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Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS: Making the Business Case for ITS Investments (Transportation,Research,Economics and Policy, 10)
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The 17 chapters in this book, which evolved from a conference on measuring the contributions of ITS sponsored by the California Department of Transportation in February 2002, examine the costs and benefits of ITS in an economic and business policy context.
Section 1 examines the broad theme of how and what ITS contributes to the economy and how one makes a business case for ITS. Section 2 includes three chapters on ITS applications in mass transit. Section 3 explores ITS applications in the automobile/highway system. Section 4 considers integrative issues including how ITS is perceived and how it can be positioned to improve surface transportation.
This volume will be especially useful to researchers and policy makers working in transportation, transportation engineering, and the economic analysis of transportation systems.
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Table of Contents.......2005-11-02
This book is about evaluations of Intelligent Transportation Systems. The Table of Contents is below.
1. Assessing the Investment in ITS: An Introduction - David Gillen and David Levinson
Part I: ITS and Transportation Services in the Economy
2. Public-Private Partnering: ITS in Highway Investment - David Lewis
3. Benefit measures, values, and future impacts if ITS - Dan Brand
4. Making the Case for ITS Investment - Douglass Lee
Part II: Intelligent Transit
5. Bus Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Systems - Mark Hickman
6. Case Study: The Impact of Advanced Technology on a Small City Bus System - Edward Sullivan and Jeffrey Gerfen
7. Beyond Benefits and Costs: Understanding Outcomes of ITS Deployments in Public Transit - Genevieve Giuliano, Thomas O'Brien
Part III: Intelligent Highways
8. Traffic Signal Control Systems - Alex Skabardonis
9. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ramp Meters: Evidence from the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut-off - Lei Zhang and David Levinson
10. Electronic Toll Collection and Variable Pricing - Mark Burris
11. Freeway Service Patrols: A Stated Preference Analysis of Insurance Values - Pavithra Parthasarathi, David Levinson, and David Gillen
12. Advanced Traveler Information Systems: Relationships to Traveler Behavior - Asad Khattak , Felipe Targa, Youngbin Yim
13. Travel Time Reliability : Using Real-time Loop Detector Data to Estimate Mixed Logit Route Choice - Henry Liu, Will Recker and Anthony Chen
Part IV: Integrating ITS into Transportation Practice
14. Traffic Management Systems - Wei Chen and David Levinson
15. Advanced Traffic Management System Data - Robert Bertini
16. ITS in Europe: An Economic Evaluation - Reinaldo Garcia
17. Mainstreaming Intelligent Transportation Systems: Findings from a Survey of California's Leaders - Elizabeth Deakin
18. Information Systems to Improve Surface Transportation: Directions for Intelligent Transportation Systems Assessment and Development - Tom Horan
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Organizing Reflection
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Reflections on Inside/Out Organizing.: An article from: Social Justice
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Title: Reflections on Inside/Out Organizing.
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Improving Cattle by the Millions: Naab and the Development and Worldwide Application of Artificial Insemination
Harry August Herman
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ASIN: 0826203205 |
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Master tutor, Eileen Shapiro, reveals the secrets of her 28 years of success: how to tutor everyone from preschoolers through college and adults, how to set-up and promote a part-time or full-time professional tutoring business, and how to tutor your children at home.
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A useful book, but only for absolute newcomers to the field of education.......2007-10-10
Based on the tone of this book and the anecdotes it contains, Mrs. Shapiro, the author, seems like an excellent teacher and tutor. However, because I am not new to the field of education, this book was not useful for me. If you have never taught students before, and you need the information and motivation to start your own tutoring business, then by all means, buy this book! If you're already a teacher or a tutor, then you just don't need this book, unless you have trouble exercising common sense in either the business aspect or the educational aspect of tutoring.
The message the book conveys is certainly positive: that we tutors must always believe that our students can succeed. But this concept is much too rudimentary for teachers and tutors who are already involved in students' successes. It's true what the other reviewers have said; most of the book is anecdotes about how Mrs. Shapiro has helped students through tutoring. Her formulaic approach grew tiresome: "Sandy Sue was X years old. She really needed help with Y and Z. I helped her. Her life got better. Hooray!"
