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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Redundancy in Public Transit: Structure, competition and reliability in planning and operations
Author: Redundancy in Public Transit: On the idea of an integrated transit system
Author: Redundancy in Public Transit: The profits of competition in public transit
Author: Redundancy in Public Transit: On the idea of an integrated transit system
Author: Urban Transportation Abstracts
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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Urban Mass Transportation Abstracts
Author: UMTA Abstracts
Author: Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change
Author: Fernando Pacheco-TorgalPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323953379
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies analyzes several scenarios and proposes various adaptation strategies for climate emergencies (heat waves, wildfires, floods, and storms). Divided into three themes, the book offers an organized vision of a complex and multi-factor challenge. It covers climatic resilience and building refurbishment, implications for service life prediction and maintainability, and climate adaptation in the maintenance and management of buildings. Sections cover infrastructure materials, climate emergency adaptation and building adaptation to heat waves, wildfires, floods and storms. The book will be an essential reference resource for civil and structural engineers, architects, planners, designers and other professionals who have an interest in the adaptation of the built environment against climate change. - Presents technical solutions for adaptation of the built environment against climate change - Features multiple authors spanning both engineering and architectural disciplines - Proposes a systematic approach to implement low carbon solutions and build capacity to make successful transitions to a resilient city
Coordination Without Hierarchy
Author: Donald ChisholmPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520080379
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The organizational history of American government during the past 100 years has been written principally in terms of the creation of larger and larger public organizations. Beginning with the Progressive movement, no matter the goal, the reflexive response has been to consolidate and centralize into formal hierarchies. That efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability, and the coordination necessary to achieve them, are promoted by such reorganizations has become widely accepted. Borrowing from social psychology, sociology, political science, and public administration, and using the public transit system of the San Francisco Bay area for illustrative purposes, Donald Chisholm directly challenges this received wisdom. He argues that, contrary to contemporary canons of public administration, we should actively resist the temptation to consolidate and centralize our public organizations. Rather, we should carefully match organizational design with observed types and levels of interdependence, since organizational systems that on the surface appear to be tightly linked webs of interdependence on closer examination often prove decomposable into relatively simpler subsystems that may be coordinated through decentralized, informal organizational arrangements. Chisholm finds that informal channels between actors at different organizations prove remarkably effective and durable as instruments of coordination. Developed and maintained as needed rather than according to a single preconceived design, informal channels, along with informal conventions and contracts, tend to match interorganization interdependence closely and to facilitate coordination. Relying on such measures reduces the cognitive demands and obviates the necessity for broadscale political agreement typical of coordination by centralized, formal organizations. They also advance other important values that are frequently absent in formally consolidated organizations, such as reliability, flexibility, and the representation of varied interests. Coordination Without Hierarchy is an incisive, penetrating work whose conclusions apply to a wide range of public organizations at all levels of government. It will be of interest to a broad array of social scientists and policymakers. In an earlier version, Coordination Without Hierarchy received the American Political Science Association 1985 Leonard D. White Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration, including broadly related problems of policy formation and administrative theory.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Design in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Author: Mary Kathryn ThompsonPublisher: Mary Kathryn Thompson
ISBN: 0989465810
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description