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U.S. airline business models 2006-2015 : trends and key impacts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis focuses on the evolution of U.S. airline business models from 2006-2015, and the impacts of these changes on other stakeholders in the U.S. air transportation system. The U.S. airline industry has been affected ...
Urban computing using call detail records : mobility pattern mining, next-location prediction and location recommendation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Urban computing fuses computer science with other fields, such as transportation, in the context of urban spaces by connecting ubiquitous sensing technologies, analytical models and visualizations to solve challenging ...
Planning transit networks with origin, destination, and interchange inference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The institutional and financial circumstances at many transit agencies significantly constrain the bus planning process. Long-term planning focuses on major infrastructure projects, while short-term planning focuses on ...
Exploring regularity and structure in travel behavior using Smart Card data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
As the economic opportunities fostered by large cities become more diverse, the travel patterns of public transport users become more heterogeneous. From personalized customer information, to improved travel demand models, ...
Temporal transferability assessments of vehicle ownership models and trip generation models for Boston Metropolitan Area
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
In the last few decades, travel demand models have undergone tremendous development and, today, are routinely used to support planning and policy decisions. But uncertainty in forecasting with such models is often overlooked, ...
Using real-time data to improve reliability on high-frequency transit services
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
In recent years, automatically-collected data from many transit agencies have been made available to the public in real time. This has dramatically improved the experience of riding transit, by allowing passengers to use ...
A framework for measuring passenger-experienced transit reliability using automated data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
A public transport operator's ability to understand and improve service reliability experienced by passengers depends upon their ability to measure it. Traditionally, largely due to data collection limitations, passengers' ...
Technology evaluation for automobile transportation : electric vehicle energy requirements under real-world use
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
In recent years, an increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) have become available for purchase to nieet personally operated vehicle (POV) travel needs for a certain subset of drivers. Many in the climate change ...
New incentives to change modes : an experimental design to reduce single-occupant vehicle commuting in Kendall Square
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This thesis examines and suggests modifications to the design of employer commuter benefit programs to reduce single-occupancy vehicle commuting in areas served by transit with a focus on Kendall Square and MIT in Cambridge, ...
Optimization of yard operations in maritime container terminals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
With the continuous growth in international container shipping, many container terminals in maritime ports face congestion, particularly during peak hours of service, and when there is limited space in the storage area. ...