The Alameda Corridor Project


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Clearinghouse Review


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Measuring Transportation Network Performance


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This guidebook provides methods for integrating performance measures from individual transportation modes and multiple jurisdictions and for developing new measures, if needed, to monitor transportation network performance. These network performance measures can be used to improve system management, planning, and investment decisions and can be applied to various scenarios. The guidebook should be of immediate use to practitioners in state, regional, or local governments; specially designated authorities; or those in the private sector who are responsible for measuring, operating, and investing in the performance of multimodal and/or multijurisdictional transportation networks.




Globalizing L.A.


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The author chronicles LA's emergence as the nation's leading trade centre and gateway to the Pacific Rim in the 20th century, exploring recent epic battles over port development, expanding LAX, creating a new international airport in Orange County, building the Alameda Corridor rail link and more.







BUY AND HOLD FOREVER


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GET RICH IN ANY REAL ESTATE MARKET David Schumacher discovered that the way to a lifetime of financial security is to buy smart and never sell, and he built a $20-million fortune using his own savvy advice. Forget about ¿flipping¿ properties. Say goodbye to late-night TV ¿no money down¿ scams. Here¿s a shrewd, moneymaking, step-by-step investment program providing proven advice on how to: * Pick the properties with the most profit potential * Choose the locations that will be tomorrow¿s hottest neighborhoods * Negotiate lucrative real estate deals that can make you wealthy Packed with charts, graphs and David¿s real-life examples and axioms, the book is now updated with new material by nationally recognized real estate investor Steve Dexter. Here¿s your ticket to a sound financial future. ¿You have in your hands a masterpiece from the mind of a real estate legend. I suggest you read it and change your life forever.¿ ¿Bruce Norris, investor and president, The Norris Group _______________________________________ ¿The title says it all. Timeless advice on how to become financially free in an unfree world. Mandatory reading if you¿re serious about changing your financial life forever.¿ ¿Mike Cantu, real estate investor and educator based in Riverside, California ________________________________________ About the Authors DAVID SCHUMACHER, PhD, was an investor, magazine columnist and college instructor in the field of real estate. One of America¿s premier experts, he was also a multimillionaire property owner. He parlayed a modest investment into property holdings worth $20 million, including houses, condos and magnificent oceanfront apartment complexes in Southern California. He also authored The Buy & Hold Real Estate Strategy and Buy & Hold: 7 Steps to a Real Estate Fortune. STEVE DEXTER is the president of National Capital Funding, based in Laguna Beach, California, and an expert commentator for CNN/Money, CBS Radio and Fox TV. He is the author of Real Estate Debt Can Make You Rich and Beat the Banks: How to Prosper from the Rising Wave of Bank Foreclosures.