Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions
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Expressing a supply-chain strategy as a conceptual system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-06)Extant literature lacks established frameworks or methods that can be used to evaluate a supply chain strategy. In this paper we present a type-independent approach to evaluate a business unit's supply chain strategy as a ... -
Concepts and Mechanics of Evaluating Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships: A discussion of key practical issues, illustrated through a case example
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-05)This text presents and illustrates crucially important concepts about how to perform a proper economic evaluation of an infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) and appreciate the contractual value implications for ... -
Train Timetable Design for Shared Railway Systems using a Linear Programming Approach to Approximate Dynamic Programming
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-05)In the last 15 years, the use of rail infrastructure by different train operating companies (shared railway system) has been proposed as a way to improve infrastructure utilization and to increase efficiency in the railway ...
