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Offers a sample of the papers presented at the Transport Science and Technology Congress, Athens 2004. Organized into four parts, this book adopts a global perspective with papers from the Americas, Asia and Europe. It aims to demonstrate the developments in merging scientific and technological discoveries to solve transportation problems.

Addresses coastal vulnerability around the world with examples from the Ebro Delta (Spain), the crumbling cliffs of Corton Village/Suffolk (UK), tsunami-worn Phuket (Thailand/Indian Ocean), and others. This work is intended for academics, researchers, students and policy advisors in geography, economics, sociology, and environmental science.

Selected and rev. papers, and summaries of workshop deliberations, from the 7th International Conference on Travel Survey Methods, held Aug. 1-6, 2004, in Herradura, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.

Land Public Transport continues to gain greater attention in transport policy and economics, given its importance in assisting social cohesion and its contribution to reducing congestion and emissions. This book focuses behavioral science perspective on the threats to quality of urban life from car use and policy measures to reduce car use.

Operations Risk--a form of Operational Risk, is becoming increasingly important as more and more sophisticated products and the use of those products occurs in the financial services industry. Outsourcing, including overseas outsourcing, is changing the structure of firms and particularly operations teams. Thus understanding the existing and the changing risk environment in operations functions and its impact on operational risk is centrally i...

Successful projects are the basis for a successful company, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to manage projects successfully. The IChemE Project Management Subject Group has recognized the need to provide resources to deliver these skills, and has developed a series of books to share the latest best practice - engineering essentials.The first title, primarily written from the perspective of engineering projects within the ...

Accounting for Improvement" offers concrete and constructive demonstrations of the possibilities of designing participative forms of organization. Field experiment cases illustrate how the operational level can assume a new significance in competitiveness and strategic positioning. In this way, the relevance of the accounting function to the improvement of productivity and quality is restored. Several broadly applicable lessons can be learnt, ...

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Access prices are important for competition in formerly monopolistic industries, and also for industries where competition has long been established such as payment and credit card networks or mobile telecommunications. Organized into five parts, this book provides theoretical and empirical analyses in access pricing and related topics.

Security Law and Methods" examines suggested security methods designed to diminish or negate the consequence of crime and misconduct, and is an attempt to understand both the legal exposures related to crime and the security methods designed to prevent crime. The clear and concise writing of this groundbreaking work, as well as its insightful analysis of specific cases, explains crime prevention methods in light of legal and security principle...

This book examines sequential coalition formation in oligopolies. Coalitions refer to mergers and acquisitions, cartels, and associations. The principal aim is the prediction and explanation of the coalition structure - whether an industry will emerge as a monopoly, say, or as a collection of sub-coalitions. In environments where decisions to form coalitions are made sequentially, the prediction and explanation of the equilibrium coalition str...

Aims to present analyses of some major developments in work and organisational psychology, with a focus on international business and management. This book deals with such topics as globalization, international business negotiations, cross-cultural communication, entry strategies, doing business in different regions, and future trends.

Urban freight transport has become an essential issue in urban planning. This book is an outcome of the Fourth International Conference on City Logistics (City Logistics IV held in Langkawi in 2005) organised by the Institute for City Logistics. It includes recent developments in the modelling, evaluation and planning of city logistics schemes.

What is transparency? What does it do? How much of it do we need, and for what purpose? This book includes chapters that address transparency in different markets and at different levels: from corporate financial disclosure to lobbying, from the risk incentives facing banks to competition and environmental policies.

Open Source Software (OSS) development presents a contrast to traditional production and innovation methods and an unlikely contestant in the marketplace. The emergence of open source software has fundamentally changed the software business. This book serves as a useful reference for those interested in OSS.

This is the first in a new series of books on the economics of the airline industry. The series is a collection of original, cutting-edge research papers from an international panel of distinguished contributors. Volume 1 will focus on topics related to competition policy and antitrust, such as the economic impact of airline alliances (both international and domestic), predation, and incumbent responses to low cost entry. Part of a "New Series...

This book analyses the viability of unfunded pension systems in the presence of the projected demographic evolution and looks at: efficiency considerations and the possibility of welfare improvements, political economy aspects and the feasibility of reforms, and the process of European integration and its influence on national pension systems.

Presents an understanding of business information in the context of those who seek business information. This book contains information-seeking behavior that includes the underlying information needs that drive one to seek information, and the types of information used to resolve information needs.

After years of study of mainstream tourism in Thailand, brought together in two volumes the author realized the existence of a multiplicity of tourist phenomena and events of considerable interest but as yet unexplored in tourism research. These were conducted in the course of the last four years via a series of case studies of these phenomena. This book brings these studies together, providing them with a unifying theoretical background and d...

Though there are only four basic types of valves, there is an enormous number of different kinds of valves within each category, each one used for a specific purpose. No other book on the market analyzes the use, construction, and selection of valves in such a comprehensive manner as this one.