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Sensibility of a VMT-Based Incremental Analysis for Bridge Cost Allocation

Broadwater, Jarod Everett - 2006

, state, and federal. However, they rarely address the issue of long span bridge allocation properly, simply treating these … unique structures as the typical short span bridge. This methodology can lead to grossly inaccurate results. Consequently …

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Analysis of INDOT Current Hydraulic Policies

Merwade, Venkatesh; Kumar, Sanjiv - 2011

Hydraulic design often tends to be on a conservative side for safety reasons. Hydraulic structures are typically oversized with the goal being reduced future maintenance costs, and to reduce the risk of property owner complaints. This approach leads to a conservative design with higher...

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South Africa's freight transport involvement options in Sub-Saharan Africa : declining infrastructure and regulatory constraints

De Bod, Anneke - 2008

Although global changes like political security, depletion of natural resources,energy supply and global warming are affecting all continents; Africa strugglethe most to cope with these changes. This is due to the many historicalimpediments that Africa still has to overcome. Examples of these...

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The appraisal of transport infrastructure projects in the municipal sphere of government in South Africa, with reference to the city of Tshwane

Schutte, Ignatius Christiaan - 2010

The annual budget cycle in urban road/transport authorities by implication requires transport infrastructure projects to be ranked in terms of their relative value, to enable project selection by starting from the most deserving proposal. This follows from the fact that the total cost of...

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Strategic planning to protect critical infrastructure systems

Withanaarachchi, B; Setunge, S; Bajwa, S - 2010

This paper examines the protection of Critical Infrastructure (CI) within transport networks from vulnerabilities by investigating the impact of disasters such as bushfires, hurricanes and earthquakes. Damage to transport infrastructure creates a cascading effect on other critical infrastructure...

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Modelling spatial economic effects of transport infrastructure policies : a computable general equilibrium approach

Artem Korzhenevych - 2010

The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to suggest and operationalise several important extensions and improvements in the methodology used to evaluate regional economic effects of the large-scale transport infrastructure and pricing policies. The main contributions are divided into the static...

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A Model for Structuring Efficient Consumer Response Measures

Aastrup, Jesper; Kotzab, Herbert; Grant, David B.; … - 2008

performance, behavioural, attitude and capability measures. Two extant studies from Austria and Denmark are examined in the …

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Comparing hospital costs: What is gained by accounting for more than a case-mix index?

Hvenegaard, Anne; Street, Andrew; Sorensen, Torben Hojmark - 2009

We explore what effect controlling for various patient characteristics beyond a case-mix index (DRG) has on inferences drawn about the relative cost performance of hospital departments. We estimate fixed effect cost models in which 3754 patients are clustered within six Danish vascular...

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Mit Sicherheit besser? : Aktivierung und Flexicurity in Dänemark

Bogedan, Claudia - 2005

Labour market policies in Denmark, especially measures for the unemployed, recently received much attention, because of …. Denmark offers a flexible labour market with minimal regulations combined with high social security. This ‘flexicurity’ has …. However, Denmark has been able to embed activation into the tradition of a generous and universal welfare state. The paper …

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