IRF Geneva has carried out a successful webinar on World Road Statistics for Beginners - Techniques and Methods. Participants from all over the world joined in to the key messages and techniques from this webinar. This addressed the core characteristics of raw data brought together in the annual World Road Statistics report, which is one of IRF’s flagship projects. Published since 1964, this publication remains the single comprehensive source of data for the international road, traffic and transport sectors
June 28, 2013
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1201 IRF Geneva has carried out a successful webinar on World Road Statistics for Beginners - Techniques and Methods. Participants from all over the world joined in to the key messages and techniques from this webinar. This addressed the core characteristics of raw data brought together in the annual World Road Statistics report, which is one of IRF’s flagship projects. Published since 1964, this publication remains the single comprehensive source of data for the international road, traffic and transport sectors. The main questions addressed during the webinar included: Why collecting and analysis data is key; the statistics and econometric techniques to identify and fit road and transport data; modelling methods. Throughout the presentation, simple methodologies, elementary econometric techniques and examples were introduced to help the webinar participants understand the key elements to consider when analysing data. The recorded webinar can be accessed after registration at %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternalwww.irfnet.chwww.irfnet.chfalsehttp://www.irfnet.ch/falsefalse%>. For more information please contact Cristian Gonzalez at %$Linker: 2Email<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkEmail[email protected][email protected]falsemailto:[email protected]truefalse%>.
The powerful THOR 1721K from the ZB Group in Spain offers high production shredding of materials for recycling purposes. This sophisticated, self-propelled, heavy duty, mobile hammer shredder unit is a high performance, autonomous machine that can shred and recycle ferrous and non-ferrous materials, reinforced concrete, and some other materials also.
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