Transit packaging

30) Active Packaging, Intelligent Packaging

The atmosphere surrounding the food also influences the shelf life of processed foods. For some processed foods, a lowering of oxygen is beneficial, slowing down discoloration of cured meats and powdered milk and preventing rancidity in nuts and other high fat foods. High carbon dioxide and low oxygen levels can pose a problem in fresh produce leading to anaerobic metabolism and rapid rotting o...

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Transit Stops and Stations: Transit Managers’ Perspectives on Evaluating Performance Transit Stops and Stations: Transit Managers’ Perspectives on Evaluating Performance

Passengers, transit managers, adjacent businesses and residents, and local governments all can have strong, and sometimes conflicting, ideas about what makes a good transit stop or station. This paper examines stops and stations from the transit agency’s perspective; transit managers must consider both the logistical and political factors inherent to transit operations as well as the perspectiv...

Evaluating Transit

This paper presents a model that calculates the social welfare benefits of using additional subsidy to reduce fare levels or improve service levels of public transit in Chicago. The model differentiates between the effects in peak and off-peak periods for both bus and rapid rail service. The potential welfare benefits of transit improvements accrue to several different groups of people: (1) exi...

Comparison of Light Rail Transit With Bus Semirapid Transit

Selection of transit modes is one of the most important decisions in the transit planning process. A particularly important decision is the selection between bus and rail modes, because it influences the type of service that will be offered and, more importantly, the role transit will play in the city. Ultimately, such a decision has an impact on the quality of life in the city. It is therefore...