Search for dissertations about: "Transportation"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 973 swedish dissertations containing the word Transportation.
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11. Transportation asset management : Quality related accounting, measurements and use in road management processes
Abstract : Today there are shortcomings in monitoring, control, analyses, learning and reporting of the results of activities and operations in the road management processes. There are also shortcomings in transparency and verifiability, in knowledge of road management’s costs and life cycle costs, of the road capital’s standard and condition and in measures of quality deficiency costs, productivity and maintenance backlog. READ MORE
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12. Intermodal Road-Rail Transportation for Express Transport Services
Abstract : Express transport services are produced in highly modularised transport systems, a fact that implies that one subsystem can be exchanged for another without causing a need for major changes in other parts of the system. Express goods are not common on a large scale in freight railway transport systems, as those are often not considered reliable enough for time-critical goods. READ MORE
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13. Valuation of goods transportation characteristics : A study of a sparsely populated area
Abstract : This study describes how consumers and providers of transportation services in a sparsely populated area valuate different transportation characteristics and estimates how these valuations might affect the total goods flows and the flows on individual Origin-Destination links. It also tests Stated-Preference methods as a tool for valuating transportation characteristics. READ MORE
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14. Computer-based decision support for handling uncertainty in railway traffic and transportation
Abstract : Railway transportation has great potential, but interdependencies in the railway traffic make trains very sensitive to disturbances, which can bedifficult to handle. Using railway in an intermodal transport chain may complicate the interconnections with other modes if there is large uncertainty in the performance of the railway. READ MORE
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15. Complexity in Transportation and Logistics Systems An Integrated Approach to Modelling and Analysis
Abstract : The basis for the thesis is to assess the usefulness of describing and analysing transportation and logistics systems as being complex systems. The reason and assumption being that in the future more integrated and sophisticated systems and solutions will be demanded. READ MORE