There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

2 1 The innovative transport systems and the CityMobil project 10 1.1 The research questions 10 2 The state of art in the field of automatic transport systems 12 2.1 Case studies and demand studies for innovative transport systems 12 3 The design and implementation of surveys 14 3.1 Definition of experimental design 14 3.2 Questionnaire design and delivery 16 3.3 First analyses on the collected sample 18 4 Calibration of Logit Multionomial demand models 21 4.1 Methodology 21 4.2 Calibration of the “full” model. 22 4.3 Calibration of the “final” model 24 4.4 The demand analysis through the final Multinomial Logit model 25 5 The analysis of interaction between the demand and socioeconomic attributes 31 5.1 Methodology 31 5.2 Application of Mixed Logit models to the demand 31 5.3 Analysis of the interactions between demand and socioeconomic attributes through Mixed Logit models 32 5.4 Mixed Logit model and interaction between age and the demand for the CTS 38 5.5 Demand analysis with Mixed Logit model 39 6 Final analyses and conclusions 45 6.1 Comparison between the results of the analyses 45 6.2 Conclusions 48 6.3 Answers to the research questions and future developments 52

The European commission

Traditional engineering instruction is deductive, beginning with theories and progressing to the applications of those theories Alternative teaching approaches are more inductive Topics are introduced by presenting specific observations, case studies or problems, and theories are taught or the students are helped to discover them only after the need to know them has been established This study reviews several of the most commonly used inductive teaching methods, including inquiry learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, case-based teaching, discovery learning, and just-in-time teaching The paper defines each method, highlights commonalities and specific differences, and reviews research on the effectiveness of the methods While the strength of the evidence varies from one method to another, inductive methods are consistently found to be at least equal to, and in general more effective than, traditional deductive methods for achieving a broad range of learning outcomes

Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases

Highway Capacity Manual改訂の動向--テイラ-教授の講演より

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have become common in public transit systems, particularly providing real-time transit information. For new implementations, it remains difficult to predict and quantify system and user benefits of technology implementation. Although previous studies have quantified the operational benefits of real-time transit traveler information systems, a gap in knowledge exists around passenger benefits of such systems. The objective of this research was to create a refined method for evaluating transit rider benefits from real-time traveler information and predict changes in traveler behavior. The study was conducted on a rural university campus, isolating the impacts of the system from the multiple influences that often affect transportation in larger metropolitan areas. This study uniquely integrated transit system performance, pedestrian travel times, and traffic simulation to determine travel times and predict mode split. Findings indicated that reducing passenger waiting anxiety was the most significant measure of traveler benefit from such a system. While the benefits found were specific to the study site, the methodology can be used for other transit systems evaluating real-time transit technology investments in rural or urban environments.

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/19363/Dunning_2011_UniversityTraveler.pdf;sequence=1

University traveler value of potential real-time transit information

The United States recently has been investing heavily in renewable energy technologies to reduce dependence on foreign oil and cut greenhouse gas emissions. The impacts of using alternative transportation fuels have also attracted significant attention. This research focuses on evaluating the environmental impacts of three alternative transportation fuels: electricity, ethanol and compressed natural gas. The goal is to estimate the impacts of alternative fueled vehicles at a project level in terms of daily fuel savings and emission reduction. In this research, a review of the environmental impacts of alternative transportation fuels is performed. In addition, a case study is conducted using the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest vehicle emission model, MOVES, and the PARAMICS microscopic traffic simulation tool to analyze the emission impacts of alternative transportation fuels for a road network in Greenville, South Carolina. For each alternative transportation fuel considered in this study, its emission and fuel consumption impacts are evaluated based on different market shares. The results show significant positive environmental impacts from using the three alternative transportation fuels. The findings of this paper can be useful to other transportation researchers and practitioners in conducting environmental impacts studies using MOVES.

An Integrated Tool for Modeling the Impact of Alternative Fueled Vehicles on Traffic Emissions: A Case Study of Greenville, South Carolina

A Framework for Performance Evaluation of Communication Alternatives for Intelligent Transportation Systems

This study presents a framework for highway incident detection using vehicle kinetics, such as speed profile and lane changing behaviour, as envisioned in the vehicle-infrastructure integration (VII, also known as IntelliDrive) in which vehicles and infrastructure communicate to improve mobility and safety. This framework uses an in-vehicle intelligent module, based on a support vector machine (SVM), to determine the vehicle's travel experiences with autonomously generated kinetics data. Roadside infrastructure agents (also known as RSUs: roadside units) detect the incident by compiling travel experiences from several vehicles and comparing the aggregated results with the pre-selected threshold values. The authors developed this VII-SVM incident detection system on a previously calibrated and validated simulation network in rural Spartanburg, South Carolina and deployed it on an urban freeway network in Baltimore, Maryland to evaluate its transportability. The study found no significant differences in the detection performance between the original network and a new network that the VII-SVM system has not seen before. This demonstrated the feasibility of developing a generic VII-SVM system, applicable across transportation networks.

Accelerated incident detection across transportation networks using vehicle kinetics and support vector machine in cooperation with infrastructure agents

Mashrur Chowdhury

Papers

University traveler value of potential real-time transit information

An Integrated Tool for Modeling the Impact of Alternative Fueled Vehicles on Traffic Emissions: A Case Study of Greenville, South Carolina

A Framework for Performance Evaluation of Communication Alternatives for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Accelerated incident detection across transportation networks using vehicle kinetics and support vector machine in cooperation with infrastructure agents

Attack of the Drones