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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. ...
Beyond gates, guards and guns : the systems-theoretic framework for security at nuclear facilities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Current approaches to nuclear security can produce elegantly designed physical protection systems (PPS) that may be limited by untenable assumptions or well stated-albeit vague and imprecise-descriptions of how to improve ...
Creating markets for wind electricity in China : case studies in energy policy and regulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
China's rapid economic growth -- largely industrial, energy-intensive, and reliant on coal -- has generated environmental, public health, and governance challenges. While China now leads the world in renewable energy ...
Evaluating storage technologies for wind and solar energy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Rapidly falling wind and solar energy costs over the past four decades have led to exponential growth in installation of these technologies. However, these intermittent renewables do not reliably produce power on demand. ...
Potential housing bubble with Chinese characteristics : analysis and policy design through an operational model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis analyzes the potential housing bubble in the Chinese urban housing market. Using an operational model built on system dynamics (SD), it explores the unique housing market structures, information flows, key ...
Backroom space allocation in retail stores
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Space is one of the most scarce, expensive, and difficult to manage resources in urban retail establishments. A typical retail space broadly consists of two areas, the customer facing frontroom area and the backroom area, ...
Drivers of photovoltaics cost evolution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Photovoltaics (PV) have experienced notable development over the last forty years. PV module costs have declined 20% on average with every doubling of cumulative capacity, while global PV installations have increased at ...
Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
For my PhD thesis, I conducted behavioral science research and wrote three first- author journal format papers, of which one paper has been published and the other two will be submitted to healthcare management journals ...
Electricity system planning with distributed energy resources : new methods and insights for economics, regulation, and policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This dissertation demonstrates a novel integrated electric power system planning framework that incorporates distributed energy resources (DERs), flexible and price-responsive demand, and distribution network losses and ...