452; Richmond‚ CA 94804-4648 510-665-3616 (O); 510-665-3537 (F); droberts@path.berkeley.edu Submission for the Transportation Research Board November 15‚ 2005 Manuscript Word Count: 7‚500 Shaheen‚ Cohen‚ Roberts ABSTRACT 1 Carsharing provides members access to a fleet of autos for short-term use throughout the day‚ reducing the need for one or more personal vehicles. Over ten years ago‚ carsharing operators began to appear in North America. Since 1994‚ a total of 40 programs have been
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Movie DVD sales and rentals amounted to $24.9billion market in the U.S in 2007 that was up from $22Billion in 2002. Movie rentals were the most popular means of obtaining movies and the movie rental industry consisted of four segments: 1. In store rentals (2007 revenues of $5.8 billion) 2. Rentals via mail ( 2007 revenues of $2 billion) 3.Video on demand accounted for $1.3 billion ) 4.Vending machines $400 million. AMR projected that the online subscription spending for rental DVDs would increase
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Created by: The 4 P’s Jessica Burg Alice Popescu Ranjita Shetty Ritesh Maskay Project Summary Car sharing is an economical and eco-friendly mode of transportation that is designed to fulfill a just-in-time need for personal access to passenger cars. This transportation network encourages people to be socially and environmentally responsible by minimizing private vehicle ownership. Car sharing started gaining popularity in the early 1990s in Europe. Today‚ such fleet of automobiles operates
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Quirky We make invention accessible. * Quirky – Brain Child of Ben Kaufman a Social Entrepreneur. Quirky is a platform for product ideas that are not generated as part of formal Business and Technology incubation process. But it is a platform where anyone can present his/her idea by paying consideration of USD 10. Basically many people get ideas while actually delivering the tasks and Quirky brings such people together. * It uses crowdsourcing to develop the product‚ by engaging participants
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Hair is an important part of everyone’s lives and I wanted to create an opportunity to expose it. The hair industry is just as important in our lives as food‚ gas‚ cars‚ and money. The reason being is that it is an ever growing and ever changing industry‚ what was great and new is not as hot and the “latest” as it once was. This has led to a demand in styles and supplies. An ever popular and demanding industry is Hair. The reason why I chose this industry is because it is an ever growing. What I
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction A rental is a great option for girls and boys‚ who want a beautiful gown/barong without the expensive price. Instead of paying a thousands of dollars‚ for a gown/barong that you will just wear once‚ why not consider renting a gown/barong? Choosing a gown/barong rental instead of buying a one-time-wear gown/barong is a decision that can help girl/boys trim their budget without trimming their special day. Girls and boys will look beautiful in any gown/barong‚ no matter
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The Driving forces in a movie rental industry are the major underlying causes of changing industry and competitive conditions. Driving-forces analysis have three steps: (1) Identifying what the driving forces are (2) Assessing driving forces which impact Netflix and Blockbuster (3) Companies making strategy judgments Technology Since 2000‚ the introduction of new technologies and electronics products had rapidly multiplied consumer opportunities to view movies 1. Increasingly numbers
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sports. Title IX is applicable to all schools‚ colleges‚ and universities that receive federal funding‚ and it covers a wide range of issues in its goal of providing non-gender-biased education. It also forbids sexual harassment and provides equal treatment for pregnant women. This law also deals with equal education‚ and equal treatment with women in general and even pregnant women. Statistics show how after Title IX was passed‚ more women were involved in sports all around America
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large firms have over smaller firms and vice-versa‚ in the pursuit of entrepreneurial activity. As an enterprise can be defined as private business‚ it can thus be separated into two main categories which are small firms and large firms. Within many countries and many industries there are normally a large number of small firms and a smaller number of large firms as can be seen in the United Kingdom where there are only a few thousand large firms and over 4 500 000 small to medium sized firms according
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PROVIDE DISPLAYS IN SCHOOLS 1.1 Describe the school policy for displays Our school policy for displays is quite dated and maybe updated soon. It describes why we have displays in school and how this impacts on the children. There is a section on organising and actively involving children in the displayed work. We have no rules on backing or mounting. It is left to whoever is doing the display to pick and choose their colours and mounts. We are asked to take care
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