Principles of Transportation Economics (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)

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Transport continues to present considerable challenges for both policymakers and economists throughout the world. This book, now available in paperback, provides a rigorous analytical approach to transport economics and transport policy, showing how economic principles can be applied to problems and practical solutions derived. As well as providing detailed coverage on the conventional topics of demand, costs, market structure, externalities, investment appraisal and regulation, the book also examines the wider role of transport in the economy as a whole. In addition, the authors address the important link between transport and issues of location, urban and regional development, and economic growth. Throughout the book there are frequent references to policy issues at both the national and EU level, complemented by a comprehensive discussion on the different ways in which policy has evolved in various European countries. The concluding chapter draws together some of the problems encountered in moving from the theories and models developed in the book to the actual implementation of specific policy measures. The authors believe that only policies based on a thorough understanding of the economics of transport can help solve some of the pressing problems facing governments across Europe. This unique book addresses a wide range of issues and makes use of cutting-edge data to provide a set of universal tools to analyze and inform policy at all levels. It assumes only a basic knowledge of economics and will be essential reading for students at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level following courses on transport economics, regional science, urban studies and geography. It will also prove a valuable source of reference for policymakers involved in the provision and regulation of transport and researchers interested in transport planning and policy.

Shifting Gears: Applying ISO 9000 Quality Management Principles to Trucking

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Shifting Gears: Applying ISO 9000 Quality Management Principles to Trucking
James J. DePillo , Robert A. Melone , and Ward Warkentin
Manufacturer: Cengage Delmar Learning
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ASIN: 1401850073

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While formal quality management systems are a basic requirement for carriers doing business with the automotive industry, it is a company's understanding of key items such as leadership, continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction that is needed to survive and excel in today's market. Shifting Gears brings a unique approach to quality in the trucking industry, clearly defining the issues that challenge a carrier's very survival of business and, through the principles embodied in ISO 9000, discusses practical measures for addressing these challenges. It identifies ISO 9000 as an effective management tool, offering information on how business leaders can reduce their costs, improve their overall business efficiency, and improve their competitive advantage in the marketplace. This quality management principles book moves beyond quality management principles to include methods for use in day-to-day operations, helping carriers easily “shift gears” to make these tools a part of the company culture.

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Easy to read and informative.......2004-08-19

Of all the industries in the United States and around the world, few are as challenging as the transportation industry and more specifically, the trucking industry. Comprising 5% of the GDP and with over 70% of the cities and towns around the globe solely dependent on trucks to deliver their goods, trucking is truly the backbone of the economy. However, high insurance rates and fuel prices as well as a constant shortage of drivers have made running a trucking company a very difficult endeavor.

Although in use by many different industries, ISO and other quality programs are rarely used by trucking companies. In `Shifting Gears', the authors present case studies and easy-to-follow information that carriers and shippers can use to improve the processes related to shipping and trucking. Based on the premise that quality is a framework for improvement, the authors identify eight specific ISO quality management principles within the book:

Customer Focus
Leadership
Involvement of People
Process Approach
System Approach to Management
Continual Improvement
Factual Approach to Decision Making
Mutually Beneficial Supplier Relationships

Because the book is written in non-technical terms, trucking companies of all sizes will be able to learn and apply the lessons and advice within the book. Reading `Shifting Gears' will not make companies' experts in ISO 9000 but it will clearly explain the importance of structured quality programs and get them on the right path.

As someone who has spent the last 13 years in transportation and who is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, I can attest that the trucking industry must embrace the quality principles of ISO and Six Sigma. Issues such as backhauls, revenue generation, freight pay and audit, OS&D, pick ups and deliveries, operating ratios, maintenance, etc., can be managed better through the use of a structured quality program such as ISO 9000.

Regulatory Risk:: Economic Principles and Applications to Natural Gas Pipelines and Other Industries (Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy)

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Regulatory Risk:: Economic Principles and Applications to Natural Gas Pipelines and Other Industries (Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy)
A. Lawrence Kolbe , William B. Tye , and Stewart C. Myers
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0792393309

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It is common to assert that utility investors are compensated in the allowed rate of return for the risk of large disallowances, such as arise for investments found imprudent or not `used and useful'. However, this book develops a new theory of asymmetric regulatory risk that shows that infallible estimates of the cost of capital are sure to provide downward-biased estimates of the necessary allowed rates of return in the presence of such regulatory risks. The book uses the new theory of regulatory risk to understand recent developments in the risk of natural gas pipelines and other regulated industries.

Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit

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Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit
Robert Dunphy , Deborah Myerson , and Michael Pawlukiewicz
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Economic principles of transportation,
William T Jackman
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In Our Own Backyard: Principles for Effective Improvement of the Nation's Infrastructure (Studies in Infrastructure Technology and Policy)

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In Our Own Backyard: Principles for Effective Improvement of the Nation's Infrastructure (Studies in Infrastructure Technology and Policy)
Albert A. Grant
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Motor Vehicles in the Environment: Principles and Practice

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Motor Vehicles in the Environment: Principles and Practice
Paul Nieuwenhuis
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Principles of Inland Transportation
Stuart R. Daggett
Manufacturer: Harper & Brothers Publishers
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Railroad Consolidation: Its Economics & Controlling Principles

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Railroad Consolidation: Its Economics & Controlling Principles
Julius Grodinsky
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A classic economic analysis concluding that railroad consolidation is about railroads moving traffic which is a problem of economics and transportation, not politics.

