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Why the Chinese obey the law : case studies from transportation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Why do people obey the law? Economists take the instrumental perspective, according to which compliance is based on tangible gains and losses to the individual; policymakers can obtain compliance through increasing the ...
Understanding bus passenger crowding through origin destination inference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Comfort is an important aspect of the transit passenger experience. Crowding can significantly decrease passenger comfort and disrupt service delivery, causing passenger travel times to increase and even resulting in ...
Understanding the evolution of transportation pricing and commuting at MIT : a study of historical commuting data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In summer of 2016, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will introduce Access MIT, a new commuter benefits program aimed at reducing employee single occupancy vehicle (SOV) commuting. This initiative is the latest in ...
Overdue invoice forecasting and data mining
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The account receivable is one of the main challenges in the business operation. With poor management of invoice to cash collection process, the over due invoice may pile up, and the increasing amount of unpaid invoice may ...
Analyzing transit equity using automatically collected data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
By inferring individual passengers' origins, destinations, and transfers using automatically collected transit data, transit providers can obtain and analyze larger volumes of information, with more accuracy, and at more ...
Productivity and costs in the transit sector : the impact of Baumol's cost disease
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis covers several topics related to transit costs, productivity, efficiency, and benefits. We first show that labor productivity growth among transit agencies in the United States is slow or stagnant, and it is ...
Simulation-based design of integrated public transit and shared autonomous mobility-on-demand systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The autonomous vehicle (AV) is poised to be one of the most disruptive technologies in the transportation industry. The advent of three major trends in transportation: automation, on-demand mobility and ride-sharing, are ...
Ancillary revenues in the airline industry : impacts on revenue management and distribution systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Airlines have increasingly depended on ancillary revenue in response to rising fuel costs, de- creased yields, and an increasingly competitive environment. Estimates indicate that U.S. airlines collected over $8 billion ...
Modeling spread of word of mouth on Twitter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Twitter is a popular word-of-mouth microblogging and online social networking service. Our study investigates the diffusion pattern of the number of mentions, or the number of times a topic is mentioned on Twitter, in order ...
Factors influencing bus network design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Bus network design and frequency setting, the highest level subproblems in the bus planning process, have long-term impacts on bus network performance. Improving network performance not only improves the attractiveness of ...