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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Demand Estimation"”.
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Essays on Dynamic Demand Estimation
… consists of three chapters relating to dynamic demand models of storable goods and their application to taxes that are imposed on soft drinks. Broadly speaking, the first chapter builds the estimation strategy for dynamic demand models of storable goods that allows for unobservable heterogeneous …
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On Demand Mobility Cargo Demand Estimation
… area of this delivery service is limited. The On-Demand Mobility for cargo can elevate the concept of express shipping in revolutionary ways. It will not only increase the catchment area thereby encompassing more business and consumers but will also expedite the delivery as these vehicles will fly …
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On Demand Mobility Commuter Aircraft Demand Estimation
On-Demand Mobility (ODM) is a concept to address congestion problems. Using electric aircraft and vertical take-off with limited landing (VTOL) capabilities, the ODM concept offers on demand transportation service between designated landing sites at a fraction of driving time. The purpose of this …
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Spatial-temporal neighborhood-scale urban water demand estimation
… water. Understanding and characterizing the demand for water on municipal water distribution systems is critical for managing this resource. A reasonable estimate of water demand for a municipal system would provide meaningful characterization and potentially enable defensible hydraulic …
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Urban Air Mobility: Demand Estimation and Feasibility Analysis
… comprises multiple studies surrounding demand estimation, feasibility and capacity analysis, and environmental impact of the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) or Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). UAM is a concept aerial transportation mode designed for intracity transport of passengers and cargo …
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Applications of Demand Estimation to the Child Care Market
… three studies that apply discrete choice demand estimation techniques to policy-focused questions regarding the Minnesota child care market. The first study analyzes provider quality ratings provided through Minnesota's Parent Aware program. The demand system is estimated on provider level …
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Demand estimation and fleet management for autonomous mobility on demand systems
Mobility On Demand (MOD) systems are creating a paradigm shift in transportation, where mobility is provided not through personally owned vehicles but rather through a fleet of shared vehicles. To maintain a high customer quality of service (QoS), MOD systems need to manage the distribution of …
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Transit Demand Estimation And Crowding Prediction Based On Real-Time Transit Data
… conditions. We introduce a proactive Transit Demand Estimation and Prediction System (TraDEPS) – an approach that has the potential to prevent crowding and improve transit service, by measuring the transit activity (the number of passengers on the individual modes of public transportation and …
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Evaluation of dynamic traffic assignment : demand estimation and impacts of traveler information
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
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Demand Estimation with Differentiated Products: An Application to Price Competition in the U.S. Brewing Industry
… differentiated products markets has focused on demand estimation and the pricing behavior of firms. These two themes are key inputs in important applications such as the merging of two firms or the introduction of new products. The validity of inferences, therefore, depends on accurate demand …
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Managing emergency care operations through optimal patient routing decisions and predictive demand estimation during public health crisis
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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From data to decisions in urban transit and logistics
… public transit systems, and spans topics from demand estimation to the design and operation of fixed-route systems and paratransit. The first chapter is concerned with origin-destination demand estimation for public transit. Our aim is to estimate demand using aggregated station entrance and …
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Optimizing battery swapping stations for electric vehicles and power system integration
… data from Berlin, Germany for an analytical demand estimation approach, an optimization model determines the optimal BSS location and its impact on ancillary service provision. The second study extends this analysis by developing an optimal scheduling framework for multiple BSS that serve EVs …
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Learning and Optimization in Modern Retail
… problems in the domains of supply chain, demand estimation, assortment optimization, and experimentation. We develop new methodologies that improve the practice of operations management for retailers and wholesalers, testing and implementing them in partnership with industry collaborators. …
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Data-Driven Learning Models with Applications to Retail Operations
… is an element of uncertainty (e.g., customer demand) that needs to be estimated (learned) from data (e.g., customer transaction data) in order to make online (dynamic) operational (e.g., assortment) decisions. This dissertation adopts a data-driven active learning approach to study various …
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Development and economic evaluation of strategies to reduce turnaround time at the Calcutta Haldia port complex : a simulation modeling approach
… broad objective of the thesis is to estimate the demand for port services at Calcutta which can be visualised as a queuing system. The fall in the operational efficiency, aggravated by the riverine nature of the port of Calcutta is widely held responsible for the decline in the port's performance …
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Estimation of origin-destination flows for dynamic traffic assignment
… and method for dynamic origin-destination demand estimation. OD estimation is a critical component of a Dynamic Traffic Assignment system in that it determines the frequencies of drivers' trips through a network. The OD estimation method presented here allows for tunable optimization to …
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ESSAYS IN FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS
… ``Revealed Preference for Green Stocks: An Asset Demand Approach'' combines a traditional portfolio construction problem with demand estimation techniques to estimate the demand for green stocks of US institutional investors. The methodology presented innovates along two dimensions with respect to …
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Essays in econometrics and machine learning
… on additional summaries of human behavior. Estimation of these additional parameters presents a trade-off between capturing the complexity of human's decision-making yet constraining it to deliver precise estimates. I resolve this tension by incorporating modern machine learning tools into …
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Essays on residential desegregation
… preferences. In chapter 2, I use a structural demand estimation framework to estimate taste for living with own ethnic group neighbors. Finally, using these preference estimates, I simulate the first best equilibrium and compare it to the existing equilibrium with quotas.I find that all quotas …
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