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Uncertainty and Inter-jurisdictional High-speed Rail Planning: Insights from Portugal and the United Kingdom
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-11)
Within public policy and academic discourses, high-speed rail (HSR) is presented as a way of achieving “smarter” or more sustainable forms of growth. Realizing this promise requires coordinated policy efforts across levels ...
Metrics Pilot Project for Military Avionics Sustainment: Experimental Design and Implementation Plan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2003-06)
This working paper outlines the design of an experiment, employing a pilot project, for identifying and validating new metrics for managing the US Air Force military avionics sustainment system. The paper also presents a ...
The Portuguese High Speed Rail Network; Relating Financing to Strategic and Operating Issues
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-01)
This paper describes the implementation of the Portuguese High Speed Rail (HSR) Network. The business model developed by RAVE for the PPP’s related with the HSR infrastructure is described and discussed. Following a recently ...
Introducing Complex Sociotechnical Systems to First-and Second-Year Students
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-05)
Retention of undergraduate engineering students remains a key challenge faced across the globe; in particular, the first two years of the required curriculum is often cited as a significant hurdle. Many students are attracted ...
Financing Methods for High-Speed Rail with Application to Portugal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-08)
High-Speed Rail (HSR) is of substantial and growing interest around the world. The European Union (EU) sees it as an integrating force; China is investing at an extraordinary level and even the U.S. is trying to move ...
Design of Ground Delay Programs Considering the Stakeholder Perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-10)
A Ground Delay Program (GDP) is an initiative used by the FAA to manage the rate at which aircraft demand arrival at capacity-constrained airports. In this paper, we adapt a framework developed by Mitchell et al. (1997) ...
Analysis of Capacity Pricing and Allocation Mechanisms in Shared Railway Systems: Lessons for the Northeast Corridor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2015-03)
Recently, governments have started promoting the use of shared railway systems as a way to take advantage of the existing capital-intensive railway infrastructure. Until 1988, all major railways both managed the infrastructure ...
Challenges and Opportunities in Implementation of the Future California Rail Network
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2015-08)
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) adopted a "blended system" at the northern and southern termini of the planned first phase of its high-speed rail line. In this blended operation, the high-speed rail line ...
Concepts in Uncertainty—Four brief teaching notes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-07)
In Spring 2010 I taught—for the first time—an undergraduate required subject in project evaluation (1.011). In the course of that teaching, I wrote and distributed several teaching notes, which were intended to illustrate ...
Characterizing Three Engineering Systems Methods for Supporting Regional Strategic Transportation Planning Applied to Freight Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2005-08)
A systems perspective for regional strategic transportation planning (RSTP) for freight movements involves an understanding of Supply Chain Management (SCM). This paper starts from the premise that the public sector needs ...