Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Metropolitan Denver Water Supply
Author: Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health risk assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys
Author: James PorterPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420039415
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1025
Book Description
Providing a synthesis of basic and applied research, The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys: An Ecosystem Sourcebook takes an encyclopedic look at how to study and manage ecosystems connected by surface and subsurface water movements. The book examines the South Florida hydroscape, a series of ecosystems linked by hydrolog
Transportation Decision Making
Author: Kumares C. SinhaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118169662
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decisionmaking in transportation project development and programming, whichcan help transportation professionals to optimize their investmentchoices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies forevaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs andimpacts are taken into consideration. The text's logical organization gets readers started with asolid foundation in basic principles and then progressively buildson that foundation. Topics covered include: Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimatingtravel demand, and costing transportation projects Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts forsuch factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operatingcosts Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and landuse as well as its impact on society and culture Assessing a project's environmental impact, including airquality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multipleperformance criteria Programming transportation investments so that resources can beoptimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-widegoals Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followedby a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation isdiscussed and available software for performing evaluations ispresented. At the end of each chapter, readers are providedresources for detailed investigation of particular topics. Theseinclude Internet sites and publications of international anddomestic agencies and research institutions. The authors alsoprovide a companion Web site that offers updates, data foranalysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decisionmaking. Given that billions of dollars are spent each year ontransportation systems in the United States alone, and that thereis a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision makingfor cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this textshould be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers,and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is anideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysisand evaluation.
Charlestown Navy Yard, Historic Resource Study, Volume 3 of 3, 2010
Author: The report to Congress
Author: United States. Office of Solid Waste Management ProgramsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
North American Datum of 1983
Author: Quick Response Freight Manual
Author: Travel Model Improvement Program (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge
Author: Mirela AltićPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319615157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13–15 October 2016. The overall conference theme was ‘The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: Production – Trade – Consumption – Preservation’. The book presents original research by internationally respected authors in the field of historical cartography, offering a significant contribution to the development of this field of study, but also of geography, history and the GIS sciences. The primary target audience includes researchers, educators, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.
Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for 1990
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description