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Bioenergy and its use to mitigate the climate impact of aviation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The use of modern bioenergy presents an opportunity to mitigate CO2 emissions contributing to anthropogenic climate change by offsetting fossil fuel use, and the work presented in this thesis contributes to the literature ...
Effects of hardware and soft features on the performance evolution of low-carbon technologies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This dissertation studies how physical and non-physical features of low-carbon technologies evolve and influence performance evolution. This fundamental question about the role of hardware- and non-hardware ('soft') ...
Dynamic and robust network resource allocation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Networks are essential modeling tools in engineering, business, and public policy research. They can represent physical connections, such as manufacturing processes. They can be relationships among people, such as patient ...
Negotiated collaboration : a study in flexible infrastructure design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This thesis frames design in infrastructure public-private partnerships (P3s) as an exercise in negotiated collaboration. I investigate whether the collaborative design process in P3s can systematically deliver the benefits ...
Effects of road-network circuity on strategic decisions in urban logistics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis proposes a research framework that leverages high-resolution traffic and urban infrastructure data to improve analytical approximation methods used to inform strategic decisions in designing last-mile distribution ...
Transport demand in China : estimation, projection, and policy assessment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
China's rapid economic growth in the twenty-first century has driven, and been driven by, concomitant motorization and growth of passenger and freight mobility, leading to greater energy demand and environmental impacts. ...
Locating the source of large scale outbreaks of foodborne disease
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Foodborne illness outbreaks impose enormous health and economic burdens in the US. Identifying the origin of the contaminated food causing an outbreak is a challenging problem due to the complexity of the food supply and ...
The impact of strategic investment on success of capital-intensive ventures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Established companies in technology-enabled industries such as software, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductors, have used corporate venture capital as a lever to access and screen technological advances, ...
Supply chain financing in Developing countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
There is no definitive blueprint for ending poverty and increasing prosperity across the globe, but the World Bank argues that inclusive economic growth is critical to achieving global development goals. This thesis focuses ...
Dynamics of technology innovation and diffusion with emphasis on wind energy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis takes an interdisciplinary look at wind energy innovation and diffusion through a historical case study and system dynamic quantitative model. The former uses a framework known as actor-network- theory (that ...