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The landscape of our financial system is dominated by institutional investment. The funds move markets when they act, and corporate empires can rise, fall or change hands on the tide of institutional opinion and the flow of equity. Today, in many ways, these institutions are the City, such is their influence over the whole financial process. They are at the heart of the expectation machine; the Capital of capital. These all-powerful financial players cast a long shadow over the worlds of investment, corporate and venture finance, and yet City outsiders - from private investors to company directors - many of whose expectations and fortunes are tied to the flow of equity, know little about them. They may glimpse parts of the process through the, frequently distorted, lens of the press; they may find their activities and fortunes affected by the movements of institutional players, but rarely do they understand the subtle and complex relationships that drive behaviour of the City.

It is remarkable, in view of the power wielded by the big investment institutions, how little has been written about them, especially from an analytical rather than anecdotal standpoint. The financial world, and the business world it drives, need a better understanding of the City and the behaviour of equity - the "visible" part of what the City does. In The City; Inside the Great Expectations Machine , Investment Analyst Tony Golding takes you inside the equity market and explains its structure, dynamics and behaviour. An easy-to-read, comprehensive analysis of the big investment institutions who dominate the stock market, with key insights into their impact on the City, industry and the private investor. This book will explain how the institutions achieved their ascendancy, acquire their funds, invest those funds and significantly influence other City activities and the corporate world in the process. The book will trace the flow of funds through the City and offer valuable insights into how fund managers behave, what drives their performance, the pressures they are under and the effects of their actions on the investment and corporate worlds. The behaviour of the investment institutions - pension funds, insurance companies, unit trusts, investment trusts - touches, in one way or another, the great majority of those living in the UK. To an extent that few outside the City appreciate, they dominate the London stock market, both in terms of ownership and activity.

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City: Inside the Great Expectation Machine: Myth and Reality in Institutional Investment and the Stock Market
Tony Golding
Manufacturer: Financial Times Management
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Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation: Third Edition

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simply the best

Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation 2nd Edition
Marc P. Cosentino
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ASIN: 0971015805

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Cosentino demystifies the consulting case interview. He takes you inside a typical interview by exploring the various types of case questions and he shares with you a system that will help you answer today's most sophisticated case questions. 101 jammed-packed pages of helpful interviewing hints, frameworks, practice cases and more!

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Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation: Third Edition.......2005-09-27

Get's right to the point. Gives good examples and advice on how to handle case interviews. Easy reading.

Get this one..........2005-06-29

EXCELLENT book. A must-have piece for anyone who is (1) either anticipating an interview or (2) simply considering their possible entry into the world of management consulting. In his work, Cosentino not only provides the best - and most realistic - prepatory tool for case interviewing available on the market, he also provides the best overview of the industry at large, including all that which it demands of its participants. If you are preparing for an interview next year, next month or tomorrow, buy this book. If you are, as yet, still trying to decide if management consulting is "for you", buy this book. Case In Point is of equally invaluable necessity in either regard. No other book offers as realistic a feel for what management consulting `really' entails and, since self-selection comprises 80% of any ultimate hiring "decision", that is the more important groundwork with which all candidates must concern themselves. That critical self-analysis is, by far, best facilitated by Cosentino's book over the drier competitor approaches which lack his perspective, humor, and overall relevance. If you buy other books as well, you will find yourself as I did, only returning to Cosentino's cases as the freshest, most comprehensive and comprehensible - indeed the only ones you'll need for the most efficient and exhaustive preparation and self-analysis.

Good but not comprehensive.......2005-05-29

I think this book is much better then the vault preparation book, and the cases are more sensible and detailed. It's certainly a good book. However, I would use other sources as well, especially because different firms have different interview styles. I have just been accepted to McKinsey as an associate and their interview style was not similar to the one in the book, although the book did help. I recommend using all the interactive cases you can find in MercerMC, McKinsey, BCG, Wetfeet and Bain websites and then this book and something more, preferably 'Crack the Case'.

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ARM YOURSELF - do NOT attempt an interview without this one.......2005-05-24

My advice is if you buy only one book in your case interview process, make it Case in Point. If your aim is, as mine was, to succeed at the highest levels of the management consulting interview process, its an endeavor which will prove unnecessarily difficult without this particular resource.

Of all the overwhelming number of guides on the market, Case in Point is by far the best: the most practical, the most useful and the easiest to comprehend. In a lucid fashion derived from invaluable and unique experience (years grooming generations of successful case interviewers at Harvard), Marc Cosentino presents a one-stop shopping in a prepatory guide which easily allows any candidate to succeed in that which will ultimately prove both the most difficult and most important interview of their lives. With humor and balance, Cosentino entertains and courts the reader not only into a comprehension but into an essential appreciation for the `case interview' craft. Cosentino's book is clearly lengths ahead of the pack.

simply the best.......2004-07-12

I read this book. Thanks to Mr C. I have a job in a big 4 firm.heck I dont even have an MBA.pay special attention to information in the boxes.

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Profiles in Small Business considers how small firms achieve competitive advantages in the marketplace. Using rich primary source data, the book presents seventeen detailed profiles on diverse small businesses within a three year time frame. Each profile shows how an entrepreneur has tried to achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace by fighting against the forces of extended rivalry: market competitors, buyers, suppliers, substitutes and potential entrants. The book also discusses reasons for cash flow problems and difficulties associated with excessive "gearing."

The book offers a rigorous, non-technical treatment with tables and schemes illustrating the text. The authors bring insights from managerial economics, industrial organization and small firm consulting. They apply a common framework in all the examples and keep their analysis well grounded in the reality of small business existence. The book is a companion volume to Small Business Enterprise, also published by Routledge.

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