Browsing Flight Transportation Laboratory by Subject "Freight"

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    • Air freight : the problems of airport restrictions : final report on the Conference of Air Cargo Industry Considerations of Airport Curfews 

      Ausrotas, Raymond A.; Taneja, Nawal K. (Cambridge, MA : Flight Transportation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1979], 1979)
      Noise due to aircraft was considered to be a potential problem as far back as 1952, when the Doolittle Commission established by President Truman urged that a major effort be made to reduce aircraft noise. With the 'advent ...

    • Freight mode choice : air transport versus ocean transport in the 1990's 

      Lewis, Dale B. (Cambridge, MA : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1994], 1994)
      Value density is often considered when considering the choice whether to ship cargo by air or by water. However, although cargo value is directly linked to the overall cost of shipment, it is the deciding factor in mode ...

    • Intermodal air-surface movement of cargo John H. Mahoney. 

      Mahoney, John H. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1980], 1980)
      Someone who told me he was a friend asked me to talk to you about "any single important aspect of air cargo" and the booby trap I suddenly stumbled into was the difficulty of sticking to a single subject from the many ...

    • Recommendations (Phase I) DOT/CAB/MIT air freight data study 

      Simpson, R. W.; Taneja, Nawal K. (Cambridge, Mass : Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1971], 1971)
      Introduction: On January 15, 1971 the Department of Transportation and the Civil Aeronautics Board announced a joint research project in conjunction with the Department of Transportation's contractor, the Massachusetts ...

    • System design for express airlines 

      Fisher, Michael R. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1987], 1987)
      In this thesis we investigate and analyze express airlines for the purpose of system design. Chapter 1 contains a taxonomy for express carriers that is built around elemental system components, distinguishable from one ...