees ", " Farming, Grading and Biotechnology ", " Applied Electromagnetic Systems ", " Land Logistics ", " Sustainable Urban Planning and Development ", " Architectural Technology ", " Biological Control of Pests and Plant Diseases ", " Rural Studies and Planning ", " High-Performance Materials ", " Control and Intelligent Processing ", " Sustainable Management of Watershed ", " Applied Management of Fast Growing Wood Species ", " Surveying and Disaster Management ", " Engineering and Infrastructure Management ", " Oil and Gas ". This appointment is based on national standing based on research achievements and invested funding in the mentioned topics. Fifteen percent of the country ’ s Centers of Excellence, as recognized by the government, are located at the University of Tehran, which along with more than 40 research centers ensure UT ’ s commitment to research.

A television pilot based on the site, called Snopes: Urban Legends, was completed with American actor Jim Davidson as host, but major networks passed on the project.

It is one of the largest networks reaching urban America, with more than 300 weekly shows, American Urban Radio Networks reaches an estimated 25 million listeners.

Through three programming networks and one marketing division, American Urban Radio Networks reaches more African-Americans than any other medium in America and produces more urban programming than all other broadcasting companies combined.

Mr. Goode continued working as a senior UN correspondent for National Black Network until 1991 when the two largest black radio networks in American merged to form the American Urban Radio Networks.

Among his most well-known essays from this period are " Urban culture " 1924 ), " Temple baths on Jyväskylä ridge " ( 1925 ), " Abbé Coignard's sermon " ( 1925 ), and " From doorstep to living room " ( 1926 ).

Only two people are known to have read two independent editions: the author C. S. Forester and Amos Urban Shirk, an American businessman, who read the 11th and 14th editions, devoting roughly three hours per night for four and a half years to read the 11th.

Aside from serving their functional purposes, gas masks are also used as emblems in industrial music, by graffiti taggers because the mask protects them from the graffiti canister's toxic fumes, and by Urban Explorers venturing into environments where hazardous materials, such as asbestos, may be present.

Urban taxis are the most expensive, while Lantau taxis are the cheapest.

Urban life had generally grown less intense by the fourth quarter of the 4th century, and coins minted between 378 and 388 are very rare, indicating a likely combination of economic decline, diminishing numbers of troops, and problems with the payment of soldiers and officials.

Urban planning of the Hobart CBD in particular the Heritage listed areas such as Sullivans Cove are also intensely scrutinised by State Government, which is operated out of Parliament House on the waterfront.

There are 210 of them, 11 of which have a special " Urban " status with additional autonomy.

Other less common depictions of Pope Urban are:

As a better means of evaluating Urban's true motivations in calling for a crusade to the Holy Lands, there are four extant letters written by Pope Urban II himself: one to the Flemish ( dated December 1095 ); one to the Bolognese ( dated September 1096 ); one to Vallombrosa ( dated October 1096 ); and one to the counts of Catalonia ( dated either 1089 or 1096 – 1099 ).

Tanzania's regions are: Arusha Dar es Salaam Dodoma Iringa Kagera Kigoma Kilimanjaro Lindi Manyara Mara Mbeya Morogoro Mtwara Mwanza Pemba North Pemba South Pwani Rukwa Ruvuma Shinyanga Singida Tabora Tanga Zanzibar Central / South Zanzibar North Zanzibar Urban / West

Urban transportation systems are being upgraded in Ashgabat, Dashhowuz, and Mary.

The Midwest Urban Newspaper and Toledo Journal are African-American owned newspapers.

Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by e-mail.

Urban legends typically include one or more common elements: the legend is retold on behalf of the original witness or participant ; dire warnings are often given for those who might not heed the advice or lesson contained therein ( this is a typical element of many e-mail phishing scams ); and it is often touted as " something a friend told me ," while the friend is identified by first name only or not identified at all.

There have been a number of deaths in storm water drains, but these are usually during floods, and are normally not Urban Explorers.

* April 9 – Following the death of Pope Gregory XI and riots in Rome calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who are mostly French, elect Pope Urban VI ( Bartolomeo Prignano, Archbishop of Bari ) as the 202nd Pope.

Urban courts in California report that approximately 80 % of the new divorce filings are filed pro se.

The municipalities that are included in the Thessaloniki Urban Area are those of Thessaloniki ( the city center and largest in population size ), Kalamaria, Neapoli-Sykies, Pavlos Melas, Kordelio-Evosmos, Ampelokipoi-Menemeni, and the municipal unit of Pylaia, part of the municipality of Pylaia-Chortiatis.

# Urban legends-Urban legends are designed to be redistributed and usually warn users of a threat or claim to be notifying them of important or urgent information.

Our analysis indicates that the Current Urban Planning Assumptions are of virtually no value in predicting local government expenditures per capita.