A proper development of railway transportation is critical for sustainable socio-economic and environmental benefits. Nonetheless, in Eritrea, a country that once had vibrant system, it currently nonfunctional. There are also ambitious sectoral investments neighboring Ethiopia Sudan, pressing Eritrea to revitalize its decimated system. Therefore, this study used population settlement pattern, p...

This article proposes a new measure to compare soft computing methods for software estimation. This new measure is based on the concepts of Equivalence Hypothesis Testing (EHT). Using the ideas of EHT, a dimensionless measure is defined using the Minimum Interval of Equivalence and a random estimation. The dimensionless nature of the metric allows us to compare methods independently of the data...

This issue of POWER TECHNOLOGY departs from past issues and is devoted to a single topic, "Least Cost Planning." Least Cost Planning has been receiving increasing attention in the industry. The term bothers some of us since the electric utility industry has always planned its growth and operations to minimize revenue requirements of the customers while providing a satisfactory return to the own...