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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Transportation
ISBN : NWU:35556023528698
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : NWU:35556031875925
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756721865
As stewards of America's transportation system, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation (USDoT) remains vigilant in the face of change and visionary in preparing for the future. This document takes USDoT's planning to a new level, showing how USDoT is poised to lead the transportation enterprise as it improves safety, expands mobility, supports economic growth and trade, protects our environment, and supports America's national security interests. Chapters: visions past and future; growth, deregulation, and intermodalism; safety; globalization; people, energy, and the environment; technology; and national security. Glossary. Charts, maps and tables.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : MINN:31951D01961536A
Author : Ranajoy Ray Chaudhuri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137361219
With almost 6,300 commercial banks, significantly more than in any other country, the world of US banking is unique, fascinating, and always in flux. Two principal pieces of legislation have shaped the banking structure in this country: The McFadden Act of 1927, which prohibited banks from branching into other states, and The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which separated commercial and investment banking activities. The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 was one of the main contributing factors behind the global financial crisis of 2008. This measure resulted in the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which once again prohibited commercial banks from making certain types of speculative investments. The Changing Face of American Banking analyzes the impact of both these acts - as well as that of their subsequent repeal - in depth, examining the real effects of government regulations on the US commercial banking sector. Ray Chaudhuri pinpoints the evolving nature of US commercial banks and banking regulations and explores their impact on the economy. Instead of just focusing on banks and regulations, this work considers the correlations and causality between banking performance and economic growth and productivity. It also brings the banking literature up to date with the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its aftermath, including the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and its effect on American banking.
Author : Peter C. Jones
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Landscape photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000147947
Tells the story of how the American landscape has evolved, as seen through the eyes of the country's greatest photographers. Includes photography by Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Weston, Paul Strand and others.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Disability in America
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309104722
The future of disability in America will depend on how well the U.S. prepares for and manages the demographic, fiscal, and technological developments that will unfold during the next two to three decades. Building upon two prior studies from the Institute of Medicine (the 1991 Institute of Medicine's report Disability in America and the 1997 report Enabling America), The Future of Disability in America examines both progress and concerns about continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. This book offers a comprehensive look at a wide range of issues, including the prevalence of disability across the lifespan; disability trends the role of assistive technology; barriers posed by health care and other facilities with inaccessible buildings, equipment, and information formats; the needs of young people moving from pediatric to adult health care and of adults experiencing premature aging and secondary health problems; selected issues in health care financing (e.g., risk adjusting payments to health plans, coverage of assistive technology); and the organizing and financing of disability-related research. The Future of Disability in America is an assessment of both principles and scientific evidence for disability policies and services. This book's recommendations propose steps to eliminate barriers and strengthen the evidence base for future public and private actions to reduce the impact of disability on individuals, families, and society.
Author : Randall Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317457701
An original work on American cities and the ongoing "urban crisis". Using the metaphor of the socially constructed organization of space, Bartlett takes a broad view of the evolution of urban America, from its historical roots to the present; he then examines the way in which current policies have responded to, and affected the organization of space (covering housing, transportation, government and other urban problems). He concludes with a look to the future of American cities, how they will impact and be impacted on by changing commercial and labor markets, by the problems of poverty and cultural change. In an epilogue, he explores possible ways to overcome the "social dilemmas", while recognizing the difficulty of this undertaking. A thoroughly unique perspective to the study of cities, this book is about how space is used in America and how it changes as the "logic of location" evolves historically. Starting with the assumption that cities are fundamentally unnatural" phenomena, it unravels the interactions of technological advances that have made them possible and policies that have given them shape.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Rural development
ISBN : UOM:39015047910230
Author : Matthew Heins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317282365
This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and “globalized,” since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the existing transportation infrastructures of shipping, trucking and railroads. In this way it binds them together into a nearly seamless worldwide logistics network. This process occurs not only in ocean shipping and at ports, but also deep within national territories. In its dependence on existing infrastructural systems, though, the network of container movement as it pervades domestic space is shaped by the history and geography of the nation-state. This global network is not invariably imposed in a top-down manner—to a large degree, it is cobbled together out of national, regional and local systems. Heins describes this in the American context, examining the freight transportation infrastructures of railroads, trucking and inland waterways, and also the terminals where containers are transferred between train and truck. The book provides a detailed historical narrative, and is also theoretically informed by the contemporary literature on infrastructure and globalization.
Author : Angie Schmitt
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642830835
The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.
Author : Michael Pettus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313094163
We live in a chaotic world. Some of the chaos results from poor decision-making (e.g., Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom). Yet other aspects of chaos (war, terrorist attacks, etc.) are beyond a firm's control. This book demonstrates that firm growth is more dependent on how a firm develops its resource base over time. Examining actual firm growth in several industries, with a focus on trucking, the airline industry, and the North American railroad industry, Pettus shows that a specific resource sequencing leads to higher firm growth than other sequencing patterns. This sequencing pattern is similar across transportation industries, and the pattern may be applicable to other industries. Decisions that firms make with respect to how resources are developed must balance the need for growth in the current time period with the need for growth over the long term. Firms can build sustainable growth by developing resources in a specific sequence; in essence, firms have control over their growth, even when confronted with ever-changing environmental conditions.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B5183008
Author : Tom Lewis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467837
In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis charts the development of the Interstate system, including the demographic and economic pressures that influenced its planning and construction and the disputes that pitted individuals and local communities against engineers and federal administrators. This is a story of America's hopes for its future life and the realities of its present condition. It is an engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape-and the daily lives of Americans. In this updated edition of Divided Highways, Lewis brings his story of the Interstate system up to date, concluding with Boston's troubled and yet triumphant Big Dig project, the growing antipathy for big federal infrastructure projects, and the uncertain economics of highway projects both present and future.
Author : Norman Cousins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112000067360