This study estimated the effectiveness of seat belts in reducing injuries and estimated the associated economic benefits using state of Kansas data. The estimation process included three stages. In the first stage, seat belt effectiveness in reducing injuries to motor vehicle occupants was estimated. Crash data from Kansas Accident Reporting System (KARS) database was used to accomplish this es...

The development of new technology enables the comfort service becoming an important requirement in the air travel industry. Long haul air travel may cause different physiological and psychological discomfort of aircraft passenger. Most of the aircraft company treats the passenger comfort as a main priority for the user’s acceptance of their airline. In order to improve the aircraft passenger bo...

McDonnell Douglas originally developed the Advanced Concept Ejection Seat (ACES II) in the 1970’s. The USAF has contracted Goodrich Universal Propulsion Company (UPCO) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) to develop a modular version of ACES for the F-15. The modular design will allow seat removal without having to first remove the canopy from the aircraft. ANSYS Workbench 9.0 shaped t...

The problem of adaptive stochastic airline seat inventory control lies at the heart of airline revenue management. This problem concerns the allocation of the finite seat inventory to the stochastic customer demand that occurs over time before the flight is scheduled to depart. The objective is to find the right combination of customers of various fare classes on the flight such that revenue is...

As part of NHTSA’s Rear Seat Occupant Protection Research Program, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and State Data System (SDS) for Florida, Pennsylvania and Maryland were utilized to estimate relative fatality rates and injury risk ratios between the front and rear seat passengers. In addition, a parametric study of rear-seat restraint parameters was performed to assess chest defl...

The development of a seat reservation system by JNR (Japanese National Railways) named MARS has been sustained by the growth in passenger transportation operations and the progress of computer technology in Japan. But passenger operations of JNR handled only 23 percent of total passenger traffic in 1985 and the growth in the share of JNR is trifling today. Therefore more efficient and economica...

Falling into a Niche: Institutional Equilibrium between Plurality and Proportional Representation for Large Political Parties" Scholars of electoral systems (e.g., Duverger, 1954; Rae 1967) argue that a combination of electoral system and district magnitude provide the strategic incentives for political party competition. All electoral systems reward large parties with a disproportional seat bo...