Highway and traffic engineering

This book focuses on modelling and simulation, control and optimization, signal processing, and forecasting in selected nonlinear dynamical systems, presenting both literature reviews and novel concepts.

This book presents link-layer cooperative frameworks to improve transmission reliability and network throughput of distributed TDMA MAC protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs).

This edited monograph presents the selected papers from RailNewcastle 2016, being held in Newcastle UK, June 2016.

This textbook lays out the state of the art for modeling of asphalt concrete as the major structural component of flexible pavements.

This book details aluminum alloys with special focus on the aluminum silicon (Al-Si) systems - that are the most abundant alloys second only to steel.

This book written by a world-renowned expert with more than forty years of active gas turbine R&D experience comprehensively treats the design of gas turbine components and their integration into a complete system.

The goals of this book are to update information on the effects of rural road development, both in Nepal and globally, explain the environmental, socioeconomic, and sociocultural impacts of expanding rural road networks in the Nepalese Himalaya, and to promote further studies on rural road development throughout the world based on studies and investigations performed in Nepal.

This book introduces readers to essential technology assessment and forecasting tools, demonstrating their use on the basis of multiple cases.

This volume addresses challenges and solutions in transport and mobility of people and goods with respect to environment, safety, security and socio-economics issues, exploring advanced computational research work and the latest innovations in transport.

This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future.

This book provides concise descriptions of the various solutions of transition curves, which can be used in geometric design of roads and highways.

In the era of big data, this book explores the new challenges of urban-rural planning and management from a practical perspective based on a multidisciplinary project.

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

This book shows how the systems approach is employed by scientists in various countries to solve specific problems concerning railway transport.

This proceedings volume presents current research on transport sector development, with particular emphasis on sustainable transport development, innovation and transport enterprise growth and survival.

This book details the design and technology of the on-line electric vehicle (OLEV) system and its enabling wireless power-transfer technology, the "e;shaped magnetic field in resonance"e; (SMFIR).

This book consolidates some of the most promising advanced smart grid functionalities and provides a comprehensive set of guidelines for their implementation/evaluation using DIgSILENT Power Factory.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2016, held in Katowice-Ustron, Poland, in March 2016.

This handbook offers the whole knowledge of high voltage substations from their design and construction to the maintenance and the ongoing management, the entire asset life-cycle.

This book develops a modeling framework to analyze the problem of inventory management with alternative delivery times.

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.

This book focuses on the needs of railway operators in terms of wireless communications, divided in two main categories: the commercial services and the operational needs.

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 SpringerBrief focuses on the coexistence concerns emerging in LTE networks using unlicensed frequency bands.

This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics.

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.

This book contains selected papers that address a variety of topics related to the design, development and operation of unmanned and fully autonomous sailing boats.

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 book concisely describes the architecture of the oil and gas pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region and analyzes the status quo and perspectives of oil and gas production in this region.

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 Handbook presents a complete and rigorous overview of the fundamentals, methods and applications of the multidisciplinary field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), providing an exhaustive, one-stop reference work and a state-of-the-art description of GNSS as a key technology for science and society at large.

This compendium gathers the latest advances in the area of Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT), a means of testing full-scale pavement construction in an accelerated manner for structural deterioration in a very short term.

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 introduces the latest thinking on the use of Big Data in the context of urban systems, including research and insights on human behavior, urban dynamics, resource use, sustainability and spatial disparities, where it promises improved planning, management and governance in the urban sectors (e.

This book discusses the latest advances in research and development, design, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructures.

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.