A17: Improvement and integration of intra- and inter-regional transport networks (road network, railway network, port infrastructure).
In addition to cycle efficiency improvement, the integration of MCIC also shows potentials in costs saving and cycle robustness improvement.
To facilitate improvement and integration, five points are suggested here because they embrace wider and deeper meanings that ensure a robust future for disaster risk reduction.
Lightweight design based on fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) has potential for improvement by integration of sensors and actuators made of smart material filaments.
Information in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are being promoted for use in clinical decision support, patient registers, measurement and improvement of integration and quality of care, and translational research.
A categorisation of a smart city so far is in many cases very technology-oriented putting expansion, improvement and integration of information and communication technologies in front of the attempt to smarten a city.
Plasma-CRDS is shown to have a promising future for various analytical applications, while some further efforts are still needed in fields such as cavity design, plasma source design, instrumental improvement and integration, as well as potential applications in radical and molecular measurements.
It is evident that particularly home treatment program increased the satisfication of patients and their relatives by achieving a degree of symptomatic improvement, social integration and rehabilitation which is comparable to hospital based treatment.
In a literature review, Al-Qurainy et al. (2009) proposed improvement strategies: integration of palliative care services in the hospital to enhance caregivers' attention for the transition of treatment goals; increase of palliative care knowledge among healthcare professionals; and improvement of prognostication, advanced care planning and communication [ 9].
Our results show that travel speed advantages of mainline speed increases are quickly countervailed by access/egress improvements or timetable integration improvements.
