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Why the Chinese obey the law : case studies from transportation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Why do people obey the law? Economists take the instrumental perspective, according to which compliance is based on tangible gains and losses to the individual; policymakers can obtain compliance through increasing the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Capacity management schemes for dual cabin aircraft : airline revenue management insights
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The selection of an aircraft type has long term effects on the competitive position of the airline. In a market that is continuously evolving, such as the commercial aviation industry, any degree of flexibility for adjusting ...
Real time toll optimization based on predicted traffic conditions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Road pricing is an effective method of demand management. Pricing on highway managed lanes is usually implemented as time-of-day or dynamic tolling in practice. Toll rates are usually updated according to latest traffic ...
Constrained extended Kalman filter : an efficient improvement of calibration for dynamic traffic assignment models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The calibration (estimation of inputs and parameters) for dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) systems is a crucial process for traffic prediction accuracy, and thus critical to global traffic management applications to reduce ...