Customer satisfaction analyses are deeply based on customers’ judgments and as consequence, they can be characterized by a certain degree of uncertainty generally ascribed to coexistence of three relevant aspects: vagueness, imprecision and subjectivity. In the present paper, a methodology able to handle such uncertainty, based on the ServQual discrepancy paradigm and that uses in combined mann...

There is a great need for estimation of passenger flow temporal and spatial distribution in urban rail transit network. The literature review indicates that passenger flow assignment models considering capacity constraints with overload delay factor for in-vehicle crowding are limited in schedule-based network. This paper proposes a stochastic user equilibrium model for solving the assignment p...

With the rapid development of integrated energy system, large-scale and high-permeability access distributed generations (DGs) is making distribution networks develop into active (ADNs). The increased complexity ADNs also increases vulnerabilities for cyberattacks. It a new challenge how to evaluate situation an ADN so as support decision-making grid control policies in condition cyberattacks p...

BACKGROUND The observation of cecoileal reflux to barium enema is not rare; however, its causes and consequences have not been widely investigated. Considering that ileocecal junction exerts a function as barrier to invasion of bacteria from colon to small bowel, it seems interesting to study the intestinal microflora in subjects carrying cecoileal reflux. AIMS This study aims at evaluating t...

Recent system advances in the rapid transit sector have led to a position where the various modes are trying to look and feel like a mode which they are not buses acting like trams, trams pretending to be metro or even heavy rail (tram-train). There are issues associated with this blurring of boundaries that makes the definition within the existing typology redundant. Added to this there is a p...