Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions
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Promoting the Concept of Sustainable Transportation within the Federal System - The Need to Reinvent the U.S. DOT
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2006-08)This paper argues that a major obstacle to progress towards sustainable development/transportation is the lack of an integrated approach to decision-making within the U.S. federal system. To address this problem, the concept ... -
Trade-off/Positional Analysis (with a Rawlsian Approach to Equity) as an Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in Socio-technical Decisions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2006-08)This paper introduces a hybrid trade-off/positional analysis framework as an alternative to cost-benefit analysis (CBA). As a decision-support tool, the proposed framework [1] allows decision-makers not to monetize or ... -
Advances in Supply Chain Management: Potential to Improve Forecasting Accuracy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2016-07)Forecasting is a necessity almost in any operation. However, the tools of forecasting are still primitive in view of the great strides made by research and the increasing abundance of data made possible by automatic ...
