Energy Management Systems (EMS) are a type of software that monitor the energy consumption in buildings. Its purpose is to minimize costs by monitoring energy consumption and optimizing energy use. EMS has become increasingly popular in the past fifteen years and is used primarily by businesses to save money by tracking and reducing energy consumption […]
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Anne Arundel County Transit Accessibility Analysis and Map Consolidation
Currently, Anne Arundel County has multiple state and local transit systems that serve its residents, but no single resource that provides information on all of them. The team has been tasked with creating a consolidated transit map, assessing transit accessibility, and making recommendations for improving transit access. Anne Arundel County residents, city officials, and tourists […]
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Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Board of Elections
As a group, we concentrated our efforts into setting an optimal resolution by merging the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Annapolis with the Board of Elections of Anne Arundel County. The objective of this department will be to provide efficiency for the tasks of providing and maintaining a properly administration for all federal, state […]
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Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Mass Transit
The public transit systems in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County can operate more efficiently and effectively as a combined entity. With fewer routes, increased route coverage, and a smaller payroll, the efficiency of the new organization will be greater than that of each of the current organizations independently. […]
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Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Parks and Recreation
Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Police Department
Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Public Works & Utilities
The Public Works & Utilities department plays an integral role in any municipal day to day operations. The following proposal details our plan for the combination of specific Public Works and Utilities services between Anne Arundel County and the City of Annapolis. A lay out of what the Public Works and Utilities department would look […]
Consolidating Public Services in Anne Arundel County and the City of Annapolis: Impacts and Expenses
This report is a collection of papers completed by students in the ECON454, Public Finance and Public Policy, who applied their students to a real world question as part of the PALS program. The class’s goal is understand the field of public finance and the relationship between economic theory and real world government policies. The […]
The Future of Tipton Airport in Anne Arundel County
Tipton Airport is located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a General (GA) airport, classified as a reliever airport by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It is the reliever airport to the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), which is located less than 13 miles from Tipton. The airport plans to extend their runway […]
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Odenton Town Center Park Design
The Odenton Town Center (OTC) project develops a 3.5-acre site in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The new Odenton Town Center is the result of collaboration between the Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce and a team of undergraduate Landscape Architecture students at the University of Maryland, made possible by the Partnership for Action Learning in […]