Highway and traffic engineering

This text explores the motives for attacks on maritime trade over the last five centuries and assesses the strategic utility of that form of naval action.

This book is the first comprehensive work on Chinese covered bridges study, covering fields of human geography, historical buildings, and transportation.

This book provides a thorough and fresh treatment of the control of innovative variable-geometry vehicle suspension systems.

The series of Interdisciplinary Conferences on Production, Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) address the research community as well as practitioners in these fields with special attention to links and interfaces between the three disciplines.

This book presents select proceedings of the 7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (7th CTRG, 2023) and provides an opportunity for discussion of state-of-the-art research and practice in the developing world for achieving equitable, efficient, and resilient infrastructure and opens pathways to sustainable transportation.

This book proposes the concept of a multi-layer pavement system to fulfill the blast resistance requirement for pavement design.

This multi-disciplinary book presents the most recent advances in exergy, energy, and environmental issues.

This book surveys state-of-the-art research on and developments in lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

This volume contains papers presented at the International conference "e;The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles III: Trucks, Buses and Trains"e; held in Potsdam, Germany, September 12-17, 2010 by Engineering Conferences International (ECI).

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book seeks to show how Karl Marx's vision of communism was a continuation of Aristotle's classical humanist philosophy.

This book mainly studies the methodologies of structural design and construction for highway engineering, which are applicable to the overall control and the precise operation of engineering structures.

This book focuses on transmission systems for pure electric and hybrid vehicles.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Mobility series contains papers written by speakers at the 22nd International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2018) "e;Smart Systems for Clean, Safe and Shared Road Vehicles"e; that was held in Berlin, Germany in September 2018.

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

Most contemporary notions of the fairly recent concept 'smart mobility' portray an imminent transition of similar socio-economic consequences as the shift from horses to automobiles did 100 years ago.

This handbook offers all aspects of Overhead Transmission Lines as the backbone of networks of electrical power.

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

This book describes different methods that are relevant to the development and testing of control algorithms for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving functions (ADF).

This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility.

This book focuses on Coastal and Ocean Navigation with an emphasis on digital navigation (using ECDIS) and would be useful to both experienced seafarers as an aide memoire, and also to cadets and trainees embarking on their maritime careers.

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.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

The present book was written to address the needs of those readers interested in wind energy converters.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth.

This book is the fourth volume of the sub series of the Lecture Notes in Mobility dedicated to Road Vehicle Automation.

This book offers an overview of sustainability and urban mobility in the context of urban planning - topics that are of considerable interest in the development of smart cities.

This book provides a comprehensive investigation on new technologies for future vehicular networks.

This book sets the modern infrastructure of smart devices and services into the perspective of the future smart cities and communities.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and advances in the field of intelligent vehicle systems.

This book focuses on the deep learning technologies and their applications in the catenary detection of high-speed railways.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of pavement technology, presented at the 12th International Conference in Road and Airfield Pavement Technology (ICPT), hosted by the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and held on July 14-16, 2021.

This book focuses on low carbon fuels a preferable class of fuels for Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) highlighting the effect of low carbon fuels on tailpipe emissions.

This book reports on original research and practical findings fostering resilient and sustainable transportation systems in response to the climate crisis.

This book is the eleventh volume of a sub-series on Road Vehicle Automation, published as part of the Lecture Notes in Mobility.

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods and experimental results in the field of electrical and information technologies for rail transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas.

This book highlights some of the unique aspects of spatio-temporal graph data from the perspectives of modeling and developing scalable algorithms.

This book describes the basic concepts and various aspects of creating a new generation supersonic passenger aircraft.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE 2022).

This is the first volume in a new series on 'Great Minds in Regional Science,' which seeks to present a contemporary view on the scientific relevance of the work done by great thinkers in regional science.

The book contains 12 contributions that explain the current state of China's cruise industry and future development.

This book sets the innovative research contributions, works, and solutions for almost all the intelligent and smart applications in the smart cities.

This paper collection is the second volume of the LNMOB series on Road Vehicle Automation.

This edited volume presents research results of the PPP European Green Vehicle Initiative (EGVI), focusing on electric vehicle batteries.

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 book compiles recent research endeavors at the intersection of computer vision (CV) and deep learning for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) applications, which are pivotal in shaping the landscape of smart cities.

Examining non-technological innovations for environmentally and socially-friendly transport, this book provides the reader with a better understanding of this often overlooked topic.

The increasing power of computer technologies, the evolution of software en- neering and the advent of the intelligent transport systems has prompted traf c simulation to become one of the most used approaches for traf c analysis in s- port of the design and evaluation of traf c systems.