Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Banqiao (Taiwan)First known use early 21st c.
Tickets from Banciao in suburban Taipei to Kaohsiung's Zuoying Station will cost NT$1,490 (about US$46).
2007 January, High-Speed Rail Begins Service January 5 (United States diplomatic cables leak), page 35 more examples
These tuned 3G propagation models adapted for local clutter environment are extremely important in the network performance optimization process. The experiments were taking within the Banciao city. The tuned model called Banciao model has been verified in static Monte-Carlo simulation and proved to be more optimal for local environment area.
2006, Y.H. Chen, K.L. Hsieh, “A Dual Least-Square Approach of Tuning Optimal Propagation Model for Existing 3G Radio Network”, in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLCCurrently, there are eight stations along the 345km (214 mile) line, although one 10 km section of the line from Taipei to Banciao will not be open in the initial stage.
2007 January 4, Caroline Gluck, “The bullet train bites in Taiwan”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2007Once the home of one of Taiwan's richest families, the Lin Family Mansion and Garden (Tues-Sun 9am-5pm, last tickets 4pm; NT$100), is tucked away in Banciao, at 9 Ximen Road, not far from Wenhua Road.
2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 119From Banciao Station take the Bali-Banqiao line of the San-Chung Bus past Sinjhuang and Wugu to Bali and get off at any stop along the route.
2008, Cycling in Taiwan, Taiwan Tourism Bureau, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25In this study, seven types of first-order and one-variable grey differential equation model (abbreviated as GM (1, 1) model) were used to predict hourly particulate matter (PM) including PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations in Banciao City of Taiwan.
2011, Tzu-Yi Pai et al., “Using Seven Types of GM (1, 1) Model to Forecast Hourly Particulate Matter Concentration in Banciao City of Taiwan”, in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC
Origin
Early 21st c., from the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 板橋 (Bǎnqiáo) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Bǎnciáo.
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