Tag: railway*
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Major Railways in China’s Lower Yangtze Region
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M189 Creator: Yanwei Yang ’21 Computer Science Railway transportation has a significant impact on regional economic development. In the history of modern China, the completion of the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo railways, the railroad network demonstrated strong technical and cost advantages and changed the traditional transportation pattern in the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou area. Among them, the…
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Chinese Involvement in Nigerian Railway
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M182 Creator: Can Yang ’22 Finance and Digital Media Studies With a land area of 923,769 sq. km, a population estimate of 200 million people, and the largest economy in Africa, the centrality of effective public transportation in Nigeria is readily seen. Poor transportation infrastructure in Nigeria has been a major economic bottleneck…
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Manchuria Heavy Industries
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M156 Creator: Ziwei Liu ’23 Business This map shows two major influence of the northeastern China Japan put on after the invasion. One is heavy industrial, the other one is railways construction. The northeastern China was made a base of Pacific War by Japan because of abundant raw materials, especially the minerals.…
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South Korea Undersea Tunnel
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M155 Creator: Lamine Male ’21 Computer Science This map is about the Japan-Korea Undersea Tunnel Project. It shows in different colors and formats the different routes that have been proposed from the 1940s until recent times. The earliest routes proposed include a rail and road trajectory that would link Busan to Fukuoka…
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China ODA
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M149 Creator: Ning Wang ’19 Electrical and Computer Engineering The map shows two large-scale economic infrastructure construction projects funded by Japan’s Official Development Assistance loans during 1990s, Qinghuangdao Port construction project and Datong – Qinhuangdao Railways construction project. The completion of the two projects enabled a more efficient coal transportation from inland…
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Thailand Railroads
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M146 Creator: Junyi Zhao ’21 Computer Science During WWII, Japan built Thai-Myanmar Railroad in favor of transporting necessary resources including rubber, steel and oil to fuel its war machine. This decade, Japan competed China for Bangkok-Chiang Mai HSR to nationally invest in Thailand and open the market in a larger scale to…
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Taiwan Railroads
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M144 Creator: Naoya Kuwabara This map shows how railways are used differently in Taiwan before and after 1945. During pre-war, trains were built and used mainly for transporting sugar to Japan. Taiwan was called the “Kingdom of the Sugar” for its quantity of production. During WWII sugar factories were heavily bombarded and…
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Railway and Iran’s International Connections and Communication
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M088 Creator: Jiahang Wu ’23 History Iran’s global connections and ambition is very much reflected by its railroad’s developments. This map shows most operating railways in Iran and the major foreign lines (in orange). Iranian lines with international connection are highlighted in red. Iran’s railway has become a critical transportation hub, and…
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Gauge Wars on the Grand Trunk 1860
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M087 Creator: Charles Gould ’21 History & Environmental Science
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Chinese Mining and Infrastructure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M072 Creator: Jacob Glazer ’22 UNC