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Gowri Kusuma, P. "‘Homestays’ Seamless Sensory Marketing." Shanlax International Journal of Management 8, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 28–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/management.v8i1.3216.
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Travel is an important mode of rejuvenating oneself. In this era of stress and busy life style, vacation acts as one of the therapy to burnout our stress. While planning for a vacation, one has to take care of a lot of factors. One such factor is where to stay? In this paper, the author has attempted to study the option and availability of ‘Homestays’ as a primary deciding factor in zeroing the destination for a vacation. Further, the study is extended to explore the elements of sensory marketing that drive towards opting for homestays. Data is collected from the Indian tourists who stayed in homestays during their vacation in the last three years. The results reveal how sensory marketing appeals to attract tourists in opting for homestays. The study also advocates that homestays can play a major role in capturing and delivering the values of the great Indian culture to the next generation.
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Hine, J., and J. Scott. "Seamless, accessible travel: users’ views of the public transport journey and interchange." Transport Policy 7, no. 3 (July 2000): 217–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0967-070x(00)00022-6.
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Kostadinova, Nadezhda, and Plamen Tsenov. "Application of Omnichannel Distribution in Tourism." Socio-Economic Analyses 13, no. 2 (December 21, 2022): 231–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.54664/jbcb3468.
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Omnichannel distribution is gaining more and more popularity in today’s world of digitalization and globalization. An increasing number of travel companies are discovering its advantages and implementing it in their activities. The main focus of omnichannel distribution is on consumers and their shopping experiences. All stages of the purchase process must be seamless and as convenient as possible for consumers.
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Nathanail, Eftihia, Giannis Adamos, Maria Tsami, and Irina Yatskiv Jackiva. "Green Urban Interchanges: Stakeholder and User Perspectives." Transport and Telecommunication Journal 19, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2018-0015.
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Abstract The present paper aims at analysing the concept of “urban interchanges” as a solution towards seamless transportation and sustainable mobility. Based on an extensive review of policies, initiatives and data analysis coming from interviews and meetings with stakeholders, a coherent interchange design typology was formulated that links seamless transport and urban interchanges to spatial and urban planning. Focusing on the impact of user satisfaction as a priority towards user travel choices, a list of indicators was valuated. The comparative analysis of interchange typology performance formulated by the users’ perception regarding network accessibility, surrounding area, offered interchange time facilities and environmentally friendly services and infrastructure revealed fruitful findings on proper interchange design towards sustainability and reformation of the city-hubs into true green urban interchanges.
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Mahrous, Abeer A., and Salah S. Hassan. "Achieving Superior Customer Experience: An Investigation of Multichannel Choices in the Travel and Tourism Industry of an Emerging Market." Journal of Travel Research 56, no. 8 (November 15, 2016): 1049–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287516677166.
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The travel and tourism industry is seeking to achieve consistently seamless experience for customers to stay connected with brands. This study offers an analysis of the interconnected customer experience journey based on an understanding of multichannel behavior. In particular, it identifies the psychographic and sociodemographic factors associated with three segments of multichannel consumers: multichannel shoppers, multichannel searchers, and store-prone shoppers of the travel and tourism industry. Data from a sample of 315 customers from the travel and tourism sector in Egypt were collected and analyzed using multinomial logistic regression. The findings indicate that psychographic variables (shopping enjoyment, convenience seeking, customer innovativeness, perceived risk, Internet experience, frequency of travel, and channel experience) and some demographic variables (i.e., age and income) distinguish among the categories of multichannel shoppers, multichannel searchers, and store-prone shoppers. The study concludes with useful insights into the potential for developing multichannel strategy to achieve superior customer experience.
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Höser, Moritz, and Ulrike Schmalz. "SUPPORTING DOOR-TO-DOOR AIR TRAVEL: TOWARDS A PRIVACY PRESERVING VIRTUAL ASSISTANT FOR PASSENGERS." Journal of Air Transport Studies 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 25–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.38008/jats.v12i1.174.
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Seamless and personalised door-to-door air transport, supported by virtual assistants, has the potential to make air travel more convenient and profitable. However, processing passengers’ data comes with major privacy concerns. Commercial interests and functionalities need to be reconciled with data protection. Current concepts do not meet these requirements. Filling this gap, this paper conceptualises an architecture for a travel assistant that mediates between mobility and air transport providers as well as passengers while assuring privacy through local computation. The concept targets a time horizon of 10+ years and addresses steady growth of air passenger volume (post-Covid) with a technical solution that includes an open, modular platform. The proposed architecture can support business advantages like network effects, the improvement of passengers’ overall travel experience, and a new approach that ensures traveller’s privacy online. Further research and the development of a prototype are necessary for first simulations and implications.
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Darmawan, Vertic Eridani Budi, and Yuh Wen Chen. "Implementation of connection scan algorithm in tourism intermodal transportation journey planner: a case study." Jurnal Sistem dan Manajemen Industri 4, no. 2 (December 29, 2020): 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.30656/jsmi.v4i2.2772.
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Accessibility to tourist destinations is an important component in a tourism system, especially for natural tourist destinations located in suburban areas. Good linkage of travel information and physical connections with local transportation services for intercity travel can facilitate more people to travel and promote national tourism destinations. This research takes the popular national tourism destinations and their public transportation service in Taiwan as a research object due to the unavailability of integrated public transport information service. Free Independent Travelers (FIT) demand is growing. This research aims to integrate intermodal public transportation information to support FIT by proposing a seamless way journey planner. In this scenario, the journey planner requires timetable data as input. The Connection Scan Algorithm is used to find the earliest arrival time routes at their destinations. This journey planner is built in PHP language and can complement the official tourism travel information website by Tourism Bureau, MOTC. Hence, the FIT could get the quickest routes to reach the destinations without compiling the public transportation information provided independently.
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Yaqub, Raziq, Sadiq Ahmad, Hassan Ali, and Azzam ul Asar. "AI and Blockchain Integrated Billing Architecture for Charging the Roaming Electric Vehicles." IoT 1, no. 2 (November 15, 2020): 382–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/iot1020022.
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Due to the proliferation of extended travel range electric vehicles (EVs), these will travel through different networks that might be served by different utility companies. Therefore, we propose an architecture capable of offering a charging service to roaming vehicles. Furthermore, although the energy internet supports both the flow of energy and information, it does not support seamless EV roaming service, because it is based on a centralized architecture. The blockchain technology that is based on a decentralized system has the potential to support a secure billing platform for charging the EVs roaming through different electrical jurisdictions. Furthermore, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) ensures that the participating players get a fair portion of the revenue. Thus, the objective of this paper is to develop an AI and blockchain integrated billing architecture that would offer a charging service to the “roaming” EVs and present a fair and unified billing solution.
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Dao, Thi Hong Diep, and Jean-Claude Thill. "Metric, Topological, and Syntactic Accessibility in Three-Dimensional Urban Networked Spaces: Modeling Options and Visualization." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11, no. 9 (August 29, 2022): 467. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11090467.
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In this paper, we take the position that cities gain to be represented as three-dimensional spaces populated by scores of micro-scale-built spaces (buildings, rooms, passageways, squares, etc.). Effective algorithms that evaluate place-based accessibility in built structures while considering the indoor spaces’ complexity at a fine granularity are essential for indoor–outdoor seamless urban planning, navigation, way findings, and supporting emergencies. We present a comprehensive set of spatial modeling options and visualizations of indoor accessibility for an entire built structure based on various notions of travel impedance. Notably, we consider the metric length of the paths and their cognitive complexities due to topologic, syntactic, or integrated intricacy within our approaches. Our work presents a comprehensive selection of indoor accessibility analysis with a detailed implemental discussion that can be applied as a solid foundation for smart city applications or seamless urban research and planning. The analysis and visualization techniques presented in this paper can be easily applied to analyze and visualize built interior geographic spaces to study accessibility differentials in cities with vast vertical expansion aimed at achieving (or at avoiding) specific accessibility outcomes.
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Patil, Prof Dr Soumya. "To Develop an Efficient Critical Vehicle Seamless Movement Technique using AI and ML Methods." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 7 (July 31, 2022): 1559–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.45520.
