More than 150 municipal utilities (so-called Stadtwerke) were established in Germany from the beginning of millennium, bringing total number Stadtwerke currently within country to approximately 900. With responsibility for more half supply electricity, gas and heat Germany, these play a central role transformation energy sector, or Energiewende. In addition, due their local regional ties, have ...

following rapid and explosive population growth in urban settlements that was result of immigration, urban servicing as an important issue in urban planning has been studied equality in services distribution in urban areas causes equality and social justice. this paper investigates urban services distribution pattern ( educational, health, cultural, religious and sport) in 5th region of tehran ...

In metropolitan development management, quality of public services is influential in every public sector to satisfaction of citizens on quality of services. Nowadays, satisfaction are with such important matters that should be considered in the planning, implementation, management and maintenance of many public services such as subway, transportation, traffics, parks, markets and so on. Th...

The management of municipal solid waste sector is crucial for a sustainable circular economy. Waste utilities are expected to provide high quality services at an affordable price. efficient requires its assessment from economic and environmental perspective, i.e., eco-efficiency assessment. Although the reduction unsorted incurs cost, positive externalities huge well-being society, environment,...

The recent development of surveillance systems due to the threat of many attack sources, (including terrorists, organized and ordinary crime) has forced the municipal and state authorities to provide a wide range of security measures. The appropriate sensors are installed alongside the city streets and other public utilities providing a huge amount of incoming data, which needs to be processed ...

Like many small to medium sized water utilities, the Olivenhain Municipal Water District (OMWD) was faced with an ever-increasing burden of information management. In particular, maintenance of mapping systems was not only time consuming, but the pace in which changes were made and disseminated was greatly outpaced by the rate of growth in the area. The traditional method of dealing with this p...

This paper analyzes the fiscal and land value impacts of public open-­‐space conservation in a budget-­‐constrained city. It derives the necessary and sufficient conditions for open-­‐space conservation to increase the level of municipal services and the total land value within the ...