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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Fleet Management"”.
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Flexible Design Approach to Fleet Management
… for the Coast Guard to manage their small boat fleet acquisition. It features a contract process to extend boat service life and reduce acquisition and operating costs. Today, the increased pace of fielding of new technologies necessitates rapid generational shifts to keep ahead of component …
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Optimization tool for transit bus fleet management
… harmony between individual buses and routes in fleets. This dissertation provided, for the first time, a tool for fleet operator to intelligently dispatch buses and select new technologies that are tailored to their needs and business.;One key element in this tool is a bus life cycle cost model …
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Dynamic incentive scheme for rental vehicle fleet management
… transportation in urban settings with a fleet of electric vehicles. Usage scenarios prpopsed by Mobility on Demand systems must allow one-way rentals. However, one-way rentals bring significant challenges to fleet management because areas of high demand will tend to lose their inventory, …
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Use of transportation relays to improve private fleet management
… concept, in terms of improving private fleet management. A transportation relay is a shipment that is divided into two legs. With transportation relays, there is more ways to route freight with a private fleet. We use a linear program to find private fleet tours with and without relays …
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Demand estimation and fleet management for autonomous mobility on demand systems
… 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 vehicles under spatial and temporal fluctuations in customer demand. A challenge for MOD systems is developing and …
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Data Quality of Fleet Management Systems in Open Pit Mining: Issues and Impacts on Key Performance Indicators for Haul Truck Fleets
… operations typically rely upon data from a Fleet Management Systems (FMS) in order to calculate Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). For production and maintenance planning and reporting purposes, these KPI’s typically include Mechanical Availability, Physical Availability, Utilization, …
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Modelling traffic incidents to support dynamic bus fleets management for sustainable transport
… a variety of functions, including dynamic bus fleet management which has yet to be established in most bus fleets in the UK in a systematic way. In order to support dynamic bus fleet management by detecting the fundamental role of bus and traffic incidents in bus-based public transport, a …
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Implementation of work standardization to improve the fuel efficiency ratio in an SMB in the hydrocarbon transportation sector
… Maintenance (TPM), telemetry for efficient fleet management and work standardization, with the objective of reducing fuel consumption and travel time in logistics routes. The methodology applied is descriptive and quantitative, framed in a continuous improvement model. The results obtained …
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Dynamic Fleet Maintenance Management
… particularly expands to a wider view of ‘health management’ as opposed to a focus solely on maintenance at the fleet level. Consequently, decisions related to workload determination and operational scheduling must be aligned with asset condition assessments and maintenance strategies. Traditional …
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Tracking and fleet optimization of Reusable Transport Items in the shipping industry
… methodologies and tools for an optimal management of Reusable Transport Items, such as containers or chassis, in an extensive multi-depots network. We use an ocean shipping company operating globally to propose a broad, comprehensive and integrated system for an optimal management of the …
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Planning coordinated loads to facilitate centralized dispatching in the grocery industry
… there are many challenges associated with fleet management and the opportunity to centrally manage the entire fleet is viewed as a cost and time-savings opportunity. This project was conducted in partnership with a grocery retailer with the goal of examining several elements of the …
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Innovative Wireless Localization Techniques and Applications
… fields of energy efficiency, security, safety, fleet management, emergency response. In this context, the position of the user - where is often more valuable for deploying services of interest than the identity of the user itself - who. In detail, opportunistic approaches based on the analysis …
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An integrated framework for freight forwarders:exploitation of dynamic information for multimodal transportation
… problems to carry out the customer load pickups, fleet management, cargo-to-flight assignments, and airport deliveries in a multiple airport region under alternative access airport policy. </p> <p>The main contributions of this research to the air-cargo literature are the study of the value of …
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An Analysis of Log Truck Turn Times at Harvest Sites and Mill Facilities
… truck turn around times, harvesting contractors, fleet managers, and truck drivers will be able to make more informed decisions regarding fleet management. This will enable those owning and operating trucks to operate in more efficient and profitable manners. The models created during this study …
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Studying Regional and Cross Border Freight Movement Activities with Truck GPS Big Data
… original data was generated for the purpose of fleet management by GPS transponders installed on Canadian owned trucks. These vehicles provide a critical service by fulfilling the economic need to move goods from one location to another. This thesis subsequently re-purposes the GPS pings as a …
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Scheduling and routing of service trucks and planning of resource replenishment locations for winter roadway maintenance
… The main activities involve dispatching a fleet of plow trucks from a central depot and/or satellite facilities to clean and spread salt/chemicals on the network links (a.k.a. snow routes). We propose a mixed integer linear program (MILP) model to minimize the total operation time of all …