Title of Document: SYSTEM-LEVEL ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF LONG-HAUL TRUCK IDLE-REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES Ethan Edward Lust, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 2008 Directed By: Dr. Reinhard Radermacher, Director, Center for Environmental Energy Engineering As of January 1, 2008 idling of the main vehicle engine for the purpose of powering sleeper cabin amenities by any truck over 10,000...

Location-allocation modeling has always been regarded as a core part of spatial analysis. A review the literature, however, reveals that, nevertheless, publications related to facility location disappeared almost completely from geographic journals in meantime. It can be assumed that one major reason for this development is limited capability location-allocation modules implemented GIS packages...

Truck arrival management (TAM) has been recognized as an effective solution to alleviate the gate congestion at container terminals. To further utilize TAM in improving the overall terminal performance, this study integrates TAM with the other terminal operations at a tactical level. An integrated planning model and a sequential planning model are presented to coordinate the major terminal plan...

Sharing data between GIS software (Arc/Info) and Traffic Demand Modeling Software (EMME/2) has long been an issue of interest to traffic engineers. A literature review and evaluation of current efforts on the data exchange is given in this paper. The authors also developed their own economical method to realize the data transform through Matlab programming. As a practice, a model of the truck f...

The proper allocation of financial and human resources to the various software development activities is a very important and critical task contributing to the success of the software project. To provide a realistic allocation, the manager of a software development project should account for the various activities needed to ensure the completion of the project with the required quality, on-time...

This work presents three multi-objective heuristic algorithms based on Two-phase Pareto Local Search with VNS (2PPLS-VNS), Multi-objective Variable Neighborhood Search (MOVNS) and Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II). The algorithms were applied to the open-pit-mining operational planning problem with dynamic truck allocation (OPMOP). Approximations to Pareto sets generated by t...

In the surface mining industry, the cost of workplace-related accidents is high in terms of downtime and equipment repair. Training operators how to safely inspect and operate their vehicles is the major part of any training program. Traditional training methods are often expensive, ineffective, or even life-threatening. As a result, the mining industry is constantly searching for better traini...

The Truck Factor designates the minimal number of developers that have to be hit by a truck (or quit) before a project is incapacitated. It can be seen as a measurement of the concentration of information in individual team members. We calculate the Truck Factor for 133 popular GitHub applications, in six languages. Results show that most systems have a small truck factor (46% have Truck Factor...