Energy- and environmentally efficient road management: The case of the Spanish motorway network

Transport is responsible for 41% of CO2 emissions in Spain, and around 65% of that figure is due to road traffic. Tolled motorways are currently managed according to economic criteria: minimizing operational costs and maximizing revenues from tolls. Within this framework, this paper develops a new methodology for managing motorways based on a target of maximum energy efficiency. It includes technological and demand-driven policies, which are applied to two case studies. Various conclusions emerge from this study. One is, that the use of intelligent payment systems is recommended; and another, is that the most sustainable policy would involve defining the most efficient strategy for each motorway section, including the maximum use of its capacity, the toll level which attracts the most vehicles, and the optimum speed limit for each type of vehicle.

The Electoral Verdict and After: The Road Ahead for India. Asia Policy Brief 2014/04, June 2014

The convincing victory of the BJP in the 2014 Indian general elections came as a surprise to many. Most opinion polls, which had predicted a win for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) that it leads, had not anticipated the scale of the party’s victory. The BJP alone won 282 seats and the NDA 336 out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Two things stand out in the verdict. This is the first time in 30 years that a party won a majority on its own; this is also the worst-ever showing by India’s grand old party, the Indian National Congress, which won a mere 44 seats, 70 less than its previous all-time low in 1999.

Putting Up a Big Front: Car Design and Size Affect Road-Crossing Behaviour

Previous research suggests that people tend to see faces in car fronts and that they attribute personality characteristics to car faces. In the present study we investigated whether car design influences pedestrian road-crossing behaviour. An immersive virtual reality environment with a zebra crossing scenario was used to determine a) whether the minimum accepted distance for crossing the street is larger for cars with a dominant appearance than for cars with a friendly appearance and b) whether the speed of dominant-looking cars is overestimated as compared to friendly-looking cars. Participants completed both tasks while either standing on the pavement or on the centre island. We found that people started to cross the road later in front of friendly-looking low-power cars compared to dominant-looking high-power cars, but only if the cars were relatively large in size. For small cars we found no effect of power. The speed of smaller cars was estimated to be higher compared to large cars (size-speed bias). Furthermore, there was an effect of starting position: From the centre island, participants entered the road significantly later (i. e. closer to the approaching car) and left the road later than when starting from the pavement. Similarly, the speed of the cars was estimated significantly lower when standing on the centre island compared to the pavement. To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that car fronts elicit responses on a behavioural level.

Report of the board of directors of the Catalinas Warehouses and Pier Joint Stock Company.

Mode of access: Internet.

Documentos jenerales sobre la "North and South American Construction Company," para el uso del Tribunal Arbitral de Ferrocarriles.

Mode of access: Internet.

General mortgage : Lehigh and New England Railroad Company to guarantee trust and safe deposit company, trustee : $15,000,000 general mortgage gold bonds : dated July 1, 1914, principal due July 1, 1954.

Cover-title.

In re mediation proceedings between division 268 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America and the Cleveland Railway Company. Statement of the Cleveland Railway Company. June, 1918. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, general counsel.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sandusky flora. A catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns growing without cultivation, in Erie county, Ohio, and the peninsula and islands of Ottawa county,

"Published by the Academy of science, May, 1899."

The law of insurance of the state of Ohio : including fire, life, accident, casualty, quaranty, mutual benefit, fraternal and marine insurance, and pleading, practice and evidence relating thereto, as determined by the courts and contained in the statutes ... from the earliest period to date of publication, with full annotations from the decisions of the courts of Ohio and other states /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A treatise on the law arising before justices of the peace and in business transactions : as administered in courts of record in Ohio, and under the Revised Statutes of 1880 : with practical forms /

Includes index.

Western Americana; an extraordinary collection dealing with the local history and march of events in the regions lying within the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and westward to the Pacific Ocean ... to be sold by auction ... December third, fourth, fifth ...

"To be sold by auction Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday evenings, December Third, Fourth, Fifth."

Report to the President by the Emergency Board created August 26, 1948 by Executive order 9991 pursuant to section 10 of the Railway labor act, to investigate a dispute between the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company and certain of its employees represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Pittsburgh, Pa. Sept. 13, 1948. No. 64.

Signed: John W. Yeager, chairman, John T. McCann, Thomas J. Reynolds.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Board of Engineers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, made in the year 1821.

"January 22, 1823. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table."