The twin ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California have become the focal point of the influx of containers from East Asia and China. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between monthly Class I Transportation (T&E) employment and combined monthly TEU traffic at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California for the years 1997 through 2006. The Spearman Rank-order Correlation Coefficient was administered to analyze the relationships. Results indicated that proximity is not the sole factor in a relationship between monthly Class I Transportation(T&E) employment and combined monthly TEU traffic at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. This study also contains a historical analysis of the development of railroad intermodal transportation.

<p>[missing page 94]</p> / <p>The impact of rail road development on Canadian society has recently become a much debated topic. A significant interpretation of Canadian economic development posits a fundamental contradiction between mercantilists and industrialists, arguing that the former have maintained supremacy over the latter and that this has retarded the emergence of industrial capitalism. Further, it is claimed that Canada's railways were designed to promote mercantile interests and functioned to impede the transition from a mercantile to an industrial economy. The above formulation, however, largely employs strictly economic criteria to characterize Canadian society. This thesis presents an alternate framework, one which attempts to view social reality from the bottom-up, that is from the point of view of the producers and their work relationship5. Using the criteria developed for this framework, it is argued that railroad development between 1850 to 1879 marked the transition from a mercantilist to an industrial capitalist soci~ty and, more- over, that these transportation projects were the backbone of this social change.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

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The purpose of this paper is to give a historical account of the railroad systems in the southern states prior to 1860.

Au, Wai Hong. / Thesis submitted in: December 2006. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-103). / Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendix in Chinese. / LIST OF TABLE --- p.I / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.II / LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --- p.IV / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- 1 INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.3 --- Objectives of The Study --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- The Rail Project of This Study --- p.5 / Chapter 1.5 --- Significance of The Study --- p.9 / Chapter 1.6 --- Outline of Thesis --- p.10 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1. --- Introduction --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2. --- Human Response in a Steady Traffic Noise Environment --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3. --- Human Response in an Environment with Sudden Change of Traffic Noise --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4. --- Differential Human Response to Road and Rail Noise --- p.15 / Chapter 2.5. --- Factors Affecting Human Response --- p.16 / Chapter 2.6. --- Path Analysis and Human Response to Traffic Noise --- p.18 / Chapter 2.7. --- Conclusion --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- METHODOLOGY --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2 --- Research Design --- p.22 / Chapter 3.3 --- Assessing the Acoustic Impacts of Railway Development --- p.23 / Chapter 3.4 --- Assessing the Acoustic Impacts of MOSR --- p.28 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Noise mapping --- p.28 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- On-site noise measurement --- p.32 / Chapter 3.5 --- Assessing the Changes in Human Response --- p.35 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Questionnaire design --- p.36 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Time Schedule of the questionnaire survey --- p.37 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Statistical analysis --- p.38 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- ACOUSTIC IMPACTS OF THE MA ON SHAN RAIL --- p.41 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.41 / Chapter 4.2 --- Traffic Changes Over Time After the Operation ofMOSR --- p.41 / Chapter 4.3 --- "Acoustic Environment Before, Right After and 1 Year After MOSR Opening" --- p.43 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Acoustic environment before MOSR opening --- p.44 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Acoustic environment right after MOSR opening --- p.45 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Acoustic environment 1 year after MOSR opening --- p.50 / Chapter 4.4 --- Conclusion --- p.54 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- HUMAN RESPONSE TO THE CHANGING ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT --- p.57 / Chapter 5.1 --- Changes of Annoyance Levels in an Environment with Increase of Noise Exposure Level --- p.58 / Chapter 5.2 --- Relationship Between Noise Controlling Factors and Annoyance by Correlation Analysis --- p.59 / Chapter 5.3 --- Unraveling the Relationship between Noise Controlling Factors and Annoyance by Regression Analysis --- p.66 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Relationship between Acoustic Factors and Human Annoyance Reactions --- p.68 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Relationship between non-acoustic factor in affecting human annoyance reactions --- p.70 / Chapter 5.4 --- Exploring the Causal Relationship between Annoyance and Its Controlling Factors by Path Analysis --- p.74 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Formation of path model --- p.75 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Casual relationship between annoyance and various controlling factors --- p.79 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conclusions --- p.85 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX --- CONCLUSION --- p.88 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.88 / Chapter 6.2 --- Summary of Findings --- p.89 / Chapter 6.3 --- Discussion of Findings --- p.92 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Scientific understanding of noise-annoyance relationships --- p.92 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Environmental management --- p.94 / Chapter 6.4 --- Limitations and Future Studies --- p.95 / REFERENCE LIST --- p.96 / APPENDIX --- p.104

Ip Wai Ho, Cliff. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2009-2010, design report." / "May 2010." / Includes bibliographical references. / Text in English with some Chinese. / Chapter 0.0 --- Foundamental / Chapter 1.0 --- Analogy / Chapter 2.0 --- Urban Study / Chapter 3.0 --- Cases Study / Chapter 4.0 --- Site Analysis / Chapter 5.0 --- Urban Scheme / Chapter 6.0 --- Design Development / Chapter 7.0 --- Special Study / Chapter 8.0 --- Final Design / Chapter 9.0 --- Final Model

Thesis (M.Arch)(Prof.)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes special report study entitled: Notion of place. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes special report study entitled: Urban space study. Includes bibliographical references.

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