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Abstract: Traffic congestion is becoming one of the critical issues by posing significant hurdles to critical vehicles, to nature by posing significant pollution. Not only can traffic congestion delay the movement of essential vehicles, but it can also extend travel times, contribute to driver stress, and increase fuel consumption and pollution. Megacities struggle the most from traffic congestion, despite the fact that they seem to be everywhere. Because of this, real-time road traffic density calculations are necessary for better signal control and traffic management. The traffic controller is one of the key elements influencing traffic flow. Therefore, in order to better fulfil this expanding demand, traffic control needs to be improved. Our system's objective is to use real-time traffic junction camera photos to compute traffic density using AI and image processing. It also focuses on the algorithm for changing traffic signals based on the movement of essential vehicles and vehicle density to reduce congestion, speed up the movement of essential vehicles and reduce pollution.
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Chang, Tang-Hsien, Albert Y. Chen, Yu-Ting Hsu, and Chien-Li Yang. "Freeway Travel Time Prediction Based on Seamless Spatio-temporal Data Fusion: Case Study of the Freeway in Taiwan." Transportation Research Procedia 17 (2016): 452–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.11.087.
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Moon, Joon, Young Joo Kim, Taesu Cheong, and Sang Hwa Song. "Locating Battery Swapping Stations for a Smart e-Bus System." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (February 5, 2020): 1142. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12031142.
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With the growing interest and popularity of electric vehicles (EVs), the electrification of buses has been progressing recently. To achieve the seamless operation of electric buses (e-Buses) for public transportation, some bus stations should play the role of battery swapping station due to the limited travel range of e-Buses. In this study, we consider the problem of locating battery swapping stations for e-Buses on a passenger bus traffic network. For this purpose, we propose three integer programming models (set-covering-based model, flow-based model and path-based model) to model the problem of minimizing the number of stations needed. The models are applied and tested on the current bus routes in the Seoul metropolitan area of South Korea.
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Liang, Xiao, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, and Bart van Arem. "Applying a Model for Trip Assignment and Dynamic Routing of Automated Taxis with Congestion: System Performance in the City of Delft, The Netherlands." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 8 (May 4, 2018): 588–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118758048.
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This paper proposes a method of assigning trips to automated taxis (ATs) and designing the routes of those vehicles in an urban road network, and also considering the traffic congestion caused by this dynamic responsive service. The system is envisioned to provide a seamless door-to-door service within a city area for all passenger origins and destinations. An integer programming model is proposed to define the routing of the vehicles according to a profit maximization function, depending on the dynamic travel times, which varies with the ATs’ flow. This will be especially important when the number of automated vehicles (AVs) circulating on the roads is high enough that their routing will cause delays. This system should be able to serve not only the reserved travel requests, but also some real-time requests. A rolling horizon scheme is used to divide one day into several periods in which both the real-time and the booked demand will be considered together. The model was applied to the real size case study city of Delft, the Netherlands. The results allow assessing of the impact of the ATs movements on traffic congestion and the profitability of the system. From this case-study, it is possible to conclude that taking into account the effect of the vehicle flows on travel time leads to changes in the system profit, the satisfied percentage and the driving distance of the vehicles, which highlights the importance of this type of model in the assessment of the operational effects of ATs in the future.
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Trimarchi, Andrea. "Intermodal Air-Rail Agreements: Legal Aspects and Considerations." Air and Space Law 44, Issue 1 (February 1, 2019): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/aila2019002.
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Intermodal air-rail forms of cooperation have proliferated over the last decades as a response to the need for more efficient and strategic alliance in the transportation industry. Airlines and rail operators have indeed concluded formal agreements allowing them to synchronize services and offer an ever more seamless travel experience. While such agreements certainly generate significant benefits for both consumers and carriers, integration between airlines and rail operators may also raise serious concerns as to the applicable legal framework. In light of this, the present article will emphasize on the main legal implications of air-rail agreements. The analysis will consider three areas of interest, namely, competition law, liability and passenger protection. Whereas in terms of competition law, the same legal categories applicable to airline code-shares and alliances may be easily and conceptually borrowed, peculiar and interesting legal issues seem to arise out of the comparison of different international and European legal regimes with respect to liability and passenger protection.
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Seneviratne, Prianka N. "Road Transportation and Trade Facilitation Strategy for Central Asia." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1833, no. 1 (January 2003): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1833-02.
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Changes in trade patterns and consequent demand for transportation are continuing to change in the Central Asian Republics (CAR). Since independence, these nations have formulated and implemented basic strategies to improve transportation and meet changing demand characteristics. International financial institutions have supported these efforts through various lending and nonlending programs. However, the next level of changes in policies, legislation, and management practices to achieve greater efficiency are costlier and will take more time to institute. These changes would have to be backed by a coherent development program with a definite agenda and commitment to create a seamless, international transportation system. The challenges and a systematic approach to developing transport strategies for the CARs are discussed. An overview is provided of the existing demand, emerging trade patterns, and current supply that are the basis for a road transportation strategy to foster travel and trade, with a specific reference to Kazakhstan. The ideal composition of a strategy is discussed along with the issues, constraints, and implementation timing.
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Humayun, Mamoona, Maram Fahhad Almufareh, and Noor Zaman Jhanjhi. "Autonomous Traffic System for Emergency Vehicles." Electronics 11, no. 4 (February 9, 2022): 510. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040510.
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An emergency can occur at any time. To overcome that emergency efficiently, we require seamless movement on the road to approach the destination within a limited time by using an Emergency Vehicle (EV). This paper proposes an emergency vehicle management solution (EVMS) to determine an efficient vehicle-passing sequence that allows the EV to cross a junction without any delay. The proposed system passes the EV and minimally affects the travel times of other vehicles on the junction. In the presence of an EV in the communication range, the proposed system prioritizes the EV by creating space for it in the lane adjacent to the shoulder lane. The shoulder lane is a lane that cyclists and motorcyclists will use in normal situations. However, when an EV enters the communication range, traffic from the adjacent lane will move to the shoulder lane. As the number of vehicles on the road increases rapidly, crossing the EV in the shortest possible time is crucial. The EVMS and algorithms are presented in this study to find the optimal vehicle sequence that gives EVs the highest priority. The proposed solution uses cutting-edge technologies (IoT Sensors, GPS, 5G, and Cloud computing) to collect and pass EVs’ information to the Roadside Units (RSU). The proposed solution was evaluated through mathematical modeling. The results show that the EVMS can reduce the travel times of EVs significantly without causing any performance degradation of normal vehicles.
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Schumann, John W. "Rail in Multimodal Transit Systems: Concept for Improving Urban Mobility by Increasing Choices for Travel and Lifestyle." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1571, no. 1 (January 1997): 208–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1571-26.
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Metro areas relying on automobile-based transport are increasingly congested. Some alternatives to gridlock are being implemented; others languish without political acceptance. Congestion is more than a suburban issue. Both intersuburban and radial travel woes are growing and must be addressed. Agencies should start with bus improvements, then add rail where appropriate. Experience shows that, unlike purely radial systems, transit networks with many transfer opportunities offer options to users in more travel markets and, as a result, attract more riders. In the United States, rail is often viewed as serving just the central business district (CBD) and being incapable of accommodating suburban trips. In fact, radial rail lines can provide attractive options for trips to new centers near suburban rail stations, in addition to CBD trips. Rail systems become regional connections, linked via timed transfers at transit centers with bus and paratransit feeders and circulators. Clock headways and integrated fares complete a seamless multimodal, multidestinational system serving the CBD as well as emerging regional centers. Such systems work best as part of a comprehensive program for sustainable urban development, consciously planned by committed, far-sighted political leaders who build public consensus to implement a regional vision for community patterns that encourage a rich variety of lifestyle and mobility choices. Key to effecting such transport systems are ( a) competent transit management that seeks out and serves a variety of niche markets, and ( b) coordinated transportation and land use decision making that values transit links to major destinations and compact communities.
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Colovic, Aleksandra, Salvatore Gabriele Pilone, Katarina Kukić, Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić, and Michele Ottomanelli. "Airport Access Mode Choice: Analysis of Passengers’ Behavior in European Countries." Sustainability 14, no. 15 (July 28, 2022): 9267. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14159267.
