Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Civil - Highway & Traffic

Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies.

Roads focuses on two main sites: the interoceanic highway currently under construction between Brazil and Peru, a major public/private collaboration that is being realized within new, internationally ratified regulatory standards; and a recently completed...

This book presents approaches to address key challenges based on a vehicle level view and with a special emphasis on Drive-by-Wire systems. The design and testing of modern vehicle electronics are becoming more and more demanding due to increasing interdependencies among components and the safety criticality of tasks. The development towards Drive-by-Wire functionalities in vehicles with multiple actuators for vehicle control further increases the challenge. The book explicitly takes into account the interactions between components and aims at bridging the gap between the need to generate...

This book presents research advances in automotive AC systems using an interdisciplinary approach combining both thermal science, and automotive engineering. It covers a variety of topics, such as: control strategies, optimization algorithms, and diagnosis schemes developed for when automotive air condition systems interact with powertrain dynamics. In contrast to the rapid advances in the fields of building HVAC and automotive separately, an interdisciplinary examination of both areas has long been neglected. The content presented in this book not only reveals opportunities when...

Florian Jomrich stellt einen Protokollentwurf zur drahtlosen, mobilen Datenkommunikation mit Fahrzeugen vor. Das Ergebnis ist ein hybrider Entwurf - das sogenannte Proxyunloading-Protokoll -, der die Vorteile von host- und proxybasierten Entwurfsmustern kombiniert und somit den fur eine unterbrechungsfreie mobile Kommunikation notwendigen nahtlosen Handover ermoglicht. Beim Entwurf des Protokolls wurde der Fokus auf eine einfache Integration in die bereits bestehende Netzwerkinfrastruktur bei gleichzeitig moglichst hoher Performanz gelegt. Als Testszenario wurde die Kommunikation im...

When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100...

Schwerpunkt des Buches bildet die Auseinandersetzung mit den sich wechselseitig beeinflussenden Aspekten von Mobilitat, Verkehr und Raumnutzung. Neben einer Beschaftigung mit den fur das Mobilitatsverhalten bzw. Verkehr grundlegenden menschlichen Bedurfnissen wird vor allem auch auf die speziellen topografischen Gegebenheiten in Gebirgsraumen eingegangen. Diese regionalspezifischen Aspekte erfordern zusammen mit sich standig andernden globalen Rahmenbedingungen eine uber die traditionellen Modelle der Verkehrs- und Regionalwissenschaft hinausgehende interdisziplinare Sichtweise. Der in...

This book presents approaches to address key challenges based on a vehicle level view and with a special emphasis on Drive-by-Wire systems. The design and testing of modern vehicle electronics are becoming more and more demanding due to increasing interdependencies among components and the safety criticality of tasks. The development towards Drive-by-Wire functionalities in vehicles with multiple actuators for vehicle control further increases the challenge. The book explicitly takes into account the interactions between components and aims at bridging the gap between the need to generate...

This book seeks to enhance understanding of the impacts of project setup and its implementation environment on project performance by leveraging information from the study of a rich set of European transport infrastructure project cases. It puts forward a system's view of project delivery and aims to serve as a strategic tool for decision makers and practitioners. The proposed approach is not limited to specific stakeholder views. On the contrary, it allows stakeholders to formulate their own strategies based on an holistic set of potential implementation scenarios.

A true labor of love, author William Cook has reproduced his grandmother's (Hepzy Moore Cook) narrative of the day-to-day rigors in early twentieth century vacation travel by automobile. The journals describe in great detail, a more remote, less accessible nation that existed ninety years ago during the dawn of America's love affair with the car. The oldest of the two journals written by Hepzy Moore Cook chronicles a challenging and sometimes very hazardous journey by automobile taken by her, the author's grandfather, Dr. William A. Cook and father, Ralph Moore Cook in August, 1920 from...

This book describes a wide range real-case applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in maritime related subjects including shipping, port, maritime logistics, cruise ports, waterfront developments, and shipping finance, etc. In such areas, researchers, students and industrialists, in general, felt struggling to find a step-by-step guide on how to apply MCDM to formulate effective solutions to solving real problems in practice. This book focuses on the in-depth analysis and applications of the most well-known MDCM methodologies in the aforementioned areas. It brings together an...