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Public Health in Transition

Scientific American, 2005
Looks at public health in developing countries as of September 1, 2005. Details of demographic, economic, and epidemiological changes occurring in developing countries; Impact of improved medical care, including access to vaccines and medication, on public health; Impact of chronic diseases on world health; View that public health issues in developing ...
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Public transit planning system

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1968
Abstract This paper describes a system of computer programs specifically developed to assist in the long-range planning of urban mass transit. These programs provide a flexible and efficient means of forecasting ridership on each line of a proposed multimode transportation system serving a given land use configuration.
Robert B. Dial, Richard E. Bunyan
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Public Transit Risk Management: A Handbook for Public Transit Executives

1978
Transit is seen by insurers as a risk with high loss potential. Since people are transported in large numbers, a single accident may yield many claims. One solution to this insurance situation that has been employed by transit system operators is to assume some of the risk of potential loss themselves. The handbook introduces risk management to transit
Ryland, V.W.   +1 more
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Public Transit Service Contracting

1986
This report summarizes research completed to date on a major study of public transportation service contracting. Contracting with private providers for the delivery of transit services has been increasingly advocated as a means of improving the cost-effectiveness of public transit.
Teal, Roger   +5 more
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Free Public Transit

Monthly Review, 2019
Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators, edited by Judith Dellheim and Jason Prince, gives readers a distinctive blend of the visionary and the practical. It surprises us with rarely publicized instances in which quite sweeping societal transformations have been carried out.
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Public Transit

2004
Abstract It was a shock to return to the United States in 1990, where it routinely took an act of God to hail a taxi. There was nothing religious about New York City, even on Christmas Eve. I had taken a cab from midtown to Riverside Church on the west side of Manhattan only to find that my information about a Christmas Eve service there
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Public Servants in Transition?

1996
Roger Depre, Annie Hondeghem and Jean-Luc Bodiguel In this concluding chapter we offer some general observations about new public managers in Europe. This will contribute to the on-going debate about the major changes taking place in public administrative systems around the world and particularly the NPM which most OECD countries are embracing.
Roger Depré   +2 more
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Public Transit Catchment Areas

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2014
The coordination of bicycle and transit modes has received close attention from public transit planners and researchers in recent years as transit agencies around the world have installed bicycle racks on transit vehicles, implemented bicycles-on-trains policies, and made other efforts to facilitate bicycle-transit integration.
Flamm, Bradley J.   +1 more
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