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Transportation systems require many challenges in providing seamless door-to-door mobility. The main initiatives are encouraging a shift from private to other transport modes by providing a fully integrated multimodal service in which the coordination and data sharing among different stakeholders are required. The idea of this paper is to analyze the mode choice, as well as the variables that affect the travelers’ airport access mode choice. For that purpose, we used multinomial logistics (MNL) regression to determine probability of mode choice given various multimodal chain alternatives. The inputs of the proposed model were based on the answers from the participants of the online survey which was disseminated in Europe. Through more than 2000 answers to the survey, we collected the data related to the factors that influence the airport access mode choice, travelers’ attitude, motives for traveling, as well as the socio-demographics of participants. Afterwards, we investigated the influence of the main factors that have an impact on the non-coordination in the multimodal travel chain. The obtained results highlight the impact of the factors “reliability” and “waiting time” in making mode choice.
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Du, Xiaochuan, Zhenjun Zhu, Junlan Chen, Cong Qi, and Xiucheng Guo. "Route Configuration Method for Highway Passenger Hubs from the Perspective of Transportation Integration: A Case Study of Nanjing, China." Symmetry 12, no. 7 (July 19, 2020): 1194. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym12071194.
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As a result of transportation integration, the role of highway passenger transport hubs has changed dramatically; these nodes act as important links to construct a seamless regional comprehensive passenger transport system which reflects the coordination and symmetry of public transportation and the integrated transportation system. In order to optimise the efficiency of transportation organisation and improve the quality of passenger transport services, in this study we developed an optimisation method for the allocation of passenger transport hubs based on the analysis of passenger flow demand and spatial distribution. Configuration models of the departure sites of single-station and multi-station hub lines were established according to the service scope of the stations and the relative generalised travel cost, respectively. The overall optimisation method of the route allocation scheme was proposed by checking and optimising the passenger volume of each station. The developed methodology was successfully validated by applying it to the highway passenger transport hub system of Nanjing, China. The proposed methodology is expected to help management agencies and business operators to optimise existing highway passenger bus lines, thereby improving the quality of their services.
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Ma, Xinwei, Shuai Zhang, Yuchuan Jin, Minqing Zhu, and Yufei Yuan. "Identification of Metro-Bikeshare Transfer Trip Chains by Matching Docked Bikeshare and Metro Smartcards." Energies 15, no. 1 (December 29, 2021): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15010203.
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Metro-bikeshare integration, an important way of improving the efficiency of public transportation, has grown rapidly during the last decades in many countries. However, most previous analysis of metro-bikeshare transfer trips were based on limited sample size and the number of recognized metro-bikeshare trips were not sufficient. The primary objective of this study is to derive a method to recognize metro-bikeshare transfer trips. The two data sources are provided by Nanjing Metro Company and Nanjing Public Bicycle Company over the same period from 9–29 March 2016. The identifying method includes three steps: (1) Matching Card Pairs (2) Filtering Card Pairs and (3) Identifying Card Pairs. The case study indicates that the Support Vector Classification (SVC) performs best with a high prediction accuracy of 95.9% using seamless smartcards. The identifying method is then used to recognize the transfer trips from other types of cards, resulting in 17,022 valid metro-bikeshare transfer trips made by 2948 travelers. Finally, travel patterns extracted from the two groups of identified transfer trips are analyzed comparatively. The method proposed presents new opportunities for analyzing metro-bikeshare transfer trip characteristics.
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Permana, Ariva Sugandi, and Arthit Petchsasithon. "Assessing the Seamlessness of Bangkok Metropolitan Public Transport by using Modified Quantitative Gap Analysis." International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability 7, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 81–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/ijbes.v7.n1.440.
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A sustainable transportation system requires a larger contribution to public transport share in comparison to private transport. Bangkok Metropolitan, the study area, exhibits a significant transport modal alteration trend towards public transport, in line with the expansion of Bangkok Transit System (BTS) and Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) for more coverage within the metropolis along main roads along with expansion of public bus routes, which increases the seamlessness and reduces transit time. This study is important as we believe that the higher seamlessness the more urban travelers would shift to using public transport modes. This matter is considered as a pertinent urban transport problem. This study aims at understanding the level of transit seamlessness of the Bangkok public transport system. The study was carried out by firstly measuring six factors of the regular transit process, on formal and informal transport modes used by Bangkokians. These six factors were observed along the origin and the destination of the travelers with respect to travel time, number of transit points, average transit time, comfort, and transit facilities including facilities for disables, and walking distance. A total number of 300 public transport users were selected as respondents, 50 respondents for each selected transit hub. The selection was based on convenient random sampling considering the variability of destinations and purpose of travel. Despite a different destination, the residence was set as the origin. By using Modified Quantitative Gap Analysis, based on six selected transit hubs, the study found that the seamlessness of the inter-modal transits in Bangkok exhibits a characteristics of hard transit process, particularly for disabled people, notwithstanding the continuous efforts to make the seamless transit are in place, particularly with respect to infrastructure facilities.
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Moffatt, Damian, and Hussein Dia. "Development and Evaluation of Simulation-Based Low Carbon Mobility Assessment Models." Future Transportation 1, no. 2 (July 5, 2021): 134–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/futuretransp1020009.
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The transport sector is a significant contributor to global emissions. In Australia, it is the third largest source of greenhouse gases and is responsible for around 17% of emissions with passenger cars accounting for around half of all transport emissions. Governments at all levels have identified a need for a reduction in transport carbon emissions to meet their net zero emissions targets. This research aims to help decision makers estimate the carbon footprint of transport networks within their jurisdictions and evaluate the impacts of emission-reduction interventions, through development of a simulation-based low carbon mobility assessment model. The model was developed based on a framework that integrates multiple mobility components including individual travel preferences, traffic simulation, and an assessment interface to create a seamless tool for the end-user. The feasibility of the assessment model was demonstrated in a case study for a local city council in Melbourne. In one of many scenarios reported in this paper, the model showed that maintaining current levels of emissions would require a 20% reduction in vehicle trips by 2030, and a much larger reduction would be required to reduce the levels of greenhouse gas emissions and achieve desired emissions reduction targets. The paper concludes with recommendations and future directions to extend the model’s capabilities and applications.
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Chkhotua, Ilona Z., Lyudmila I. Vlasyuk, and Galina V. Zadorozhnaya. "Strategic analysis of industrial tourism development in the regions of Russia: opportunities and threats." Economic Revival of Russia, no. 4 (70) (2021): 156–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.37930/1990-9780-2021-4-70-156-174.
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Industrial tourism is a strategically important area of tourism development in the context of the rich industrial heritage of our country, the need to diversify the economy of single-industry towns and attract the younger generation to work specialties. Tourism has a significant multiplier effect and gives impulses to the whole economy of the region, what confirms a number of hypotheses based on the relationship between tourism and economic growth in the region (for example, Tourism-led Economic Growth Hypothesis). The strategic potential of industrial tourism is obvious in the era of Behavioral economics, when emotional experience, customization and seamless travel are on the top when choosing a tourism product. A number of regions realized the possibility of developing the regional economy through the support of the tourism sector and are already implementing comprehensive tourism programs together with the leading enterprises of the region under the methodological guidance of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. The article analyzes the level of industrial tourism development by the method of clustering regions according to a number of essential parameters of an economic, infrastructural, and social nature. Based on the results of the study, general recommendations are proposed for the strategic development of industrial tourism in the regional context.
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Lee, ChienChing, Emily Woo, and Greg Yap. "To Stay True or Take the Mass Market Route?" Muma Case Review 7 (2022): 001–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/5008.
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Singapore has won many accolades as a Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) destination for 17 years in the Asia Pacific, with the industry having a projected market value of USD5,214.0 by end 2027, with a CAGR of 8.4% (PRNewswire, 2020). Eyeing this huge growth potential, Greg founded TAB Group Pte Ltd in 2019, serving the corporate and private events market. Greg wanted to create memorable experiences and connect people by curating unique events with selected vendors, making the entire event planning process seamless and transparent for customers via TAB’s online platform solution while providing excellent and personalized customer service. Response was good and TAB was ready to scale up. Then Covid-19 struck in December 2019. This global pandemic spared no economy, with many countries currently experiencing multiple waves of resurgence, prompting governments to declare lockdowns and suspensions of green lane travel arrangements. While pivoting to curating virtual experiences afforded TAB the opportunity to diversify its offerings and continue to be relevant in the new normal, ongoing restrictions and limitations placed on gatherings and group sizes by the local government inhibited TAB from taking off in the scale that it had projected. Considering the economic downturn, businesses locally and internationally, were experiencing reduced budgets on corporate events and client entertaining. With TAB’s target corporate customer segment not buying events at the same pace pre-Covid, Greg was faced with two options. The first option was to rebrand his product and market to consumers and special events. Greg would be faced with fierce competition from bigger players that already offer existing solutions and dominate this segment while potentially losing his core segment of corporate customers that demand his unique solution. The second option was to remain committed to TAB’s core vision and mission of offering TAB’s solution to a niche market. This could potentially result in prolonged limited growth in the short term. However, it would also enable TAB to build a strong base of suppliers and partners to be ready to expand when borders reopen and travel resumes.
