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===Transport=== | ===Transport=== | ||
Zalgisbeck has a notably high water-table for a city of its size. This has made the construction of a subway network prohibitively expensive, despite repeated attempts to do so since the 1890s. Public transport therefore largely consists of tram, light rail and bus networks, as well as national rail links. Zalgisbeck has been called the most "car-hostile" city in Hendalarsk because of its long-term planning around public transport and pedestrians rather than private vehicles; although the city is encircled by a ring-road, there are no motorways within the city proper, and use of the city's roads by individual private vehicles is extremely heavily restricted. Regulations for commercial vehicles such as delivery trucks are considerably more lenient, but stringent emissions regulations introduced after the [[Great Fog of 1951]] mean that almost all vehicles in Zalgisbeck, public or private, run on electric power rather than internal combustion. The city's ferries across the Zalgis still run on diesel engines, but are planned to be replaced with models that use hydrogen fuel cells by the early 2030s. | Zalgisbeck has a notably high water-table for a city of its size. This has made the construction of a subway network prohibitively expensive, despite repeated attempts to do so since the 1890s. Public transport therefore largely consists of tram, light rail and bus networks, as well as national rail links. Zalgisbeck has been called the most "car-hostile" city in Hendalarsk because of its long-term planning around public transport and pedestrians rather than private vehicles; although the city is encircled by a ring-road, there are no motorways within the city proper, and use of the city's roads by individual private vehicles is extremely heavily restricted. Regulations for commercial vehicles such as delivery trucks are considerably more lenient, but stringent emissions regulations introduced after the [[Great Fog of 1951]] mean that almost all vehicles in Zalgisbeck, public or private, run on electric power rather than internal combustion. The city's ferries across the Zalgis still run on diesel engines, but are planned to be replaced with models that use hydrogen fuel cells by the early 2030s. | ||
Public transport in Zalgisbeck is managed and operated by ZÖVV ('''''Z'''algisbecker '''Ö'''ffentlicher '''V'''erkehrs'''v'''erband'', "Zalgisbecker Public Transport Consortium"), itself owned by the [[Hendalarskara Transport Commissariat]] but politically accountable to the Zalgisbecker Transport Directorate (ZVL, '''''Z'''algisbeckere '''V'''erkehrs'''l'''eiterei''). As it is a publicly-owned company, the bulk of any profits accruing from ZÖVV's operations are typically retained and reinvested in the network's own services, infrastructure and rolling stock, with the exception of 20% transferred as dividends to the [[Zalgisbund]]. The head of the ZÖVV, the ''Verkehrsleiter'', is nominated by the ZVL and confirmed (or, rarely, rejected) by the Zalgisbund. | |||
ZÖVV operates fourteen tramlines which together constitute the [[Zalgisbeck S-Bán]], as well as four commuter rail lines offering direct connections between outlying towns in the city centre and over 150 bus routes. In 2033 ZÖVV estimated that its services facilitated approximately 1.503 billion journeys, making it one of the most-used public transport networks (adjusted for population size) of any major city worldwide. | |||
===Education=== | ===Education=== | ||
====Higher education==== | |||
Zalgisbeck, on account of its long decline throughout the early modern period, has not traditionally been considered one of the leading university cities of Hendalarsk. The Archons founded the Law Academy of Zalgisbeck in 1330 to train administrators and lawyers for the mercantile state, an arrangement which survived the Rising of 1343 and was latterly continued by the Captaincy-General, but the Academy was burned to the ground during the Hendalarskara sack of the city in 1571 and its reconstruction was expressly forbidden by archroyal decree. (The Academy had also, in keeping with the hardheaded commercialist ethos of both the Archonates and the Captaincy-General, retained a strong focus on technical education instead of the more traditional (and more prestigious) liberal arts education on offer in other Levantine institutions.) | |||
Consequently, aspiring Zalgisbeckers seeking a university education had for centuries to travel to either Hernemünde or Schullerhausen, or even further afield, to take up their studies. This only changed in 1804, when a group of Zalgisbecker burghers sought and received a royal decree for the foundation of a new university in the city. Known as the Institute for Land Studies (ILS), the new institution harked back to the city's educational roots by focusing on a technical education, with a particular focus on the emerging fields of geology and hydrology and their applications to civil engineering. Again, this pragmatic offering was rather less prestigious than the proto-Enlightenment curricula available further down the Zalgis or elsewhere on the Vandarch littoral, and the ILS was not invited to the first nationwide Congress of Rectors, the corporate body for universities in Hendalarsk, in 1874. A small humanities institute, the Sankt-Gótád Academy (SGA), was founded in 1863, but remained largely irrelevant until after the Hendalarskara Civil War. | |||
The war, and the devastation it wrought on Hernemünde, left Zalgisbecker higher education free to expand in the aftermath, as in many other spheres. The ILS, SGA and various other specialist institutions amalgamated into the [[University of Zalgisbeck]] in 1927, and over the course of the twentieth century the University became one of Hendalarsk's largest by enrolment. As of 2025 the University (known since 1996 as Íuló-Uniwersitét-Zalgisbeck, or IUZ) is the second-largest in Hendalarsk by enrolment, with approximately 79,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students studying in the city. | |||
===Economy=== | ===Economy=== | ||
On account of its strategic location at the mouth of the Zalgis, Zalgisbeck has been a major trade entrepôt for its entire history as a Gothic settlement. The Port of Zalgisbeck is by far the busiest port in Hendalarsk outside the Pentapolis, incorporating both maritime trade across the Vandarch and riverine and rail freight within Hendalarsk itself. Over 20% of working adults in Zalgisbeck are employed in industries linked to the port, a figure which has remained steady even amid widespread deindustrialisation across much of the country. Prior to the 20th century, Zalgisbeck had no notable tradition of shipbuilding, but enjoyed a brief boom after the Civil War - historians have mainly attributed this to Hernemünde's comparative devastation in the Civil War, and the simultaneous decline of the maritime copper trade that had been Hernemünde's lifeblood prior to the War and the advent of modern railway infrastructure. Although shipbuilding as a mass industry in Zalgisbeck declined steeply from the 1970s onward, the city retains both bespoke facilities for constructing specialist (particularly scientific) vessels and an extensive network of maintenance drydocks for both foreign and domestic shipping which patronises the Port. | On account of its strategic location at the mouth of the Zalgis, Zalgisbeck has been a major trade entrepôt for its entire history as a Gothic settlement. The Port of Zalgisbeck is by far the busiest port in Hendalarsk outside the Pentapolis, incorporating both maritime trade across the Vandarch and riverine and rail freight within Hendalarsk itself. Over 20% of working adults in Zalgisbeck are employed in industries linked to the port, a figure which has remained steady even amid widespread deindustrialisation across much of the country. Prior to the 20th century, Zalgisbeck had no notable tradition of shipbuilding, but enjoyed a brief boom after the Civil War - historians have mainly attributed this to Hernemünde's comparative devastation in the Civil War, and the simultaneous decline of the maritime copper trade that had been Hernemünde's lifeblood prior to the War and the advent of modern railway infrastructure. Although shipbuilding as a mass industry in Zalgisbeck declined steeply from the 1970s onward, the city retains both bespoke facilities for constructing specialist (particularly scientific) vessels and an extensive network of maintenance drydocks for both foreign and domestic shipping which patronises the Port. | ||
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