Computers for the Transit Dispatch Office
In 1985 the Transportation Research Board sponsored a report by MacDorman and Associated titled 'Extraboard Management: Procedures and Tools'. The report targeted...
Subarea Planning Using Microcomputers
This paper presents the basic features of a subarea focusing program developed by JHK & Associates through a contract with the U. S. Department of Transportation. The program is...
Can Urban Transportation Be Managed as a Business?
There are many managerial tools and techniques available to the transportation professional that have been tested, tried and perfected in the private sector, and in a limited way in the...
The Business of Urban Mass Transportation
The author discusses, from a Federal perspective, the importance of putting into action the ideas and techniques presented during this conference. Also discussed are a few ways in which...
Strategic Human Resources Management
This paper discusses progressive human resources management strategies for improving the productivity and service performance of urban transportation organizations. The paper attributes...
Strategic Planning in Transportation: Uses and Abuses
Strategic planning makes sense because its foundations are in good economic principles. Firms that don't do it are practicing a 'let's live for today'...
Evolving Strategic Management Processes at State and Regional Transportation Agencies
Recent progress and accomplishments in strategic planning/management at four transportation agencies: the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, New Jersey Transit Corporation, New...
Applying Private Sector Financial Incentives to Urban Transit
Financial incentives for both managers and workers are widely used in the private sector to spur increased performance and productivity. Can they work in the transit industry? This paper...
Evaluating Transit: The Performance Tree Method
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate a methodology for choosing financial performance indicators that encourages identification of the relationships among indicators, permits...
Generating Alternative Financing Models for Urban Transportation: An Application of the Idea Machine
The purpose of this research was to examine how localities in Virginia could obtain funds for urban highway construction and maintenance, and indirectly, for mass transit from the so-called...
Impact Fees: Florida's Link Between Growth, Road Improvements, and Financing
Impact fees are one mechanism by which local governments can obtain additional revenue needed to construct major roads demanded by the consequences of new development. In Florida, the...
Making Parking Pay
This paper analyzes the financing opportunities and options for providing new downtown parking garages. It identifies the present financial posture of municipal parking agencies, analyzes...
Database Management Systems for Urban Facilities
This paper discusses design and implementation issues associated with the development of database management systems (DBMS) for urban facilties. Many of the experiences described here...
A Knowledge-Based Approach to Improve Urban Transportation Decision-Making
This paper describes a microcomputer-based tool that has been developed to facilitate acquisition and improvement of skills in urban transportation decision-making, in an educational environment....
The Strategic Use of Information Systems in Urban Transportation
Computer information systems have been used by many private firms to improve the quality and change the character of the products and services they provide. Such uses of computers are...
Utilization of Ocean Waves?Wave to Energy Conversion
This collection of papers reviews both the state of the art in pneumatic wave energy conversion and the associated peripheral technologies, such as capture chamber research and design,...
Managing Urban Transportation as a Business
This book contains papers and discussion summaries from the specialty conference Managing Urban Transportation as a Business held in Orlando, Florida in 1987. The purpose of the conference...
Resource Mobilization for Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Nations
The ASCE International Conference on Resource Mobilization for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries was held at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico,...
Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
The Journal of Cold Regions Engineering publishes practice- and research-oriented articles from any area of civil engineering that is substantially related to cold regions. Topics include ice engineering,...
Selection of Small Hydro Project Sites
In the course of studying nearly forty areas in Peru to identify possible sites for small hydro development and in order to select the best in each area for detailed design, the Authors...
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