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Zalar, Dušan, Rasa Ušpalytė-Vitkūnienė, Danijel Rebolj, and Marjan Lep. "A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING THE LEVEL OF CONVENIENCE OF TRANSPORT TICKETING SYSTEMS." Transport 33, no. 4 (December 5, 2018): 1005–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16484142.2017.1300783.
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Public transport sustainability is becoming a major driver for public transport development. Public transport ridership represents one of the key performance indicators of sustainability in the sense of balancing the economic, social and environmental aspects of public transport. There are various methods for improving the attractiveness of public transport for passengers by reducing resistances, which discourage potential and existing passengers to use public transport. Transport ticketing is one of the methods. This article presents a methodological framework for evaluating transport ticketing technologies with the use of a transport ticketing convenience model developed by the authors as well as some survey results through the application of the developed framework on traditional smart ticketing and contactless payment card ticketing technologies. First, a methodological framework for modelling ticketing convenience based on end-to-end passenger experience is presented. Second, a ticketing convenience model for barrier-free and double-sided validation baseline ticketing systems is developed. Third, the ticketing system based on contactless bank payment cards is compared with traditional smart ticketing systems in terms of convenience. It is shown that a contactless payment cards ticketing system has greater convenience or a better, more seamless travel experience than traditional smart systems. Finally, some research perspectives on enhancing the ticketing convenience model by using mobile smartphones with NFC, BLE and GPS technology, as well as the inclusion of technologies related to ticketing such as passenger information systems into the model, are contemplated.
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Fudholi, Dhomas Hatta, Septia Rani, Dimastyo Muhaimin Arifin, and Mochamad Rezky Satyatama. "Deep Learning-based Mobile Tourism Recommender System." Scientific Journal of Informatics 8, no. 1 (May 10, 2021): 111–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/sji.v8i1.29262.
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A tourism recommendation system is a crucial solution to help tourists discover more diverse tourism destinations. A content-based approach in a recommender system can be an effective way of recommending items because it looks at the user's preference histories. For a cold-start problem in the tourism domain, where rating data or past access may not be found, we can treat the user's past-travel-photos as the histories data. Besides, the use of photos as an input makes the user experience seamless and more effortless. The current development in Artificial Intelligence-based services enable the possibilities to implement such experience. This research developed a Deep Learning-based mobile tourism recommender system that gives recommendations on local tourism destinations based on the user's favorite traveling photos. To provide a recommendation, we use cosine similarity to measure the similarity score between one's pictures and tourism destination's galleries through their label tag vectors. The label tag is inferred using an image classifier model that runs from a mobile user device through Tensorflow Lite. There are 40 label tags, which refer to local tourism destination categories, activities, and objects. The model is trained using state-of-the-art mobile deep learning architecture EfficientNet-Lite. We did several experiments and got an accuracy result of more than 85% on average, using EfficientNet-Lite as the base architecture. The implementation of the system as an Android application has been proved to give an excellent recommendation with Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) equals to 5%.
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Ali, Muhammad Hasnain, Rao Akmal Ali, and Ahsan Farooq. "The Effect of Tourism, Economic Growth and Environment in Developing Countries." iRASD Journal of Energy & Environment 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.52131/jee.2021.0201.0013.
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The basic purpose of this study is to identify a link concerning tourism, pecuniary expansion, and environmental protection in developing countries. The current research looks at the overall state of emerging economies as well as income comparisons. The study employs the 3sls model. Tourism benefits from economic growth as well. Tourism is attracted by economic prosperity, and tourism will increase tourism. According to the findings, economic growth has a negative impact on the environment, and the environment has an adverse effect on economic growth. As income activity accelerates, so will environmental emissions, and environmental emissions have a detrimental impact on economic growth? Further findings imply that tourism has a favorable impact on the environment, with an increase in tourism causing a depreciation of the ecosystem. Environmental pollution has a favorable effect on tourism, as the majority of people travel to other countries for business and religious reasons. This can be found in all models. The exchange rate has a negative influence on the overall and high-income groups, but a favorable effect in the reduced groups. In all models, the other variable, political instability, has a negative effect on tourism, while trade has a favorable effect. GDP is boosted by the literacy rate and gross capital formation Population increase, urbanization, and energy use all have a favorable impact on environmental emissions, according to the study. According to the findings, host nations should not only encourage tourism, but also guarantee that the environment is not harmed, therefore ecofriendly must be pushed to maintain a seamless and sustainable development process.
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Prakoso, Septyanto Galan, Eryan Dwiki Effendi, Rizaldi Yazid Purnama Putra, Rameez Ali Surya Negara, and Niki Wahyu Sayekti. "The Application of Innovative Technology on Internal Border Control in Schengen Area." JPPUMA Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan dan Sosial Politik Universitas Medan Area 9, no. 2 (September 9, 2021): 174–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31289/jppuma.v9i2.5095.
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This article or writing aims to discuss the application of technology and certain mechanism as the impact of a disruptive era on internal border control in the Schengen area. The problem is focused on the internal border system which got reintroduced as a countermeasure against the 2015 Migrant Crisis in Europe. The analysis conducted in this research will measure whether the application of technology gives a practical benefit in alleviating internal border controls or negative impact such as discrimination towards refugees and immigrants in the Schengen area. In order to approach this problem a theoretical reference is used from international relations’ perspective, as a part of the political science greater scope on the issue. The data is collected through library research and analyzed qualitatively. This study concludes that various improvements and improvisation were made in the implementation of border controls. There are several steps taken by the EU for border control checks by utilizing technology such as Visa Information System (VIS), Schengen Information System (SIS), European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS), and FRONTEX. These technologies allow Schengen states to share visa data about individual who enters European Union from its various borders, enable seamless cooperation regarding border controls and law enforcement and visitor tracking between countries. This study conclude that the application of innovative technology on internal border control in Schengen Area is well applied and projectively very useful to tackle the security concerns and conflicting interests within the Schengen area and remove the needs of unnecessarily long physical internal border controls.
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Shah, Fadia, Aamir Anwar, Ijaz ul haq, Hussain AlSalman, Saddam Hussain, and Suheer Al-Hadhrami. "Artificial Intelligence as a Service for Immoral Content Detection and Eradication." Scientific Programming 2022 (January 17, 2022): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6825228.
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Social media is referred to as active global media because of its seamless binding thanks to COVID-19. Connecting software such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, WeChat, and others come with a variety of capabilities. They are well-known for their low-cost, quick, and effective communication. Because of the seclusion and travel constraints caused by COVID-19, concerns, such as low physical involvement in many possible activities, have arisen. Depending on their information, knowledge, nature, experience, and way of behavior, various types of human beings have diverse responses to any scenario. As the number of net subscribers grows, inappropriate material has become a major concern. The world's most prestigious and trustworthy organizations are keenly interested in conducting practical research in this field. The research contributes to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a service (AIaaS) for preventing the spread of immoral content. As software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), AIaaS for immoral content detection and eradication can use effective cloud computing models to leverage this service. It is highly adaptable and dynamic. AIaaS-based immoral content detection is mostly effective for optimizing the outcomes based on big data training data samples. Immoral content is identified for semantic and sentiment evaluation, and content is divided into immoral, cyberbullying, and dislike components. The suggested paper's main issue is the polarity of immoral content that can be processed using an AI-based optimization approach to control content proliferation. To finish the class and statistical analysis, support vector machine (SVM), selection tree, and Naive Bayes classifiers are employed.
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Sauter, Craig, W. Jeffrey Baker, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Silvia Willumsen, Barbara Morcerf, Kristi Gafford, Jessica Kennington, et al. "QIM19-134: Improving Access to Bone Marrow Transplant in the Community: The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance Shared Care Program." Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 17, no. 3.5 (March 8, 2019): QIM19–134. http://dx.doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2018.7247.
