Sichuan's fragmented transportation system prevents Chengdu from rivaling the eastern powerhouses as a manufacturing center, but the city is promoting the advantage of its plentiful, relatively low-cost brain pool with its new research corridor, the West High-Tech Zone.
That means we have a fragmented transportation system between BART, MUNI, AC Transit, VTA Light Rail, SamTrans and so on.
Thanks to huge mechanized farms, the American cost of production is often lower than that in China, where farming employs as many as 600 million people, fields are fragmented and transportation is slow.
We live in an age of fragmentation: fragmented communities, fragmented lives, fragmented attention.
This may be an indication that many of the precursor ions were expelled from the LTQ during CID, rather than fragmented, or lost during transportation from the LTQ to the ICR cell for mass analysis.
Air traffic controllers are protesting the European Union's plans to accelerate the integration of the bloc's fragmented airspace, meant to improve transportation efficiency and lower the cost of air travel.
The provision and regulation of water and transportation services are fragmented institutionally and jurisdictionally, with numerous city, county, special district, state and federal government actors, as well as private and non-profit sector interests, all exercising some decision-making authority.
In part, it is due to the country's deeply fragmented government structure, which divides the responsibility for transportation in the GAM between three different national ministries, 31 municipal governments and countless consulting boards.
Fragmented service contributes to a lack of affordable transportation, with buses unable to cross county lines.
One of the greatest merits of ridesharing is to mobilize and efficiently allocate fragmented and under-utilized resources to meet fluctuating transportation demands.
The inverse relationship between the compactness index and CO2 emissions in our study suggest that less fragmented and compact cities emit less CO2 from the passenger transportation sector than the sprawled cities.
