Zusammenfassung Auf der Basis einer aktuellen empirischen Untersuchung wird das 9-Euro-Ticket, in den Monaten Juni, Juli und August 2022 Deutschland genutzt werden konnte, bewertet. Trotz erheblicher Vorbehalte gegenüber dem Ticket vor dessen Einführung trotz teilweisen Überforderung des ÖPNV-Systems ist Urteil Nutzenden im Rückblick überwiegend positiv. Diese Bewertung bietet zudem wichtige Im...

At many public places, at train stations, airports and highway interchanges we will find culture-stations. Short trailers about points of interest will be shown on video-screens. Dialogue-systems will find out about individual likes and dislikes. A personalized culture-ticket will be printed for a nominal fee. Public transportation and private vehicles will be equipped with a decoder, which is ...

Sports analytics has gained significant popularity to support athletic organization’s business and field operations such as enhancing talent identification, player recruitment, player development, training priorities, coaching, game tactics, team selection, injury management, fan/customer relationship management, etc. Through a qualitative case study approach, this study examines a regional uni...

Applying revenue management techniques for the entertainment industries, such as theaters, faces several specific challenges. Many theaters increase their audience and revenues through promotional discounts and pricing strategies based on the quality of the seats. Due to the varying quality of shows, and the high availability of seats, many customers purchase tickets or postpone their purchases...

The Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY) specification describes a key management scheme for real-time applications. In this document, we note that the currently defined MIKEY modes are insufficient to address deployment scenarios built around a centralized key management service. Interest in such deployments is increasing. Therefore, a set of new MIKEY modes that work well in such scenarios are ...

The phenomenon of split ticket voting is intriguing, and has partially been explicated in the scientific literature. Studies have offered several inconclusive reasons why a voter may decide to split his/her vote, and to support rival candidates, and opposing political parties. The candidate’s visibility, on the one hand, and partisan identification, on the other hand, have been the most cited e...

Burden and Kimball (1998) report that, by using the King estimation procedure for inferring individual-level behavior from aggregate data, they are the first to produce accurate estimates of split-ticket voting rates in congressional districts. There are, however, several reasons to doubt that the King estimation procedure does, in fact, produce accurate cross-level inferences. We show that the...

The objective of this study is identify key factors that determine the ticket-sales revenue of minor league baseball teams and, in doing so, to verify that marketing strategies can lead to greater success for free enterprise in this milieu. To ensure greater comparability of data between teams and hence greater relevance of the results, this study focuses upon a single grouping of minor league ...