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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Ferry"”.
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Economic feasibility of a fast car-ferry service
… the economic parameters that define the Fast Ferry market and to study the economic feasibility of such a service. The demand for the service, the cost structure of both the fast car-ferry and the conventional ferry as well as competitive issues characteristic of the industry will be analyzed …
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Short sea shipping : barriers, incentives and feasibility of truck ferry
… seeks to determine the feasibility of a truck ferry that would accomplish both MARAD's Marine Highway as well as the Department of Defense's sealift goals. The feasibility study examines the hypothetical business' profitability through different funding and operating scenarios. The analysis …
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Cervisia Sermonis, Constructing a Brewery in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
In the everyday exists water. It is rarely the focus of the architect nor a guiding principle in a building's planning, design and construction. Too many times it is an afterthought or seen as something that will eternally undermine the physical principles that keep a building standing. This thesis …
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VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY
… Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia had not only fallen short of expectations—the beginning of a slave insurrection eventually leading to collapse of the institution entirely—but had dismally failed. The raid had cost seventeen lives, among them two of Brown’s sons. …
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VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY
… Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia had not only fallen short of expectations—the beginning of a slave insurrection eventually leading to collapse of the institution entirely—but had dismally failed. The raid had cost seventeen lives, among them two of Brown’s sons. …
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The commercial and technical evolution of the ferry industry 1948-1987
… factors that shaped the development of the ferry sector between 1948 and 1987. It provides as full an account as the available record permits of an important shipping industry sector that previously has received little serious historical consideration. Most of the ferry industry, dominated …
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Strategic visitor & ferry management plan : Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
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An assessment of Acuaexpreso : the urban ferry system in San Juan
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Towards understanding a tower: the design of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal
… form of a tower/terminal for the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. It targets certain issues of circularity, permanence, and solidity which have become recurrent pursuits of the author. This entire inquiry is presented through the utilization of photographs, drawings, and text.
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The Existence and Use of Benefit Segments in the Irish Sea Ferry Market
… structural variation is found to exist in the ferry passenger market and to a lesser extent, in the air passenger market. The second set of analyses undertakes a benefit segmentation of the markets. Benefit segments (groups of passengers and freight customers who choose the service for similar …
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System theoretic safety analysis of the Sewol-Ho ferry accident in South Korea
The disaster of the Sewol-Ho, which took place on April 16, 2014, was one of the worst maritime disasters in South Korea in decades, and rescuing only 172 of a total 476 people triggered thorough accident investigations. As the results of the investigations performed by the Korea Maritime Safety …
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Economic feasibility and impact analysis of an improved ferry service between Java and Sumatra
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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Jules Ferry and Henri Maret: The Battle of Church and State at the Sorbonne, 1879-1884
… at the University of Paris, 1879-1884. Jules Ferry, the Minister of Public Instruction for the French Third Republic, wished to secularize education in France through a series of legislative actions in order to modernize France, as he understood the term. Henri Maret, the Dean of the Theology …
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Design projections for a commuter ferry terminal and commercial pier in Portland, Maine's historic urban waterfront
… the evolution of the pier site design and ferry terminal design. This work investigates a possible design projection for a commuter ferry terminal and adjacent mixed-use commercial areas on a pier "finger" extension from the historic waterfront area in Portland, Maine. The thesis presents …
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A novel Ferry Assisted Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing Protocol (FA-GPSR) for Ad-hoc networks in remote locations
… life scenarios. The novel routing algorithm, Ferry-Assisted Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (FA-GPSR), proposed in this thesis demonstrates the benefits of extracting information from the application to support communication between the nodes in the network topology. In addition, this …
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'We Will Remember; We Will Not Stay Put': Ethics and Politics after the Sewol Ferry Disaster in South Korea
The sinking of the Korean ferry, MV Sewol, on April 16th, 2014, claimed 304 lives, 250 of whom were high school students on a fieldtrip to Jeju Island. The Disaster, broadcasted real-time, incited a widespread movement founded on condolence for the victims, and a collective determination that …
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New incision rates on the Colorado River system based on cosmogenic burial dating of terraces : implications for a transient knickpoint at Lees Ferry and differential uplift of the Rocky Mountains
… has resulted in 1.6 km of incision. The Lees Ferry knickpoint (ca. 950 m elevation) is interpreted to be an upstream-migrating knickpoint initiated by integration of the system through Grand Canyon at about 6 Ma. A burial date of 1.5 +/-0.13 Ma, on a 190-m-high strath terrace 169 km above the …
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Wildland fuel loading estimates along a gradient of forest cover types and landscape factors in Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, West Virginia and Rock Creek Park, Virginia, USA
… Park (located near Washington D.C.) and Harper's Ferry National Historical Park (WV), standing and dead trees, downed woody material, litter, and duff were inventoried May-August 2024. Aspect and percent dead basal area had no influence on DWM accumulation. Soil order and slope percentage …
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