The only thing Mexico's toll road fiasco proves is the importance of making accurate forecasts about the usage of the asset to be built.
How about if we strike a deal and you pay me something up front that captures the value of those assets and then I pay over time for the usage of those assets".
Organisations have consistently been looking for different ways to advance the usage of their engineering assets towards ensuring the asset performance at peak levels and increasing their revenue.
By the authority's own estimate, traffic congestion costs the region $9 billion a year, and it is time to price the usage of all transportation assets to reflect, and try to change, that reality.
It is easy to single out Uber, which has greatly improved the quality of life for passengers and the usage of under-used assets.
Finally, to capture the relative standing of the people in the country, rather than using subjective income assessment, we used an asset index, constructed using factor analysis (for a detailed explanation of asset index creation and usage in survey analysis please refer to Nikoloski and Ajwad [ 30]).
In the world of building information modeling (BIM), effective usage of available technology is an asset.
The key difference with HaaS is you pay for the usage of the service, not the asset, which is why we see HaaS under a variety of names: Smart-Home-as a Service (Vivint), TrainSmart-Home-as a Service), CarSmart-Home-as a Service car2go, Uber), etc.
Future work includes continued expansion of the model to include more asset types as well as behaviours of assets' usage, such as small-scale generators other than solar PVs, and electric vehicles with different charging methods.
Environmental impact assessment methods are appropriate tools to address the choice of technologies and management practices to minimize negative effects of agricultural development, while maximizing productive efficiency, sound usage of natural resources, conservation of ecological assets and equitable access to wealth generation means.
This study of US Chinese joint ventures examined the effects of relative partner knowledge and specific asset investments on the usage of various types of control mechanisms.
