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An Age-Based Inspection And Replacement Policy For Heterogeneous Components, Philip A. Scarf, Cristiano A. V. Cavalcante, Richard A. Dwight, Peter Gordon
An Age-Based Inspection And Replacement Policy For Heterogeneous Components, Philip A. Scarf, Cristiano A. V. Cavalcante, Richard A. Dwight, Peter Gordon
Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)
This paper considers a hybrid maintenance policy for a single component from a heterogeneous population. The component is placed in a socket, and the component and socket together comprise the system. The s-population of components consists of two sub-populations with different failure characteristics. By supposing that a component may be in a defective but operating state, so that there exists a delay time between defect arrival and component failure, we consider a novel maintenance policy that is a hybrid of inspection and replacement policies. There are similarities in this approach with the concept of ldquoburn-inrdquo maintenance. The policies are …
Paradox Between Public Transport And Private Car As A Modal Choice In Policy Formulation, Ahm Mehbub Anwar
Paradox Between Public Transport And Private Car As A Modal Choice In Policy Formulation, Ahm Mehbub Anwar
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
This paper presents the stance towards modal choice behavior between public transport and private car. To find out the probable solutions, this paper investigated the latent attitudes of the trip makers concerning modal choice between private car and public transport and the advantages and disadvantages of these two modes as a choice. It was also discussed in this paper that the public transport usage can be increased if the service of public transport is designed in a way that accommodates the level of services required by the customers. Even though, several factors, such as individual characteristics and lifestyle, the type …