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Management of parkings in a metropolitan area

2011
Outdoor Ambient Assisted Living at a metropolitan area level, requires to develop highly scalable systems that are tolerant with respect to many different types of faults. The software components that are immersed in the environment and that form the fixed infrastructural part of the system, have to be strongly coupled with all the mobile and volatile ...
D. Menegon, FERRARI, CARLO
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Water Management for a Megacity: Mexico City Metropolitan Area

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2003
The paper presents an overview of the present situation of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA). The analysis indicates an urgent need to radically improve the current water supply and wastewater management practices, to become sustainable. The MCMA is one of the most rapidly growing urban centers of the world, with a population of about 21 million
Cecilia, Tortajada, Enrique, Castelán
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Assessment of Dynamic Speed Limit Management on Metropolitan Freeways

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2012
This article evaluates the impacts of dynamic speed limit strategies in metropolitan freeways. An objective function is defined in order to balance the benefits (e.g., reduction of congestion, pollutant emissions and fuel consumption, or increase in traffic safety) and costs (e.g., increase of free flow travel times).
Francesc Soriguera, Josep Maria Torné, Dulce Rosas   +2 more
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MANAGING METROPOLITAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA*

Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 1989
This paper examines selected problems of managing growth in large Asian cities. Managing the national urban system presents difficult problems because of the very high capital costs associated with absorbing population in the very large metropolitan areas. Cost savings from promoting a decentralized settlement pattern are small compared with reductions
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The management of drinking water as a metropolitan fact: : the Cali-Yumbo metropolitan corridor (Colombia)

2022
El artículo resultado de una investigación que toma como caso de estudioel Corredor Cali-Yumbo, como parte del proceso de metropolización de Cali, tiene porobjeto evidenciar la configuración de la gestión del agua potable como hecho metropolitano.Su desarrollo consideró: 1) la interpretación de elementos jurídicos y de las políticasespaciales que ...
Bolaños Trochez, Francy Viviana, Buitrago Bermúdez, Oscar   +1 more
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Research in the School of Information Management, London Metropolitan University

Aslib Proceedings, 2007
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the practical applications of Information and Knowledge Management to society from the academic team at London Metropolitan University through an introduction to the papers in this special issue.Design/methodology/approachA narrative which provides a social context to Information and Knowledge ...
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Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements

European Planning Studies, 2022
Gro Sandkjær Hanssen, Anders Tønnesen
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Metropolitan Water Management

2022
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Metropolitan Cebu: The Challenge of Definition and Management

1998
Metro Cebu is as popular as Metro Manila. As early as 1980’s, Metro Cebu has been referred to as the principal urban settlement of the Central Visayas Region. This paper attempts to present the metrowide challenges faced by Metro Cebu and discusses the issues and options for management structure that deal with these ...
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Metropolitan Water Management

1981
J. Milliken, C. Taylor
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