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The evolution of passenger accessibility in the US airline industry, 1980-2010
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Since deregulation, passenger air travel and the airline industry as a whole have changed dramatically. While most previous research has focused on the changes experienced by the airlines, this thesis seeks to understand ...
Improving the estimation of platform wait time at the London Underground
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In recent years, the proliferation of automatically collected data has allowed many transit agencies to complete more frequent and thorough analyses of service quality. However, while the types and quality of automatically ...
Assessing the impact of recent fare policy changes on public transport demand in London
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Public transit agencies across the world have been moving towards electronic ticketing technology and to take advantage of the greater flexibility, have made changes in fare structure. Over the last decade, Transport for ...
Analysis of airline schedule padding on U.S. domestic routes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Every airline passenger faces the risk of arriving late because flight times are subjected to many sources of variability. These can be weather conditions and airspace congestion, imbalances between airport demand and ...
The dynamics of long-range intermodal transportation planning : using a high-speed rail connection to Bilbao Airport as a catalyst for change in the Basque Country
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The extension of the Spanish high-speed rail network into the Basque Country will connect the capital cities of the three Basque provinces, creating an opportunity to drive change at many levels of the transportation network ...
Using automatically collected data for bus service and operations planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Transit agencies have traditionally used manual data to measure performance and plan service, but many transit agencies now fulfill these tasks by using automated data collection systems (ADCS), including Automatic Vehicle ...
Sustainable metropolitan mobility and public-private partnerships : a highway to institutional reform?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The "sustainability" literature generally acknowledges a critical role for transportation infrastructure planning, finance, investment, design, construction, operation, and management for addressing the long-term viability ...
Financial impacts of and financing methods for high-speed rail in Portugal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
High-speed rail (HSR) becomes a very hot topic recently when all Portugal, the United Stated, China, Japan, Spain, etc. are ambitious in building their HSR systems. Although HSR is expected to shrink the temporal distance ...
Alliance revenue management in practice : techniques and simulation analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The primary motivations for the formation of airline alliances have been to increase revenues and decrease costs for alliance partners. A major advantage comes through increase in the number of destinations served by an ...
Use of automatically collected data for the preliminary impact analysis of the East London Line extension
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Data from public transport automated data collection (ADC) systems are now widely used in academic research and are beginning to be used for planning purposes. ADC systems provide ubiquitous and inexpensive, if limited, ...