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The impact of out-of-theater supply flow visibility on in-theater logistics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The United States Army's end-to-end logistical network during times of conflict is made up of two separate networks. One network, managed by the Department of Defense, controls the shipment of supplies from the manufacturing ...
Applications of ASDE-X Data to the analysis of airport surface operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
While much attention has been given to analyzing and optimizing problems in air transportation, relatively little research has gone into studying airport surface operations. In recent years a surface surveillance system ...
Airline alliance revenue management : improving joint revenues through partner sharing of flight leg opportunity costs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Airlines participating in alliances offer code share itineraries (with flight segments operated by different partners) to expand the range of origin-destination combinations offered to passengers, thus increasing market ...
Understanding bus travel time variation using AVL data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The benefits of bus automatic vehicle location (AVL) data are well documented (see e.g., Furth et al. (2006)), ranging from passenger-facing applications that predict bus arrival times to service-provider-facing applications ...
High speed railway productivity : how does organizational restructuring contribute to HSR productivity growth?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The institutional reform of Japan National Railway (JNR) in 1987 has been considered as a great success. After the Japanese railway reform, European countries introduced vertical separation management. However, the question ...
Driven to congestion : how the planning, engineering and politics of transportation established, preserves and perpetuates the automobile city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The last eight decades of urban transportation planning and engineering in the United States have been dominated by the hegemony of the automobile. Auto-oriented planning of the transportation and land use system has had ...
Intermodal passenger flows on London's public transport network : automated inference of full passenger journeys using fare-transaction and vehicle-location data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Urban public transport providers have historically planned and managed their networks and services with limited knowledge of their customers' travel patterns. While ticket gates and bus fareboxes yield counts of passenger ...
Evolution of US air cargo productivity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis provides an overview of the US air cargo industry since airline deregulation in 1978, including a brief overview of the historical evolution of air cargo transport in the US from the early 1900s until the late ...
Approximating the performance of a last mile transportation system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The Last Mile Problem (LMP) refers to the provision of travel service from the nearest public transportation node to a home or office. We study the supply side of this problem in a stochastic setting, with batch demands ...
MBTA Green Line 3-car train operating plans to enhance capacity and reliability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Transit agencies face a variety of challenges, from increasing ridership to changes in infrastructure, to system expansions, all of which require significant preparation to accommodate the changes without affecting passengers ...