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"Stepped-up competition in the airline industry over the past 40 years profoundly changed how carriers set fares. Chapters in this volume contribute to our understanding of fare determination in this industry by examining carrier pricing behavior, such as non-linear pricing, pricing decisions associated with strategic alliances, competition from low cost carriers, and the challenges faced by carriers experiencing financial distress. These contributions present nuanced analyses of fare determination that include new ways of examining whether the prices charged by carriers are consumer welfare-enhancing. Examination of airline carrier pricing only tells part of the story of firm behavior, as analysis of carriers¿ ability to provide quality services is also significant in understanding the economics of this industry. This volume includes chapters examining non-price characteristics of business operations, such as frequency of service, passenger safety, availability of aircraft types for different transportation services, and the geographic distribution of air transportation-related noise by aircraft departures and arrivals at airports. "

Transcontinental Infrastructure Needs to 2030/50 explores the long-term opportunities and challenges facing major gateway and transport hub infrastructures -- ports, airports and major rail corridors - in the coming decades. The report uses projections and scenarios to assess the broader economic outlook and future infrastructure requirements, and examines the options for financing these, not least against the backdrop of the economic recession and financial crisis which have significantly modified the risks and potential rewards associated with major infrastructure projects. Building on numerous in-depth case studies from Europe, North America and Asia, the report offers insights into the economic prospects for these key facilities and identifies policy options for improved gateway and corridor infrastructure in the future..

Hoy día, un ingeniero necesita tener un conocimiento básico de los transductores existentes en el mercado, sus características, modos de funcionamiento, etc., y una base de electrónica y comunicaciones suficiente para poder dialogar con especialistas en Instrumentacion. Conscientes de esta necesidad y con el animo de ofrecer un texto didactico sobre el tema se ha desarrollado este libro sobre Instrumentacion aplicada a la Ingenieria, que explica todos los procedimientos de medida basicos y los transductores mas adecuados para evaluar esa variable. Este libro es fruto de una dilatada experiencia de los autores impartiendo esta materia en cursos de Doctorado en la E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de la Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. La obra consta de diez capitulos que abarcan la mayoria de las aplicaciones que se utilizan en el campo de la instrumentacion. Los tres primeros capitulos son de caracter general y describen los componentes de una cadena de medicion con especial dedicacion al acondicionamiento de las señales analogicas y digitales y a los sistemas de comunicacion. Los capitulos siguientes se centran en el estudio de las medidas de variables fisicas especificas, tales como posicion y desplazamiento, deformacion y extensometria, fuerzas y pares, aceleraciones, vibraciones y choques, temperaturas, presiones, y caudal y nivel.

Whilst most contemporary books in the aerospace propulsion field are dedicated primarily to gas turbine engines, there is often little or no coverage of other propulsion systems and devices such as propeller and helicopter rotors or detailed attention to rocket engines. By taking a wider viewpoint, "Powered Flight - The Engineering of Aerospace Propulsion" aims to provide a broader context, allowing observations and comparisons to be made across systems that are overlooked by focusing on a single aspect alone. The physics and history of aerospace propulsion are built on step-by-step, coupled with the development of an appreciation for the mathematics involved in the science and engineering of propulsion. Combining the author''s experience as a researcher, an industry professional and a lecturer in graduate and undergraduate aerospace engineering, "Powered Flight - The Engineering of Aerospace Propulsion" covers its subject matter both theoretically and with an awareness of the practicalities of the industry. To ensure that the content is clear, representative but also interesting the text is complimented by a range of relevant graphs and photographs including representative engineering, in addition to several propeller performance charts. These items provide excellent reference and support materials for graduate and undergraduate projects and exercises. Students in the field of aerospace engineering will find that "Powered Flight - The Engineering of Aerospace Propulsion" supports their studies from the introductory stage and throughout more intensive follow-on studies.

Fundamentals of Structural Engineering provides a balanced, seamless treatment of both classic, analytic methods and contemporary, computer-based techniques for conceptualizing and designing a structure. The book''s principle goal is to foster an intuitive understanding of structural behavior based on problem solving experience for students of civil engineering and architecture who have been exposed to the basic concepts of engineering mechanics and mechanics of materials. Distinct from many undergraduate textbooks focused mainly on either teaching manual analysis methods and applying them to simple, idealized structures-an approach based on the premise that intuition about structural behavior is developed as one works through the manual computations which, at times, may seem exhaustive, or reformulating structural analysis methods in terms of matrix notation-an approach that provides the basis for developing and understanding computer software codes, but does not contribute toward developing intuition about structural behavior. The authors of this text recognize the notion that engineers reason about behavior using simple models and intuition they acquire through problem solving. The approach adopted in this text develops this type of intuition through by presenting extensive, realistic problems and case studies together with computer simulation, allowing rapid exploration how a structure responds to changes in geometry and physical parameters. The integrated approach employed in Fundamentals of Structural Engineering offers comprehensive preparation for students and authoritative reference for practitioners of structural engineering.

