瓦西里·伊尔·拉里·诺夫是当地大学雅库语言和文化系的负责人,我问他气候在当地民间风俗中起到怎样的作用。
I ask Vasily Illarionov, the head of the Yakut Language and Culture Department at the local university, what role the weather played in folklore.
作为一名能源分析师,库曼诺夫已经出版了多部专著和报告,同时他还是十几个州和联邦机构的顾问。
As an energy analyst, Komanoff has published several books and reports and has consulted for dozens of US state and federal agencies.
库曼·诺夫的这些工作并没有使自己名声大震,他只是在一些迷恋交通研究的小圈子里享有极高声誉。
Komanoff's work may not have made him a celebrity, but his rigor gained him a reputation within the rarefied world of traffic geeks.
另外,库曼诺夫还建议向每位出租车乘客加收33%的额外费用,其中的10%归出租车司机所有,其余的归纽约市。
Komanoff’s plan also imposes a 33 percent surcharge on every taxi ride, 10 percent of which would go to the cab driver and the rest to the city.
因此,在2008年这份调查报告被发布之后,库曼·诺夫请求基尔为其提供更多的资助以进一步完善这份电子表格。
So, after the report was released in January 2008, Komanoff requested more funding from Kheel to keep plugging away at the spreadsheet.
但萨拉姆认为布隆伯格的收费计划看起来纯粹是惩罚手段,而库曼诺夫则通过费用平衡使纽约的捷运乘客和公交乘客得到了真正的实惠。
Salam points out that Bloomberg’s plan was seen as pure punishment. Komanoff’s proposal would balance the fees with real benefits for New York’s subway and bus riders.
之后,他找到了与他志趣相投,又能利用数学工具帮助解决这些实际问题的库曼·诺夫。
Then he found Komanoff, a man who Shared his goals and had the mathematical chops to help realize them.
库曼·诺夫的这个计划比单纯用来惩罚司机的桥梁通行费要复杂得多,他不但构建了一个复杂的激励系统,而且还规划了税收来源。
Komanoff's plan is vastly more sophisticated than a simple bridge toll. Instead of merely punishing drivers, he has built a delicate system of incentives and revenue streams.
凭借个人积蓄和基金会的财力,基尔雇佣了库曼·诺夫为其计算最合适的拥堵费收取问题。
Drawing on his own personal savings and the resources of one of his foundations, Kheel offered to pay him to determine the optimal congestion fee.
2007年,他意外的接到了泰德·基尔的电话,基尔是一位拥有传奇经历的劳工律师,同时也是库曼诺夫心目中的英雄之一。
In 2007, he got a phone call. Ted Kheel, a legendary labor lawyer and one of Komanoff’s heroes, had made it his personal mission to completely rethink New York City’s traffic policy.
在这份已经被发布在网络上的电子表格中,库曼·诺夫对交通运输的各个方面都进行了计算:例如对现行通行费进行变更和增加新的费用是如何对一天中不同时段的交通产生影响的?
Komanoff's spreadsheet, which he has posted online, calculates how new fees and changes to existing tolls affect traffic at different times of day.
在这份已经被发布在网络上的电子表格中,库曼·诺夫对交通运输的各个方面都进行了计算:例如对现行通行费进行变更和增加新的费用是如何对一天中不同时段的交通产生影响的?
Komanoff's spreadsheet, which he has posted online, calculates how new fees and changes to existing tolls affect traffic at different times of day.
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