Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • HSR as Transit: The continuing transportation-driven evolution of metropolitan form 

      Westrom, Ryan J.; Sussman, Joseph M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-08)
      With high-speed rail (HSR) now often fulfilling a commuting function within an hour’s travel time from principal metropolitan cities, it becomes the latest in a long line of transportation technologies to elicit change in ...

    • Technology Structural Implications from the Extension of a Patent Search Method 

      Benson, Christopher L.; Magee, Christopher L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-07)
      Many areas of academic and industrial work make use of the notion of a ‘technology’. This paper attempts to reduce the ambiguity around the definition of what constitutes a ‘technology’ by extension of a method described ...

    • Quantitative empirical trends in technical performance 

      Magee, Christopher L.; Basnet, Subarna; Funk, Jeffrey L.; Benson, Christopher L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-07)
      Technological improvement trends such as Moore’s law and experience curves have been widely used to understand how technologies change over time and to forecast the future through extrapolation. Such studies can also ...