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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Hub-and-Spoke"”.
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Stochastic hub and spoke networks
… systems such as mail, freight, passenger and even telecommunication systems most often employ a hub and spoke network structure since correctly designed they give a strong balance between high service quality and low costs resulting in an economically competitive operation. In addition, …
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Hub and spoke network design for the inbound supply chain
… is providing consumers with endless selection, and as a result, the large number of vendors used to provide that selection greatly increases the complexity and cost of operating the inbound supply chain. This growth has also created many opportunities for the company to leverage its size and …
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Estimated regional impacts from hub-and-spoke operations at U.S. airports
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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Models and algorithms for transient queueing congestion in airline hub and spoke networks
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992.
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Rethinking the hub and spoke airline strategy : an analysis and discussion of American Airline's decision to depeak its schedule at O'Hare International Airport
… pressures for strategic change. Continued growth and competition of low cost carriers coupled with changing purchasing habits of passengers have led industry analysts, airline executives, and investors alike, to question the continued viability of the traditional hub and spoke airline strategy. …
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Distribution network modeling and optimization for rapid and cost-effective deployment of oilfield drilling equipment
AAA, a large oil and gas field services company, is in the business of providing drilling services to companies that extract and market hydrocarbons. One of the key success factors in this industry is the ability to provide comprehensive drilling solutions on short notice and in demanding …
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Mercados de transporte aéreo desregulados y disuasión a la entrada
… en un mercado de competencia aérea, comparando la eficacia de una aerolínea incumbente, al usar una estrategia disuasoria en un mercado regulado (point-to-point), frente al uso de la estrategia disuasoria en los mercados desregulados (Hub-and-Spoke, Alianza de código compartido). Se muestra …
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The Effect of Airline Scheduling on Airport Delays
… unknowingly hastened the arrival of the “Hub and Spoke” system of airline operations. The passage of this act along with the increasing use of smaller commuter planes has caused the airlines to over schedule many of the larger hub airports in the United States causing many delays in the …
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Change Blindness in the Synthetic Vision Primary Flight Display: Comparing Eye Tracking Patterns with Pilot Attention
… between where the pilot was visually looking and the instruments they were attending. Patterns indicated that pilots use a hub-and-spoke eye scanning pattern during normal flight, focusing mostly in the center of the display. Despite this, change blindness had little effect, emphasizing the …
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Designing Liner Shipping Feeder Service Networks in the New Era of Mega Containerships
… für die Container-Linienschifffahrt nach dem 'Hub-and-Spoke'-Prinzip, um ihre Verbindungen zu regionalen Märkten zu stärken und die operativen Kosten für Kurzstrecken mit niedrigem Frachtvolumen zu reduzieren. Das sogenannte Feeder-Netzwerk besteht aus solchen Kurzstrecken zwischen Hubs und …
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Network control in a globalized world : how Visa and Swift's founding structures serve their stakeholders on the International stage
The Visa credit card network and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) network both provide a backbone for financial interchange across the world. Visa's network connects consumers, merchants, banks, and processors to ease the purchases of millions of …
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Successive structuring of source coding algorithms for data fusion, buffering, and distribution in networks
… characteristics of the data content they are handling. In this thesis, we design such content-aware algorithms that span traditional network layers and are successively structured, focusing on problems of data fusion, buffering, and distribution. The successive structuring of these algorithms …
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An Agent-based Model for Airline Evolution, Competition, and Airport Congestion
… during the past few decades. The demand for air travel has increased tremendously as compared to the increase in the supply. The air transportation system can be divided into four subsystems: airports, airlines, air traffic control, and passengers, each of them having different …
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The structure and evolution of the African air transport network
This dissertation studies the structure and evolution of the African Air Transport Network (AATN) from 2015 to 2023. With respect to the network's structure, a power-law distribution appropriately characterises the networks degree distribution. The ‘golden tri-angle' between Johannesburg O.R. …
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A contemporary history of the origins and development of UK Biobank, 1998-2005
Background: This thesis examines the origins and early development of UK Biobank. This is a resource funded in 2002 by the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Department of Health and the Scottish Executive to gather genetic and lifestyle information from half a million participants …
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Strategic management for large engineering projects : the stakeholder value network approach
A critical element of the challenges and opportunities for today's large engineering projects are associated with the multi-type and networked relationships between these projects and their various stakeholders. This dissertation advances a multidisciplinary approach-Stakeholder Value Network (SVN) …
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Revenue management for airline alliances : passenger origin-destination simulation analysis
The increasing importance of airline alliances and codesharing creates new challenges for the revenue management systems currently used by the airlines. In this thesis, these challenges were discussed quantitatively and proposed solutions were tested, using a computer tool called the …
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An analysis of the dynamics of the US commercial air transportation system
… system. The hypothesis is that air travel supply and demand equilibriums, a reliance on outside capital, and intra-industry competition are among the most critical forces that are driving the current restructuring of the airline industry. Data on airline operational and financial performance is …
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Network design models for intermodal logistics
… shipments in recent years for both domestic and global movement of freight. Three mathematical models, which explore the dynamics of intermodal hub-and-spoke networks, are presented. These models use transportation costs, fixed location costs, modal connectivity costs, modal transit times and …
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Modeling passenger disutilities in airline revenue management simulation
… airlines; therefore, it is important to understand passenger path choice process, and to develop a valid model to represent it. In this thesis, passenger disutilities are used to indicate passengers' sensitivity to alternative path options. Accordingly, passenger disutilities have a big impact …
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