The capability indices are widely used by quality professionals as an estimate of process capability. Many process indices have been proposed and developed with C p , C pk and C pm among the most widely used. More recently, techniques have been developed to construct lower 95 percent confidence...

“Everything should be made as simple as possible—but not simpler” Albert Einstein Traffic Theory, like all other sciences, aims at understanding and improving a physical phenomenon. The phenomenon addressed by Traffic Theory is, of course, automobile traffic, and the problems associated...

Economy-energy-environment: COMPASS approach -- The Framework of Analysis -- Object-oriented database and modelling system -- IO, macro-finance, and trade model specification -- Endogenized trade shares in a global model -- Developing an energy balance simulation model --...

This study includes a literature review of existing traffic simulation models potentially suited for evaluating advanced traffic control strategies and in-vehicle information systems within an integrated freeway/ arterial corridor. Chapter 1 presents a literature review and identification of...

The following two proposals are presented: (1) Vehicles are organized in platoons in which the lead car is manually driven and the other cars are under automatic spacing (headway) control. A plausible model of the resulting flow of traffic indicates that, for an average platoon size of 20, the...