Transportation planning has been shifting from an emphasis on capacity expansion to issues like travel management, social equity and environmental justice, quality of life, energy sustainability, and environmental concerns. The trip-based models are not adequate for reflecting these subjects even...
Ethiopian’s sesame oils product demand has been growing in the last couple of years. In order to stay competitive and cope up with the world market, problems on productivity, logistics, quality, infrastructures and others should be given due attention so that the country can use its...
In Addis Ababa signalized intersections are the most important and common bottleneck locations because the functional traffic signals are inadequate to the job of handling current traffic levels and poor traffic management strategies. To mitigate capacity-related problems at signalized...
Walking is one of the most important travel modes in the world so pedestrian facilities need tornconcern while transportation planning, construction, and management. However in ourrncountry road design manual for urban sections outside Addis Ababa are classified on dependrnon the governmental...
Most studies on the plant khat (catha ed uli s) -the mild stimulant cash crop- focus onrndescription of the social behavior, health imp lications and psycho logical effects onrnconsumers. Due to this most policy actions taken in this regard are one sided since theyrnneglect the economic...
A pavement surface should be durable material, laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular traffic load without any significant fail in any palace in the road network. Distresses are manifestation of pavement failure. Different types of distress are visible on bus stops areas of Addis Ababa...
This research has mainly focused on the synthesis of furfural from microalgae biomass and optimizing the process parameters using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). The raw material microalgae were characterized for proximate and biochemical compositions and the HPLC analysis of the acid...
Essential oils are aromatic substances that found in the immune system of the plant and it is very interesting natural product in their variety application. Ethiopia has also spending a huge foreign currency to import the essential oil for its different application. This study has been carried out...
Coriander seed (Dimblal) is both an annual and a perennial herb that has been cultivated in Ethiopia and has been used to flavoring, cooking, and fragrance rather than for medical purpose. The goal of this research was to Optimization and characterization of essential oil from coriander seed...
Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AALRT) is an electrified railway traction system with largernamount of harmonic currents being generated due to the nonlinear characteristics of rectifiers andrninverters devices and inject the harmonics back into the grid. This has caused serious impact onrnthe...
With con tinuo lls urbaniz;;ltion ~Hl d population growth and the resulting increase in solid waste gCllc r.l ri ull,rnsolid Wi-15fC management is becoming a major health and environmenmi concern in majo r lIrb,lll ,IIT,l :, llt"rnEth iopia, incl uding...
Supply Chain Integration can be defined as the way of make a network between suppliers and accompany to produce and distribute a specific product to the final buyer. Supply chain is the process of develop relation between supplier and customer. Nowadays, the field of supply chain is an important...
Landslide generated waves may have disastrous impact on the surrounding environment. Therncatastrophic event such as Vajont disaster occurred in Italy, 1963 and caused the loss of morernthan 2000 human lives, is among the reasons that landslide generated wave and consequencesrnis of great deal....
This thesis is concerned with the problem of stochastic simulation of streamflow and reservoir sizing analysis in the Gidabo reservoir. Measso station with long record period of 29 years was used for the analysis. Four sets of time series models named, ARMA, PARMA (p,q) ,Thomas-Fiering and GAR(1)...
For most hydrological modeling and water resources development plan studies, the distribution of rainfall data is a very important input parameter. The spatial distribution of rainfall is usually accessible from the limited number of rain gauge stations especially in developing countries; this...
Construction of retaining wall type for deep excavation is always anticipated in urban areas especially in Addis Ababa where construction is highly growing due to the limited availability of land. The most common type of retaining wall for deep excavation in the city is contiguous bored pile wall....
Expansive soils cause serious problem in the civil engineering practice due to swell and shrinkage upon wetting and drying. In Woreta this soil is the dominant and extends to very deep depth. In this study, the potential use and the effectiveness of expansive soils stabilization using rice husk ash...
The aim of the research was to investigate the effect of extrusion variables including temperature, screw speed and feed moisture on functional and sensory properties ready-to-eat (RTE) expanded snack from Teff, Rye and Sorghum was investigated. The blends of teff, rye and sorghum flours were...
Using panel data of forty Sub-Saharan African countries spanning over two decades this th esisrnanalyzes the effect of institutions on econornic growth in these countries. For this, the study usedrninsti tu tional index constructed br Freedom House. Consistent with most recent empirical works,rnthe...
Animals are slaughtered to produce their by-products which can be well utilized for variousrnapplications in day to day human life, thus, contributing to the value of animals. Understandingrnits chemical composition as well as its stability is very important for its proper utilization andrnalso for...