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Airline passenger cancellations : modeling, forecasting and impacts on revenue management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Passenger demand forecasting, and subsequently passenger cancellation forecasting, are important components in any airline revenue management (RM) system. Passenger cancellations can potentially lead to flights leaving ...
An examination on viable pricing strategies for the Chuo Shinkansen Maglev in Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The Chuo Shinkansen Maglev project is the world's first application of the Superconducting Maglev for High-Speed Rail (HSR), which will provide a dramatic travel time saving for the main artery of Japan, the Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka ...
Multicriteria multistakeholder decision analysis : applications to transportation planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Due to their magnitude and longevity, transportation investments can determine the long term success or failure of a transportation system. Thus, it is vital for decision-makers to have deep understanding of the alternatives ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Development of a predictive coalition building analysis for stakeholders of sociotechnical systems: case studies of high-speed rail development in the Northeast Corridor of the United States and the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori, Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis lays out the intellectual underpinnings and the motivation for a visual, transparent, and user-friendly predictive stakeholder analysis tool for planners and project managers to better understand future ...
Accessibility-based analysis of infrastructure improvements to the Multimodal Western Corridor in Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
MassDOT is in the planning stages of the Allston I-90 Interchange Improvement Project which, largely due to public participation, could evolve into a multimodal project involving replacing the structurally deficient highway ...