A few problems plague the book. Strangely, though the book was copyrighted in 2001, in the chapters about advertising and communicating with parents, there is no mention of the Internet or e-mail. The resources that the author provides in the appendices are embarrassingly basic. And while no book is edited to perfection, this book contained many strange errors in hyphenation, and two entire chapters are inserted twice, giving the book a thickness that belies its superficiality.
Finally, if you're going to purchase this book because you've never taught children before, and you want to start your own tutoring business, then I beg you, for the sake of your students, to read a whole lot more than just this book before you start. For example, after reading Chapter 3, "The `Can't-Read' Kids," PLEASE read both of the following books before you actually start tutoring kids in reading: Jerry L. Johns' "Basic Reading Inventory" and Kylene Beers' "When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do." These two books will give you a much deeper understanding of how you can identify and cure students' problems with reading.
Reviewers who don't read!.......2006-11-28
It's fascinating how many reviewers bash the author saying she's not a teacher. Didn't they read "about the author" or the acknowledgements? She was definitely a teacher. If reviewers want to write about the author, they should research first or just read the aforementioned articles! Sandy
Best viewed as an intro to meatier resources.......2005-12-29
I've been a professional tutor for the last two years and involved in for-profit education in some way since 2001. Now that I've gained some tutoring skills, I'm thinking about starting my own firm, and I picked this book up looking for strategies about how to start a tutoring business. This author clearly loves what she's doing. Her compassion for her students is admirable. She sees tutoring as an accessible profession that everybody does to some extent, and she feels that others can follow her model closely and become tutors.
Like other reviewers, I was disappointed that she spent at most 1/3 of the book talking about the business side of tutoring. Perhaps she doesn't want to fully train someone to compete with her. She briefly mentions things like "Doing Business As" announcements in the final third of the book. She helpfully shares what marketing strategies have worked for her, and she gives several helpful anecdotes about what working with parents and students. I really wish that she had expanded this section because the practical advice she has to share is what separates this book from many other offerings on the market.
How you find the other 2/3 of the book will depend on what kind of tutoring you wish to attack. Probably the best thing here is that so many types of tutoring is addressed. She describes young kids, properly labeled Learning Disabled kids, falsely labeled Learning Disabled kids, adult learners, exam prep students, and other relevant case studies. Yet she doesn't really go into great depth on any of these issues. I tutor SAT, and I did not learn a great deal about teaching students from this book. Sadly, she doesn't go into great depth on ACT or graduate exam tutoring. On the other hand, I've always thought working with middle school and elementary school students would be tough for me and this book exposes me to the attitudes that have made her a successful tutor.
My suspicion is that this author is trying to vault into educational consulting from the tutoring ranks. It's a fine line. How do I share enough info to be classified as an expert without sharing so much that I train someone to compete with me? For the most part, strong tutors will gain from a quick skim and then find other resources in either the small business field or the educational literature that are more helpful. Still I believe that this is a helpful book that is worth picking up used or from a library as part of the background research for finding whether you have a calling for tutoring.
3 stars
--SD
postscript: I see that some reviewers are concerned that she bashes teachers. She is a little hard on teachers, but this is somewhat understandable. I don't think that she was a teacher before she started tutoring [unlike myself and most tutors]. Consequently, she hears mostly from students who have poor teachers and need tutoring. Most students from excellent classes with strong teachers will have their needs met in the classroom and are less likely to cross the author's path.
Useful Information Overshadowed By Author's Poor Attitude.......2005-10-27
Shapiro provides much valuable information near the 2nd part of her book as to the practical specifics of starting a tutoring business. However, I find the benefit of this information to be overshadowed by her nasty, anti-teacher attitude. Her comments and tone suggest that teachers are lazy, selfish, and unwilling to help their students outside of the confines of the daily class period. As a former teacher, I am totally offended; that is simply a huge generalization to make about an entire profession. Every profession has its losers, but teaching has no more than any other vocation.
