DNA transportation authority

Blue-Ribbon Summit on Financing the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and Regional Transit Authorities

Characteristics of Effective Collaboration in Response to Diversified Transportation Planning Authority

Advantages of decentralized transportation planning responsibilities may include reduced project delivery cost, the integration of comprehensive long-range planning with regional land use, and greater accountability regarding local concerns. Yet disadvantages may include a tendency for operations to dominate longer-term planning, inconsistent operational standards, and difficulty in achieving n...

2 Technical Memorandum on Calibration / Validation of Traffic Microsimulation Models Prepared for Orange County Transportation Authority

Traffic simulation models have been increasingly utilized for the evaluation of traffic control systems and the prediction of future traffic conditions. Recent enhancements in computational capability have led to the development of high fidelity microscopic simulation models and this has accelerated their application in traffic engineering and, increasingly, in transportation planning. Microsco...

Herbal Authority

N NITROSOBIS (2 OXOPROPYL) AMINE (NBOP), a postulated 3-metabolite of di-n-propyl-nitrosamine, has been found to be a potent carcinogen in different species of animals (Pour et al., 1977a; Rao & Pour, 1978; Pour et al., 1979). In hamsters, a single or repeated s.c. administration of NBOP (Pour et al., 1977a, 1978) is reported to cause a high incidence of pancreatic ductal tumours. Because of th...

Authority figures.

May-June 2012 To the Editor: In the SeptemberOctober 2011 issue, Daniel Groll addresses the question of what health care providers can know about patients’ interests (“What Health Care Providers Know”). He offers helpful refinements to my claim in Patient, Heal Thyself (Oxford, 2008) that generally health providers cannot know what serves patient interests. I am honored that a careful student o...