Highway and traffic engineering

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 book discusses current theory regarding global mobile satellite communications (GMSC) for maritime, land (road and rail), and aeronautical applications.

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 contributed volume contains the conference proceedings of the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) conference 2015, Berlin.

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.

The main topics of this book include advanced control, cognitive data processing, high performance computing, functional safety, and comprehensive validation.

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

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 book presents contributions tothe 19th biannual symposium of the German Aerospace Aerodynamics Association(STAB) and the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR).

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 contributed volume contains the results of the research program "e;Agreement for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles"e;, developed in the framework of the Energy Technology Network of the International Energy Agency.

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 reviewed papers of the 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Production, Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) 2015, Dortmund, Germany.

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

This edited volume presents the proceedings of the AMAA 2015 conference, Berlin, Germany.

Explaining in detail how new e-mobility technologies work, and the system requirements which must be fulfilled for these new technologies to be implemented, this book augments this analysis with discussion of the business models, financing and social and economic conditions that will foster the emergence of a new e-mobility industry.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach of spatial networks with a particular emphasis on infrastructure networks such as streets, roads and transportation networks (subway, train).

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).

This volume collects selected papers of the 3rd CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2014.

This book introduces new inventory models to support decision-making when cost of externalities are jointly considered along with costs of logistics.

This book presents a discussion of problems encountered in the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).

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

This book examines contractual options for a performance based contract between an owner of a revenue generating unit and a repair agent for such unit.

This book is designed as an interdisciplinary platform for specialists working in electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles powertrain design and development, and for scientists who want to get access to information related to electric and hybrid vehicle energy management, efficiency and control.

This volume collects the research papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies (ICSAT), Gothenburg, 2014.

This book explains the topology behind automotive electronics architectures and examines how they can be profoundly augmented with embedded controllers.

This book presents approaches to address key challenges based on a vehicle level view and with a special emphasis on Drive-by-Wire systems.

This book identifies and furthers the state of the art in green logistics and transportation with a supply chain focus.