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Commuting in America III

The Third National Report on Commuting Patterns and Trends

By: Alan Pisarski

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Commuting in America III

The Third National Report on Commuting Patterns and Trends

By: Alan Pisarski

TRB has released the third edition of Commuting in America. The report was prepared by author Alan E. Pisarski under a joint project of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). Commuting in America III is one of the most comprehensive documents of its kind. Based on the latest census information available, it contains 155 figures, 79 tables, and some 100 "factlets" that tell the story of America's commuting trends and patterns over the last ten years. This publication will be a valuable reference for the transportation community--practitioners, researchers, and decision makers--who wish to understand how individual behavior and public policies have affected, and will continue to affect, commuting patterns. A press release and factsheets on information contained in Commuting in America III is also available.

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Transportation Research Board

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030909853X

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9780309098533

Mega-Projects

The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment

By: Alan A. Altshuler,David E. Luberoff

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Mega-Projects

The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment

By: Alan A. Altshuler,David E. Luberoff

A Brookings Institution Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy publication Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In Mega-Projects, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred in American cities during the 1950s and 1960s; the social upheavals they triggered, which derailed large numbers of projects during the late 1960s and early 1970s; and the political impulses that have shaped a new generation of urban mega-projects in the decades since. They also appraise the most important consequences of policy shifts over this half-century and draw out common themes from the rich variety of programmatic and project developments that they chronicle. The authors integrate narratives of national as well as state and local policymaking, and of mobilization by (mainly local) project advocates, with a profound examination of how well leading theories of urban politics explain the observed realities. The specific cases they analyze include a wide mix of transportation and downtown revitalization projects, drawn from numerous regions—most notably Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Portland, and Seattle. While their original research focuses on highway, airport, and rail transit programs and projects, they draw as well on the work of others to analyze the politics of public investment in urban renewal, downtown retailing, convention centers, and professional sports facilities. In comparing their findings with leading theories of urban and American politics, Altshuler and Luberoff arrive at some surprising findings about which perform best and also reveal some important gaps in the literature as a whole. In a concluding chapter, they examine the potential effects of new fiscal pressures, business mobilization to relax environmental constraints, and security concerns in the wake of September 11. And they make clear their own views about how best to achieve a balance between developmental, environmental, and democratic values in public investment decisionmaking. Integrating fifty years of urban development history with leading theories of urban and American politics, Mega-Projects provides significant new insights into urban and intergovernmental politics.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815701306

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9780815701309

Fundamental Interactions

Proceedings of the 22nd Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 19-24 February, 2007

By: Alan Astbury,F. C. Khanna,Roger Moore

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Fundamental Interactions

Proceedings of the 22nd Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 19-24 February, 2007

By: Alan Astbury,F. C. Khanna,Roger Moore

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2008 is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. Presentations are rigorously peer reviewed and are published in an archival proceedings volume. PSB 2008 will be held on January 4-8, 2008 at the Fairmont Orchid, Big Island of Hawaii. Tutorials will be offered prior to the start of the conference. PSB 2008 will bring together top researchers from the US, the Asian Pacific nations, and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. It is a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. The PSB has been designed to be responsive to the need for critical mass in sub-disciplines within biocomputing. For that reason, it is the only meeting whose sessions are defined dynamically each year in response to specific proposals. PSB sessions are organized by leaders of research in biocomputing's "hot topics." In this way, the meeting provides an early forum for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in this rapidly changing field.

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World Scientific

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9812776109

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9789812776105

Making Trucks Count

Innovative Strategies for Obtaining Comprehensive Truck Activity Data

By: Johanna Zmud,Catherine Theresa Lawson,Alan Pisarski,National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board,National Cooperative Freight Research Program,United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

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Making Trucks Count

Innovative Strategies for Obtaining Comprehensive Truck Activity Data

NCFRP Report 29: Making Trucks Count: Innovative Strategies for Obtaining Comprehensive Truck Activity Data develops and assesses strategies for obtaining comprehensive trucking activity data for making more informed public policy decisions at the national and regional levels. The report focuses on improving existing approaches rather than creating completely new ones, with a goal of yielding meaningful results in 5 to 7 years. Three approaches were developed in detail: (1) using GPS traces to understand trucking activities, (2) a re-conceptualized Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), and (3) agent-based models for freight transportation."--publisher's description.

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Commuting in America III

Commuting in America III

Mega-Projects

Mega-Projects

Fundamental Interactions

Fundamental Interactions

Making Trucks Count

Making Trucks Count

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