Sökning: "Description and Travel"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden Description and Travel.

1. 1. The complexity and variability of individuals' activity-travel patterns in Indonesia

   Författare :Dimas Bayu Endrayana Dharmowijoyo; Yusak Susilo; Anders Karlström; Frank Wiltox; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; day-to-day variability; needs-constraints interaction; non-instrumental variables; health condition; Transportvetenskap; Transport Science;

   Sammanfattning : Considering an individual’s day-to-day variability of activity-travel patterns will provide a more complete description of how an individual behaves to adapt the changing constraints and resources on different days. Without this day-to-day variability understanding, the individual’s behaviour would not be fully grasped and any suggested policy, planning and development would not completely achieve their desired objectives. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Value of Cultural Institutions-Measurement and Description

   Författare :John Armbrecht; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; value; cultural institution; contingent valuation method; travel cost method; public good;

   Sammanfattning : Resources are invested to maintain cultural institutions and society has an interest in the efficient allocation of these resources. To understand efficiency, the costs incurred in monetary units need to be compared to the value created. LÄS MER

4. 3. Mobility Management and Climate Change Policies

   Författare :Markus Robèrt; Folke Snickars; Tom Rye; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Strategic Sustainable Development SSD ; Backcasting; Greenhouse gas emissions; Traffic planning; Company travel planning; Mobility Management; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur;

   Sammanfattning : Globally, the transport system faces a paradigmatic shift where, in addition to increased local traffic problems, climate change and depletion of fossil oil reserves will foster a successive transition to renewable fuels and a need for more resource-efficient mobility management and communication alternatives. Foresighted countries, cities or companies taking the lead in adapting to these tougher conditions might well not only solve those problems, but also turn the problems into business advantages. LÄS MER

5. 4. Intelligent Goods : Characteristics and Architectures

   Författare :Åse Jevinger; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : The transports of goods are continuously increasing in many regions, for instance within Europe. Often goods travel through many different countries, using several transport modes and involving a number of different actors. LÄS MER

7. 5. Fredrika Bremer and the Writing of America

   Författare :Laurel Ann Lofsvold; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; women; slavery; homes; America; Catharine M. Sedgwick; Anne C. Lynch; James Russell Lowell; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; A. J. Downing; Lydia Maria Child; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Fredrika Bremer; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Sammanfattning : Hemmen i den nya verlden(1853-4) is novelist Fredrika Bremer's 3-volume travel diary in letter form, a literary account of her two years' travel in the United States and Cuba. Bremer wove, into the America she "wrote," a number of American authors and their works. Novelist Catharine Sedgwick and poet and socialite Anne C. LÄS MER