In this paper, several critical issues related to Chinese high-speed rails (CHSR) are analyzed, investigated and discussed, including development background, reasons for high ticket fare, some typical factors that influence the environmental life-cycle assessment, time and cost comparison of typical door-to-door travel routes between different transport modes and complementary strategies among ...

Revenue Management (RM) helped increase profitability for many travel industries. Selling perishable products with a fixed event date, the Sports and Entertainment (S&E) ticket industry can potentially benefit from RM ideas but has received less attention in the literature. In this study we develop dynamic pricing models for stochastic S&E demand in a discrete finite time setting, where demand ...

A digital ticket is a certificate that guarantees certain rights of the ticket owner. There are many applications for digital tickets but the ticket properties vary depending on the application. This variety makes the digital ticket processing system expensive, especially if dedicated systems must be developed for each application. This paper thus addresses issues on developing a common data sc...

In this paper the authors model the demand for train kilometres with a disaggregate structural demand model, thereby recognising the fact that consumers have to make a simultaneous choice for this demand and for the type of ticket with which they want to travel. The model is in line with microeconomic theory, which implies that the choice of ticket type is closely linked to the indirect utlilit...

To formulate a single-leg seat inventory control problem in an airline ticket sales system, the concept and techniques of revenue management are applied in this research. In this model, it is assumed the cabin capacity is stochastic and hence its exact size cannot be forecasted in advance, at the time of planning. There are two groups of early-reserving and late-purchasing customers demanding t...

In recent years, there has been a revived sociological interest in assessing the lived experience of upward social mobility. Several qualitative accounts have highlighted negative emotional imprints mobility, whereas quantitative researchers suggested that picture is far more optimistic. However, both strands literature rely too narrowly on perspectives upwardly mobile individuals themselves. A...

The widespread popularity of lotteries in general and the introduction of the U.K. National Lottery in November 1994 has generated concern over the potential addictiveness of gambling and numbers games in particular. Indeed, the Director General of the Of®ce of the National Lottery (who regulates the U.K. game that is operated by a private sector franchisee) is directed by the Secretary of Stat...

The Tutorial Generation Toolkit (TGT) is a set of Java classes that supports authoring of interactive tutorial applications. This paper describes extensions to the capabilities of the TGT and several new tutorials aimed at the Data Structures course which were built using the