Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • NEC FUTURE Preliminary Alternatives Report: Public Comment 

      Sussman, Joseph M.; Archila, Andres F.; Carlson, S. Joel; Pena-Alcaraz, Maite; Soshi, Kawakami; e.a. (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 ...

    • Carbon Efficiency of Humanitarian Supply Chains: Evidence from French Red Cross operations 

      Oberhofer, Peter; Blanco, Edgar; Craig, Anthony J. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-06)
      Natural catastrophes are often amplified by man-made impact on the environment. Sustainability is identified as a major gap in humanitarian logistics research literature. Although humanitarian supply chains are designed ...

    • House of Project Complexity – Understanding Complexity in Large Infrastructure Projects 

      Lessard, Donald Ray; Sakhrani, Vivek; Miller, Roger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-05)
      This paper describes our conceptualization of complexity in Large Infrastructure Projects (LIPs). Since complexity itself is an emergent concept that is hard to pin down, we focus on the relationship between various project ...