Special Report

Special Report
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 784
Release: 1973
Genre: Highway engineering
ISBN:

Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability

Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2011
Genre: Traffic congestion
ISBN: 030912915X

"Addresses various ways that transportation agencies can reengineer their day-to-day business practices to enhance traffic operations, address nonrecurring traffic congestion, and improve the reliability of travel times delivered to roadway system users"--Foreword.

Cost-effective Performance Measures for Travel Time Delay, Variation, and Reliability

Cost-effective Performance Measures for Travel Time Delay, Variation, and Reliability
Author: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2008
Genre: Traffic congestion
ISBN: 0309117410

TRB¿s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 618: Cost-Effective Performance Measures for Travel Time Delay, Variation, and Reliability explores a framework and methods to predict, measure, and report travel time, delay, and reliability from a customer-oriented perspective.

Improving Fish Stock Assessments

Improving Fish Stock Assessments
Author: Committee on Fish Stock Assessment Methods
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1998-03-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309524326

Ocean harvests have plateaued worldwide and many important commercial stocks have been depleted. This has caused great concern among scientists, fishery managers, the fishing community, and the public. This book evaluates the major models used for estimating the size and structure of marine fish populations (stock assessments) and changes in populations over time. It demonstrates how problems that may occur in fisheries data--for example underreporting or changes in the likelihood that fish can be caught with a given type of gear--can seriously degrade the quality of stock assessments. The volume makes recommendations for means to improve stock assessments and their use in fishery management.

Handbook of Research Methods in Migration

Handbook of Research Methods in Migration
Author: William L. Allen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2024-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800378033

In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, William Allen and Carlos Vargas-Silva bring together a diverse range of experts to explore the latest research methods in migration studies, taking stock of major changes that have been salient for migration research—as well as the social sciences more broadly—in the last decade. Spanning a variety of different methodologies, this second edition of the Handbook of Research Methods in Migration provides practical guidance on designing, completing, and communicating migration research, considering diverse audiences including migrants themselves. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Low-Carbon Oriented Improvement Strategy for Flexibility and Resiliency of Multi-Energy Systems

Low-Carbon Oriented Improvement Strategy for Flexibility and Resiliency of Multi-Energy Systems
Author: Yumin Zhang
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2024-09-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 2832554377

Due to the inherent volatility and randomness, the increasing share of energy from renewable resources presents a challenge to the operation of multi-energy systems with heterogeneous energy carriers such as electricity, heat, hydrogen, etc. These factors will make the systems hard to adjust their supply and demand flexibly to maintain energy balance to ensure reliability. Further, this hinders the development of a low-carbon and economically viable energy system. By making full use of the synergistic interaction of generation, transmission, load demand, and energy storage, a three-fold approach focused on quantifying demand flexibility, evaluating supply capabilities, and enhancing resilience can unlock the flexibility potential across various sectors of new energy systems. This approach provides an effective means of facilitating the transition from conventional energy systems to low-carbon, clean-energy-oriented paradigms. However, huge challenges arising from renewable energy pose great obstacles to the aforementioned solution pathway. The main objectives of this Research Topic are: 1. Develop advanced carbon emission accounting and measurement techniques for emerging multi-energy systems 2. Design effective methods for predicting renewable electricity generation 3. Proposed efficient methods for quantitative assessment of uncertainty from renewables and loads 4. Put forward advanced evaluation, optimization, and planning strategies incorporating diverse flexibility resources 5. Design multifaceted market mechanisms and collaborative frameworks balancing economics and low carbon footprint 6. Develop operational control and resilience-enhancement techniques for distribution networks under large-scale distributed energy integration