This poor attitude, in addition to the author's cocky tone, seriously compromised the value of this book. Tutoring is one of the easiest businesses to launch; take the $12.89 this book costs and instead put it toward your classified ad.
Good book but too hard on teachers.......2005-10-19
I am a middle school science teacher starting to tutor after school. I looked at many books and this is the overall best book on the subject of tutoring. It gives good tips on teaching students from primary grades to college student. I also liked the section on the business of tutoring including types of advertising.
My biggest complaint with the book is the blatent dislike of teachers. Mrs. Shapiro has numerous examples of teachers treating students and other tutors with callousness and disrespect. My personal experience with other teachers in how we deal with students is not like that at all.
I do recomend the book, just try to remember all teachers are not as nasty as the author portrays us.
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China Deconstructs: Politics, Trade and Regionalism (Routledge in Asia Series)
David Goodman
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China has experienced the world's fastest economic growth for over a decade. It is likely that within a generation, China will have the world's largest economy. Yet, at the moment when China looks set to regain its former power, serious questions have to be asked about the continuing integrity of China. The challenges posed by economic reform, succession politics, and new forces of political liberalism are compounded by boundary uncertainties, as China adopts a strategy of greater interdependence with the regional and global economy.
The writers of this book analyse the factors that might lead to and that might prevent the break-up of China. They provide key data about economic activity and external connections of the major regional forces. Their analysis provides essential reading for those concerned with the prospects for China, and the future stability of East Asia.
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Title: China Deconstructs: Politics, Trade and Regionalism.
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Date: December 22, 1996
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Integrated Distribution Management shows how to satisfy customer expectations through distribution and improve the manufacturing process.
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Trade and Investment Relations among the United States, Canada, and Japan (Papers, 1987)
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The economic futures of the United States, Canada, and Japan are tightly linked by the extremely powerful trade network these nations share. Yet because of trade and domestic policies aimed at preserving economic and, some argue, cultural integrity, there has at times been considerable friction among the three nations. Much of the recent trade animus of the U.S. has been aimed Japan, the country with the largest trade surplus with the United States. Canada, the largest trade partner of the U.S., maintains fiscal policies which resemble those of Japan, but has not been the focus of similar concern. Since the actions of each nation reverberate throughout the network, a full and accurate understanding of these complex relations will be essential if ongoing trade negotiations, policymaking, and international relations are to be constructive.
The papers in this volume were developed from a conference that addressed the need to discover which structural determinants and policies shape the close economic ties among these nations. Leading experts on trade and macroeconomics from all three countries examine disproportionate saving rates, exchange rate volatility, varying industrial policies and levels of financial innovation, the effects of present tax policies and proposed reforms, and the dynamism of major Pacific nations and the leadership role Japan may play in U.S. relations with that region. Several important conclusions are reached by the contributors. They assert that Japan's trade barriers are relatively low overall and are comparable to those maintained by the United States and Canada, and that divergent fiscal policies have been the major source of macroeconomic imbalances between the United States and other major countries in the 1980s. They also conclude that current trade imbalances may persist for some time. The analyses offered here are likely to prove influential in future policymaking and will be of interest to a wide audience, including academic economists, government officials, and students of theoretical and policy issues of international trade, investment, and finance.
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Post Lomé WTO-Compatible Trading Arrangements: Economic Paper 45 (Economic Paper Series)
Christopher Stevens , and
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This report aims to stimulate a debate on the future of EU trade policy. It has been written against a background of continuing uncertainty over a WTO waiver for the EU-ACP Cotonou Convention that would continue liberal access to the European market for ACP exports until 2007. While it may influence the resolution of this issue, the immediate short-term objective of the report is to help the ACP prepare for the start of negotiations on a post-Cotonou agreement (scheduled to begin in 2002 for completion by 2007); and in particular to set the agenda by seizing the intellectual high ground in the way that the European Commission was able to do during the final years of Lomé IV through the publication of its Green Paper.
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Iran Business Law Handbook
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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking. (Updated annually)
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Iran Export Import and Business Directory (World Business Law Handbook Library)
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Iran Foreign Policy & Government Guide (World Business Law Handbook Library)
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