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Background: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) created the MSK Cancer Alliance in 2014, a dynamic and bidirectional collaboration with high-quality community providers to enhance access to state-of-the-art cancer care close to home. Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute (HHC), joined the MSK Cancer Alliance as the first member in 2014. Research suggests that bone marrow transplant (BMT) is an underutilized definitive therapy (Yao et al, Biol Blood Bone Marrow Transplant 2013) for patients with hematologic malignancies and the timing of a referral for transplant has significant impact on patient outcomes (National Marrow Donor Program, available at: https://bethematchclinical.org/transplant-indications-and-outcomes/additional-outcomes/timing-impact-on-outcomes/). MSK and HHC developed the BMT Shared Care program to improve access to transplant, ensure BMT specialist consults for appropriate candidates occur during initial treatment planning, reduce burdensome travel for patients by facilitating care locally, and enhance seamless coordination between local oncologists and BMT providers from initial consult through post-transplant care. Methods: To achieve these goals, MSK and HHC physicians, nurses, and staff created a program that includes: HHC hiring a BMT nurse, who trained for 4 weeks at MSK, and works with MSK counterparts to create a streamlined referral process, pretransplant care at HHC, and travel logistics to MSK; MSK and HHC physicians hold virtual tumor boards to jointly evaluate patients and provide BMT consults at the optimal time; onsite lectures and observer-ships focused on advances in BMT, supportive care, and management of complications like graft versus host disease, leading to the integration of additional clinical services like infectious disease and dermatology; and research, including an MSK clinical trial open at HHC to identify and understand barriers to transplant in the community for patients with newly diagnosed or relapsed acute leukemia. Results: Since November 2015, HHC has referred 86 patients for BMT consult through this Shared Care program, with 35 patients transplanted or receiving immune effector cells (IEC) to date. Conclusions: The BMT Shared Care program effectively facilitates the referral and transplant of appropriate patients while allowing them to receive much of their pre- and post-transplant care in their local communities. Collaboration between BMT nurse coordinators and robust physician engagement are essential to this program. Future opportunities include expanding the use of telemedicine, enhancing electronic data sharing, quantifying and analyzing patient satisfaction, and expanding BMT research at HHC.
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Chaudhari, Rakesh, Heet Parmar, Jay Vora, and Vivek K. Patel. "Parametric Study and Investigations of Bead Geometries of GMAW-Based Wire–Arc Additive Manufacturing of 316L Stainless Steels." Metals 12, no. 7 (July 21, 2022): 1232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/met12071232.
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Appropriate selection of wire–arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) variables imparts bead geometries with characteristics of multi-layer structures. Thus, the present study aimed to optimize the gas metal arc welding (GMAW)-based WAAM variables of travel speed (TS), wire feed speed (WFS), and voltage (V) for the bead geometries of bead width (BW) and bead height (BH) on an SS 316L substrate. Single-layer depositions were made through a metallic wire of SS 316L by following an experimental matrix of the Box–Behnken design (BBD) technique. Multivariable regression equations were generated for design variables and responses, and ANOVA was used to investigate the feasibility of the obtained regression equations. WFS was the highest contributor affecting the BW, followed by V and TS, while WFS was again the highest contributor affecting the BH, followed by TS and V. Heat transfer search (HTS) optimization was used to attain optimal combinations. The single-objective optimization result showed a maximum bead height and minimum bead width of 6.72 mm and 3.72 mm, respectively. A multi-layer structure was then fabricated by considering an optimization case study, and it showed optimized parameters at a WFS of 5.50 m/min, TS of 141 mm/min, and voltage of 19 V with the bead height and bead width of 5.01 mm and 7.81 mm, respectively. The multi-layered structure obtained at the optimized parameter was found to be free from disbonding, and seamless fusion was detected between the obtained layers of the structure. The authors believe that the present study will be beneficial for industrial applications for the fabrication of multi-layer structures.
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Masłowski, Dariusz, Kinga Kijewska, and Ewa Kulińska. "Management of Municipal Public Transport Vehicle Journeys by Using the PERT Method." Energies 14, no. 15 (July 21, 2021): 4403. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14154403.
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These days, seamless moving about a city is a determinant of the city’s competitiveness, and is decisive for the life quality in the city. Hence, taking care of appropriate traffic organisation is one of the major tasks of the city authorities. Development of optimal production and spatial interrelations, considering their costs, efficiency and scope of services rendered to individual entities, enables economic and ecological development of the region. Therefore, the issue of major importance for a city is implementing a transport policy that makes it possible to choose a specified method of development (transformation) of the existing transport system in such a way so that it is coherent with the adopted strategy for the city development. The purpose of a transport policy conducted by city authorities should be maintaining the functioning of the urban transport on at least a satisfactory level. The main purpose of the article is to present an innovative solution for optimising the journeys of public transport vehicles, using the PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) method. The method was developed on the basis of the research carried out in the city of Opole, Poland. The article presents a Multicriteria Model of Controlling the vehicles of the Municipal Public Transport-CVMPT) and the method implementation algorithm along with assumptions. The model presented in this article shows the possible way of optimising public transport systems operated in cities, taking into account the travel time of any given bus service, based on normal distribution and the computed probability of such traffic. The application of the method has brought many positive effects through providing optimisation measures in the structure of the municipal public transport.
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Fayez Eliyan, Afnan, Laoucine Kerbache, and Adel Elomri. "Shared Clean Mobility Operations for First-Mile and Last-Mile Public Transit Connections: A Case Study of Doha, Qatar." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2022 (June 6, 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1052221.
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With the aid of recent technological advancements, seamless integration of shared mobility services and public transit may offer efficient and affordable connectivity to the transit stations in urban settings, thereby enhancing residents’ mobility. A previous research mainly focused on car-sharing services as a self-standing mode of transportation. However, due to rapid urbanization acceleration and regions’ extension, commuters often combine the fixed-route/fixed schedules public transportation and car-sharing service in one journey. To this end, we study a one-way, station-based electric car-sharing service interaction with public transportation. We propose an integrated route choice and EV assignment model to address the potential of car-sharing services as a feeder to the public transit network. The integrated model consists of two components, operations of the car-sharing service and the commuter’s route choice and the associated mode choice. The service provider decides on the resource levels, allocations, and relocation strategy in the first component. In the second component, the travel options for the commuters are modeled. The two-component model was simulated in an agent-based simulation based on a case study from the state of Qatar. We further extend the integrated model to include the carpooling option, in which multiple passengers sharing the same route can share the same vehicle. Extensive simulation analyses show that the integration can considerably enhance urban mobility and increase public transportation accessibility through enhanced first and last miles linkages. Moreover, the influence of transportation supply and spatial characteristics on the individual mode choice was estimated. Results indicate that public transit ridership can increase up to 17%. Moreover, adding the carpooling option can significantly decrease the number of relocations operations at a minimal impact on the commuters’ trip performance.
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Zarif, Ahmad, Imaduldin Nazir, Azad Mahmod, Hajira Bibi, Reshma Rasheed, Anjali Patel, and Yathorshan Shanthakumaran. "What Is the Future of Primary Mental Health Care?: A Post COVID-19 Service Evaluation." BJPsych Open 8, S1 (June 2022): S143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.412.
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AimsDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, many service lines needed to be transformed to enable more telemedicine and virtual consultations. This enabled seamless care across many service boundaries as all services adapted to operate virtually. During COVID-19, the mental health of many patients deteriorated. With easing of restrictions, we wanted the patient voice to be heard and to ensure our service was patient-centred. We undertook a service evaluation to understand our patients preferences. Our cross-sectional study evaluated patient preferences for their care which we felt was important as earlier during pandemic, patients did not have the choice to choose between virtual vs face-to-face consultations. We felt this was important to our patients so they could exercise choice of consultation and this would enable the patient voice to be heard.Methods591 patients across three practices in primary care were identified from the Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and on the depression register. They were asked about their preference of care: telemedicine vs face-to-face consultations. Using a simple questionnaire, in order to record their preference on the patient screen. Of these a total of 495 patients (83%) participated in the study.ResultsOf the 495 respondents, 308 (52%) declined virtual telemedicine consultations and 175 (29%) patients were content with virtual consultations. Of the 175 patients who wanted telemedicine were 20 to 40 years of age. Reasons given included convenience (allows family and work commitment) and overall time management (reluctancy to travel). The 308 patients (52%) wanted face-to-face consultations because they wanted human contact, validation of their mental health problems, reassurance and were uncomfortable about discussions on the phone. They also had poor mobility especially the elderly who chose traditional models of care.ConclusionAs services are restored to the new norm of patient care, patient choice should remain paramount if services are to remain patient centric. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many services transformed to virtual consultation of necessity without recognising the impact on patients themselves. Patients with serious mental health and depression are inherently vulnerable and our evaluation goes to show that despite the popularity of telemedicine. Patient choice should enable patients to access face-to-face care for greater patient satisfaction.
