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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"taxis"”.
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Taxis as pervasive resilience sensors
… of transportation systems using GPS data from taxis. The granularity of the GPS data necessary for this analysis is relatively coarse; it only requires coordinates for the beginning and end of trips, the metered distance, and the total travel time. The method works by computing the historical …
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The impact of kombi-taxis on public transport
… thesis attempts to quantify the impact of kombi-taxis on the conventional modes of public transport, in particular the bus, in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area. The impact is quantified in terms of the resultant modal shift of commuters from the buses, trains, cars and walking, in favour of the …
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Construcció d'un SIG municipal per la gestió d'una agència de taxis
… planteja la necessitat, d'una agència de taxis cualquiera, de gestionar les trucades que es poguessin produir per part de potencials clients.
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Ventilation in minibus taxis as a means of airborne infection control
… role of ventilation as an AIC measure in minibus taxis in Cape Town, South Africa, to determine its potential role in reducing airborne infectious disease transmission. The minibus taxi model chosen for the study was the Toyota Quantum Ses’fikile, which is commonly used in the Cape Town metropole. …
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Safety Systems, Culture, and Passengers’ Willingness to Fly in Autonomous Air Taxis
… networks. A key component of UAM is that of air taxis, which are on-demand air services for individuals and small groups. In addition, UAM companies are designing the aircraft to operate fully autonomously: The intent is for the vehicles to arrive and transport people from point to point without …
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Birth, death and taxis: North Atlantic right whales in the twenty-first century
<p>Twenty two years of North Atlantic right whale data were analyzed. Several measures indicate reproduction in North Atlantic right whales is in a decline. Calving intervals have increased from about 3.3 years in the 1980's to over 5 years, and the age of first parturition is estimated to be 11 …
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Navigating Perceptions: How Organizational Type and Message Source Affect Willingness to Fly in Automated Air Taxis
… 2023). These new companies will utilize air taxis, which are automated, electric, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and will potentially foster a revolutionary new commerce infrastructure. Unfortunately, it is not currently understood how the credibility of a message source or …
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'Boda boda' bicycle taxis and their role in urban transport systems : case studies of Nakuru and Kisumu, Kenya
… the latter aim, given the growth in motorcycle taxis at the expense of bicycle taxis elsewhere in the region, the research sought to make a recommendation on whether authorities should embrace or resist this trend.
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‘Sho't left': understanding the factors influencing public transportation mode choice with a focus on minibus taxis and MyCiTi in Dunoon, Cape Town
… mode choice with a focus on minibus taxis and the MyCiTi bus rapid transit system in Dunoon, Cape Town. The research aims to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each mode. Despite the long-standing concerns about minibus taxi drivers' conduct, road safety, overloading, and …
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Diseño de un plan de negocio de una aplicación para dispositivos móviles para usuarios servicio público de taxis en la ciudad de Bogotá
… los grandes actores en la ciudad de Bogotá, los taxistas y sus clientes, los que prestan y los que reciben el servicios de transporte público de taxis en la ciudad, por tal motivo se ha visualizado el diseño de un plan de negocio de una aplicación para dispositivos móviles para usuarios de …
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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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Plan de negocio- Aplicación Mi Tassi
… App para la prestación del Servicio Público de Taxis en la Ciudad de Villavicencio, Meta En la ciudad de Villavicencio, Meta, se enfrenta una significativa falta de modernización en la prestación del servicio público de taxis. Actualmente, la comunicación entre los usuarios y los prestadores del …
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Re-Connecting: a redevelopment of the Wynberg Precinct
… interchange which includes a train station and 3 taxis ranks with an estimated average daily density of 21,000 commuters. Subsequently, the high density of commuters transiting daily through the Wynberg precinct has consequently generated the opportunities for informal traders - street traders - …
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On-demand high-capacity ride-sharing via dynamic trip-vehicle assignment with rebalancing
… to improve the performance of a network of taxis. We experimentally assess the trade off between fleet size, capacity, waiting time, travel delay, and amount of predictions for low to medium capacity vehicles. We validated the algorithm with over three million taxi rides from the New York …
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Scavenger-Predator-Prey Model with Finite Resources
… of the thesis investigates the role of predator-taxis in pattern formation within predator-prey systems, as documented in the paper ”Generalized Holling III Functional Response: role of predator-taxis on spatial patterns, 2023.” Through a combination of weakly nonlinear analysis and amplitude …
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Effects of feeder network operations on trunk-feeder network performance: a case study of Mitchells Plain, Cape Town
… to meet the needs of the different users. Taxis which are informal serve as feeders to an interchange while the trunk services depart the interchange in a scheduled formal manner. Because of this difference in the nature in which the two public transport services operate, it renders the …
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Behavioral Adaptation in Bacillus Subtilis: The Role of Selective Methylation Changes and Heterologous Receptors in Mcpb-Mediated Signaling
… receptor complexes. Therefore, asparagine chemotaxis likely depends on the presence of heterologous receptors. To explore these processes, a study was performed on strains expressing mutant McpB proteins (with aspartates substituted at the sites of methylation) in genetic backgrounds missing all …
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The Promise of the Father, the Spirit of the Son: A Framework for a Trinitarian Christological Pneumatology
… classical trinitarianism and traditional taxis theology as the standard and preferred methods for engaging in trinitarian theological discourse and construction. Hence, it is upon the foundation of the classical approach that my framework is built. In chapter 3, I present the first pillar …
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Biochemistry and regulation of CheA in Bacillus subtilis chemotaxis
Bacterial chemotaxis is one of the most well understood signal transduction processes in biology. By controlling the direction of flagella rotation, this process allows the organism to sense changes in its surroundings and migrate toward more favorable environments. The process of chemotaxis is …
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