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Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most
extensive examination to date of the relationship between
congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run. This study
breaks new ground in the economic theory of optimal road capacity
by including theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and
simulation experiments that all pertain to the general topic
reflected in the title. The book is organized into four sections:
1) highway traffic flow; 2) commuter choice of tollways versus
freeways; 3) congestion pricing in the short run; and 4) road
capacity and pricing in the long run. In particular, the first
section on highway traffic flow examines the chief models and
empirical studies of vehicular flow on urban highways. The second
section of the book is a theoretical and empirical examination of
the choice that commuters make between urban tollways and freeways.
The third section is devoted to congestion pricing in the short
run, the time period in which the urban highway facilities are
taken as given. This section is the most important part of the book
from the standpoint of public policy. The fourth and last section
of the book considers road capacity and pricing in the long run,
with the concluding chapter gathering the authors' main results in
one place and making recommendations both for current policy and
for future research.
Once considered merely `selfish' or `parasitic' DNA, transposable
elements are today recognized as being of major biological
significance. Not only are these elements a major source of
mutation, they have contributed both directly and indirectly to the
evolution of genome structure and function. On October 8-10, 1999,
100 molecular biologists and evolutionists representing 11
countries met on the campus of The University of Georgia in Athens
for the inaugural Georgia Genetics Symposium. The topics of
presentations ranged from how the elements themselves have evolved
to the impact transposable elements have had on the evolution of
their host genomes. The papers in this volume therefore represent
state-of-the-art thinking, by leading world experts in the field,
on the evolutionary significance of transposable elements.
Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most
extensive examination to date of the relationship between
congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run. This study
breaks new ground in the economic theory of optimal road capacity
by including theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and
simulation experiments that all pertain to the general topic
reflected in the title. The book is organized into four sections:
1) highway traffic flow; 2) commuter choice of tollways versus
freeways; 3) congestion pricing in the short run; and 4) road
capacity and pricing in the long run. In particular, the first
section on highway traffic flow examines the chief models and
empirical studies of vehicular flow on urban highways. The second
section of the book is a theoretical and empirical examination of
the choice that commuters make between urban tollways and freeways.
The third section is devoted to congestion pricing in the short
run, the time period in which the urban highway facilities are
taken as given. This section is the most important part of the book
from the standpoint of public policy. The fourth and last section
of the book considers road capacity and pricing in the long run,
with the concluding chapter gathering the authors' main results in
one place and making recommendations both for current policy and
for future research.
This Second Edition arms real estate professionals with a
comprehensive approach to the economic factors that both define and
affect modern urban areas. The text considers the economics of
cities as a whole, instead of separating them. Emphasis is placed
on economic theory and empirical studies that are based in economic
theory. The book also explores the policy lessons that can be drawn
from the use of economics to understand urban areas. Real estate
professionals will find new coverage of urban areas around the
world to provide a global perspective.
An exemplary WW2 history giving a description of the Southern
Rhodesian contribution to the Allied cause in WWII. A great many
white Southern Rhodesians served overseas with non-Rhodesian units
- The Royal Air Force, King's African Rifles, Royal West African
Frontier Force, Royal Artillery, 6th South African Armoured
Division, etc.- so the author is obliged to bounce around the world
while trying to cover their diverse services in the various
theatres of war. Despite the scale of his work, he succeeds in
keeping track of them, and at the same time, mentioning many by
name (thus making the Index a valuable aid to the researcher). He
also covers in good detail the work done by the Colony's own
integral units 4th Rhodesian anti-tank Bty RA, 17th Rhodesia Field
Bty RA, Rhodesian African Rifles, etc. This scarce (in its original
printing) history concludes with an Index for both volumes. Apps:
Roll of Honour (Europeans and Africans, arranged alphabetically,
showing their surnames and initials, various statistics for numbers
of men who served casualties, and awards.
An exemplary WW2 history giving a description of the Southern
Rhodesian contribution to the Allied cause in WWII. A great many
white Southern Rhodesians served overseas with non-Rhodesian units
- The Royal Air Force, King's African Rifles, Royal West African
Frontier Force, Royal Artillery, 6th South African Armoured
Division, etc.- so the author is obliged to bounce around the world
while trying to cover their diverse services in the various
theatres of war. Despite the scale of his work, he succeeds in
keeping track of them, and at the same time, mentioning many by
name (thus making the Index a valuable aid to the researcher). He
also covers in good detail the work done by the Colony's own
integral units 4th Rhodesian anti-tank Bty RA, 17th Rhodesia Field
Bty RA, Rhodesian African Rifles, etc. This scarce (in its original
printing) history concludes with an Index for both volumes. Apps:
Roll of Honour (Europeans and Africans, arranged alphabetically,
showing their surnames and initials, various statistics for numbers
of men who served casualties, and awards.
This book gives an account of certain observed irregularities on
the rotation of the Earth, both in its rate of rotation (giving a
variable length of day) and in the position of its axis. These
irregularities are caused by events on and within the Earth and
provide a means of studying a number of geophysical problems.
Seasonal shifts in air masses and variable winds are causes of
short-period fluctuations in the rotation. Climatic changes and
their attendant sea levels are in part responsible for long-term
fluctuations. Modern observations of the Moon and descriptions of
ancient elipses both establish a secular increase in the length of
day. The interpretation involves atmospheric, oceanic and bodily
tides. The book provides a unified treatment of the rotation of the
Earth, making this method of studying geophysical phenomena more
readily accessible to geophysicists and others.
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