Highway and traffic engineering

Often, when a new successful data processing techniques appears in one of the application areas, it then proves to be useful in many other areas.

This book focuses on the clarification of what actually a handbook is, the systematic identification of what ought to be considered as "e;settled knowledge"e; (extracted from historic repositories) for inclusion into such a handbook, and the "e;assembly"e; of such identified knowledge into a form which is fit for the purpose and conforms to the formal characteristics of handbooks as a "e;literary genre"e;.

This book describes an effective decision-making and planning architecture for enhancing the navigation capabilities of automated vehicles in the presence of non-detailed, open-source maps.

Although transportation economists have advocated the tolling of urban streets as a mechanism for controlling congestion and managing travel demands for over 50 years, it is only recently that this idea has become practical.

Trans-European networks (TENs) are a key theme in the process of integration for the EU as it enters the next millennium.

This book presents a groundbreaking examination of the intricate dynamics shaping the customized bus (CB) service industry.

Simulation Approaches in Transportation Analysis: Recent Advances and Challenges presents the latest developments in transport simulation, including dynamic network simulation and micro-simulation of people's movement in an urban area.

This book presents the principal structure, networks and applications of the Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) for enhanced airborne Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS).

This book presents emerging technology management approaches and applied cases from leading infrastructure sectors such as energy, healthcare, transportation and education.

This book offers a timely snapshot of research and development in road vehicle dynamics.

This book aims to promote the core understanding of a proper modelling of road traffic accidents by deep learning methods using traffic information and road geometry delineated from laser scanning data.

This volume of "e;Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition,"e; covers the electrification of vehicles, which is key to a sustainable future of transportation in both light-duty and heavy-duty vehicle sectors to address global concerns of climate change, air pollutant emissions, energy efficiency and energy security.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

This edited collection brings together feminist research on transport and planning from different epistemologies, with the intention to contribute to a more holistic transport planning practice.

The construction and operation of highways has a significant impact on the environment.

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This book draws inspiration from natural shepherding, whereby a farmer utilizes sheepdogs to herd sheep, to inspire a scalable and inherently human friendly approach to swarm control.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2023.

This book explores the application of breakthrough technologies to improve transportation performance.

This book offers a new look at the theory of traffic congestion, in the light of recent reassessments of the extensive surveys in London of traffic plans and speeds and, in particular, of journey speeds by all forms of transport.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

This book discusses the latest advances in the research and development, design, operation, and analysis of transportation systems, including road, rail, aviation, aerospace and maritime as well as their supporting systems and infrastructure.

The topics addressed in this book are crucial for both the academic community and industry, since the vehicular network has become an essential building block for intelligent transportation systems.

This important book is the first in-depth history of the Rhodesian railway system.

This book introduces the concept of machine-type communication (MTC) for maritime Internet of Things.

This book reports on an operational management approach to improving bike-sharing systems by compensating for fluctuating demand patterns.

Air Transport and the European Union examines the emergence of the EU as a major actor in aviation.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2023.

This book describes the fundamentals and applications of wireless power transfer (WPT) in electric vehicles (EVs).

This book deals with alignment optimization models for planning rail transit.

A volume of five parts, this book is a culmination of selected research papers from the second version of the international conferences on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for sustainable Development (UPADSD) and Urban Transit and Sustainable Networks (UTSN) of 2017 in Palermo and the first of the Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism Conference (RRAU) of 2018 in the Netherlands.

This proceedings book is the fourth edition of a series of works which features emergent research trends and recent innovations related to smart city presented at the 5th International Conference on Smart City Applications SCA20 held in Safranbolu, Turkey.

This book presents comprehensive experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies on the highway bridge under collision and explosion.

This book on computing systems for autonomous driving takes a comprehensive look at the state-of-the-art computing technologies, including computing frameworks, algorithm deployment optimizations, systems runtime optimizations, dataset and benchmarking, simulators, hardware platforms, and smart infrastructures.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2023.

This book highlights selected papers presented during the bi-annual World Renewable Energy Network's 2019 Med Green Forum.

Since the end of World War II, European airlines have revealed their own operational style.

The book collects the latest research and thinking from international experts on green computing and the smart city.

This book focuses on the design of a multi-criteria automated vehicle longitudinal control system as an enhancement of the adaptive cruise control system.

This book gathers papers presented at the 11th international scientific conference "e;Transbaltica: Transportation Science and Technology"e;, held on May 2-3, 2019 at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on micromobility, which is a mode of transportation that has become particularly popular among young people in recent years, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and supports public transport for short distances.

Winner of the IENE Project Award 2016.

This monograph, which is the first book focusing on "e;Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline"e;, introduces the author's long-term research and practice on this topic.

This book explores the part that electric vehicles can play in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2023.

This book deals with modern Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software tools and platforms implemented in ship design, the integration of techno-economic databases, the use of optimisation and simulation software tools, which are integrated in these platforms, and the virtual modelling of ships and their operation by using a Virtual Vessel Framework (VVF).