The phrase "usage model" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a method or system for accessing a particular resource, such as a website or application. For example, "This company offers several usage models for their products, allowing customers to access the service in a variety of ways."
and a cistern usage model.
But we're shifting from a possession model to a usage model.
"Cross-National Empirical Generalization of a Supplier Selection and Usage Model for Global Business Services". Bowman, Douglas, John U. Farley and David C. Schmittlein.
But if you think about the usage model of instant messaging – always on, seeing who's present, dynamic interaction – it's a much more social operation than just clicking on some social networking website.
Following the usage model in the FTC staff's 2010 preliminary online privacy report, this post is oriented towards the user who wants a simple, persistent, comprehensive solution such that with high confidence no third party collects her browsing history.
The researchers then extended that usage model to see how well it corresponded with larger-scale unemployment, using eight quarters of unemployment data in 52 provinces of a European country.
He advocates for a "light touch" regulatory regime for ride-sharing that employs curbside pricing to create a market-based usage model to wring maximum efficiency from congested urban roadways and curbsides.
In one usage model, a vehicle mounted camera acquires image from road and a pedestrian recognition system automatically recognizes and alarms information on the road preventing traffic accidents.
Recurly recently changed its pricing structure to a hybrid fee/usage model, which President Dan Burkhart says this was a result of user feedback.
This performance usage model, however, complements the existing performance targets in IWA 11 2012 with quantitative guidance that designers can use in their development process.
Although the performance usage model does not account for all of these system components, it integrates many of the quantifiable factors emissions rates, fuel efficiency, usage and displacement, room size, and ventilation to illustrate how key parameters influence indoor pollutant concentrations and to explore multiple pathways to reduce household air pollution and fuel use.
