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Showing 1 to 20 of 193 for “"yard"”.
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Simulation of Railroad Hump Yard Activities With Emphasis on the Configuration of the Classification Yard
… a key in the system. The railroad classification yard, the most important of the various terminal types, has been neglected from the standpoint of planning and development.
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Principles of hump gravity-yard design
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Yard unreliability in rail freight movement.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1971
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Efficient yard storage in transshipment container hub ports
… To remedy this, this thesis studies the storage yard management problem particularly for transshipment hubs where the loading and unloading activities are both heavy and concentrated. First, an MIP model is developed to solve the yard template problem, in which the consignment strategy is used to …
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Support for court-yard houses : Riyad, Saudi Arabia
… and in order to clarify the capacity of the courtyard house. Third, a support for courtyard house type was designed by using the S.A.R. methodology. This report deals only with design aspects on the level of the individual dwelling.
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Optimization of yard operations in maritime container terminals
… storage area is the number of moves performed by yard cranes. Due to limited space in the storage area, containers are stacked on top of each other, forming a column of containers that can be accessed by yard cranes only from the top. Therefore, in order to retrieve a container that is covered by …
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Classification yard effects in rail freight movement reliability.
Thesis: Civ. E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1972
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Examining yard sales in Fayetteville, a rural West Virginia town
… informal activities to supplement their income. Yard sales are an understudied informal activity, and one the researcher saw occurring often in rural Fayetteville, West Virginia. A study utilizing in-depth interviews was completed and sought to answer who participated in yard sales, how …
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The impact of automation on the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the quayside and container yard cranes and the selection decision for the yard operating systems
… of the existing automated quayside and yard cranes. The study in this thesis examines the economic implications of reducing QSCs' cycle-times brought about by automatic features installed on the post-Panamax cranes. It demonstrates that a considerable increase in the productivity of QSCs …
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A simulation of New Haven railroad freight train and yard operations
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Management, 1963
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Quincy Shipyard : valuation of the yard for industrial water-dependent uses
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1986 [first author]; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1986 [second author].
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Designing an integrated waterfront : responsive redevelopment at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
… of this research. Using the Philadelphia Navy Yard as its primary case study, this research explores the spatial dimensions of contemporary waterfront planning in a changing economic landscape. The research attempts to answer the following questions: Can a city effectively integrate industrial …
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Municipal yard waste composting: process parameters, windrow gases, and leachate quality
A Municipal Yard Waste Composting Research and Demonstration Project was conducted to examine the process, quality of leachate, and viability of this technology for large-scale, low-technology application. Project research objectives were: 1) to characterize C/N, temperature, and moisture …
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Reimagining Pedagogies of the Prison Yard: Using Ethnotheatre to Embody Transcarceral Conocimiento
<p>Latinxs make up 40% of California's population but account for 45% of the prison population and 47% of the jail population (Sawyer, 2023). Their overrepresentation in carceral custody not only impacts the individual but also affects families and communities by limiting access to social, …
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Mathematical Modelling and an Optimisation Approach to Container Terminal Yard Management Operations.
In container terminals, Yard Cranes (YCs) work at the interface between the storage yard and the internal and external trucks. A delay in the operations of the YCs will affect the overall operations of the container port. There is thus need for a good and reliable planning and scheduling of this …
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Kettle's Yard: anti-museum. H.S. Ede, modernism and the experience of art.
KETTLE’S YARD: ANTI-MUSEUM H.S. Ede, modernism and the experience of art Elizabeth Anne Fisher ABSTRACT This thesis attempts to tackle the question of what is, or more precisely, what was Kettle’s Yard, by exploring the intellectual origins of the institution initially conceived and developed by …
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