Management of Public Road Transport System in Trivandrum City

An efficient passenger road transport system is a boon to any city and an inefficient one its bane. Passenger bus transport operation involves various aspects like passenger convenience, profitability of operation and social, technological and environmental factors. The author’s interest in this area was aroused when he conducted a traffic survey of Trivandrum City in 1979. While some studies on the performance of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation in specific areas like finance, inventory control etc. have already been made, no study has been made from the operational point of view. The study is also the first one of its kind in dealing with the transportation problems for a second order city like Trivandrum. The objective of this research study is to develop a scientific basis for analysing and understanding the various operational aspects of urban bus transport management like assessing travel demand, depot location, fleet allocation, vehicle scheduling, maintenance etc. The operation of public road transportation in Trivandrum City is analysed on the basis of this theoretical background. The studies made have relevance to any medium sized city in India or even abroad. If not properly managed, deterioration of any public utility system is a natural process and it adversely affects the consumers, the economy and the nation. Making any system more efficient requires careful analysis, judicious decision making and proper implementation. It is hoped that this study will throw some light into the various operational aspects of urban passenger road transport management which can be of some help to make it perform more efficiently

Distributed Smart City Services for Urban Ecosystems

A Smart City is a high-performance urban context, where citizens live independently and are more aware of the surrounding opportunities, thanks to forward-looking development of economy politics, governance, mobility and environment. ICT infrastructures play a key-role in this new research field being also a mean for society to allow new ideas to prosper and new, more efficient approaches to be developed. The aim of this work is to research and develop novel solutions, here called smart services, in order to solve several upcoming problems and known issues in urban areas and more in general in the modern society context. A specific focus is posed on smart governance and on privacy issues which have been arisen in the cellular age.

Iowa City: Apartment & Condominium Recycling, January 30, 2015

The city of Iowa city is continually working to improve the community's recycling services and options. The city services about 15,000 households, single family home and multifamily homes with four units or fewer with curbside pick ups of refuse, dual-stream recycling and yard waste as well as electronics and bulky waste by appointment.

Contemporary issues in the government and administration of Latin American megacities

This paper is the first to systematically analyze and compare the structures of city governance and administration for seven major cities in Latin America, four of which are megacities (population of over 10 million), and three others are large national capitals. U.S. and U. K. models of city administration are reviewed as baseline models against which differences in Latin American may be explored. Structures of Government in Latin America show several important features and trends: 1) the lack of metropolitan (cross jurisdictional) authority; 2) the existence of strong mayors and weak councils"; 3) high levels of partisanship; 4) overlapping rather than interlocking bureaucracies; 5) pressures towards the privatization of city services, but continuing tension over the desirability of public versus private control; 6) greater fiscal responsibility and autonomy; and 7), a continuing marginalization of public participation in megacity governance.In spite of these features, many cities throughout the region (regardless of whether they are megacity size or national capitals), are actively intensifying their efforts to develop more effective, accountable and democratic governance structures.

El lloc de les famílies a l'escola: estratègies cap a la inclusió

Aquest treball té com a objectiu aprofundir en la relació que s’estableix entre escola i família i els elements que configuren aquesta, així com les estratègies implicades per tal que aquesta es doni de la manera adequada; als Serveis Educatius Municipals 0-6 de la ciutat de Pistoia. D’aquesta manera, juntament amb bases teòriques que ens contextualitzen i ens expliquen com funciona aquest aspecte dins del marc educatiu dels Serveis de la ciutat, trobem un anàlisi aprofundit d’aquesta relació en el dia a dia en dos d’aquests serveis, concretament un l’Asilo Nido i una Scuola dell’Infanzia.

L'eau à Mexico : problème de gouvernance ou de gouvernabilité ? = El agua en la metropole de México : un problema de gobernanza o de gobernabilidad ?

Thèse numérisée par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Book Review of Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods by Robert A. YoungBook Review of Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods by Robert A. Young

Water has been and will continue to be a contentious issue for policy makers, landowners, municipalities, environmentalists, and citizens who feels they have an undeniable right to clean water delivered to their homes (at least in the United States). With so many groups coming into conflict over what, at least in the West and the Great Plains, continues to be a diminishing resource per capita, an understanding of the economic value of this resource is critical. It is important to note, as Robert Young does throughout his book, that the true economic value of water goes beyond what we pay our city services each month, or the cost to farmers or ranchers for pumping and distributing that water on their land. The value of water must take into account the value of the competing uses which are sometimes difficult to price.

Sensoriamento automático e participativo em cidades.

