Processes leading to an increase of demand for a resource as a consequence of increasing the efficiency of using this resource in production or consumption are known as (direct) rebound effects. Rebound effects at micro and macro levels tend to offset the reduction in resource consumption enabled by progress in efficiency. Systems thinking and modeling instruments such as causal loop diagrams a...

Air travel, especially long distance, expose passengers a number of factors that may cause them both physiological and psychological discomfort and even stress. In-flight entertainment system is commonly installed on the long-haul aircraft to improve the passenger’s satisfaction level. However, the current installed and commercially available in-flight entertainment systems do not fully explore...

L. Dahil, Istanbul Aydın University, Department of Mechanical and Metal Technologies, Turkey. A. Karabulut, Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Turkey. In this study, it was aim ed to decrease the vibration reaching to passenger from the legs of vehicle seats. In order to determine the levels of vibrations reaching at passengers, a test pad placed under the...

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Passengers on a transit network with common lines are often faced with the problem of choosing between either to board the arriving bus or to wait for a faster one. Many assignment models are based on the classical assumption that at a given stop passengers board the first arriving carrier of a certain subset of the available lines, often referred to as the attractive set. In this case, it has ...

Demand estimation for the Bus Market Investigation Overview 1. It is important in any examination of a market to gather information on how consumers behave in that market and to gather information on the factors that affect consumers’ demand for the good or service of interest. In particular, with regard to buses, information on passenger demand can help us measure the extent to which other mod...

Since September 11, 2001, airport screening procedures in the US have been continuously evolving. For example, the passenger screening process is now trying to strike a balance between security and customer service (i.e. minimizing wait times). This balancing act has important implications not only for passenger safety, but also for the financial stability of an airline industry that is faced w...

Designing effective aviation security systems has become a problem of national concern. Passenger screening is an important component of aviation security. Developing real-time passenger screening strategies can be quite challenging. This paper identifies a methodology that can be used in real-time to optimally assign passengers to aviation security resources for the Sequential Stochastic Multi...

The mechanisms for young drivers being at increased risk of collision with peer aged passengers in the car are not well understood. Most studies infer a link between passenger distraction and the number of passengers, but a causal link has not been previously shown. A group of young drivers with their full Ontario, Canada G license were tested in a simulated driving environment in three conditi...

Aimed at the complicated problems of attraction characteristics regarding passenger flow in urban rail transit network, the concept of the gravity field of passenger flow is proposed in this paper. We establish the computation methods of field strength and potential energy to reveal the potential attraction relationship among stations from the perspective of the collection and distribution of p...