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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “daniel albalate”
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  • Parking Regulation and Management

    The Emerging Tool for a Sustainable City

    Edited by Daniel Albalate, Albert Gragera ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis
    Containing some of the most recent and original studies on parking regulation and management from different disciplines, this book offers rigorous analysis from top researchers with a clear intention to deliver policy implications and provide information to the public.The book is organized according to a variety of key topics. Among others, it covers the interaction of parking with other modes of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Evaluating High-Speed Rail

    Interdisciplinary perspectives

    Edited by Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis
    High-speed Rail (HSR) is a technological transportation advance that has raised the interest of policy makers and researchers worldwide. The study of High-speed Rail is a recent phenomenon but has received increasing attention due to the extension of this mode of transportation around the globe.Evaluating High-Speed Rail contains some of the most recent and cutting edge studies on HSR from ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Economics and Politics of High-Speed Rail

    Lessons from Experiences Abroad

    by Daniel Albalate, Germa Bel ...
    The technological revolution linked to high speed rail (HSR) has been accompanied by myths and claims about its contribution to society and the economy. Although HSR is unquestionably a technological advance that has become a symbol of modernity, this review and analysis of the international experiences shows that the conditions necessary to have a positive impact, economically, socially and ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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    Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

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    A New York Times bestsellerFor millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know...How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly themStraight talk on turbulence, pilot training ... Read more

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  • Insurance and Behavioral Economics

    Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly, Stacey McMorrow ...
    This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark models of choice derived from classical economic theory. Where actual choices stray from predictions, the behavior is considered to be anomalous. Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Aerotropolis

    The Way We'll Live Next

    by John D. Kasarda, Greg Lindsay ...
    An exploration of near-future urban planning as airports become the center of cities, changing the way we live and conduct business.Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the city in the center, the airport on the periphery—shaped life in the twentieth century, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Blood Ransom

    Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy

    by John Boyle ...
    For the first time in history, the navies of every superpower on the planet have united against a common enemy – a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys. Crammed together in tiny open boats,they range up to a thousand miles from their home shores. Armed with ancient AK47s and rocket propelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. No-one knows how many simply die at sea. But ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Managing New Product and Process Development

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    by Steven C. Wheelwright ...
    Argues that a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of products to market more quickly than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition. The authors present principles for developing speed and efficiency. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Designing for Human Reliability

    Human Factors Engineering in the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries

    by Ronald W. McLeod ...
    Industry underestimates the extent to which behaviour at work is influenced by the design of the working environment. Designing for Human Reliability argues that greater awareness of the contribution of design to human error can significantly enhance HSE performance and improve return on investment. Illustrated with many examples, Designing for Human Reliability explores why work systems are ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The End of Prosperity

    How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen

    by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous ...
    Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the world if the pro-growth policies ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Patent Policy

    Legal-Economic Effects in a National and International Framework

    by Pia Weiss ...
    Series series The Economics of Legal Relationships
    Intellectual property rights have become increasingly important for our modern economies in recent years. Although the entire patent system has a profound effect on the decision of firms of whether to conduct research and at which volume, patent law is the heart of the entire patent system. Therefore, this book focuses on the economic effects of certain provisions in patent law by using economic ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Competitiveness Matters

    Industry and Economic Performance in the U.S.

    Edited by Candace Howes, Ajit Singh ...
    This book argues, against the current view, that competitiveness--that is, the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector--matters to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and particularly to its long-term capacity to raise the standard of living of its citizens. The book challenges the arguments popularized most recently by Paul Krugman thatcompetitiveness is a dangerous obsession that ... Read more

    $53.99 USD