[PDF] Increasing Capacity eBook

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309164346

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Marine environments support the livelihoods, economies, and quality of life for communities around the world. But growth of coastal populations and increasing demands on marine resources are putting the future of ocean and coastal resources at risk through impacts such as overfishing, wetland drainage, climate change, and pollution of coastal waters. Given these demands, it is vital to build capacity-the people, the institutions, and technology and tools-needed to manage ocean resources. Unfortunately, many capacity building efforts focus on specific projects rather than on capacity building as goal unto itself, resulting in activities that are not funded or sustained past the typically short project lifetime. This book finds that the most successful capacity-building efforts meet the needs of a specific locale or region based on periodic assessments and include plans to maintain and expand capacity after the project ends. The report recommends ways that governments and organizations can help strengthen marine protection and management capacity, including conducting periodic program assessments, making plans to sustain funding, and developing leadership and political will. The book was produced at the request of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the President's Circle of the National Academies, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Marisla Foundation, and the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780215555205

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The Department for Transport is eighteen months into a five-year, £9 billion investment programme to improve rail travel, in particular by increasing the number of passenger places on trains by March 2014. The Department's latest plans show that all the relevant targets will be missed. There will be 15 per cent fewer extra places delivered in London in the morning peak and 33 per cent fewer into other major cities, compared to the numbers the Department stated would be needed just to hold overcrowding at current levels. The Committee is concerned that the failure to meet the targets set will lead to substantial increases in already unacceptable overcrowding levels by 2014 and beyond. Rising demand for rail travel combined with serious cuts in public expenditure make it imperative that the rail industry becomes more efficient, otherwise the passenger will suffer. The Department says that levels of crowding, and ticket prices, depend on policy decisions about the level of government subsidy, but this ignores the scope for efficiency savings to release resources for front line services. The industry's ability to provide a good quality rail service, including acceptable levels of crowding, depends crucially on the efficiency of all players in the rail industry, and of Network Rail in particular. Rail infrastructure costs more in Great Britain than in other countries, and there is a large potential for Network Rail to improve its efficiency. The Office of Rail Regulation should be challenging Network Rail's efficiency at a detailed level.

Author : Roger A. Dorton
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309061056

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This synthesis will be of interest to state department of transportation bridge design and structural engineers, bridge consultants, and others involved in applied and research methods for increasing the live load capacity of existing highway bridges. The synthesis describes the current state of the practice for the various methods used to increase the live load capacity of existing highway bridges. This is done predominantly for bridges in the short- to medium-span range. Information on the more common bridge material types is presented. There is an emphasis on superstructure rather than substructure strengthening.

Author : Kenneth Warren Brown
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Dredges
ISBN :

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The influence of meteorological conditions and the physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties of fine-grained dredged material on the formation of crusts resulting from evaporative drying in confinement areas was evaluated. After decantation, the moisture content of the surface layer is equivalent to about 2.5 times the liquid limit. Evaporation of moisture during the first stage of drying is nearly the same as that from an open pan until the moisture content decreases to about 1.8 times the liquid limit. After this, drying proceeds at a rate dependent on the transport of moisture to the surface. As the material desiccates, surface cracks open. The volume shrinkage is equivalent to the volume of water evaporated as the crust forms, and evidence is given that the volume change is irreversible. Rainfall is shed from the crust and drains into the cracks, from which it can run off if channels are provided to the outflow weir. Management practices, including stirring and the removal of a thin layer of crust, produced only small increases in evaporation rate for a few days. Systems were developed to dig drainage trenches in the confinements and to remove the consolidated crust. A small dredge appears to offer the most promise for cutting deep or wide surface drainage ditches.

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780102965230

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This report points out that the Department for Transport's latest plans for increasing rail capacity would not deliver as much extra capacity as originally specified, although the taxpayer would have provided nearly as much financial support (£1.2 billion over the period 2009-14) to train companies as originally envisaged. Value for money is also at risk because costs, particularly of rail carriages, have risen at the same time as the recession has reduced the Department's projections of demand. Against this background, the Department has reviewed each individual scheme before entering into contract to ensure that it still offers value for money. By March 2010, the Department had secured use of 526 extra carriages, with a further 106 ordered and due to be ready for operation by 2012. Capacity is now expected for 99,000 extra passengers into London in the morning peak (between 07:00 and 09:59), 15 per cent fewer than originally envisaged, and 25,500 extra passengers into other English cities, 33 per cent fewer. Passenger Transport Executives in the North of England - local government bodies responsible for the public transport in major cities - feel that their expectations for increased capacity in their area have not been met. In 2007 the DfT published a thirty-year strategy which set aside £9 billion for capacity increases. Within this, £7 billion was allocated to Network Rail. The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) scrutinised Network Rail's plans to but the level of cost detail available to ORR restricts its ability to judge or evaluate.

Author : David Santana Ortiz
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0833041258

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"This document synthesizes the discussions of a one-day workshop, "Increasing the Capacity of Freight Transport: Canadian and American Perspectives on the Challenges Ahead," that was held in Santa Monica, California, on February 16, 2006"--Pref.

Author : Eddie Windsor
Publisher : Imprint Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2003-06
Category : Success
ISBN : 9781930027220

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Through simple illustrations, powerful instruction and personal stories Eddie Windsor brings to light why we are so often kept from reaching on full potential in our relationships with God.