Highway and traffic engineering

This volume discusses post-socialist urban transport functioning and development in Russia, within the context of the country's recent transition towards a market economy.

The volumes includes selected and reviewed papers from the 1st ETA Conference on Energy and Thermal Management, Air Conditioning and Waste Heat Recovery in Berlin, December 1-2, 2016.

This book presents the current research on safety message dissemination in vehicular networks, covering medium access control and relay selection for multi-hop safety message broadcast.

This book discusses cars of the future and the new socio-economic paradigm that they represent.

The volume includes selected and reviewed papers from the 3rd Conference on Ignition Systems for Gasoline Engines in Berlin in November 2016.

The volume will include selected and reviewed papers from CONAT - International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering to be held in Brasov, Romania, in October 2016.

This book on the dynamics of rail vehicles is developed from the manuscripts for a class with the same name at TU Berlin.

This thesis introduces a new integrated algorithm for the detection of lane-level irregular driving.

This book contains the papers presented at the 20th anniversary edition of the AMAA conference held in Brussels, Belgium in 2016.

This book provides probabilistic, deterministic and geolocation-aware approaches for adaptive connectivity, robust security and privacy-aware communications for vehicular cyber physical systems (CPS).

Does application of countdown timers at traffic lights affect pedestrian safety?

The publication contains numerous valuable guidelines one will find particularly useful while making decisions concerning development and improvement of transport systems.

This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world's major emerging economies - Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts in positive and negative senses.

This book outlines issues related to massive integration of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles into power grids.

This book analyses the current and future viability of the Northern Sea Route as a stable transport route for the international transit traffic between Europe and the Far East.

 This book provides a systematic assessment of the performance of electric and hybrid buses in urban areas on a daily basis and presents a complete set of technical scenarios to promote their efficient exploitation.

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to fuzzy methods for solving flow tasks in both transportation and networks.

This edited book comprises papers about the impacts, benefits and challenges of connected and automated cars.

This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles.

In this new fifth edition, there is a strong focus on the increasing concern over infrastructure resilience from the threat of serious storms, human activity, and population growth.

This book examines the planning of cities in global transition, looking at Australia's Greater Sydney as a case example.

This brief explores two of the main challenges of spatial network data analysis: the many connected components in the spatial network and the many candidates that have to be processed.

This volume includes the proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITITS 2015) which was held in Xi'an on December 12-13, 2015.

This volume includes the proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITITS 2015) which was held in Xi'an on December 12-13, 2015.

This expansive reference on the use of clean energy technologies in the aviation industry focuses on tools and solutions for maximizing the energy efficiency of aircrafts, airports, and other auxiliary components of air transit.

This book presents research advances in automotive AC systems using an interdisciplinary approach combining both thermal science, and automotive engineering.

This outstanding thesis characterises the aerodynamic flow around a container freight train; investigating how changing container loading configurations affect the magnitude of aerodynamic forces measured on a container.

This book focuses on the vulnerabilities of state and local services to cyber-threats and suggests possible protective action that might be taken against such threats.

Have you ever wondered by how much CO2 emissions can be reduced by running cars electrically or with hydrogen as fuel?

The bookdeals with the increasingly complex test systems for powertrain components andsystems giving an overview of the diverse types of test beds for allcomponents of an advanced powertrain focusing on specific topics such asinstrumentation, control, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, automation or testfacility management.

This book addresses a key issue in today's society: the safer transport of dangerous goods, taking into account people, the environment and economics.

This book contributes to making urban rail transport fast, punctual and energy-efficient -significant factors in the importance of public transportation systems to economic, environmental and social requirements at both municipal and national levels.

This book presents a holistic view of climate change by examining a number of energy and transportation technologies and their impact on the climate.

This book presents cutting-edge work onthe most challenging research issues concerning intelligent transportationsystems (ITS), introducing selected, highly relevant advanced research onscheduling and real-time communication for vehicular networks, as well as faulttolerance, test beds and simulations for ITS.

This monograph presents a tactical planning approach for service network design in metropolitan areas.

This volume explores the field of transport sector development.

In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil.

This book presents theory-driven discussion on the link between implementing green shipping practices (GSP) and shipping firm performance.

The book contains solutions to fundamental problems which arise due to the logic of development of specific branches of science, which are related to pipeline safety, but mainly are subordinate to the needs of pipeline transportation.

Maximizing reader insights into the key scientific disciplines of Machine Tool Metrology, this text will prove useful for the industrial-practitioner and those interested in the operation of machine tools.

This book shows how transit assignment models can be used to describe and predict the patterns of network patronage in public transport systems.

This edited monograph collects theoretical, empirical and political contributions from different fields, focusing on the commercial launch of electric mobility, and intending to shed more light on the complexity of supply and demand.

This book presents seven chapters examining selected noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) topics that are highly relevant for automotive vehicle development.

This book focuses on natural gas and synthetic methane as contemporary and future energy sources.

This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context.

This book compares the cross-border integration of infrastructures in Europe such as post, telecommunication and transportation in the 19th century and the period following the Second World War.

This book provides an original analysis of the problems facing global governance and in particular that of one of the most globalised of all industries - shipping.

This book will assess and compare several options for ammonia co-fueling of diesel locomotives with integrated heat recovery, multigeneration (including on-board hydrogen fuel production from ammonia), and emission reduction subsystems from energy, exergy, and environmental perspectives.

This contributed volume contains the selected and thoroughly reviewed research papers presented at the conference on logistics management LM2015 in Braunschweig, Germany.