This book embarks on a contemporary analysis of the interaction of economics and law relating to air transport, delving into the major issues that plague the industry. It shows how some of the thorny and frustrating issues could be approached sensibly. Among the issues discussed are the anomaly of exponential growth of air transport which makes airline profitability continue to be poor; the legislative impediments in most countries that preclude direct foreign investment in the industry; the confounding and muddled mess behind the economics of aircraft engine emissions; and the inexplicable reality that, although civil aviation is primarily meant to meet the needs of the people of the world, State regulators have upended the equation and given priority to national interests over the interests of the passenger. The book will be of interest to economists and lawyers alike who deal with air transport issues, and also to academics and students in the area of transportation as well as regulators and airlines. Show More Show Less

Guide to Spacecraft Charging Effects is a single reference source containing both theory of spacecraft charging and suggested practical detailed spacecraft design requirements and procedures to minimize the effects of spacecraft charging and to limit the effects of the resulting electrostatic discharge.This book contains virtually the whole body of spacecraft charging knowledge as of today, moving from first principles for the beginner to intermediate and more advanced concepts. Many equations are present to provide a good theoretical background, as well as numerous charts, graphs, figures, tables, and photos to summarize and illustrate the theoretical background in a practical presentation. Numerous appendices expand on the main text, a well thought-out index gives quick access to important concepts, and an extensive list of references provides further avenues of research for those wishing to extend their knowledge. Much of the environmental data and material response information has been adapted from published and unpublished scientific literature for use in this document. It is the book form of the recently issued NASA Technical Handbook NASA-HDBK-4002A, March 3, 2011 (by the same authors). In particular, this book can be used as the textbook form of that Handbook and its earlier sources, NASA Technical Paper 2361, 1984, and NASA Technical Handbook NASA-HDBK-4002, 1999 (both co-authored by the current authors).

El presente libro trata sobre las turbinas de gas y los turbocompresores. Son estos dos elementos fundamentales para el desarrollo de un país o comunidad y ningún país podrá llamarse de primera fila si no atiende adecuadamente a estas materias tanto en su vertiente de fabricacion como en la de mantenimiento. Ademas de contener las bases teoricas que permiten el dominio sobre turbinas de gas el libro trata tambien a las tecnologias y materiales utilizados a lo largo del tiempo hasta llegar a los mas modernos. No se olvidan las tecnicas operativas y de mantenimiento que distinguen la correcta conservacion de estos aparatos a lo largo de su vida util ni la importancia de los quemadores y los combustibles, asi como su efecto sobre la contaminacion atmosferica. Gregorio Gil Garcia (gregilgar@yahoo.com)es Ingeniero Industrial por la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de San Sebastian (Univ. de Navarra y Doctor en Ingenieria Industrial por la Universidad Politecnica de Madrid). Posee una amplia experiencia en el campo de la construccion, en especial, en el campo nuclear asi como en el mundo de la organizacion e informatizacion de empresas y sociedades, calidad industrial incluida la Calidad Total y energia. Imparte master en diversas Universidades y Organizaciones sobre estas materias. En estos momentos ejerce tambien como consultor. Es autor tambien de los libros 'La energia en cifras' y 'Energias del siglo XXI'.

This book is devoted to the deformation and failure in metallic materials, summarizing the results of a research programme financed by the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft". It presents the recent engineering as well as mathematical key aspects of this field for a broad community. Its main focus is on the constitutive behaviour as well as the damage and fracture of metallic materials, covering their mathematical foundation, modelling and numerics, but also relevant experiments and their verification.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have seen unprecedented levels of growth during the last decade in both military and civilian domains. It is anticipated that civilian applications will be dominant in the future, although there are still barriers to be overcome and technical challenges to be met. Integrating UAS into, for example, civilian space, navigation, autonomy, see-detect-and-avoid systems, smart designs, system integration, vision-based navigation and training, to name but a few areas, will be of prime importance in the near future. This is an edited book composed of peer reviewed papers presented in the 2011 International Conference on UAS. The papers present the state of the art in UAS, as well as current developments and applications. This book aims at serving as a guide tool on UAS for engineers and practitioners, academics, government agencies and industry. This is a spin-off edition also published in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT), Volume 65: 1-4.

This book presents concepts, methods and techniques to examine symptoms of faults and failures of structures, systems and components and to monitor functional performance and structural integrity. The book is organized in five parts. Part A introduces the scope and application of technical diagnostics and gives a comprehensive overview of the physics of failure. Part B presents all relevant methods and techniques for diagnostics and monitoring: from stress, strain, vibration analysis, nondestructive evaluation, thermography and industrial radiology to computed tomography and subsurface microstructural analysis. Part C cores the principles and concepts of technical failure analysis, illustrates case studies, and outlines machinery diagnostics with an emphasis on tribological systems. Part D describes the application of structural health monitoring and performance control to plants and the technical infrastructure, including buildings, bridges, pipelines, electric power stations, offshore wind structures, and railway systems. And finally, Part E is an excursion on diagnostics in arts and culture. The book integrates knowledge of basic sciences and engineering disciplines with contributions from research institutions, academe, and industry, written by internationally known experts from various parts of the world, including Europe, Canada, India, Japan, and USA.

Value stream mapping is an excellent method to give an overview to a company's management about its production, icluding processes, materail flow an information flow. This book gives detailed instructions how to use value stream mapping to analyse and optimize production in the right way, even in difficult cases. It is the first book, which describes the core method of lean production (=value stream mapping) in a very systematic way, not only like a picture book (=description too easy, real cases can't be solved) or a rough description of general procedure and goals. This systematic way gives nine guidelines which prescribe exactly how to transform production to lean principles. The book is written for management and planning engineers with the scope of production engineering and logistics on basic and advanced level.

El objetivo central de este texto es presentar a los estudiantes de ingeniería la operación, características y limitaciones de los circuitos integrados. Esta cuarta edición continúa ofreciendo las bases para el analisis y el diseño de circuitos electronicos analogicos y digitales.En este libro se incluye un gran numero de ejemplos de diseño, problemas con ejercicios de diseño y problemas de diseño al final de cada capitulo.Lo nuevo de esta edicion: se actualizaron los niveles de voltaje de los circuitos y los parametros de los dispositivos MOSFET con los que se encuentran en la electronica moderna, se conservo el rigor matematico necesario para que se comprendan con mas claridad la operacion y caracteristicas de los circuitos basicos.

El aeropuerto de Girona-Costa Brava es un claro exponente de cómo el turismo influye en el desarrollo del transporte y sus infraestructuras. Efectivamente, fueron aquellos primeros turistas que conocieron estas tierras catalanas, tras aterrizar en los aeropuertos vecinos de Barcelona y Perpignan, quienes propiciaron la creacion y posterior desarrollo de este aeropuerto, como entrada abierta a las turisticas localidades de la Costa Brava.Con habilidad y teson, las autoridades municipales y provinciales, asi como las entidades sociales y economicas de la region apoyaron su construccion. En 1967 este proyecto se hizo realidad, lo que supuso un gran apoyo e impulso para el desarrollo turistico y en general para toda la economia regional.Con la liberalizacion del transporte aereo, impulsada por la Union Europea, el Aeropuerto de Girona ha visto resurgir su potencial, superando las previsiones mas optimistas. No cabe duda que la contribucion de sus trabajadores y las inversiones llevadas a cabo por Aena han permitido hacer frente a este crecimiento y conservar unas importantes expectativas de desarrollo futuro. Por ello la publicacion de este libro resulta una oportunidad para dar a conocer toda una historia de superacion, esfuerzo y colaboracion entre instituciones y trabajadores que han permitido que hoy se dibuje un devenir prometedor y repleto de esperanzas para esta infraestructura gerundense.Indice de la publicacion:1. Alas sobre GironaLas fiestas de aviacionPrimer Raid aereo catalanLas primeras oportunidades para el transporte aereoLa actividad aeronautica en los años treintaLa organizacion del transporte aereoLa organizacion aeronautica catalanaAves de pasoEl autogiro de la ciervaLa escala de Air France en rosasLa aviacion deportiva y otros intentos de lineas aereasLos campos de vuelo durante la Guerra Civil2. De la autarquia al desarrollismoIberia, lineas aereas de EspañaEl Ministerio del AireUn nuevo impulso al trafico aereoLa decada de los cincuentaEl nacimiento de los vuelos charterLa construccion del aeropuertoLos primeros pasosArte en la terminalEpoca de dificultades y desarrollo3. Nuevos horizontesUn aeroclub en GironaEl aeropuerto en 1976Años dificilesLa nueva organizacion del transporte aereo EuropeoBuscando nuevos horizontesCosmo 86Aena, Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegacion AereaLos ultimos pasos del aeroclubLos aerodromos cercanosEl renacer del transporte aereoLa remodelacion de la terminal de pasajerosComienza el despegueMirando al futuro