Abstract The company's success depends on many factors. One of them is the ability to meet the customers' expectations and adjust to the needs reported by market. Mathematical methods and tools are helpful in assessing demand. Forecasts should take into account all factors shaping the demand for goods and services, but they are often difficult to define, not only because of their large number, but also due to the impact of individual variables, which is difficult to determine. In many cases, the number of placed orders strongly depends on the time at which they are submitted. The needs can vary according to the time of day, week and year. Then we are dealing with the so-called seasonality, the inclusion of which is very important in the company and enables to better adapt its activity to the customers' requirements. This article describes the seasonality of demand in a company providing domestic and road transport services with high-tonnage vehicles. The validity of such analyses and potential benefits were indicated.
The aim of this study is to provide a deeper understanding of the Sicilian floriculture sector, which has recently become one of the most important on a regional and national scale. By analysing production, sales and logistical aspects of its production companies and specifically looking at aspects regarding transport logistics, this study highlights the sector operators. preference for road transport that offers better guarantees in terms of delivery speed with respect to other means of transport, an essential requirement for the transport of flowers and plants. However, operators are increasingly showing interest in alternative means of transport that may reduce transport time and, especially, costs. Some of the operators interviewed believe that the expected building of 7 trucking terminals in Sicily represents an important move of the Regional Government to support companies; nevertheless, others think that this type of intervention represents an erosive element in competitiveness, because of the probable increase in the presence of goods coming from the southern Mediterranean shore. However, the improvement of the regional transport system is necessary to reduce inefficiencies in the sales and distribution network of the floriculture industry and, more in general, of the whole Sicilian agri-food industry.
Having a major economic and social role, public transport is an important component in the process of sustainable development of a city. The paper aimed to study the public transport at metropolitan and regional scale evidencing how two major urban centers of Romania, Suceava and Botoșani, connect via public transport with the rural settlements in their metropolitan areas. The metropolitan supply of public transport was analysed starting with publicly available data on the routes in 2014 for both Botoșani County and Suceava County, located in the North-Eastern side of Romania. The routes' spatial disposition and daily frequency is analysed for road and rail public transport. The resulted mappings showed that road public transport is well distributed in the metropolitan territory for both urban centres, but there is still almost 4% of the rural population that does not have direct access to this public utility service. The rail public transport covers only a small amount of the studied area and it has a secondary role in supplying public transport services for the population because of the lack of investments that the entire rail sector suffered in Romania. The share of private cars has increased significantly, but the population's need for mobility is not completely covered and this paper offers some recommendations for the improvement of the public transportation supply in Suceava-Botoșani Urban Area.
Recent advances in technology have revolutionised how we all connect and communicate - so what does the future of transport look like? Transport is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia, a country with a heavy reliance on fossil-fuelled cars and road freight. Technology in the transport sector is undergoing rapid change, bringing with it opportunities to improve safety, accessibility, efficiency and sustainability. Important transport developments include automation, connectivity, smart infrastructure, the sharing economy and a move towards zero emission vehicles. A number of emerging innovations are examined in this book, including in public transport, Mobility as a Service and ride sharing, micromobility vehicles such as e-bikes and scooters, electric aircraft development, and alternative fuelled and self-driving vehicles. Why does Australia still have the handbrake on the slow uptake of electric vehicles? Are autonomous and flying cars a bright new dawn, or simply science fiction? This book explores the viability of future modes of transport, with a focus on the transition to electric, hydrogen-powered and autonomous vehicles. Is Australia keeping up with the next transport revolution, or are we on the road to nowhere?
"A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government's alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it. Our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this-ever get the sense that an ad is "following" you around the internet?-but we don't understand the extent to which the technology embedded in our phones, computers, cars, and homes is part of a vast ecosystem of data collection. Our public spaces are blanketed by cameras put up in the name of security. And pretty much everything that emits a wireless signal of any kind-routers, televisions, Bluetooth devices, chip-enabled credit cards, even the tires of every car manufactured since the mid-2000s-can be and often is covertly monitored. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of data about every citizen-and the biggest customer is the U.S. government. Reporter Byron Tau has been digging deep inside the growing alliance between business, tech, and government for years, piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world have become a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring. Tau traces the unlikely tale of how the government came to view commercial data as a principal asset of national security in the years after 9/11, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, to build a foreign and domestic surveillance capacity of such breathtaking scope that it could peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. The result is a cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats with one directive-"get everything you can"-and, as Tau observes, a darkly humorous world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries, and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries. Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is our era's defining story of the dangerous grand bargain we've made: ubiquitous, often cheap technology, but at what price to our privacy?"--
Die städtische Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrspolitik wird häufig anhand von Städtevergleichen des Verkehrsverhaltens ihrer Einwohner bewertet. Eine Städtetypologie kann dazu beitragen, diese Unterschiede zutreffend zu interpretieren. Dazu werden in diesem Beitrag für 44 deutsche Städte 27 Indi- katoren der sozioökonomischen und räumlichen Strukturen, des Verkehrsverhaltensund der Bewertung der Verkehrssitua- tion genutzt. Aus einer Faktoren- und Clusteranalyse werden mehrere Städteclusterabgeleitet.Als latente Variablen erwei- sen sich die Faktoren metropolitane Prägung, Fahrradklima, Wohlstand, studentische Prägung und die Orientierung am Privat-Pkw. Die anschließende Clusteranalyse führt zu fünf Typen. In dieser Typologie gehören die meisten Städte, die in Deutschland als gute Beispiele kommunaler Verkehrspolitik gelten, zum Cluster der Metropolen oder zum Cluster der Universitätsstädte mit positivem Fahrradklima.
