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Publicly Provided Goods
Regional Government Analysis
Land Forces and Warfare
Using an online community for vehicle design: project variety and motivations to participate
Victor P. Seidel and Benedikt Langner.
in Industrial and Corporate Change
June 2015; p ublished online May 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Entrepreneurship; Transport. 10948 words.
Firms increasingly seek to use online communities as sources of ideas, innovations, and designs. However, many such open innovation efforts lack sustained participation and ultimately fail....
Duesenberg, Frederick Samuel
Ann T. Keene.
P ublished online March 2006 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Transport Technology and Trades; Transport. 1915 words.
Duesenberg, Frederick Samuel (06 December 1876–26 July 1932), automobile builder, was born in Kirchheide, Lippe, then part of the German Confederation, a son of Konrad Duesenberg and Louise...
Using Contingent Valuation to Measure User and Nonuser Benefits: An Application to Public Transit
Kathleen M. Painter, Robert Douglas Scott, Philip R. Wandschneider and Kenneth L. Casavant.
in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Journal Article. Subjects: Renewable Resources and Conservation; Transport. 0 words.
The contingent valuation method (CVM) was used to measure the value of a community service, rural transit, that has both user and nonuser values. Traditional focus groups and a CVM...
March, William
Roy S. Simmonds.
Reference Entry. Subjects: Transport Technology and Trades; Transport; Literary Studies (Fiction, Novelists, and Prose Writers). 931 words.
March, William (18 September 1893–15 May 1954), writer and business executive, was born William Edward Campbell in Mobile, Alabama, the son of John Leonard Campbell, a timber cruiser, and...
Baker, Robert (fl. c. 1563), mariner and poet
P. E. H. Hair.
Reference Entry. Subjects: Transport Technology and Trades; Transport; Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets); World History; Travel and Holiday. 607 words.
Baker, Robert (fl. c. 1563), mariner and poet, is known only through his one published writing. Possibly a relative of the Bakers of Sissinghurst who had connections with the...
Preston, Joseph Henry [Harry] (1911–1985), aeronautical engineer and university teacher
John K. Harvey.
Reference Entry. Subjects: Transport Technology and Trades; Transport; Mechanical Engineering and Materials; Education. 659 words.
Preston, Joseph Henry [Harry] (1911–1985), aeronautical engineer and university teacher, was born on 1 March 1911 at Swinescales, Hutton Soil, Greystoke, near Penrith, Cumberland, the son...
Ride, Sally K.
Margaret A. Weitekamp.
Reference Entry. Subjects: Physics; Science and Mathematics; Education; Transport Technology and Trades; Transport. 1415 words.
Ride, Sally K. (26 May 1951–23 July 2012), astronaut, physicist, and science educator, was born Sally Kristen Ride in Los Angeles, California, the elder child of Joyce and Dale B. Ride....
The role of major infrastructure in subregional economic development: an empirical study of airports and cities
Julie Cidell.
in Journal of Economic Geography
November 2015; p ublished online July 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Publicly Provided Goods; Regional Government Analysis; Transport; Transportation Systems; Economic Development. 9472 words.
The link between airports, air service and regional economic development has been well-established and used to justify airport expansion at the expense of local communities because of...
Drake, Francis Marion
H. Roger Grant.
Reference Entry. Subjects: US Politics; State and Local Government; Transport Technology and Trades; Transport; Military History; Land Forces and Warfare. 874 words.
Drake, Francis Marion (30 December 1830–20 November 1903), army officer, railroad promoter and executive, and governor of Iowa, was born in the western Illinois hamlet of Rushville, the son...