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Items in this Collection
- 1Al Hasan, Iyad
- 1Alshehri, Naeem S.
- 1Fallah Nafari, Saeideh
- 1Gallardo Vizcaino, Enrique
- 1Hadiuzzaman, Md
- 1Hong, Sahyun
Results for "Probability Distributions on a Circle"
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Spring 2014
(CLs) and a predictive VSL control with different CLs to improve traffic flows. Several CL-to-VSL strategies are modeled with a fixed co-efficient of variance of speeds obtained from static speed limit on WMD. The CLs include speed distributions for aggressive, compliant, and defensive drivers. It is
data confirmed that, compared to the existing models, the proposed model better simulates traffic flow. With the validated model, this research investigates the impact of control parameters and demand levels on total travel time and throughput under the coordinated VSL control and determined a range of
control strategy on safety constraints and VSL update frequencies demonstrates promising results to support practical implementation. Considering its flexible use in macroscopic simulation, a 1st order traffic flow model, CTM-VSL, is proposed. Unlike the 2nd order models, it is parsimonious: it only
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Fall 2021
) developing an integrated simulation approach for assessing risks in onshore wind projects that considers both the cost and time impact of risks; (5) proposing a method for deriving probability distributions of a risk factor’s impact using fuzzy logic and multivariate analysis to enhance input modelling for
Wind energy is emerging as a primary source of renewable energy in Canada, attracting over $23 billion in investment. Steadily increasing, a total capacity of 31,640 MW of wind energy must be installed by 2040 to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement on Climate, requiring the construction of
projects—particularly in the Canadian wind energy sector. In particular, the identification of project-specific (i.e., contextual) risk factors still relies heavily on traditional risk identification techniques that are demanding in terms of time and effort. This, together with a lack of historical data
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Fall 2016
conventional hydrologic frequency analysis in a changing climate. On the other hand, understanding how non-stationarity have affected the magnitude and frequency of hydrologic events in Canada, and developing new statistical techniques (or extensions of existing techniques) are important to address non
factors to hydroclimatic processes over Canada, 2) to examine the nonstationary characteristics of the precipitation and streamflow under a changing climate, and 3) to assess the impacts of global changes in extreme climate on human and ecosystems. Chapter 1 describes an analysis of the nonstationary
behavior of extreme streamflow over Canada by identifying abrupt changes, monotonic temporal trends, non-stationary probability distributions and long-term persistence of Canadian annual maximum streamflow. The results show that nonstationary frequency analysis should be employed in the future, because of