BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Ramp
- to buy stocks with the objective of raising their price.
- See also Rigged Market
Wiktionary Definition for: Ramp
- an inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline
- a mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an airliner at an airport
- an American plant, ''Allium tricoccum'', related to the onion
- #(''Appalachia'') a promiscuous man or woman; a general insult for a worthless person
- to behave violently; to rage
- to stand in a rampant position
Additional Resources
- EveryZing Moves to RAMP Focus on Content Optimization
- Yesterday, EveryZing, a company that we have profiled in the past, has re-branded themselves as RAMP.com. They made a name for themselves by helping companies optimize their video content for search discovery through speech to text recognition technology and they are now moving beyond video optimization to focus on helping...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Ramp Metering and the Capacity of Active Freeway Bottlenecks
- The objective of this study is to determine whether ramp meters increase the capacity of active freeway bottlenecks, and if they do, how. The traffic flow characteristics at twenty-seven active bottlenecks in the Twin Cities have been studied for seven weeks without ramp metering and seven weeks with ramp metering....
- White papers 2003-07-27
- Ramp Meters on Trial: Evidence From the Twin Cities Ramp Meters Metering Holiday
- Ramp meters in the Twin Cities have been the subject of a recent test of their effectiveness, involving turning them off for 8 weeks. This paper analyzes the results with and without ramp metering for several representative freeways during the afternoon peak period. Seven performance measures: mobility, equity, productivity, consumers'...
- White papers 2002-05-30
- Optimal Freeway Ramp Control Without Origin-Destination Information
- This paper develops an analytical framework for ramp metering, under which various ramp control strategies can be viewed as ramifications of the same most-efficient control logic with different threshold values, control methods, and equity considerations. The most-efficient control logic only meters the entrance ramps nearest critical freeway mainline sections so...
- White papers 2003-11-14
- Estimation of the Demand Response to Ramp Metering
- Ramp meters in the Twin Cities were turned off for 8 weeks in the Fall of 2000. Previous research has assumed demand to be fixed when analyzing ITS technologies, however analysis of this ramp metering shut down experiment, using traffic count data from freeway loop detectors, suggests otherwise: for discretionary...
- White papers 2001-09-13
- Balancing Efficiency and Equity of Ramp Meters
- This paper presents a new freeway ramp control objective - minimizing total weighted travel time. This new objective function is capable of balancing efficiency and equity of ramp meters, while the previous metering objective - minimizing total absolute travel time is purely efficiency-oriented and hence produces a most efficient but...
- White papers 2003-03-14
- The Employment of the Traffic Management Laboratory (TRAMLAB) for Evaluating Ramp Control Strategies in the Twin Cities - Summary
- As freeway traffic congestion spreads ramp metering is implemented to address the problem. However, recently there is increasing opposition to freeway ramp control caused by excessive ramp delays. The objective of this report is to employ a recently developed tool called Traffic Management Laboratory TRAMLAB for assessing the effectiveness of...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- Market Pulse Breaking News Alert for Thursday, July 15, 2004: RCO - Ramp Corporation Announces Improved Financial Condition!
- Market Pulse News Alert for this AM, Stocks to Watch are: Ramp Corporation (AMEX: RCO), SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK), Power 3 Medical Products Inc. (OTC BB: PWRM) and Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc. (NASDAQ: PPDI). Investors need to be watching Ramp Corporation (AMEX: RCO) this AM! Ramp Corp., through...
- Research articles 2004-07-15
- So, where's the ramp?
- Byline: The Register-Guard There's that picture again - the one that shows the entrance to Eugene's gleaming new federal courthouse. The picture is still missing something important: a ramp that would allow disabled people to use the grand staircase and reach the upper plaza. The...
- Research articles 2003-08-15
- Designers see a path to overcome courthouse ramp disagreement
- Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard Public outcry over the lack of a ramp on the new $70 million courthouse in Eugene factored into the General Services Administration's decision last week to delay purchase of a city-owned site for the building, an agency spokesman said. Although...
