Bogotá's Left Turn: Counter-Neoliberalization in Colombia

For the political left, decentralization has increased both the appeal and the importance of governing the city, and yet sharp constraints limit the left's transformative potential when it controls that level of government alone. Bogotá is an important case in point under the recent mayoral administration of Gustavo Petro (2012–15), a demobilized guerrilla leader who sought to implement a series of urban policy reforms that together represent one of the most substantively radical and intellectually coherent attempts to challenge neoliberalism in all of Latin America. Focusing on the four policy arenas through which Petro hoped to transform the city (environment, housing, transport, and trash collection), the article documents the veto power of the firms whose privileges he threatened, as well as the tools through which they derailed reform. In contrast to the failure of his political economy agenda, Petro was indeed able to enact a number of progressive social policy reforms precisely because they did not threaten the profitability of the city's entrenched growth machine.     

铁路工程造价超概算问题研究

铁路工程建设中经常出现造价超概算的相关问题,对此,论文主要阐述了铁路工程造价的概算要求,并重点分析引起铁路工程造价超概算的原因,结合原因提出针对性的解决措施,希望能够避免工程造价超概算情况的发生,以供参考。     

Impact of Continuous Climb Operations in ATC workload. Case-study Palma airport

This research assesses the impact of the integration of Continuous Climb operations (CCOs) on Air Traffic Control (ATC) workload. The methodology encompasses different modules: CCO, standard departing and arriving trajectories extracted from an external database, an ad-hoc algorithm for detecting and solving conflicts, and an ATC-workload model with the inclusion of CCO-task modifications. Monte Carlo simulations evaluates different combinations of these modules. Then, a sensitivity analysis is performed to evaluate two parameters: the impact of the calibration of the maximum ATC workload and the percentage increase of the CCO tasks on the ATC workload. The methodology is applied to a case study at Palma airport in Spain. Extensive numerical simulations are executed based on the integration of CCOs into the system from 0% to 100%. The integration of CCOs implies the increase of the ATC workload in the Control Tower (TWR) and the reduction in the Approach Control Centre (APP). The sensitivity analysis shows that the decrease in the increase of CCO-task workload barely affects the number of CCOs that can be operated without exceeding the workload limits. Conversely, the reduction of the ATC workload calibration allows the integration of CCOs around 50% in the case of 90% TWR calibration and up to 100% in the case of 80%.     

基于PPP模式工程项目融资风险管理的思考

近年来,我国的经济发展较为迅猛,呈现出繁荣的景象。在此基础上,推动项目融资风险管理的出现与成长,而PPP模式较为突出,不同于暗含经济风险的传统型风险管理,能够在一定程度上助力政府财政支出压力的降低。但是需要多加关注的是,PPP模式的工程项目融资本身就具备一定的风险因素。为此,论文着眼于实际情况,充分考虑其基本特点,提出行之有效的防患策略,为我国顺利推进PPP模式工程项目管理工作提供一定的借鉴意义。     

BIM技术在钢桥工程的应用研究

随着我国社会水平的提高,经济步伐的推进,新技术的应用,我国的基础交通事业也在这个过程中得到了较大程度的发展。其中,桥梁是我国基础交通设施中的重要一环,对于当地交通事业的发展也具有重要的意义。在本文中,将就BIM技术在钢桥工程的应用进行一定的分析与研究。     

工程造价咨询企业发展对策研究——以神华集团为例

通过赴国内外知名企业现场实地调研,对比国际国内一流咨询公司,研究分析我国咨询行业尤其是造价咨询业当前存在的问题。并以神华集团为例,探索研究专业化咨询公司的市场定位、发展战略以及具体业务定位,提出适合专业工程咨询公司发展战略的对策和建议。     

房屋工程渗漏原因及防治措施探究

在本文中,笔者结合我国房屋工程中常见的渗漏问题,初步确定了房屋工程中某些施工部位产生渗漏的原因,分别对具有代表性的房屋施工渗漏部位,比如屋面、墙体、楼板等的渗漏现象及原因进行了分析,并提出了相应的防治措施。     

海水取水处理工程及应用分析

本文对秦皇岛最具景观效应的一线海景住宅建筑进行海水冲厕的取水工程方案分析,提出了澄清滤池处理方案,对水利工程的工艺流程进行设计。     

物流因素对香蕉品质安全的影响研究

当前水果市场供应体系存在着运输物流成本高、流通环节复杂等问题,消费者无法得到高质量、新鲜的水果。文章以物流因素对香蕉品质安全的影响为例,利用主成分分析法对包装、运输、贮藏等因素进行研究发现:香蕉的安全包装时间为0~3d,运输最佳时间为0~2d,贮藏保质期为35d。并根据试验结果提出了包装、保鲜、运输及贮藏方面的物流模式优化建议,以期为行业相关部门制定标准提供参考。     

Willingness to Pay for Green Products in Air Travel: Ready for Take‐Off?

We examine the willingness to pay (WTP) for green products in air travel. Green products in aviation are supplementary services, which are sold on top of the travel service (e.g. carbon offsets, organic on‐board food). We identify a set of potential green products in aviation and report the preferences for additional airline services of 811 Swiss air travellers using an adaptive choice‐based conjoint survey. We find that 20% of those passengers who are interested in purchasing supplementary services show a considerable WTP for green products. The green segment differs from the regular segment only in terms of behavioural features, not in terms of demographic or socio‐economic characteristics. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment