International business travel in the global economy, J.V. Beaverstock, B. Derudder, J. Faulconbridge, F. Witlox (Eds.)

Book ISBN 9780754698692</p

SMU TEACHING BANK: CASE STUDY OF A MULTIYEAR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT UTILIZING STUDENT RESOURCES

A domain refers to a business sector such as banking, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing etc. For an IS student, it is imperative that the domain knowledge includes a comprehension and understanding of business processes, technology and data related to the chosen domain. For example, when learning the retail banking domain, an IS student must have an understanding of the transactions concerned with retail banking such as fund transfers and loan repayments. The student must also gain a strong foothold in transaction fulfilment processes, the various application services that are used, the data that is transferred, etc. Teaching domain knowledge is very difficult, especially when there is no way to put them into practice. One solution to this is through building simulations of the domain where students can perform transactions relevant to the domain. This paper describes a simulated digital bank, “SMU tBank”, its architecture, its usage in teaching students, and how it was built using student resources across undergraduate and postgraduate student projects. The paper provides insights on how to structure and deliver useful multi-year pedagogy and possibly other IT projects through effective utilization of only student resources, so that other schools may learn from our experience and further adopt and improve on this model

Market-based airport demand management : theory, model and applications

Thesis (Ph. D. in Transportation Systems and Policy Analysis)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123).The ever-increasing demand for access to the world's major commercial airports combined with capacity constraints at many of these airports have led to increasing air traffic congestion. In particular, the scarcity of airside (take-off and landing) capacity at these airports has not been appropriately priced, leading to excessive demand as in the Tragedy of the Commons. Congestion pricing, as a classical economic approach to the efficient allocation of constrained transportation infrastructure capacity, has a long history of theoretical development. However, its application in the airport setting must deal with a set of important differences from the classical urban roadway setting. These differences have eluded the attention of researchers until very recently. They stem from the following set of complications: i) the peak and off-peak periods at congested airports are often less distinguishable than in the urban transport context; ii) airlines are a dominant intermediary between an airport's capacity and passengers as the end-users of that capacity; and iii) airlines operate groups of flights, as distinct from the atomistic behaviour of individual commuters. To address these complications, an analytical model is developed to explore the impact of congestion pricing at airports and understand potential airline responses under a range of assumptions about the market's structure. Through a set of numerical experiments, carried out with the help of a probabilistic queuing model, we compare the economic benefits resulting from adopting fine versus coarse congestion tolls for the cases of markets with symmetric and asymmetric carriers. Given sustained demand for access to an airport and reasonably elastic responses in terms of frequency adjustments,(cont.) the benefits to carriers of instituting congestion pricing generally exceed the amount of tolls collected. While a system of fine or graduated tolls is suited for all airports, systems of coarse or uniform tolls, which can be implemented more easily, are applicable only at airports with fairly symmetric carriers that hold approximately equal frequency shares. In addition to congestion pricing, slot lease auctions can also be an effective means for promoting an economically efficient use of scarce airport capacity. In practice, the impact of slot lease auctions is similar to that of coarse tolling. Slot auctions are therefore applicable, in pure form, at airports with symmetric carriers. At these airports, a market-based demand management policy can comprise both congestion pricing and slot lease auctions. With respect to implementation, simultaneously ascending auctions recently used in the context of allocating electromagnetic spectra can be appropriately adopted to airports. A lump-sum subsidy can be used to promote specific socially desirable goals in the allocation of scarce airport capacity. Several airport authorities around the world, currently using purely administrative or hybrid forms of demand management, have developed sophisticated techniques for defining and managing their constrained airport capacity. Some of these techniques can be useful in developing market-based demand management policies. As an interesting case study, the experience of New York's LaGuardia Airport (LGA) ...by Terence Ping-Ching Fan.Ph.D.in Transportation Systems and Policy Analysi

Performance study of flight deck interface systems for air traffic controller pilot data link

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130).In an effort to reduce saturation in voice radio channels and to take advantage of space-based communication technologies in a cost-effective basis, data link communication between the flight deck and air traffic control (CPDLC) is gradually coming to the fore. Currently, there are three main flight deck interface designs for CPDLC, and a comparative human factors study of these designs is documented in this thesis. However, in spite of the recent development, there is little coherent understanding on the influence of hardware interface components on performance. To contribute to this understanding, the performance of two flight deck CPDLC interface designs were compared at the Boeing Company, and the result was used to estimate the performance of a third interface design. As a follow-on study, an experiment was conducted to examine the relative performance of four simplified interface configurations for CPDLC. The experiment found that there was little difference in performance (task processing time, accuracy and efficiency) among the four interface configurations in simple communication tasks. However, as the level of difficulty of these tasks increases, a dual interface configuration with separate functionality on each interface required the least amount of time to accomplish the stated tasks. The additional maneuverability provided by a dual-interface configuration with identical functionality on each interface did not appear to lead to significant additional performance gains compared with the dual interface configuration with separate functionality. In general, the single-interface configurations required longer processing times for complicated tasks and were also found to incur higher workload according to the NASA Task Load Index.by Terence Ping Ching Fan.S.M

Schedule creep: In search of an uncongested baseline block time by examining scheduled flight block times worldwide 1986–2016

Singapore Management Universit

Thinking through the meteoric rise of Middle-East carriers from Singapore Airlines' vantage point

Ministry of Education, Singapore under its Academic Research Funding Tier

Perceptions and Barriers of Survivorship Care in Asia: Perceptions From Asian Breast Cancer Survivors.

PurposeWith the long-term goal to optimize post-treatment cancer care in Asia, we conducted a qualitative study to gather in-depth descriptions from multiethnic Asian breast cancer survivors on their perceptions and experiences of cancer survivorship and their perceived barriers to post-treatment follow-up.MethodsTwenty-four breast cancer survivors in Singapore participated in six structured focus group discussions. The focus group discussions were voice recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed by thematic analysis.ResultsBreast cancer survivors were unfamiliar with and disliked the term "survivorship," because it implies that survivors had undergone hardship during their treatment. Cognitive impairment and peripheral neuropathy were physical symptoms that bothered survivors the most, and many indicated that they experienced emotional distress during survivorship, for which they turned to religion and peers as coping strategies. Survivors indicated lack of consultation time and fear of unplanned hospitalization as main barriers to optimal survivorship care. Furthermore, survivors indicated that they preferred receipt of survivorship care at the specialty cancer center.ConclusionBudding survivorship programs in Asia must take survivor perspectives into consideration to ensure that survivorship care is fully optimized within the community