Private sector involvement in urban rail: Experience and lessons from South East Asia

Various models for competition and ownership of urban rail systems have been used in South East Asia cities since the early 1990s. The paper reviews and classifies the approaches used in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore. The planning, financing, procurement, implementation and operation of these systems, and the institutional context for them, are examined. All of the systems that have used private sector finance for the development of the initial systems have faced financial problems. Optimism bias in demand forecasts and unrealistic expectations for cost recovery of capital intensive systems have been contributing factors. Lessons to be learned include the importance of clear government leadership and sound institutional arrangements, and the need for improved understanding of the best manner in which the private sector can be used to achieve efficient and effective rail projects.     

A regression on climate policy: The European Commission’s legislation to reduce CO2 emissions from automobiles

As part of its efforts to reach the targets of the Kyoto Protocol, in April 2009 the European Commission enacted new legislation to reduce the per-kilometer CO₂ emissions of newly registered automobiles. This paper critically assesses this legislation with respect to its economic and technological underpinnings. First, we argue that the reliance on targets based on per-kilometer emissions not only conceals the true cost of compliance and thereby stifles informed public discourse, but is also less cost-effective than alternative measures such as emissions trading. Second, the emission targets stipulated in this legislation are based on linear-regression methods that we demonstrate to be poorly justified and misleading. Using instead stochastic-frontier analysis, which is argued to more accurately reflect the industry’s technological status quo, alternative targets are consequently proposed.     

民营企业发展绿色物流的障碍与积极作用分析

随着资源日益枯竭和环境破坏,民营企业有责任遏止这种趋势的发展,绿色物流是一个有效的选择。本文分析了民营企业发展绿色物流的障碍和积极作用,以期引起社会各界、企业的重视,共同促进绿色物流在民营企业中的真正实施。     

铁通重庆本地网网络资源管理系统的设计与应用

本地网网络资源管理系统是电信运营商对本地网资源科学化管理的重要方式;通过对铁通重庆本地网网络资源的分析,提出铁通重庆本地网网络资源管理系统功能、特色和系统架构,组网方式的设计思路和实施方案;本系统的实施,规范了重庆分公司对本地网资源的科学化管理,提高了网络运营效率,成为全网集约化经营的重要手段.     

Shared versus private mobility: Modeling public interest in autonomous vehicles accounting for latent attitudes

Emerging autonomous vehicles (AVs) and shared mobility systems per se will transform urban passenger transportation. Coupled together, shared AVs (SAVs) can facilitate widespread use of shared mobility services by providing flexible public travel modes comparable to private AV. Hence, it may be conjectured that future urban mobility is likely an on-demand service and AV private ownership is unappealing. Nonetheless, it is still unclear what observable and latent factors will drive public interest in (S)AVs, the answer to which will have important implications on transportation system performance. This paper aims to jointly model public interest in private AVs and multiple SAV configurations (carsharing, ridesourcing, ridesharing, and access/egress mode) in daily and commute travels with explicit treatment of the correlations across the (S)AV types. To this end, multivariate ordered outcome models with latent variables are employed, whereby latent attitudes and preferences describing traveler safety concern about AV, green travel pattern, and mobility-on-demand savviness are accounted for using structural and measurement equations. Drawing from a stated preference survey in the State of Washington, important insights are gained into the potential user groups based on the socio-economic, built environment, and daily/commute travel behavior attributes. Key policies are also offered to promote public interest in (S)AVs by scrutinizing the marginal effects of the latent variables.     

民营企业财务管理问题浅析

分析我国民营企业发展过程中财务管理工作方面存在的诸多问题,如财务管理体制问题、投资和筹资问题等;同时针对上述问题提出相应解决方法。     

校企协同视角下的民办高职酒店管理专业人才培养探讨——以浙江东方职业技术学院为例

本文从协同视角出发,剖析民办高职院校在培养酒店管理专业人才方面的阻碍。本文认为建立在"校企深入融合、工学紧密结合"环境下的协同运行机制是提高人才培养质量的有效手段,也是实现民办高职院校和酒店企业双赢的根本途径。其双重角色、双导师制、仿真实训和数据应用处理是其建立长效的协同运行机制的载体。     

民营企业转型升级对策研究——以南通市为例

文章结合南通民营企业的发展现状,从政府作用、产业集群、创新能力、产业结构、产品附加值等方面探讨了民营经济发展中的存在问题,并提出了相应的对策。     

民营资本参与城市轨道交通PPP项目障碍因素分析

民营资本参与度不足已经成为中国PPP模式在城市轨道交通项目领域持续推广的一大桎梏,识别和分析民营资本参与的障碍因素是促进其参与的关键问题。通过文献研究提炼出4个角度共23条障碍因素,并采用解释结构模型法,构建民营资本参与障碍因素的层次结构模型,得出障碍因素间的层级关系,并进一步提出促参建议。对于促进民营资本参与城市轨道交通PPP项目提供一定理论支持。