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The Feasibility of Road Privatization in Los Angeles
Corcos, Sam - 2010
Los Angeles has had the worst traffic for the longest time out of any American city with many of its residents commuting for over an hour to and from work. The solution to this problem has existed for over 50 years but political forces have stopped its implementation. With the funding problems...
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Comparing Alternative Policies to Reduce Traffic Accidents
Parry, Ian W.H. - 2003
This paper derives and implements formulas for the welfare effects of differentiated and uniform mileage taxes, gasoline taxes, and per mile insurance premiums, for reducing the external costs of passenger vehicle accidents. The model distinguishes three driver groups and five vehicle groups,...
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Societal costs of traffic crashes and crime in Michigan: 2011 update
Kostyniuk, LP; Molnar, LJ; St. Louis, RM; Zanier, N; Eby, DW - 2011
Cost estimates, including both monetary and nonmonetary quality-of-life costs specific to Michigan, wereestimated for overall traffic crashes and index crimes by experts in the field of economics of traffic crashesand crimes. These cost estimates were applied to 2009 Michigan traffic crash and...
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Time series count data models: an empirical application to traffic accidents
Quddus, Mohammed A. - 2008
Count data are primarily categorised as cross-sectional, time series, and panel. Over the past decade,Poisson and Negative Binomial (NB) models have been used widely to analyse cross-sectional and timeseries count data, and random effect and fixed effect Poisson and NB models have been used to...
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Modeling crash types: New insights into the effects of covariates on crashes at rural intersections
Kim, Do-Gyeong; Washington, Simon; Oh, Jutaek - 2006
Many studies focused on the development of crash prediction models have resulted in aggregate crash prediction models to quantify the safety effects of geometric, traffic, and environmental factors on the expected number of total, fatal, injury, and/or property damage crashes at specific...
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An unavailability model for errors made during surveillance testing
Bott, T.F. - 2008
attempt to increase its availability. This is often called ``surveillance testing.`` There is a finite probability that tested … the reduction in unavailability gained by a surveillance testing and the increase in unavailability incurred by … surveillance testing errors. In this paper, a mathematical model of the effect of errors made during surveillance testing on …
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Current nuclear industry practices with regard to the integration of surveillances
Stewart, M.; Smith, C. - 2008
Commercial nuclear industry practices regarding the integration of technical specification (TS) surveillance and … scheduling of TS surveillance and maintenance items could be more effectively coordinated. Also, must utilities do not formally … changes to improve the integration of TS surveillance and maintenance activities have been identified for planned future work. …
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Understanding humanitarian information infrastructure: An ethnographic case study of designing public health surveillance systems monitoring sexual violence and exploitation
Dean, Rebecca - 2009
deliveryand humanitarian intervention. A proposed solution to thisproblem is to create a global SVE surveillance system to … infrastructure that these groups currently use.A better understanding of the information infrastructure willinform the design and … increase the chances of success inimplementing a SVE surveillance system.Related studies conducted in information studies by …
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The Emerging Ethics of Humancentric GPS Tracking and Monitoring
Michael, K.; McNamee, A.; Michael, M. G. - 2006
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is increasingly being adopted by private and public enterprise to track and monitor humans for location-based services (LBS). Some of these applications include personal locators for children, the elderly or those suffering from Alzheimer’s or memory loss,...
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A Confidence-based Aberration Interpretation Framework For Outbreak Conciliation
Shamir N Mukhi - University of Manitoba, Public Health Agency of Canada - 2010
Health surveillance can be viewed as an ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data for use in … health surveillance methods and systems that will rapidly identify potential bioterrorism attacks and infectious disease … bioterrorism attack days to weeks earlier than traditional surveillance methods would potentially result in a reduction in …
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