Highway and traffic engineering

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 examines research at the intersection of design and public mobility from both an academic and practice perspective.

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Maritime Education and Development.

This book explores the methodological and application developments of network design in transportation and logistics.

The book offers a novel approach to the study of the complex dynamics of cities.

This book focuses on territorial policies as instruments for local development in Europe's periphery.

This book focuses on the latest scientific and technological advancements in the field of railway turnout engineering.

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) system using a series of innovative research and implementation solutions.

This book presents a thorough discussion of utility cycling, cycling in the urban environment, and everyday mobility.

This book is focused on wireless infrastructure deployment in modern transportation markets, where the wireless infrastructure co-exists with the existing structure.

This book covers a selection of fundamental topics of traffic engineering useful for highways facilities design and control.

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 offers practical as well as conceptual knowledge of the latest trends, tools, techniques and methodologies of data analytics in smart cities.

This book gathers together innovative research and practical findings relating to urban mobility transformation.

This book begins by discussing the problems caused by transportation emissions, the various types of emissions, and the impacts they have on public health, agricultural production, and climate change.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of and discussion about the relationship between green tourism, economic growth and globalization.

The rapid development of China's transportation system brings huge challenges to fire safety issues.

This volume provides international case studies of practical and advanced methods using satellite images integrated with other airborne, drone images and field data to monitor infrastructure.

This book focuses on the potential benefits that the so-called smart technologies have been bringing to the urban reality and to the management and governance of the city, simultaneously highlighting the necessity for its responsible and ethically guided deployment, respecting essential humanistic values.

This book gathers contributions on a variety of flowing collective systems.

The book analyses the relationship between ecosystem services, green and blue infrastructures (GBI) and spatial planning in Italy.

This book explores the fundamentals of smart cities along with issues, controversies, problems and applications concerning security and privacy in smart city development.

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

The second edition of Multi-Objective Management in Freight Logistics builds upon the first, providing a detailed study of freight transportation systems, with a specific focus on multi-objective modelling.

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 book presents new approaches to logistics solutions in global environments, with a special focus on collaborative logistics and intermodality.

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

This proceedings present current trends in the transport growth.

This book explains how water, electricity/power, roads and other infrastructure services are linked together within the general basket of development and how to obtain the optimum use of resources.

This book uses international case studies to present insights on the policies, actors, and institutions that are critical to successful transit-oriented development (TOD).

This book demonstrates that different rudder configurations have different hydrodynamic characteristics, which are influenced by the profile, the parameters, and the specific configuration.

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

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energetic Systems, IC-AIRES2019, 26-28 November 2019, Taghit-Bechar, Algeria.

This book provides an insight on the importance that Internet of Vehicles (IoV) solutions can have in taking care of vehicular safety through internetworking and automation.

This book addresses the needs of researchers and practitioners in the field of high-speed trains, especially those whose work involves safety and reliability issues in traction systems.

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.

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.

This book is one of the first to include an extensive discussion of integrated public transport planning.

This book provides detailed descriptions of big data solutions for activity detection and forecasting of very large numbers of moving entities spread across large geographical areas.

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 employs a Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) framework to examine cycling mobility, marking a new turn in ecolinguistic discourse analysis.

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;.

Spurred by global macro-economic shifts, commercial and financial turbulence, as well as technological leaps in the early years of the new millennium, the Danish shipping industry has changed dramatically since the turn of the century.

This book outlines the scope of sustainability and green practice in supply chain operations, which has continued to grow with a rapid speed.

This book analyzes how transport influences the ecology of various regions.

By now, planners everywhere know - more or less - what the ingredients of a sustainable city are, in theory.

This book addresses key issues across the field of sustainable urban planning, and provides a unique reference tool for planners, engineers, architects, public administrators, and other experts.

This proceedings volume explores the latest advances in transport and logistics, while also discussing the applications of modern information technologies, telecommunications, electronics, and prospective research methods and analyzing their impacts on society and the environment, which in turn determine the future development of these technologies.

This book presents cutting-edge research on innovative human systems integration and human-machine interaction, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and automation, as well as computational modeling and simulation.

This book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership.