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Consideration of the use of V/STOL aircraft to reduce air traffic congestion at the major New York area airports while increasing overall terminal capacity.
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Description of a method for assessing the effectiveness of alternative airport locations, passenger terminal locations, and mass transportation systems involved in processing air passengers to their destinations in a large metropolitan area.
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Description and analysis of the costs, benefits, and operational consequences of alternative enlarged air transportation systems for the New York region.
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One in a series of studies prepared for the Northeast Corridor Transportation Project.
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An analysis of how an optimal level of transportation safety can be achieved in terms of various roles of current institutions. Transportation safety results from the interaction of passengers, government, law, and insurance. The unique role each p...
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An investigation of the effect of an internal spinning rotor on the attitudes and stability properties of a satellite employing gravity-gradient stabilization. This study considers all possible rotor directions and speeds, and all possible satellite...
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An analysis of the role of Vietnamese Communists in the Lao Communist (Pathet Lao) insurgency.
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Borders in Southeast Asia are largely insecure boundaries that were established by colonial administrations to stabilized spheres of influence or mark internal administrative divisions.
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An evaluation of methods for estimating desalted water costs and an assessment of the potential impact of some proposals for large-scale desalting plants, particularly in the Middle East. The consequences of basing water cost calculations on several...
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Ways in which television can be used to improve life in the urban ghetto.
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An examination of the gravitational effects of the sun, moon, and triaxial earth upon the longitudinal motion of near-synchronous equatorial satellites.
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An expanded version of P-3466 (which appeared in [Public Interest], Summer 1967) revised for computer system personnel and users of time-shared computer systems. Remote time-sharing systems are very ill-served by telephone systems designed for voice...
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A discussion of the technological possibilities for communications, with emphasis on the use of satellites. Economic, legal, and regulatory problems, and the social implications of the innovations, are examined. Satellites can drastically change the...
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Statistical and engineering methods both possess advantages and disadvantages in the determination of cost behavior. The two approaches are combined to form a statistical-engineering approach to estimating railway cost functions. The statistical-engi...
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Text of the Ninth Annual Lester D. Gardner Lecture, presented by the author under the auspices of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1968. Air transport history is reviewed by a participa...
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A compilation of 14 papers analyzing U.S. urban problems.
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An analysis of the probable impact on communication systems of LSI (Large-Scale Integration), a new technology that enables placing the equivalent of hundreds of transistors on a single silicon pinhead. Included are a review of the communication sys...
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Theoretical design principles for maintaining orbital stability of rigid satellites having one or more symmetric rotors. Considering the internal angular momentum to be variable in direction and magnitude, and considering circular orbits only, all p...
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A companion paper to P-3915, offering a possible explanation for the tumbling of some gravity-gradient-stabilized satellites that use long flexible booms. At small rotor speeds, an orbiting gyrostat with rotor axis along a principal body axis has 24...
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Development of a model for finding the optimal train velocity (often an upper bound for passenger trains, but attainable by freight trains) and size for a railroad line with constant gradient, so as to minimize the sum of operating and passenger time...
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