-Verkehr ohne Leittechnik ist wie Laufen im Dunkeln-, so der Autor. Verkehrsleittechnik soll die komplexen Verkehrsstrome der Straen- und Schienenverkehrsnetze zuverlassig steuern und regeln. Damit Personen und Guter sicher und zugig am Ziel ankommen, darf Leittechnik nichts dem Zufall uberlassen. Das Buch bietet die solide Grundlage zur adaquaten, nachhaltigen Modellierung von Verkehrssystemen und ihren technischen Einrichtungen.

Already from the beginning of the twentieth century, international standards on social security have been developed by international organizations. A very active period of standard setting was the 1950s-1970s, although the focus was primarily on European countries. Since the 1990s, few new standards have been developed. Yet, there are still large deficiencies in social protection in many countries, and poverty keeps on being an unsolved problem. At the same time, structural changes are introduced to developed social security systems which seem to jeopardize the implementation of international...

Presenting capitalisms as open, system-like configurations, this book argues four ideal-typical varieties (liberal, statist, corporatist, meso-communitarian) and analyzes the socio-economic performances of advanced capitalisms.