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Brannon, Janice A., Ellen R. Cohn, and Jana Cason. "Making the Case for Uniformity in Professional State Licensure Requirements." International Journal of Telerehabilitation 4, no. 1 (June 6, 2012): 41–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2012.6091.
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Telehealth, the use of communication and information technologies to deliver health services, was initially envisioned as a way for persons in rural or remote settings to receive otherwise unavailable healthcare services. Now, in addition to overcoming personnel shortages for underserved populations, telehealth shows promise in meeting the needs of a constantly mobile U.S. society and workforce. Fortunately, telerehabilitation can meet the needs of a mobile society and workforce by enabling continuity of care for individuals who are out-of-town, on vacation, in temporary residence as a university student, or on business travel. Unfortunately, outdated legislative and regulatory policies and inhospitable infrastructures currently stand in the way of a seamless continuum of care.In 2010, the American Telemedicine Association’s Telerehabilitation Special Interest Group (TR SIG) convened a License Portability Sub-Committee to explore ways to diminish barriers for state licensure portability with a particular focus on physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and audiology. In 2011, the Subcommittee published a factsheet that detailed the challenges and potential solutions that surround the difficult issue of licensure portability. Concurrently, the American Telemedicine Association is advocating for national reform of professional licensure.At the heart of all licensure requirements is the ability to determine who should be granted the authority to practice in a particular profession. This is done by focusing on educational, examination and behavioral requirements that are deemed the minimum necessary to protect the public from harm. States, however, with whom authority for licensure of health professionals rests, have independently determined those minimum requirements. This approach has led to a myriad of requirements that vary from state to state. Licensure portability will best succeed when variability between licensure requirements is minimized and an efficient licensure process exists. In this paper, these two critical factors for licensure portability are referred to as “licensure requirements” and “the credentialing process.” Currently the variability between both of these factors is different between professions as well as between jurisdictions. To find the best solution to licensure portability, it is critical to determine which of these two elements create significant barriers for licensure mobility. This document outlines a method for the professions to begin collecting data to pinpoint the areas where agreement and variations exist in licensure requirements and processes between states. Such information will inform efforts towards uniformity.
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Suchkov, M., A. Sushentsov, and A. Baykov. "Leadership and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the Next Innovation Wave." International Trends / Mezhdunarodnye protsessy 18, no. 4 (2020): 62–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17994/it.2020.18.4.63.1.
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The evolution of digital technologies rooted in the transformation of the world into a holistic quantifiable system brings about foundational shifts in how an individuals interact with information. Current technological progress is cyclical in nature: emerging capabilities create different environment with new threats that prompt further search for technological solutions to address them, and occurs \on two interwoven tracks: the increasing sophistication of the information system itself (better ways to collect, store and analyze data) and better means of human interaction with it (search engines, faster connection, more seamless interface with devices). Similar in scope to the spread of printed books, the digital transformation is still at its nascency: the “printing press” has been invented, but the humanity is yet to perfect it and experience the full array of social and political changes it is bound to incur. This article is an attempt to peek into such “digital future”. Taking stock of the observable trends it charts the course of major shifts in approaches to foreign policy and maps out possible impediments for effective leadership in the new era. The conceptualization of the transformations is picking up speed, yet main IR schools tackling dispersed aspects, such as the impact of digital technologies on the balance of power (realism), on the nature of government and international environment (liberalism) and on the interpretation of the emerging processes (constructivism), do not offer a comprehensive approach. At the same time despite the growing analyzability and, hence, rationality of the world the studies of the decision-making process still struggle to account for the “human nature” of state leadership. The futility of the attempts to measure irrationality underlines the core argument of the article – with the overall trend for deeper convergence between an information system and a human the emerging digital future will be determined by individuals, who will remain the ultimate stewards of international relations. As a result, the efficiency of leadership, including smart utilization of technological advances, will depend on the quality of “human capital” of elites. On the one hand, accessibility of information, faster data travel and the absence of physical boundaries in the digital space enhance analytical abilities of individuals and improve the quality of decisionmaking. On the other hand, the increasing effortlessness of retrieving, storing and disseminating information results in the shift of perspective: laborious process of developing a solution is substituted by search for the most acceptable alternative, solving a crisis is replaced with manipulating the perception of it, and the quality of decisions is judged not by long-term consequences but by immediate movements in opinion polls.
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Watney, Murdoch. "A South African perspective on mutual legal assistance and extradition in a globalized world." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 15, no. 2 (May 25, 2017): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2012/v15i2a2489.
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This contribution focuses on the modalities of mutual legal assistance and extradition from a South African perspective. The question is posed whether South Africa has succeeded to establish the required framework as a fully fledged member of the international community to make a positive contribution in the fields of mutual legal assistance and extradition subsequent to its international political isolation during the apartheid era. Although the international community derives substantial benefit from a borderless global world, it has as a result also to deal with the negative impact of globalization on international crime. Physical and/or electronic crimes are increasingly committed across borders and may be described as borderless, but law enforcement (combating, investigation and prosecution of crime) is still very much confined to the borders of a state. Criminal networks have taken advantage of the opportunities resulting from the dramatic changes in world politics, business, technology, communications and the explosion in international travel and effectively utilize these opportunities to avoid and hamper law enforcement investigations. As a sovereign state has control over its own territory it also implies that states should not interfere with each other’s domestic affairs. The correct and acceptable procedure would be for a state (requesting state) to apply to another state (requested state) for co-operation in the form of mutual legal assistance regarding the gathering of evidence and/or extradition of the perpetrator. Co-operation between states are governed by public international law between the requesting and requested state and the domestic law of the requested state. The South African legislature has increasingly provided for extraterritorial jurisdiction of South African courts in respect of organized crime and terrorism. It does however appear that existing criminal justice responses are experiencing challenges to meet the demands of sophisticated international criminal conduct. Mutual legal assistance and extradition provisions may show that the world is becoming smaller for fugitives and criminals, but the processes are far from expeditious and seamless. An overview of the South African law pertaining to mutual legal assistance and extradition indicates that the South African legislative framework and policies as well as international treaties make sufficient provision to render international assistance in respect of mutual legal assistance and extradition. The role of the courts in upholding the rule of law and protecting the constitutionally enshrined bill of rights, is indicative of the important function that the judiciary fulfills in this regard. It is important that extradition is not only seen as the function of the executive as it also involves the judiciary. It appears that South Africa has displayed the necessary commitment to normalize its international position since 1994 and to fulfill its obligations in a globalized world by reaching across borders in an attempt to address international criminal conduct.
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Ajiboye, Babatope Matthew. "Sexual Socialization: A Seamless Approach in De-emphasizing Rape Scourge in Nigeria." Indonesian Journal of Innovation and Applied Sciences (IJIAS) 1, no. 1 (February 25, 2021): 44–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.47540/ijias.v1i1.162.
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Rape, a mammoth epidemic notoriously having its tentacles covering everywhere like a speed of light that travels through cable implanted in a conduit pipe enclosed in an edifice. This scourge has unmasked its ugly face; of no value nakedness and spiteful fang on the nation in no undersized gauge, thereby consuming and reducing her women-folk to nothing but ciphers of humanity even in their own home; their dignity alienated, emotionally and psychologically dehumanized, made to struggle with societal stigmatization and above all, condemned to a lifetime melancholy trauma. It is on this foundation the paper explores how sexual socialization as a strategy could be utilized in stemming the further increase of the scourge and to ensuring a haven for everyone irrespective of gender. A secondary source was adopted for data collection; it also made use of qualitative analysis which invariably led to inferences drawn and coherent conclusion achieved. Findings revealed that the level of enlightenment and strategy towards rape curtailment in Nigerian society has been so low. The paper recommends that parents must be on their guard by ensuring that children receive sound sexual socialization from home fronts. The paper concluded that rape has been a colossal cankerworm rattling the nation.
