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This paper presents four innovative business models that are being developed in three countries to support the commercialisation of electric vehicles (EV). Using an original business model framework and interviews with EV company founders and directors, we analyse partnership strategies along the EV value chain (France and US) and the coexistence of competing business models (China). Findings emphasise...
Market development of electric vehicles in the coming years is a highly relevant issue for many stakeholders, e.g. automobile- and energy-industry, investors as well as policy makers and the public. The market forecasts, however, differ strongly and underlying assumptions are often hard to find. Furthermore, for stakeholders from such diverse fields it can be difficult to convey their own assumptions...
The level of construction site employees' access to and usage of public transport impacts on productivity. Absenteeism, late arrival, and early departure to and from work result in losses in productivity. Modeling various options of transport provision, the question of viability for employers to provide transport to staff can be assessed. The presented models consider more than the resultant cost...
The Analytic Hierarchy Process is a proven and widely applied Multiple Criteria Decision Making method. In this paper we described an application of this approach to the problem of supplier selection in municipal bus transport company. The set of evaluation criteria included both quantitative and qualitative data bounded with financial, technical and political expectations. We investigated requirements...
Learning from the issuing experiences of the international catastrophe bond market, this paper analyzes the existing obstacles we are facing. On the basis of current law, capital markets, we discusses three feasible issuing modules for the issurance of the catastrophe in China as follows: domestic (re)insurance company or government as sponsor to issue catastrophe bond based on foreign insurance company's...
Brazil began its experience on biofuel-run cars in the 1970s, when a government program - Pró-Alcool, meaning Alcohol Program - stimulated automakers with an industrial presence in the country to develop and manufacture cars to run on hydrated ethanol (5% water content) or a gasoline/anhydrous ethanol mix varying from 10% up to 25% (E10 to E25). Since the first model was launched by Volkswagen in...
Distribution, in the rational economy regions, refers to the activities for goods, such as selection, processing, packaging, separation, assembling, according to customer's requirements, and delivering goods to the designated places on time. Through the management of distribution, it can improve distribution efficiency and inventory turns, speed up the circulation of commodities and lower costs. There...
Firstly points out the defects of traditional BTS production mode and there is no conditions to put BTO in practice nowadays, puts forward mixed production mode BTS&BTO which combined the advantages of BTS and BTO. Further indicates three feasible manners for the mixed production mode, which can be consulted in actual production environment: (1) based on the different periods of product lifecycle;...
Transport logistics and fleet management problems often fall into one class of the optimization problems. Finding an optimal set of routes for a group of vehicles in the transportation network under defined constraints is known as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid uncertain approach, in which first considers a capacitated VRP whose demands are assumed to be...
The purpose of this study is to examine the sales trends of automotives through data mining of past transactions. The study is based on analysis of sales of different models of a popular car manufacturer in Pakistan. Data was collected through one sales outlet for the past two years for these models. It was analyzed using statistical tools. The result of this study can be used to establish the possibilities...
Long running Web Services composition has weaker notion of atomicity, which makes the traditional ACID mechanism for transaction processing no longer fit for Web Services composition transaction. Therefore, this paper first formally defines Web services composition compensation based on paired Petri net. Then it proposes five composition compensation patterns on the basis of paired Petri net: sequence,...
In model-driven software development, the first-class data are models, which are all structured by a metamodel. In this paper, we propose a definition of abstraction levels for metamodels based on set theory and compatible with MOF. We claim that splitting metamodels into different abstractions levels raise their organizational quality. We present application cases of this statement.
As a growing number of institutions around the world are discovering, student competitions provide an unparalleled source of motivation and a vehicle for training students in real world problem solving. Universities have even begun to attract students because of the competitions they offer; and the graduates with competition experience have become highly sought after by engineering companies. This...
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