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Transportation and land use planners and modelers often use zone systems to take advantage of readily available socio-economic data in their modelling exercises. The most important issue is that analysis zone size is usually large, and therefore, homogeneous or single-type land uses cannot be achieved in many cases. Subsequently, intra-zone travel and mixed activities distribution cannot be captured...
As the global community is stepping up measures to respond to climate change attributable to greenhouse gas emission, the Korean government has established an organ to work on countermeasures against climate change and developed policies to reduce greenhouse gas emission. The Ministry of Land, Transport & Maritime Affairs (MLTM) has adopted eco-friendly urban planning techniques, implemented relevant...
This paper proposes a cognitive model of shipping investment expertise by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach and judgmental process survey. Assessment of shipping assets is a complicated task includes both financial and technical aspects and requires high degree of expertise particularly for technical evaluation. As a supporting tool, a fuzzy extended AHP structured is designed by collecting...
It is commonly believed that telework is good for the environment because it saves energy through reduced commuting. Millions are teleworking worldwide. Some peer-reviewed publications in the last decade have shown that the principles of life-cycle assessment (LCA) have to be applied to telework (just like to other products and services) in order to arrive at a comprehensive assessment of all the...
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are physical and engineered systems whose operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled and integrated by a computing and communication core. Just as the internet transformed how humans interact with one another, cyber-physical systems will transform how we interact with the physical world around us. Many grand challenges await in the economically vital domains of...
This paper investigates stock keeping unit (SKU) proliferation and its impact on a health care supply chain. There are two types of proliferation: acceptance and adoption. The acceptance case occurs when a hospital requests a SKU and the SKU is not carried by the system. The adoption case occurs when the SKU is not carried by the requesting hospital, but is carried by some other hospital within the...
This paper discusses the manner in which cinema buildings of the 20th century represent both an important physical record of society, and a challenge in terms of representing a complex range of historical, cultural, economic and physical data sets.The paper provides an overview of visualisation techniques which are appropriate to the subject, and provides a case study taken from the city of Aberdeen...
With an increased focus on national security and public safety communications, the US Congress revisited its plan to reclaim television broadcaster frequencies to be reallocated and auctioned by the FCC and it specifically allocated a portion of that spectrum for use by public safety. The FCC was charged with the duty of auctioning this spectrum and licensing it to create a public safety network....
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