ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dissertation describes the functions of bus and minibus taxi terminals and transfer facilities. Planning, design and evaluation guidelines are proposed. These proposals are aimed at the following aspects: the geometric features and functional layout of facilities in order...

The transportation sector is a significant contributor to current global climatic problems, one of the most prominent problems that today's society faces. In this dissertation, three complementary problems are addressed to support emissions reduction efforts by providing tools to help reduce...

Due to the growing concerns with climate change and energy supply, Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), which uses the guaranteed future utility savings to repay the initial renovation investments, becomes increasingly popular. However, most Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) set the savings...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been regarded as one of the most important information technology developments in the past decades. While ERP systems provide the potential to bring substantial benefits, their implementations are characterized with large capital outlay, long...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997

Water is life and its provision is vital not only for purposes of sustaining life but alsofor convenience, health, sanitation and economic well being. The United Nationsestimates that over one billion people living in developing countries lack access tosafe water, with a substantialp roportion...

Strategic management, also described as policy or simply strategy, deals with the long-term direction and success of organisations, and covers issues that are usually of primary concern to senior and top management.Construction organisations have started to embrace a strategic approachas a way...

Existing appraisal and evaluation methodologies provide for aseparate assessment of technical, financial, economic, institutional,social and environmental aspects of projects without a unifying theoryto combine these aspects into a single measure of project performance.Data Envelopment Analysis...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. February 2010. Major: Civil Engineering. Advisor: David M. Levinson. 1 computer file (PDF); xvi, 153 pages, appendix A.

University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. March 2010. Major: Civil Engineering. Civil Engineering. Advisor: David M. Levinson. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 36 pages. Ill. (some col.)