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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Investment planning"”.
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Capital investment planning: expansion and replacement.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Adaptive Investment Planning: Formulation, Analysis, and Implications
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Aspects of multi-national transportation investment planning
Thesis (Civ.E)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1981
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Essays on investment planning in electricity generating capacity
… the effects of such assumption on the optimal investment in electricity generating capacity in a simple two period model. The second model presents sufficient restrictions to the optimal investment in electricity generating capacity problem to allow for a recursive solution. The necessary …
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A methodology for investment planning in developing fisheries
… for the rational economic management of capital investment.In spite of the complexities a rational approach is needed involving the location and evaluation of all the opportunities for development across the whole of a fishery now or in the future. Capital investments dictate the entire pattern …
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Sequential investment planning for complex oil development projects
In this thesis, we consider sequential real investment decisions for the development of discovered oil prospects. Following a decision analysis approach, we propose a methodology to explore the upside of a dynamic drilling strategy, where there is a significant uncertainty about the reservoir …
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Investment planning applied to power systems using real options analysis
… integrated. Traditional methods used in investment planning are no longer adequate; thus, improved methods are needed to provide a better valuation of investments. This research concentrates on transmission planning and real options analysis. The transmission planning research applies …
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A comprehensive approach to electricity investment planning for multiple objectives and uncertainty
… and planners can use to analyse and plan for investment in the ESI, in a way which shapes decision outcomes, and enables confident choices to be made. This thesis is aimed at developing such a framework. As a case study the South African ESI was represented using a partial equilibrium …
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A decision support model for the investment planning of the reconstruction and rehabilitation of mature water distribution systems
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1984.
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Towards the Development of a Decision Support System for Emergency Vehicle Preemption and Transit Signal Priority Investment Planning
… and transit priority operations. However, investment planning for such an integrated system is not a trivial task. Investment planning for such a system requires a holistic approach that considers institutional, technical and financial issues from a systems perspective. Two distinct service …
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Perceptions of risk in increasingly capital-intensive electricity grids : measuring the impacts of accurate cost of capital representation on investment planning for future energy systems
… and decarbonized generation mix, with increased investment in wind, solar, storage and other energy transition technologies. Concurrently, market structures continue their evolution away from highly regulated monopolies and towards competitive markets, expanding the share of deployable capital …
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Ny väg till nya vägar och järnvägar : Finanseringspragmatism och planeringsrationalism vid beslut om infrastrukturinvesteringar
Investment planning is a decision-making process with specific characteristics. It is often seen as a rational quest for solutions that are in the public interest, and the dominant discourse tends to be technical and economic. Public documents reproduce this picture of a decision-making process …
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Regional Coordination in Electricity Supply and Investment Financing
… optimum strategies for guiding utility industry investment planning in the face of: (1) anticipated changes in electricity rate structures; (2) the large number and high costs of various power generation activities; and (3) the corresponding large number, high costs and complexities of different …
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Assessing demand for green electricity products amongst upper-middle income Western Cape households a contingent valuation study
… cost-benefit analysis to inform electricity investment planning requires the environmental benefit of using green electricity to be expressed in monetary terms. Since existing markets trade in electricity as a homogenous good, market data is of little use in this regard, and non-market …
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Portfolio-based infrastructure investment strategy for railroad company
Project based capital investment planning for developing a railroad company's infrastructure facilities does not necessarily allow managers the optimal use of their limited capital resources, because such planning simply focuses on the required cash spending and expected return from the single …
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Foundations of a defense digital platform : business systems governance in the Department of Defense
… nearly $7 billion to defense business systems investments alone. It is not surprising given the scale of expenditure and complexity of the enterprise that its track record on business systems investments has not been great. Indeed, the DoD's investment management practices have been the target …
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The characteristics of the financial system of developing countries : a study of the Thai stock market
… in finance, for academic, policy formulation and investment planning purposes. There are substantial differences in the operation and characteristics of financial markets in developed and developing countries in terms of efficiency, stability, and the effectiveness in promoting economic …
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Value of more sophistication : capital investment decision-making with competitive dynamics in the mining industry
… many mining markets, one of the central business planning decisions faced by firms is where, when, and by how much to expand their production capacity. Appropriate investment planning methodology is important to both the mining industry and the wider economy. Currently, new mine investment …
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A new systemic model for the implementation of sustainable space science and technology investment for Sub-Saharan African economies: an implementation process derived from a case study of MeerKAT and the Square Kilometre Array projects
… cultural conditions. Findings indicate that SST investments have an inconsistent impact on labour productivity, largely due to inefficiencies in technology absorption and local capacity utilisation. In response, this research proposes a three-phase Space Science and Technology Framework (SSTIF) …
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Technology investment decisions under uncertainty : a new modeling framework for the electric power sector
… The long infrastructure lifetimes of power plant investments mean that deployment decisions made today will influence carbon dioxide emissions long into the future. New technology development and R&D decisions can help reduce the overall costs of reducing emissions, but there are multiple …
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