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Sivasankaran, V., and V. Nagarajan. "Seamless Handover in Heterogeneous Wireless Network Using Cognitive Advisor Based Decision Making Algorithm." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 517–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2017.6356.
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An important and modern trend in wireless network is managing and accessing in heterogeneous wireless networks structures effectively. Vertical handover or handoff technology is major and acting vital role in wireless communication, it has key challenging issues in wireless network, while handover gets call drop kind of latency and call quality minimization. So the communication networks needs an efficient and dynamic services and knowledge monitoring management to select network for handover of different network environments (example: WiMAX, WiFi, WLAN, etc.). In this paper we proposed the concepts of knowledgeable monitoring (KM-method), cognitive advisor (CA) and Advanced Handover Optimization (AHO) technique to improve effective network selection for seamless communication, while travels over heterogeneous wireless networks (HWN). KM-method monitoring and manage effective network selection and holding connected mobile nodes inform header files also maintaining re-initiate to next network information (network IP address, user ID, new path, etc.). CAVHO-Cognitive Advisor based Vertical Handover (VSH and V2H) and KM-methods perform and measures velocity and direction of mobility nodes through SRSS sequential Received Strength Signal. Also CA receives the nearest networks details of each another using nearest neighbouring concept with SDT ratio Algorithm. Optimization technique (AHO) performs dynamically balancing the threshold level of speed, load and quality based on Receiving signal strength and user preference. Simulation results of CAVHO Shows it secure and increases the handover probability of access also proposed system reduce delay and improve quality of services and throughput.
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Minson, Adrian, Nada Hamad, Costas K. Yannakou, Shu Min Wong, Jason P. Butler, John F. Seymour, and Michael Dickinson. "Trial in Progress: A Multicentre, Parallel Arm, Open-Label Trial of Frontline R-CHOP/Polatuzumab Vedotin-RCHP and Glofitamab in Younger Patients with Higher Risk Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (COALITION)." Blood 138, Supplement 1 (November 5, 2021): 3571. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2021-147636.
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Abstract Background: R-CHOP remains a standard frontline treatment for patients with DLBCL and high-grade B-cell lymphoma (HGBL). A significant proportion of patients will have refractory disease or subsequently relapse, particularly those with high-risk features such as an elevated IPI score or rearrangements of MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 (double/triple hit (DH/TH)). This population remains in need of improved induction treatments that can reduce the requirement for subsequent therapies which are associated with significant toxicities and diminishing response rates. Rationale: Glofitamab is a novel full-length bispecific antibody with a unique 2:1 configuration (two CD20 binding domains and one CD3 binding domain). In combination with a single pre-dose of obinutuzumab, glofitamab has demonstrated >70% complete remission in aggressive B-cell lymphoma at the recommended target dose in a phase 1 trial (Carlo-Stella, EHA 2021). Pre-clinical studies suggest that glofitamab's activity is retained in the presence of concomitant cytotoxic and CD20 antibody therapies, making it an attractive agent for combination with R-CHOP-like induction. Polatuzumab vedotin (pola) is an antibody-drug conjugate approved for R/R DLBCL in combination with BR, and is currently in evaluation for the front-line treatment of DLBCL in combination with RCHP in a randomised trial. The safety and preliminary efficacy of glofitamab in combination with R-CHOP, or pola-RCHP as a front-line treatment for high risk DLBCL is being evaluated. Study Design and Methods: This is a parallel-arm phase Ib/II trial. Treatment consists of an initial cycle of R-CHOP, followed by 5 cycles of combination induction treatment and 2 cycles of consolidation glofitamab monotherapy. Key inclusion criteria are: age 18-65 years, a diagnosis of DLBCL or HBGL, high-risk features (IPI ≥3 or NCCN-IPI ≥4 or presence of DH/TH), treatment naïve or after 1 cycle of R-CHOP, ECOG 0-3. The primary endpoint is the safety of the combination and secondary endpoints include complete response rates at interim and end of treatment FDG-PET assessments by Lugano criteria, progression free survival and overall survival. Correlative studies assessing baseline immunologic profiles, tumour phenotype and potential resistance mechanisms are planned. Approximately 40 patients will be treated in each arm across 12-14 Australian sites. The trial commenced recruitment in July 2021 (NCT04914741). The ability to recruit prior to either cycle 1 or cycle 2 allows seamless cross-referral from non-trial sites. Figure 1 Figure 1. Disclosures Minson: Hoffman La Roche: Research Funding; Novartis: Research Funding. Hamad: Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau. Seymour: AbbVie: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Sunesis: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Morphosys: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Gilead: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; BMS: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AstraZeneca: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Janssen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Mei Pharma: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Takeda: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Celgene: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau. Dickinson: Celgene: Research Funding; Amgen: Honoraria; Takeda: Research Funding; MSD: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Gilead Sciences: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy, Honoraria; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: travel, accommodation, expenses, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau.
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Gallino, Santiago, and Robert Rooderkerk. "New Product Development in an Omnichannel World." California Management Review 63, no. 1 (September 2, 2020): 81–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008125620951969.
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Firms compete in an increasingly omnichannel environment. Customers no longer travel a single linear path but traverse a complex map invoking many channels, firm-owned and external, seamlessly through integrated technology. The associated changes in consumer behavior and the ways that firms engage consumers have led many to reshape the way they innovate their product portfolios. This article presents a structured overview of some of the most striking changes to firms’ new product development (NPD) processes in B2C settings. Enlisting the classic NPD funnel, it describes how the omnichannel environment and its technologies affect speed and execution in each development stage. It illustrates key changes with examples from packaged goods, consumer technology, and fashion.
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González, Isaías, José María Portalo, and Antonio José Calderón. "Configurable IoT Open-Source Hardware and Software I-V Curve Tracer for Photovoltaic Generators." Sensors 21, no. 22 (November 18, 2021): 7650. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21227650.
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Photovoltaic (PV) energy is a renewable energy resource which is being widely integrated in intelligent power grids, smart grids, and microgrids. To characterize and monitor the behavior of PV modules, current-voltage (I-V) curves are essential. In this regard, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies provide versatile and powerful tools, constituting a modern trend in the design of sensing and data acquisition systems for I-V curve tracing. This paper presents a novel I-V curve tracer based on IoT open-source hardware and software. Namely, a Raspberry Pi microcomputer composes the hardware level, whilst the applied software comprises mariaDB, Python, and Grafana. All the tasks required for curve tracing are automated: load sweep, data acquisition, data storage, communications, and real-time visualization. Modern and legacy communication protocols are handled for seamless data exchange with a programmable logic controller and a programmable load. The development of the system is expounded, and experimental results are reported to prove the suitability and validity of the proposal. In particular, I-V curve tracing of a monocrystalline PV generator under real operating conditions is successfully conducted.
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Lima, José, Cláudia Rocha, Luísa Rocha, and Paulo Costa. "Data Matrix Based Low Cost Autonomous Detection of Medicine Packages." Applied Sciences 12, no. 19 (September 30, 2022): 9866. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12199866.
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Counterfeit medicine is still a crucial problem for healthcare systems, having a huge impact in worldwide health and economy. Medicine packages can be traced from the moment of their production until they are delivered to the costumers through the use of Data Matrix codes, unique identifiers that can validate their authenticity. Currently, many practitioners at hospital pharmacies have to manually scan such codes one by one, a very repetitive and burdensome task. In this paper, a system which can simultaneously scan multiple Data Matrix codes and autonomously introduce them into an authentication database is proposed for the Hospital Pharmacy of the Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, E.P.E. Relevant features are its low cost and its seamless integration in their infrastructure. The results of the experiments were encouraging, and with upgrades such as real-time feedback of the code’s validation and increased robustness of the hardware system, it is expected that the system can be used as a real support to the pharmacists.
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Bowman, Doug A., Larry F. Hodges, and Jay Bolter. "The Virtual Venue: User-Computer Interaction in Information-Rich Virtual Environments." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 7, no. 5 (October 1998): 478–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/105474698565866.