- Research articles 2003-09-21
- First Direct-Access HOV Ramp Opens.(Brief Article)
- Staff Lynnwood, Wash.-- Sound Transit and the Washington State Department of Transportation have opened a historic addition to the region's mass transit system: the first HOV Direct Access ramp in Washington. The ramp will allow buses and other High Occupancy Vehicles...
- Research articles 2005-01-03
- Quote.com Launches "The Investors On-Ramp"; Company Is First Financial Services Web Site to Offer Education in Online Trading
- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 8, 1998--Quote.com Inc., the leading Internet provider of financial market information for individual investors and the financial services industry, Thursday announced the launch of The Quote.com Investors On-Ramp. Available on Quote.com's Web site (www.quote.com), the Investors On-Ramp is designed to educate investors on the process...
- Research articles 1998-10-08
- Mn/DOT Releases Ramp Meter Study Results
- The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) released the final results of an independent study on ramp metering in the Twin Cities metro area. Cambridge Systematics of Cambridge, Mass., evaluated the traffic flow and safety impacts associated with turning off all 430 ramp meters for six weeks last fall, as mandated...
- Research articles 2001-05-01
- Fitch Ratings Affirms 11 RMBS Classes From 2 RAMP Issues
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--May 11, 2004 Fitch Ratings has affirmed eleven classes of the following Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc. RAMP issues: RAMP, home equity mortgage asset-backed pass-through certificates, series 2001-RZ3: -- Class A-5 'AAA'; -- Class M-1 'AA'; -- Class M-2 'A';...
- Research articles 2004-05-11
- Fitch Upgrades 16 & Affirms 52 Classes From 4 RAMP Issues
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has taken rating actions on the following Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc. RAMP issues: RAMP series 2002-RM1 Group 1: -- Classes A-I-1 to A-I-3, AP-1, AV-1 affirmed at 'AAA'; -- Class M-I-1 upgraded to 'AAA' from 'AA+'; -- Class M-I-2 upgraded...
- Research articles 2005-10-14
- Fitch Upgrades 3, Affirms 9 & Downgrades 2 Classes From 1 RAMP Issue
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has taken rating actions on the following Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc. RAMP issue: RAMP series 2001-RM2 Group I: -- Class A-I affirmed at 'AAA'; -- Class AP-I affirmed at 'AAA'; -- Class AV-I affirmed at 'AAA'; -- Class M-I-1...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- Fitch Upgrades 6 & Affirms 51 RMBS Classes From 3 RAMP Issues
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has taken rating actions on the following Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc. RAMP issues: RAMP series 2002-RM1 Group 1: --Classes A-I-1 to A-I-3, AP-1, AV-1 affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class M-I-1 affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class M-I-2 upgraded to 'AAA' from 'AA+'; ...
- Research articles 2007-01-05
- Fitch Downgrades 2 RMBS Classes from 2 RAMP & RASC NIM Deals
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded one Residential Asset Mortgage Products RAMP and one Residential Asset Securities Corporation RASC Net Interest Margin NIM notes listed below: RAMP NIM 2005-NM5 Trust: --$4.95 million class SB to 'C/DR6' from 'BBB-'. Underlying transaction: Residential Asset Mortgage Products RAMP 2005-RS6...
- Research articles 2008-05-30
- Solunet Selects WebRamp DSL Access Solutions, Becomes Charter Member of Ramp Networks Master VAR Partner Program
- SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 2, 1999-- Solunet, Inc., a leading Value Added Reseller VAR of network equipment, today announced it has selected Ramp Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:RAMP), a leading provider of shared Internet access solutions for small offices, as its exclusive supplier of Synchronous Digital Subscriber Line SDSL customer premise...
- Research articles 1999-08-02
- Relationships Between Ramp Metering and Sprawl
- This paper explores impacts of ramp metering on urban land use. A regression-based transportation model is developed to capture changes in accessibility caused by ramp metering on a highway network. A Land Use Change Indicator LUCI model is modified to estimate how the spatial distribution of employment and housing would...
- White papers 2003-11-14
