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Understanding temporal rhythms and travel behaviour at destinations: Potential ways to achieve more sustainable travel [PDF]
This paper analyses the roles played by time in destination-based travel behaviour. It contrasts clock time's linear view of time with fragmented time, instantaneous time, fluid time and flow, time out and the multiple temporalities of tourism ...
Norgate, S. +18 more
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Pay-as-you-speed An Economic Field Experiment [PDF]
We report a vehicle-fleet experiment with an economic incentive for keeping within speed limits using a speed-alert device. A traffic insurance scheme was simulated for two months with a monthly bonus that was reduced by a non-linear speeding penalty. Participants were randomly assigned into four treatment and two control groups.
Hultcrantz, Lars, Lindberg, Gunnar
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Benefits of an Abscission Agent in Mechanical Harvesting of Citrus
FE752, a 4-page fact sheet by Fritz Roka, Jackie Burns, Jim Syvertsen, and Robert Ebel, describes research into the use of abscission agents in mechanical harvesting, to extend the harvesting window to later in the season, permit faster harvesting speed,
Fritz Roka +3 more
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Discharge for wastewater treatment plays a key role in improving the water quality, thereby guaranteeing living quality of citizens. With high-speed economics growth and economics reforming, total amount of China's discharge of wastewater treatment is ...
Xiwang Xiang +4 more
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The speed of adjustment and the sequencing of economic reforms
PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to review the issues involved in determining the appropriate speed of adjustment and the sequencing of economic reforms, and to develop a checklist of key guidelines for policymakers as a basis for their decision‐making process.Design/methodology/approachThe paper develops a conceptual framework based on a survey of ...
Saleh M. Nsouli +2 more
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Economics of Qwerty and Fgğıod [PDF]
After summarizing the path dependency concept which began with the article named as “Clio and the Economics of Qwerty” written by Paul David in 1985, I will associate the path dependency with the reasons of why is F keyboard not used widely instead of Q ...
ŞAMA, İbrahim Yaşar; Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Economics, Ankara Turkey
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This aim of this paper is to provide the immune particle swarm optimization (IPSO) algorithm for solving the single-leader–multi-follower game (SLMFG).
Lu-Ping Liu, Wen-Sheng Jia
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High-speed railway, market access and economic growth [PDF]
Abstract This paper establishes a general equilibrium trade model, adopts the “market access” approach to measure the impact of the high-speed railway (HSR) network on the economic growth of 110 main Chinese prefecture-level cities, of which we manually collected the pairwise travel distances and railway speeds to calculate MA (Market Access).
Wei Zou, Chen, Liangheng, Xiong, Junke
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This study aims to analyse the effect of temperature and wind speed on the performance of different types of photovoltaic (PV) systems at a different state in Malaysia and how it affects the economics and environmental impact assessment in the present ...
Tijani Alhassan Salami, Ariffin Salbiah
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