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Geography of motor freight transportation and warehousing: Analyses and findings from six metropolitan areas in the United States of America
(2015)
The new trends in supply chain and logistics have led to new spatial patterns of the motor freight transportation and warehousing industry in mega big cities. This study is among the few to systematically explore the spatial ...
Inventory rebalancing through pricing in public bike sharing systems
(2014)
This thesis aims to improve the operational performance of public bike sharing systems using pricing schemes. Demand data from Capital Bikeshare in Washington, DC is used for analysis. A price vector is used to offer ...
Modeling and Simulating the Network Behavior of Agencies during Disaster Relief Operations
(2014)
The objective of this dissertation is to advance the study of disaster response and recovery (generally, disaster relief) by providing insight and tools to agencies that work in disaster relief. In disaster relief, resources ...
Multi-task Learning for Joint Prediction of Remaining Useful Life and Failure Type of Train Wheelsets
(2015)
The failures of train wheels account for half of all train derailments. Both remaining useful life (RUL) and failure types of wheels are critical for wheel maintenance. RUL prediction is a regression task, whereas failure ...
A geometric framework for parameter identification in solid objects
(2015)
A bench-top experimental set-up for use by archaeologists as a portable 3-D scanning and reconstruction apparatus has been developed. The improved versions of the prototype system, realized in this work, are aimed at ...
Peripheral security for mass transportation facilities
(2007)
Peripheral security is becoming important as compared to the Entrance Security as the terrorist are changing there targets to open society. This work mainly concentrates on two aspects of peripheral security. First one is ...
Embodied mobility: A prosthesis to the traveling body
(2009)
Statement of Issue/Problem. The Centaur is a creature from Greek Mythology having characteristics of both human and horse. The interface between the two creatures is seamless because it is biological, just as we intuitively ...
An enhanced travel demand forecasting framework to evaluate smart growth strategies
(2011)
In recent years, there is an increasing trend to promote smart growth strategies that aim to revitalize land-use and transportation patterns to avoid "sprawl" and to replace it by safe, livable, healthy, environmentally-sound ...
Essays on the impact of health information technology on health care providers and patients
(2012)
Information technology has been transforming health care industry. This dissertation investigates the use of health information technology by health care providers and patients as well as its outcomes. This dissertation ...
Scenes of chaos and joy: Playing and performing selves in digitally virtu/real places
(2012)
Since the creation of the World Wide Web, researchers have attempted to understand the larger cultural and societal implications of this "space that is not a space" on identity, community, expression, and behavior. ...