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The Infrastructure We Ride On

Author : Joseph Berechman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319746065
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Infrastructure We Ride On written by Joseph Berechman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various economic and institutional factors that explain why huge investments are made in unworthy transportation mega-projects in the US and other countries. It is based on research, the general literature, economic analyses, and results from a specifically collected database showing that a significant proportion of implemented mega-projects have been found to be inferior ex-ante or incapable of delivering the returns they promised ex-post. Transportation infrastructure and other public investments of a similar scope (“mega-projects”) reflect public sector priorities and objectives, non-pecuniary as well as financial constraints, and a range of decision-making processes. This book describes how decisions made in the public sector with respect to transportation infrastructure investments are affected by the large populations and territories they serve, the estimation of the substantial opportunity costs they entail, the formal procedures instituted for quantitatively appraising projected outcomes and monetary returns, and the political environment in which these decisions are made.

New Mobilities

Author : Todd Litman
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 164283145X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book New Mobilities written by Todd Litman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies, transportation expert Todd Litman examines 12 emerging transportation modes and services that are likely to significantly affect our lives: bike- and carsharing, micro-mobilities, ridehailing and micro-transit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management. Public policies around New Mobilities can either help create heaven, a well-planned transportation system that uses new technologies intelligently, or hell, a poorly planned transportation system that is overwhelmed by conflicting and costly, unhealthy, and inequitable modes. His expert analysis will help planners, local policymakers, and concerned citizens to make informed choices about the New Mobility revolution.

Where We Want to Live

Author : Ryan Gravel
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466890533
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Where We Want to Live written by Ryan Gravel and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity), divided neighborhoods, and a non-walkable life. Urban designer Ryan Gravel makes a case for how we can change this. Cities have the capacity to create a healthier, more satisfying way of life by remodeling and augmenting their infrastructure in ways that connect neighborhoods and communities. Gravel came up with a way to do just that in his hometown with the Atlanta Beltline project. It connects 40 diverse Atlanta neighborhoods to city schools, shopping districts, and public parks, and has already seen a huge payoff in real estate development and local business revenue. Similar projects are in the works around the country, from the Los Angeles River Revitalization and the Buffalo Bayou in Houston to the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis and the Underline in Miami. In Where We Want to Live, Gravel presents an exciting blueprint for revitalizing cities to make them places where we truly want to live.

Impact of Transport Infrastructure Investment on Regional Development

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264193529
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Impact of Transport Infrastructure Investment on Regional Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes evaluation methods for transport infrastructure investments to ensure that scarce resources are allocated in a way that maximises their net return to society.

What's Yours is Mine

Author : Adam D. Thierer
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781930865426
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book What's Yours is Mine written by Adam D. Thierer and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how regimes that respect property rights including the right to exclude rivals better serve consumers and innovation.

Understanding Infrastructure

Author : George Rainer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471505464
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Infrastructure written by George Rainer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Water Infrastructure Planning, Management, and Operations Neil S. Grigg ". discusses the factors that lead to effective management of water systems in urban areas." --Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation Unique in its orientation for managers, Urban Water Infrastructure focuses on the productive management of urban water systems by laying out its discussion in terms of the system as a whole, how a system's component elements work together, how much they cost to build and operate, and the sociopolitical forces that guide the productive operation. This easily accessible reference is aimed at engineers, planners, and managers, teaching both the theoretical and practical aspects of urban water management. 1986 (0 471-82914-5) 328 pp. A Guide to Site and Environmental Planning Third Edition Harvey M. Rubenstein "Perhaps the strongest feature of the book is the inclusive, comprehensive, and logical analysis within each of the chapters . All in all, I can highly recommend this book to anyone engaged in site planning, or interested in site plans developed by others." --Landscape Planning This Third Edition incorporates pertinent research of the past decade and presents an approach to design based on factual information that enables creative talent to be used to its utmost advantage. Chapters follow phases used in the development of a site plan and include extensive information on: site selection, resource analysis, land use, storm drainage, alignment of horizontal and vertical curves, specifications, sports facilities and play-grounds, rooftop gardens, residential development concepts, and much more. 1987 (0 471-85033-0) 410 pp. Infrastructure Engineering and Management Neil Grigg Here is the first technical and management book to focus on solutions to complex, large-scale problems involving major infrastructure projects. The wide-ranging text covers such systems as roads and streets, water and wastewater, waste management, buildings and structures, and energy facilities. Infrastructure Engineering and Management gives an in-depth knowledge of several key subjects relating technology to management: planning, programming, and budgeting; finance, organization, and private sector involvement; operations and maintenance; project management; and research needs. 1988 (0 471-84974-X) 380 pp.

