Pilot program

Pilot program

Demand-side Evaluation

Published in Clark W. Gellings, The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, 2020

Market tests/pilot programs are particularly appealing where a new product or service in planned and other forms of measurement are not appropriate. Where there is no prior experience with a program, pilot programs are developed and implemented to either a small part of a provider’s service territory or informally offered to customers as part of another program in order to measure and evaluate customer responses.

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Published in Jay Mandelbaum, Anthony Hermes, Donald Parker, Heather Williams, Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma, 2017

Jay Mandelbaum, Anthony Hermes, Donald Parker, Heather Williams

Determining the most important actions to be taken always involves unknowns. Solutions may not work as expected. A pilot program can be a valuable step for testing solutions on a small scale before the entire process is affected. It provides an opportunity to discover and mitigate problems earlier in the process. It also provides an opportunity to increase buy-in on the final solution.

Development of an IoT-based container tracking system for China’s Belt and Road (B&R) initiative

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Published in Maritime Policy & Management, 2018

Hyung Rim Choi, Young Sik Moon, Jae Joong Kim, Jae Kee Lee, Kang Bae Lee, Joong Jo Shin

This study determined the required features for a device designed for global container transportation, including its operational platform, based on interviews with parties involved in logistics. To test its feasibility and identify potential improvement, this study conducted a pilot program.

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