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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Demand modeling"”.
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Travel demand modeling for developing countries
The transportation planning process or travel demand forecasting process which is most commonly used at present, called the Urban Transportation Planning Process (UTPP), has its origins in studies performed about three decades ago in urban areas in the United States. This conventional planning …
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Electrical ship demand modeling for future generation warships
… reliance on accurate prediction of electrical demand as the shipboard consumption continues to rise. Current US Navy policy, codified in design standards, dictates methods of calculating the average demand power. Using several modern sources of information for the DDG-51 class ship, this thesis …
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Development of an alternative approach to transit demand modeling
… for analysis of investment projects. Transit demand depends on many multifaceted parameters affecting the mode choice of individual commuters. The urban planning as a field faces the demand in creation of a universal model which would allow to estimate transit demand of the areas of different …
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Activity choice analysis time allocation and disaggregate travel demand modeling.
Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering.
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Demand Modeling And Capacity Planning For Innovative Short Life-Cycle Products
<p>This dissertation focuses on demand modeling and capacity planning for innovative short life-cycle products. We first developed a new model in the class of stochastic Bass formulations that addresses the shortcomings of models from the extant literature. The proposed model considers the common …
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Hypothesis, estimation, and validation of dynamic social models : energy demand modeling.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Investigation of Energy Demand Modeling and Management for Local Communities. Investigation of the electricity demand modeling and management including consumption behaviour, dynamic tariffs, and use of renewable energy.
… at a local community level, where energy demand patterns may significantly differ from the national picture, planners would be unable to justify local and more appropriate intervention due to the lack of appropriate planning tools. In this research, a new methodology is presented that …
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Forecasting 65+ travel : an integration of cohort analysis and travel demand modeling
… forecast predicts the aging Boomers' travel demand with respect to activities requiring travel, person miles traveled, usage of transit and non-motorized modes, and trip chaining propensity. Data extracted from the 1977, 1983, 1990, and 1995 National Personal Transportation Surveys (NPTS) are …
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Cargo Shipping Demand Modeling, Infrastructure Mapping, And Emission Impacts Of Selected U.S. Ports
This research included shipping demand modeling, infrastructure asset mapping, and impacts of carbon dioxide (co2) emission. The current volume of imports and exports was reviefor U.S. ports in the east coast, gulf coast, and west coast regions. The import and export of goods is a major part of the …
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Freight demand modeling and logistics planning for assessment of freight systems' environmental impacts
… in the nation. This study develops freight demand models to forecast freight movements between and within the U.S. geographical regions via two major shipment modes, truck and rail. Freight flow is categorized into two types: inter-regional and intra-regional freight flow. For the …
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Incorporating direct demand modeling and improved modal choice into freight commodity movement models.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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An activity-based energy demand modeling framework for buildings: A bottom-up approach
… to increase. In order to manage the growing demand for energy, there is a need for energy system optimization, which would require a realistic, high-resolution energy-demand model. In this work, we investigate and model the energy consumption of buildings by taking into account physical, …
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Commercial Short-Haul Flight or Autonomous Mobility-On-Demand: Modeling Air Passengers’ Modal Choice
… global pandemic. Once autonomous mobility-on-demand (aMoD) is more viable than the human-driven car, demand for SF could be negatively impacted. Although there is published research on SF and aMoD, studies on factors influencing the choice between SF and aMoD are missing. Based on goal framing …
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Impact of freeway-arterial interchange closures: an alternate route assessment using travel demand modeling for the state of Delaware
… conditions throughout the network using travel demand modeling software, it is possible to determine the effects, adverse or not, of major closures. Such an assessment is purposeful, ensuring the resiliency of the freeway by understanding the resulting congestion to relieving or preventing its …
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Advanced space-time integration for knowledge discovery in human mobility studies
… to model the non-emergency municipal services demand in Chicago. Second, this work develops novel sequential similarity measures for analyzing human activity-travel patterns and Bayesian networks models with specially designed topology to predict the forthcoming activity at the individual …
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Modeling Passenger Electric Vehicle Charging Demand with Machine Learning Using Telematics Data and Temperature
… capacity capable of handling the additional demand generated by their mass adoption. Understanding when customers charge their EVs and how much energy they consume better enables electric utilities to provide more reliable and affordable energy to all customers while aiding the transition to …
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Exploration of the future enterprise system architecture of the Japanese-origin high-speed railway in Texas.
… failure of large-scale projects, with a focus on demand estimation and organizational design. It then analyzes future demand for Texas HSR using two data sources: the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program’s Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) and the Next Generation …
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Examining the Influence of Landscape on Natural Resource Management in the American West: A Geospatial Approach
… resource selection studies. Application of this modeling framework to natural resource economics is discussed. The third chapter examines demand for forest recreation in a National Forest between 2005 and 2010 with a spatial travel cost model that accounts for landscape effects associated with an …
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Integrated network-based models for evaluating and optimizing the impact of electric vehicles on the transportation system
… concerned with developing new formulations for modeling travelling behavior of electric vehicle drivers in a mixed flow traffic network environment. Much of the work in this dissertation is motivated by the special features of PEVs (such as range limitation, requirement of long …
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Geothermal Energy Planning Considerations for Military Operational Energy Demands
… energy systems for military operational energy demands and introduces a modified power planning process that incorporates geothermal considerations. The research focuses on closed-loop geothermal systems, utilizing an example system called the “Mil-Loop”, which is designed to minimize the system …
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