The Way to Go

Author : Kate Ascher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143127942
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Way to Go written by Kate Ascher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stunning visuals and encyclopedic insight, the author of The Heights and The Works reveals how humans move across the globe by land, sea, and air In our digital age, it’s easy to forget that almost everything we enjoy about modern life depends on motion. We ride in cars and on buses and trains to work; enjoy food shipped over oceans; fly high in the sky to any point on the planet. Over the last century, the world has come to rely on its ability to move just about anywhere effortlessly. But what prompted this transformation? What inventions allowed it to happen? And how do the vehicles and systems that keep us in motion today—airports, trains, cars, and satellites—really work? Exploring our incredible interconnected world is the task of Kate Ascher’s The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air. Lusciously illustrated and meticulously researched, The Way to Go reveals the highly complex and largely invisible network of global transportation. How is cargo moved from inland factory to seaside port, and how is it transferred from shore to ship? How do ships and planes navigate their routes without landmarks? What happens under the hood of a car or in the undercarriage of a people mover? How did planes become cheaper than ships or trains? Why are some spaceships reusable and others not? What tools are needed to build today’s immense bridges and tunnels, and what ensures they don’t collapse? How does a helicopter really stay aloft? What happens when lightning strikes an airplane or when one satellite crashes with another? What will the car of tomorrow look like? Focusing on the machines that underpin our lives, Ascher’s The Way to Go also introduces the systems that keep those machines in business—the emergency communication networks that connect ships at sea, the automated tolling mechanisms that maintain the flow of highway traffic, the air control network that keeps planes from colliding in the sky. Equally fascinating are the technologies behind these complex systems: baggage-tag readers that make sure people’s bags go where they need to; automated streetlights that adjust their timing based on traffic flow; GPS devices that pinpoint where we are on earth at any second. Together these technologies move more people farther, faster, and more cheaply than at any other time in history. As our lives and our businesses become more entwined with others across the globe, there has never been a better time to understand how transportation works. Indispensable and unforgettable, Kate Ascher’s The Way to Go is a gorgeous graphic guide to a world moving as never before.

The Menace from Farside

Author : Ian McDonald
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250247780
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Menace from Farside written by Ian McDonald and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families. Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works. Cariad Corcoran has a new sister who is everything she is not: tall, beautiful, confident. They're unlikely allies and even unlikelier sisters, but they're determined to find the moon's first footprint, even if the lunar frontier is doing its best to kill them before they get there. Praise for Ian McDonald's Luna series “McDonald's never written a bad novel, but Luna: New Moon is a great one.”—Cory Doctorow "With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. "—Los Angeles Review of Books At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The 2nd Digital Revolution

Author : Stephen J. Andriole
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 9781591405986
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The 2nd Digital Revolution written by Stephen J. Andriole and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells readers how technologies and business models are converging, and looks at technology and business holistically, arguing that it's no longer possible to think about business or technology without simultaneously thinking about the other"--Provided by publisher.

Great Policy Successes

Author : Paul 't Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198843712
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Great Policy Successes written by Paul 't Hart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Or, a tale about why it's amazing that governments get so little credit for their many everyday and extraordinary achievements as told by sympathetic observers who seek to create space for a less relentlessly negative view of our pivotal public institutions."

Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014 and the Future Years Defense Program

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014 and the Future Years Defense Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

CIO

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book CIO written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Defense Policy

Author : Miriam Krieger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421441470
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book American Defense Policy written by Miriam Krieger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Organized into three parts, the ninth edition traces the impact that societal changes and emerging technologies are having as force enablers, game changers, or disrupters of American defense policy"--

Bike Battles

Author : James Longhurst
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805994
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Bike Battles written by James Longhurst and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road. Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the bicycle through popular songs, merit badge pamphlets, advertising, films, newspapers and sitcoms. Those associations shaped the actions of government and the courts when they intervened in bike policy through lawsuits, traffic control, road building, taxation, rationing, import tariffs, safety education and bike lanes from the 1870s to the 1970s. Today, cycling in American urban centers remains a challenge as city planners, political pundits, and residents continue to argue over bike lanes, bike-share programs, law enforcement, sustainability, and public safety. Combining fascinating new research from a wide range of sources with a true passion for the topic, Longhurst shows us that these battles are nothing new; in fact they’re simply a continuation of the original battle over who is - and isn’t - welcome on our roads. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNleJ0tDvqg

Being the Change

Author : Peter Kalmus
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1771422432
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Being the Change written by Peter Kalmus and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A plethora of insights about nature and ourselves, revealed by one man’s journey as he comes to terms with human exploitation of our planet.” —Dr. James Hansen, climate scientist and former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Life on one-tenth the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome. We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens. Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth’s climate systems, Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist and suburban father of two, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world. He began by bicycling, growing food, meditating, and making other simple, fulfilling changes. Ultimately, he slashed his climate impact to under a tenth of the US average and became happier in the process. Being the Change explores the connections between our individual daily actions and our collective predicament. It merges science, spirituality, and practical action to develop a satisfying and appropriate response to global warming. Part one exposes our interconnected predicament: overpopulation, global warming, industrial agriculture, growth-addicted economics, a sold-out political system, and a mindset of separation from nature. It also includes a readable but authoritative overview of climate science. Part two offers a response at once obvious and unprecedented: mindfully opting out of this broken system and aligning our daily lives with the biosphere. The core message is deeply optimistic: living without fossil fuels is not only possible, it can be better. “In this timely and provocative book, Peter Kalmus points out that changing the world has to start with changing our own lives. It’s a crucial message that needs to be heard.” —John Michael Greer, author of After Progress and The Retro Future

A Breath of Freedom

Author : Jorge Klapproth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3756252620
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book A Breath of Freedom written by Jorge Klapproth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Europe on two wheels. It's a dream - a breath of freedom. This indescribable feeling of being alive takes hold of you especially when you are at one with the elements of nature. Jorge Klapproth fulfils a long-cherished dream and tours Europe on his motorbike. The first leg of this journey leads from western Germany to the northernmost point of Europe, the North Cape in Norway. From there, the second leg leads to the southern tip of the continent, to Cape Tripiti on the small Greek island of Gavdos. The third stage then goes along the Adriatic Sea, over the Alps back home. A great tour that takes the author as a solo traveller over 13,000 kilometres and through 23 countries in Europe. He reports about countless encounters, experiences and valuable lessons learned in this exciting motorbike travelogue: from the idea to the planning to the implementation - in the midst of the worldwide pandemic.

A Rough Ride to the Future

Author : James Lovelock
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241961424
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book A Rough Ride to the Future written by James Lovelock and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Darwin' (Independent) and 'the most profound scientific thinker of our time' (Literary Review) continues, in his 95th year, to be the great scientific visionary of our age. This book introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what Lovelock calls 'accelerated evolution', a process which is bringing about change on our planet roughly a million times faster than Darwinian evolution. The second is that as part of this process, humanity has the capacity to become the intelligent part of Gaia, the self-regulating Earth system whose discovery Lovelock first announced nearly 50 years ago. In addition, Lovelock gives his reflections on how scientific advances are made, and his own remarkable life as a lone scientist. The contribution of human beings to our planet is, Lovelock contends, similar to that of the early photosynthesisers around 3.4 billion years ago, which made the Earth's atmosphere what it was until very recently. By our domination and our invention, we are now changing the atmosphere again. There is little that can be done about this, but instead of feeling guilty about it we should recognise what is happening, prepare for change, and ensure that we survive as a species so we can contribute to - perhaps even guide - the next evolution of Gaia. The road will be rough, but if we are smart enough life will continue on Earth in some form far into the future. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, JAMES LOVELOCK is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), and The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen, in 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest Award of the UK Geological Society.