As cidades estão a seu tempo e a seu modo, modernizando os serviços prestados à população. Entre os diversos fatores que estão contribuindo para esta evolução estão a diversificação e proliferação de sensores, nos diversos domínios de serviços das cidades, e os novos canais de comunicação com os munícipes, entre eles, as redes sociais e mais recentemente os sistemas crowdsensing, motivados pelos anseios sociais, por melhores serviços públicos e pela popularização dos dispositivos móveis. Nesta direção, a eficiência administrativa é um fator essencial, uma vez que as cidades estão se mostrando mais complexas na medida em que cresce a população nas áreas urbanas. A utilização de técnicas de sistemas distribuídos para que múltiplos domínios de serviços usufruam da mesma infraestrutura computacional, pode auxiliar na eficiência das cidades, evitando gastos administrativos duplicados e até mesmo, possibilitando a correlação de eventos entre os serviços, favorecendo a identificação de fatores de causalidades e assim, a tomada de decisões administrativas mais objetivas e precisas. Neste contexto, este trabalho concentra-se na análise de um middleware direcionado à gestão de cidades para coleta, integração e interpretação dos dados de sensores, pertencentes aos serviços disponíveis da própria cidade, junto com os dados do sensoriamento colaborado pelos cidadãos. Para avaliação do conceito foi investigado o cenário de monitoração da conservação de vias públicas. Após 3 meses de coletas de dados por um sistema de sensoriamento automático, totalizando mais de 360 mil pontos e também mais de 90 relatórios pelo sensoriamento participativo, verificou-se que um sistema distribuído pode realizar a interpretação de séries históricas, engajar os munícipes apoiar a manutenção dos serviços da cidade e também indicar objetivamente aos gestores públicos os pontos que devem ser prioritariamente atendidos. Aliar ferramentas pelas quais o cidadão pode, de acordo com sua necessidade, convicção e altruísmo, exercer influência nos gestores públicos com o suporte de informação contínua e critérios objetivos das redes de sensores, pode estimular a continua excelência dos serviços públicos.

Monitoring and Prevention the Smart Cities

Nowadays, the intensive use of Technology Information (TI) provide solutions to problems of the high population density, energy conservation and cities management. This produces a newest concept of the city, Smart City. But the inclusion of TI in the city brings associated new problems, specifically the generation of electromagnetic fields from the available and new technological infrastructures installed in the city that did not exist before. This new scenario produces a negative effect on a particular group of the society, as are the group of persons with electromagnetic hypersensitivity pathology. In this work we propose a system that would allow you to detect and prevent the continuous exposure to such electromagnetic fields, without the need to include more devices or infrastructure which would only worsen these effects. Through the use of the architecture itself and Smart City services, it is possible to infer the necessary knowledge to know the situation of the EMF radiation and thus allow users to avoid the areas of greatest conflict. This knowledge, not only allows us to get EMF current map of the city, but also allows you to generate predictions and detect future risk situations.

Direct medical costs associated with schizophrenia relapses in health care services in the city of São Paulo

OBJECTIVE: To assess direct medical costs associated with schizophrenia relapses in mental health services. METHODS: The study was conducted in three health facilities in the city of São Paulo: a public state hospital; a Brazilian National Health System (SUS)-contracted hospital; and a community mental health center. Medical records of 90 patients with schizophrenia who received care in 2006 were reviewed. Information on inpatient expenditures was collected and used for cost estimates. RESULTS: Mean direct medical cost of schizophrenia relapses per patient was US$ 4,083.50 (R$ 8,167.58) in the public state hospital; US$ 2,302.76 (R$ 4,605.46) in the community mental health center; and US$ 1,198.50 (R$ 2,397.74) in the SUS-affiliated hospital. The main component was daily inpatient room rates (87% - 98%). Medication costs varied depending on the use of typical or atypical antipsychotic drugs. Atypical antipsychotic drugs were more often used in the community mental health center. CONCLUSIONS: Costs associated with schizophrenia relapses support investments in antipsychotic drugs and strategies to reduce disease relapse and the need for mental health inpatient services. Treating patients in a community mental health center was associated with medium costs and added the benefit of not depriving these patients from family life.

The role of location in knowledge creation and diffusion: evidence of centripetal and centrifugal forces in the City of London financial services agglomeration

In this paper we report on a major empirical study of centripetal and centrifugal forces in the City of London financial services agglomeration. The study sheds light on (1) the manner and magnitude of firm interaction in the agglomeration; (2) the characteristics of the agglomeration that aid the competitiveness of incumbent firms; and (3) the problems associated with agglomeration. In addressing these issues, we use the data to (1) test emerging theory that explains the high productivity and innovation of agglomerations in terms of their ability to generate and diffuse knowledge; and (2) evaluate the ‘end of geography’ thesis.

Sale of Carson City silver dollars by the General Services Administration : hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, August 19, 1980.

Mode of access: Internet.

A report on recreation and parks services in the city of Paris Illinois /

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A citizen appraisal of community services for the prevention and control of delinquency in the City of Madison, Wisconsin,

Bibliography: p. 183-185.

Old age in New York city; an analysis of some problems of the aged, based on 3,106 requests for information about health and welfare services,

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