healthy economy, diversified and well managed transportation system needs in place. As part of the first GTP, the Federal government has built international and national railway networks. The city of Addis Ababa has gain an opportunity to have 34km of Light Rail Transport line. In order to keep any transportation systems fully functional during its service years, appropriate transport planning and modeling needed. The first step of transport planning and modeling it is to identify the needs for transportation, usually called travel demand modeling. The main objective of this research is to determine Addis Ababa East - West Light Rail travel demand by using the conventional statically oriented and trip based approach of the four step travel demand modeling technique. This modeling principle needs data of, transportation network, city level socio-economic indicators, transportation cost, travel time cost, available means of transport, and other relevant data that dictate mobility and choice of transportation mode. In order to facilitate modeling procedures TransCAD 4.5 modeling tool was utilized. In the course of modeling, Addis Ababa Transport Master Plan study serve as a basic platform for modeling by updating its input variable with 2012 base year data. The 99 Kebels of Addis Ababa used as TAZ's, transportation network developed, regression equations of trip production and attraction with updated variables used. The balanced trip production of the four trip categories, Home Based Work, Home Based Education, Home Based Others, and Non Home Based trips distributed over TAZ's. By deducting percentage of none public transport users, total number of traffics split over the three modes of public transports; Taxi, Bus and Medium Bus; and assigned over the network. By considering LRT as the fourth means of transport in the East - West corridor, traffic modal share recalculated using generalized cost, and percentage share of the four means of transport identified. As the modeling results showed, 3.5 million people reside in Addis Ababa, total number of traffic in the study corridor is 644,400, with 25.9 percentage share 167,200 passengers use LRT per day. Of all the segments, Mexico, Coca, Torhayloch and Stadium area has the highest number LRT user. These and other findings of this research compared with design document of LRT and it is concluded that the base year of 2012 traffic by itself surpass both initial and short term expected design traffic. Therefore, it is highly recommended a quick review of LRT traffic forecast is needed in order to alleviate the current over crowded in East – West LRT line.
For the non-appearance of violence in schools by students, as well as by other adult persons,is not interested only the family and the school but also the scientists and the whole society. Early prevention of violence in schools is not only a need of practice, but an interest of science and of the free and democratic society as well, in the full sense of the word. Therefore, the purpose and interest of the society is to educate the youth about a future life and work in society and for society. Understandably, advanced societies have open doors of progress, and they have come to where they are today thanks to the education and the right institutional education, and not with pressure, oppression and violence. Therefore, society must do its utmost to prevent the spread of violence in schools with all the available mechanisms.The purpose of this research is to ascertain which are the educational means, in particular the means of prevention, that take most part at school, the ways of using these tools and their impact on the reduction and prevention of violent behavior of students at school. The main objective of this study and research is the use of educational tools, in particular the means of obstruction and their impact on the progress of the teaching work.In our work the main position will have: Literature Consultation,Questionnaire compilation and implementation, interpretation of results,Research methods: Method of theoretical analysis, methodology of pedagogical-social documentation, statistical, conversational, comparing data.
Controlling of public transport is a newly developed term just in connection with the IDS development. It is and it will be a direct support of the functioning transport system in the region, namely the support of interconnections of individual lines and services of individual transport operators. Transport technologists who have introduced this term, however, use it to cover all what is connected with the development of public transport in regions. This means a plan of the lines, awarding of contracts to transport operators, creation, monitoring of JŘ adherence, payments in the public transport, monitoring of provable losses, etc., but also the planning and the development of transport routes, transport terminals and interchange junctions. This very general term is not suitable from the viewpoint of creation of information and telematic support. This has already been highlighted by the solvers of the project entitled "Plans of ITS development in the link to the performance of state administration and local government", and therefore they have proposed a necessity of division of this term from the viewpoint of the existing, but especially the future organisation levels in the field of planning, actual organisation and control of public transport in regions. This is given by the presupposed model of activities of a coordinator of public transport.
