Multiple enterprises are usually involved in supply chain network, while almost each enterprise has its own information systems and databases (enterprise legacy systems). There are large quantities of information and data intersecting or even repeating with each other, which calls for system integration. Meanwhile in the cooperative process of supply chain, the whole product line or product fam...

1 Widely used in the design and analysis of transportation systems, time-space diagrams were devel2 oped in an era of data scarcity, when it was necessary to obtain data by means of driver logs, human 3 observers or aerial photographs. In this paper we show how time-space diagrams still remain rel4 evant today, in an era of data abundance. We present an application that efficiently encodes the ...

The projected growth in container traffic at ports of New York and New Jersey, along with the expected regional growth of commuter traffic, will cause a significant increase in traffic congestion. This will result in deteriorating performance of the regional transportation system, including highway system providing access to the port. Because of limited ability to expand highway and rail infras...

As public transit becomes more and more important to our economy, it is imperative that we understand which governing system achieves optimal efficiency. Following up on the work of Perry and Babitsky (1986), we quantitatively test whether certain forms of public governance are more efficient administrators of bus service. We utilize 2004 data from the National Transit Association database and ...

There is renewed interest in Europe in the potential role of new automated technologies for urban transport. Such systems include personal rapid transit (PRT), cybercars and high-tech buses, which have been studied in the European programme CityMobil. In the absence of empirical evidence on their performance, a common predictive modelling method has been used to predict the impacts of three com...

his paper’s intended contribution, in terms of providing an additional angle in the existing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) state-of-the-art knowledge spectrum, is a dual one. On the one hand, it provides a detailed description of the mode, re-deining BRT as an overall concept by identifying, discussing, and categorizing in a systematic way its strengths and its weaknesses in comparison with rail-base...