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We present a virtual environment application that allows users to access embedded information within an immersive virtual space. Due to the richness and complexity of this environment, efficient and easy-to-use interaction techniques are a crucial requirement. The “Virtual Venue” seamlessly combines both twoand three-dimensional interaction techniques into a single system and utilizes previously reported as well as novel techniques that fit the task of information access. We present tools for user control of the system, travel through the environment, and information retrieval, as well as authoring tools for the creation of information-rich virtual environments. A usability study and its results are also presented and discussed. The study indicates that the use of abstract information that is tightly coupled to the virtual environment can be quite successful in enhancing the relevance of both the environment and the information. Results also show that the set of well-constrained interaction techniques presented here are usable and efficient for information retrieval.
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Kudaev, Aleksandr Egorovich. "On the question of the origins of Berdyaev's creativity. Historical excursion into Russian-Italian cultural relations." Философская мысль, no. 2 (February 2022): 38–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8728.2022.2.36236.
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The article is devoted to one of the most important sources of Berdyaev's creativity, which is usually overlooked when studying his legacy. We are talking about the philosopher's Italian travels, which had a "huge" influence on his work. But since his trips go far beyond the boundaries of his personal experience alone and fit seamlessly into the general context of Russian-Italian cultural ties, it seemed appropriate to turn to their expanded disclosure within the broader theme of "Italy and Russia" in order, on the one hand, to show the inextricable connection of Berdyaev's Italian travels with this centuries-old tradition, thanks to which formed the soil that will become a breeding ground for many of the defining provisions of Berdyaev's aesthetics. And on the other hand, against this broader historical background of cultural ties between our countries, the declared topic appears more multifaceted, highlighting the full significance and influence of Italian travels on Berdyaev's work, and at the same time demonstrating their far from accidental nature, which caused both his research interest in Italian culture and the conceptual foundations of his philosophical- aesthetic thought. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that it is the first attempt in Russian literature to study Berdyaev's Italian travels as one of the most important sources of his work, which have not yet been the subject of special study. In addition, they are viewed against a broad background of Russian-Italian cultural ties that have been formed over several centuries, which the Silver Age inherited as an established tradition. This makes it possible to identify both their organic connection and continuity with this tradition, and hence their quite natural character, and Berdyaev's active role in the development and strengthening of these ties.
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Shen, Heather, and Yang Shen. "Array-Based Convolutional Neural Networks for Automatic Detection and 4D Localization of Earthquakes in Hawai‘i." Seismological Research Letters 92, no. 5 (April 14, 2021): 2961–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0220200419.
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Abstract The growing amount of seismic data necessitates efficient and effective methods to monitor earthquakes. Current methods are computationally expensive, ineffective under noisy environments, or labor intensive. We leverage advances in machine learning to propose an improved solution, ArrayConvNet—a convolutional neural network that uses continuous array data from a seismic network to seamlessly detect and localize events, without the intermediate steps of phase detection, association, travel-time calculation, and inversion. When testing this methodology with events at Hawai‘i, we achieve 99.4% accuracy and predict hypocenter locations within a few kilometers of the U.S. Geological Survey catalog. We demonstrate that training with relocated earthquakes reduces localization errors significantly. We outline several ways to improve the model, including enhanced data augmentation and use of relocated offshore earthquakes recorded by ocean-bottom seismometers. Application to continuous records shows that our algorithm detects 690% as many earthquakes as the published catalog, and 125% as many events than the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory internal catalog. Because of the enhanced detection sensitivity, localization granularity, and minimal computation costs, our solution is valuable, particularly for real-time earthquake monitoring.
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Elms, Deborah K. "Getting RCEP across the Line." World Trade Review 20, no. 3 (February 19, 2021): 373–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474745620000592.
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AbstractAfter eight years of effort, the 15 Asian members involved in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) met in a virtual ceremony to sign the final document on Sunday, 15 November 2020. The final deal matches the original objective – to knit the region together and allow firms to build supply chains across the region to deliver goods, services, and investment to Asian markets more seamlessly. Getting this free trade agreement (FTA) to this point involved repeated missed deadlines, the loss of one important negotiating partner, and thousands of miles of travel for a rotating cast of officials, trade ministers, and leaders. RCEP began in late 2012 as an effort to unravel what has often been called the ‘spaghetti or noodle bowl’ of overlapping and inconsistent rules that can impede trade. While most of the countries in the region have extensive experience in trade and are outward oriented, trade in Asia has been bedeviled with challenges. This includes a range of both tariff and non-tariff obstacles that have made it more difficult than might be expected to trade, especially for final products, within the region.
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Ma, Ting, Chao Liu, and Sevgi Erdoğan. "Bicycle Sharing and Public Transit." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2534, no. 1 (January 2015): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2534-01.
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Bicycle-sharing programs have emerged around the world. Theoretically, the effect of bicycle sharing on more conventional transit modes can take a substitute or complementary form. On one hand, bicycle sharing could substitute for conventional transit as a convenient and sustainable travel option. On the other hand, bicycle sharing may complement such transit by seamlessly connecting transit stations with origins and destinations and thus increase accessibility. However, the questions of how and to what extent bicycle-sharing programs affect public transit ridership remain to be answered, despite the attempts of a few empirical and quantitative studies. This study examined the impact of the Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) program on Metrorail's ridership in Washington, D.C. When CaBi trips were mapped, it was observed that Metrorail stations had been important origins and destinations for CaBi trips. Six of seven CaBi stations producing more than 500 trips were located close to Metrorail stations. This study conducted a regression analysis and found that public transit rider-ship was positively associated with CaBi ridership at the station level. A 10% increase in annual CaBi ridership contributed to a 2.8% increase in average daily Metrorail ridership. On the basis of these results, policy implications and recommendations are discussed.
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Gu, Yiming, Zhen (Sean) Qian, and Guohui Zhang. "Traffic State Estimation for Urban Road Networks Using a Link Queue Model." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2623, no. 1 (January 2017): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2623-04.
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Traffic state estimation (TSE) is used for real-time estimation of the traffic characteristics (such as flow rate, flow speed, and flow density) of each link in a transportation network, provided with sparse observations. The complex urban road dynamics and flow entry and exit on urban roads challenge the application of TSE on large-scale urban road networks. Because of increasingly available data from various sources, such as cell phones, GPS, probe vehicles, and inductive loops, a theoretical framework is needed to fuse all data to best estimate traffic states in large-scale urban networks. In this context, a Bayesian probabilistic model to estimate traffic states is proposed, along with an expectation–maximization extended Kalman filter (EM-EKF) algorithm. The model incorporates a mesoscopic traffic flow propagation model (the link queue model) that can be computationally efficient for large-scale networks. The Bayesian framework can seamlessly integrate multiple data sources for best inferring flow propagation and flow entry and exit along roads. A synthetic test bed was created. The experiments show that the EM-EKF algorithm can promptly estimate traffic states. Another advantage is that the EM-EKF can update its model parameters in real time to adapt to unknown traffic incidents, such as lane closures. Finally, the proposed methodology was applied to estimating travel speed for an urban network in the Washington, D.C., area and resulted in satisfactory estimation results with an 8.5% error rate.
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Lietor, M. D. C. Molina, I. Cuevas, and M. Blanco Prieto. "Telecommuting and employees’ mental health." European Psychiatry 64, S1 (April 2021): S345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.924.
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IntroductionTelecommuting is defined as “a work practice that involves members of an organization substituting a portion of their typical work hours to work away from a central workplace, using technology to interact with others as needed to conduct work tasks”. The prevalence rate of telecommuting in Sapin in 2019 was 5%, while this rate grew up to 34% during de COVID-19 pandemic.ObjectivesThe purpose of this poster is to make a review about how telecommuting affects the employees’ mental health.MethodsA review os the available literature on employees’ menthal health.ResultsMost employers who offer telecommuting consider it a strategic decision for their businesses: it could reduce the expenses of physically accommodating the employees, and it might help employers to contact their subordinates anytime, if needed. Many articles in the popular press about telecommuting extol the benefits of this practice on employees’ health (work-life balance, reduction of travel expenses). However, only a handful of empirical studies substantiate these claims (job satisfaction, quality of life, and role-related stress). Less discussed is the potential of telecommuting to have a negative impact on employees’ health. It may increase both social and professional isolation, which in turn is associated with higher levels of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, cognitive stress complaints and lower levels of work engagement.ConclusionsFinally, although it is not as effective as personal contact, organizations may stimulate qualitative virtual interaction with coworkers by providing robust online meeting tools and infrastructure, so users can seamlessly collaborate regardless of their physical location.