The role of railways in urban development is the subject of this book. The central aim is to inquire into how especially the development of high-speed rail and light rail links will affect European cities. The analyses are carried out with special attention given to the broader institutional...

Dynamic Pricing of services has become the norm for many young service industries - especially in today’s volatile markets. Steffen Christ shows how theoretic optimization models can be operationalized by employing self-learning strategies to construct relevant input variables, such as latent...

Logit Models for Spatial Interaction: Background -- COST-MINIMIZING BEHAVIOR - CONSTANT LINK COSTS -- Logit Models for Discrete Choice -- Some Particular Logit Models -- Welfare, Benefit and Freedom of Choice -- Graphical Tests of Cost-Minimizing Behavior in Logit Models -- Empirical and Policy...

Einleitung in die Ermittlung der Übernahme- und Fusionswahrscheinlichkeit für Akquiseziele in der deutschen Stahlindustrie auf Basis von Finanzkennzahlen -- Methodisch-konzeptionelle Grundlagen zu den eingesetzten Arbeitstechniken und Hypothesen zu Übernahmen und Fusionen -- Identifizierung...

Negotiations are of increasing importance in highly regulated sectors, particularly in network industries such as telecommunications and transport. Negotiating partners in these markets are often not equal with regard to their various sources and instruments of power. This analysis shows that...

The scope of this volume centers on advancements in the state of art and the state of the practice in computer-aided systems in public transport. Yet, this volume illustrates a greater breadth of subjects in this area. The common theme remains the use of computer-aided methods and operations...

This book presents a series of studies on the socio-economic impacts of tourism, with a special focus on the determinants of tourism competitiveness at the destination level. The authors offer a systematic overview of this important issue, presenting relevant empirical studies from different...

1 Predictive Analytics in der Mobilitätsbranche -- 2 Mobilitätslösungen für körperlich eingeschränkte Personen in einem gesamtheitlichen Kontext am Beispiel der Deutsche Bahn AG -- 3 Seilbahnen als innovatives Beförderungsmittel im urbanen Bereich -- 4 IngolSMART – das innovative...

Das 7. Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität, das im Juni 2015 an der Universität Duisburg-Essen stattfand, suchte Antworten auf Fragen nach der Entwicklung und Umsetzung neuer Verkehrskonzepte, nach neuen Fahrzeugantrieben und -systemen, neuen Produktionsverfahren und nach neuen Managementkonzepten...