By July 2011, North American carsharing had grown to an industry of nearly 640,000 members since its inception on the continent more than 15 years ago. Carsharing engenders changes in member travel patterns both towards and away from public transit and non-motorized modes. This study, which builds on the work of two previous studies, evaluates this shift in travel based on a 6281 respondent sur...

Carsharing is regarded as an efficient way to reduce parking difficulty and road congestion, the sub-leasing type of round-trip carsharing innovative enhance efficiency carsharing. Meanwhile, with help sub-leasing, turnover rate a lot increases, operator can earn certain profit when acts station. This study aims at extending application by suggesting integrated framework based on concept autono...

Editor’s note: This is one of several recent useful overviews of international carsharing experience over the last decade. We have chosen to open the report with this particular summary since it provides a competent introduction to the more detailed materials that follow. For more extensive treatment and analysis from other, at times somewhat broader perspectives, the reader is referred to the ...

This paper covers some of the main aspects of multimodal transportation design (fundamental elements, topology and some existing approaches) before introducing the numerous and various challenges it poses, as a system of systems: legal and business aspects, demand prediction and multimodal planning and supervision. As an illustration, it then highlights some challenges specific to carsharing su...

Health care organizations face challenges in providing language services for Limited English proficiency (LEP) clients. Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, we have been working to develop a technology for proximate simultaneous medical interpretation. In an effort to understand the relative importance of physical proximity, audio cues and visual cues to effective interpre...

To have “full” entropy has been defined in a draft NIST standard to be to have min-entropy very close, proportionally, to the min-entropy of a uniform distribution. A function is uniform if all its preimages have the same size. This report proves that the output of any uniform compression function can fail to have full entropy, even when the input has full entropy.

As is well known, a continuous parameter process with mutually independent random variables is not jointly measurable in the usual sense. This paper proposes an extension of the usual product measure-theoretic framework, using a natural “one-way Fubini” property. When the random variables are independent even in a very weak sense, this property guarantees joint measurability and defines a uniqu...