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Technology-Enabled Strategy Development Alternatives for Surface Transportation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-10)
This paper examines strategy development processes in surface transportation systems. In the U.S., transportation organizations typically develop strategy through a formal planning process; however, planning is not the ...
ESD Summer Reading Lists 2003–2011
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-07)
Back in 2003, when ESD was a toddler of about 41⁄2, we were preparing for our spring semester offsite traditionally held at the end of the academic year in late May or early June. I had the idea of preparing a short list ...
Comparative Study of High-Speed Passenger Rail Deployment in Megaregion Corridors: Current Experiences and Future Opportunities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2010-12)
Deployment of high-speed passenger rail services has occurred around the world in densely-populated corridors, often with the effect of either creating or enhancing a unified economic “megaregion” agglomeration. This paper ...
Taming the Business Cycles in Commercial Aviation: Trade-space analysis of strategic alternatives using simulation modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-05)
We investigate the effectiveness of strategic alternatives that are designed to dampen the cyclicality manifest in the commercial aviation related industries. The constituent enterprises of the commercial aviation system ...
Teaching Systems Thinking to Engineering Undergraduates Using the CLIOS Process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-05)
The introductory science courses taken by engineering undergraduates are usually intensely reductionist in form, silos in physics, chemistry, biology, and so forth. Then, their engineering subjects in the early undergraduate ...
Discontinuous Regions: High-Speed Rail and the Limits of Traditional Governance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-07)
Globalization and the interconnectivity of the economy have magnified the role of regions, restructuring social and economic relationships into networks that span increasing distances. At the same time, greater attention ...
Residential satisfaction close to highways: The impact of accessibility, nuisances and highway adjustment projects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-01)
In this paper we focus on gaining insight into the residential satisfaction of households near highways, based on survey data collected among 1,225 respondents in the Netherlands living within 1,000 meters from a highway. ...
NEC FUTURE Preliminary Alternatives Report: Public Comment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-06)
The United States Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is currently in the early stages of a planning process to define a 30-year passenger rail investment plan for the Northeast Corridor ...
Annotated Bibliography of Papers Relevant to High-speed Rail, Regional Economic Development and Related Areas
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-12)
With HSR continuing to be the target of investments around the world, and with even the United States elevating the place of HSR on its public agenda, we have developed this annotated bibliography of references on HSR, ...
Collected Views on Complexity in Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
The term complexity is used in many different ways in the systems domain. The different uses of this term may depend upon the kind of system being characterized, or perhaps the disciplinary perspective being brought to ...