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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"Taxi"”.
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Multi-attribute taxi logistics optimization
… U.S. government surveys, 12% of Americans used taxi service in the previous month' and spent about $3.7 billion a year for cab fare.2 Taxi service is one of the major modes of public transportation. Despite providing services 24 hours a day, driving relentlessly with an empty taxicab in search …
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The personality profile of Zululand taxi drivers
… between the common unwanted behaviour of taxi drivers towards taxi commuters and the taxi drivers’ personality. The study involved 59 minibus taxi drivers sampled from the Empangeni and Richards Bay areas of the Zululand district. The participants were randomly selected in their respective …
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assemblage: a water taxi terminal for alexandria
projects start with a goal, an end to be realized. this project provided a platform to explore architecture. drawings, models, text and printmaking were used to this end. a project is found through the assembly of these pieces. these pages contain no finite conclusion on architecture. rather they …
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The kombi taxi : an alternative mode of transport
… forms of transport, in particular the kombi taxi. Though referred to as a taxi, the kombi taxi differs from the typical sedan taxi. As a taxi, the kombi is a minibus vehicle, typically of Volkswagen, Toyota or Datsun make. In South Africa, the kombi taxi is legally allowed a maximum passenger …
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The operation and performance of a taxi fleet.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1972. Civ. E.
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Taxi : defeating code reuse attacks with tagged memory
… of storing metadata on memory. We also introduce Taxi (Tagged C), a set of hardware modifications that aim to prevent code reuse attacks by storing small amounts of memory metadata known as tags in hardware. Our reference implementation prevents several classes of code reuse attacks without losing …
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Examination of Taxi Travel Patterns in Arlington County
… focuses on utilizing the typically overlooked taxi manifest data to analyze taxi operations with respect to transit, and also presents alternative uses for the data in transportation planning. Taxi travel characteristics are explored for Arlington, Virginia, a county containing both urban and …
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Understanding and Modeling Taxi Demand Using Time Series Models
… in demand for transportation, particularly taxis, are impacted by various factors such as commuting, weather, road work and closures, disruption in transit services, etc. Identifying the factors that influence taxi demand and understanding its dynamic provide planners with the information …
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P-TAXI : enforcing memory safety with programmable tagged architecture
… with low overhead. In this thesis, we improved TAXI, a ROP defense technique that utilizes a tagged architecture to prevent memory violations. Inspired by Programmable Unit for Metadata Processing (PUMP), we modified TAXI so that enforcement policies can be programmed by user-level code and …
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A Heuristic Approach to Solve Air Taxi Scheduling Problem
… fashion; A system that can be named an "Air Taxi System." This would mean a virtual highway in air space leading to a vast network. The network would be served by small aircraft flying from one city to another loading and unloading passengers. Such a large network having dynamic demand will …
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Evaluating Flight Crew Decision-Making Through Part 121 Taxi Operations
… which a flight crew chose to enter a turn during taxi operations based on taxiway intersection angle and surface contamination. Additionally, this study explored whether there was a way to connect ASRS and ADS-B.</p> <p>Eighty-eight flights were split into four different groups based on their …
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Taxi Driving: A Study of Leasing in New York City
… analysis to examine the impact that taxicab leasing has had upon the occupational, social and personal lives of fleet taxicab drivers. Ethnography has been conducted at the Yellow Taxi Company (a pseudonym for a major taxicab fleet garage in New York City); 408 surveys were completed …
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The Political Economy of St. Catharines' Illicit Taxi Trade
… paradoxical co-optation of the growing illicit taxi economy and consequences for racialized and foreign credentialed labour in the taxi industry. The overall objective of this research is to explore the illicit cab industry as not only inseparable from the formal economy, but dialectically, how …
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ChangiNOW : a mobile application for efficient taxi allocation at airports
The important role that taxis play in bringing passengers from an airport terminal to their final destination is often overlooked in airport operations and design. Due to varying flight arrival patterns at different terminals, taxi drivers are often unsure which terminal they should queue at. In …
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Contributions à l'analyse factorielle des correspondances multiples du taxi
"À l'aide de la distance du Taxi L1, on propose une nouvelle approche de l'analyse des correspondances multiples du Taxi: l'analyse factorielle des correspondances multiblocs du Taxi. En exploitant les propriétés des projecteurs sur les matrices résiduelles de variables catégorielles, on maximise …
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AN INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR DYNAMIC TAXI-SHARING CONSIDERING PROVIDER PROFIT
… an integer programming model for Dynamic Taxi-Sharing (DTS), which allows two groups of taxi users to ride on the same taxi together. The model matches taxi drivers and user pairs in certain sequences with the goal of maximizing taxi providers’ profit. We also develop a DTS fare …
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Social Reproductive Labour: Exploring Experiences of Women in the Taxi Industry
The taxi- industry in South Africa is one of the most significant public modes of transport that employs a variety of workers, unskilled, under-skilled, and semi-skilled, and transport the majority of workers every day. The growth of the taxi-industry in South Africa is informed by the history of …
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TAXI : a new vehicle for the transfer of genes into monocotyledonous plants
… developed. A macromolecular complex, termed the TAXI, consisted of histone HI-protected single stranded DNA, containing a selectable marker gene (npt JI), linked either to a reporter gene (uidA) or a glutenin gene. The constructs were transferred by injection of rye seedlings. Molecular analyses …
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