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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Transportation industry"”.
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Profit Based Simulation Model for The Rail Transportation Industry
<p>Schedules often conflict in the rail transportation industry. Operations managers assign resources and make scheduling decisions with no visibility of the revenue, cost, and profitability characteristics of the route they are manipulating. Transit speed decisions focus on ensuring trains safely …
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Public and private safety enforcement in the air transportation industry
… amounts with the scarcity of accidents in the industry. The GAO has not assessed whether failures by the FAA are tied to actual lapses in safety as this dissertation attempts to do.Chapter Two, "Why Be Safe? Public and private safety enforcement in the air transportation industry," explores the …
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Accumulation model processes of human suborbital space transportation industry emergence
… different models of innovation development and industry emergence. Relevant streams of literature included economics, innovation, sociology, economic sociology, and institution theory. A functional goal innovation development theory, referred to as the accumulation model, states that many …
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Modular track panels for improved safety in the mining transportation industry
… rails, to improve safety of miners during transportation. Prefabricated track modules made of prestressed concrete and fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites were evaluated. Two modular prestressed concrete modules, each 15 ft long, were tested, as well as one set of prestressed concrete …
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Outsourcing And The Pupil Transportation Industry In Minnesota: An Economic Evaluation
… the use of private contractors increases total transportation costs by 21 percent, a much greater effect than when the endogenous decision to outsource is ignored. However, as a share of total expenditure, outsourcing increases the ratio by about 2 percent; thus showing evidence of the cost …
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The Transportation Industry: Investigating Women as an Underutilized Workforce in a Traditionally Male Industry
… study investigated women's interest in the transportation industry. Staffing shortages coupled with disproportionate gender distributions were cause for concern within transportation. Surveys were used to investigate occupational preferences, work values, sex-type identities, self-efficacy, …
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Change management, production ramp up and the sustainable supply chain in the transportation industry
The ramp up phase is always the most risky part of any project, especially with a product material the company and its partners have very little experience with. One result of this lack of experience is frequent engineering changes to address design corrections and improvements. High levels of …
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Analysis and Improvement of Cross-dock Operations in Less-than-Truckload Freight Transportation Industry
The less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation industry is highly competitive with low profit margins. Carriers in this industry strive to reduce costs and improve customer service to remain profitable. LTL carriers rely on a network of hubs and service centers to transfer freight. A hub is typically …
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An Examination of the Need for Laws Regulating Strikes in the Transportation Industry: Past, Present and Future
The Railway Labor Act (R.L.A.) has, since 1926, provided the basic framework of the "most comprehensive control of labor relations and labor disputes on the American scene" today. This law, as amended on several occasions, is the result of political and social factors which date back to the 1880's. …
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The Roles of Perceived Subjective Norms and Anticipated Sexism in Women's Intentions to Pursue a Career in Transportation
… significant underrepresentation of women in the transportation industry. The present study examined the relationships between female high school students' anticipation of a sexist workplace climate in transportation workplaces, perceived subjective norms about transportation work, and intentions …
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Impact of ride-sharing on mobility trends and vehicle stock
North American transportation industry is on the verge of a revolutionary change. With the advent of car-sharing services and ride-sharing companies, the transportation industry is experiencing a fundamental way in which people choose to travel. This particular thesis looks at the impact of these …
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Predicting on-time delivery in the trucking industry
… is a key metric in the trucking segment of the transportation industry. If on-time delivery can be predicted, more effective resource allocation can be achieved. This research focuses on building a predictive analytics model, specifically logistic regression, given a historical dataset. The …
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Optimizing empty container repositioning in a truck-rail intermodal network
The geographic imbalance of freight moved by the transportation industry requires repositioning of empty containers. Empty container repositioning (ECR) describes the strategy for empty container relocation to reduce cost and satisfy demand. ECR costs the transportation industry billions of dollars …
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Industrial Organization Effects of High-Speed Rail Service Introduction in Korea
… I perform empirical analyses using Korean transportation industry data to evaluate the impact of high-speed train introduction on passenger travel. This work adds to the existing literature by considering the changes in product characteristics or the set of products offered to consumers …
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Creating value from uncertainty : a study of ocean transportation contracting
… mitigate and create value from uncertainty in transportation? This paper describes these concepts and identifies research on them that has relevance to transportation. It then gives historical background of the containerized ocean transportation industry, uses Porter's five forces to explain …
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Model-based certification of automated vehicles
… (AVs) have long been predicted to disrupt the transportation industry any moment. Although numerous companies have shared that optimism and supported development, it now seems that the challenges of building automated vehicles are becoming apparent and are pushing the vision far into the …
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Impact of risk sharing on competitive bidding in truckload transportation
… surcharge (FSC) program affected its per-load transportation costs in the United States full-truckload (TL) transportation industry. In this study, we restricted transportation costs to line-haul charges and fuel surcharge premiums. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, we examined the …
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A Case Study on Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles on New York City Power Grid
<p>The U.S. electric power industry is anticipating a huge increase in electricity demand in the future due to reformation of the transportation industry. In this work, we focus on electric cars and their impact on the transportation industry as well as the electric grid. The increase in number of …
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An analysis of hybrid-electric vehicles as the car of the future
… to integrating HEV vehicles as a sustainable industry and how it fits into the picture for the future of the transportation industry.
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