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

Florian Brauner addresses the risk reduction effects of security measures (SecMe) as well as economic and social effects using terrorist threats in public transportation as use case. SecMe increase the level of security but cause interferences and restrictions for customers (e.g. privacy). This study identifies the interferences and analyzes the acceptance with an empirical survey of customers. A composite indicator for the acceptance of different SecMe is developed and integrated into a risk management framework for multi-criteria decision analysis achieving the right balance of risk...

Transportation Engineering: Theory, Practice and Modeling is a guide for integrating multi-modal transportation networks and assessing their potential cost and impact on society and the environment. Clear and rigorous in its coverage, the authors begin with an exposition of theory related to traffic engineering and control, transportation planning, and an evaluation of transportation alternatives that is followed by models and methods for predicting travel and freight transportation demand, analyzing existing and planning new transportation networks, and developing traffic control...

The book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on 'Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering' that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi. This 3 volume proceedings provide an international forum for discussion and communication of engineering and technological issues of common concern. This volume talks about 'Mobility' and includes 14 chapters on diverse topics like creating sustainable transportation systems, mobility of the future, unique engineering features like Delhi metro, digitally re-imagining mobility, trends and future strategies...

Michal Markiewicz presents the outcomes of his research regarding the influence of dynamic route guidance system on overall emission of carbon dioxide from road transport in rural areas. Sustainable transportation in smart cities is a big challenge of our time, but before electric vehicles replace vehicles that burn fossil fuels we have to think about traffic optimization methods that reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.

Transportation and Highway Engineering Calculations and Rules of Thumb: Theory and Practice and Design Examples provides a step-by-step view of the calculations, formulas, and equations applied to everyday highway design and construction operations including calculations involving geotechnical problems, seismic issues, and structural design.

• Features easy to read and understand tables, schematics, and calculations
• Provides examples with step-by-step calculations in both in US and SI metric units
• Provides users with an illustrated easy-to-understand...

Statistical Techniques for Transportation Engineering is written with a systematic approach in mind and covers a full range of data analysis topics, from the introductory level (basic probability, measures of dispersion, random variable, discrete and continuous distributions) through more generally used techniques (common statistical distributions, hypothesis testing), to advanced analysis and statistical modeling techniques (regression, AnoVa, and time series). The book also provides worked out examples and solved problems for a wide variety of transportation engineering...

This book details the design and technology of the on-line electric vehicle (OLEV) system and its enabling wireless power-transfer technology, the -shaped magnetic field in resonance- (SMFIR). The text shows how OLEV systems can achieve their three linked important goals:

• reduction of CO₂ produced by ground transportation;
• improved energy efficiency of ground transportation; and
• contribution to the amelioration or prevention of climate change and global warming.

SMFIR provides power to the OLEV by wireless transmission from...

Fur Vorlesungen an der TU Braunschweig entstand als systematische Einfuhrung in das Thema der Sicherungstechnik der Bahnen im Stadtverkehr ein Skript, das jetzt in Form dieses essentials der Allgemeinheit zuganglich gemacht wird. Bisher wurde in verfugbaren Lehrbuchern der Bahnsicherungstechnik auf die Besonderheiten bei Stadtschnellbahnen und Strassenbahnen eher am Rande verwiesen, was jedoch der grossen Bedeutung dieser Bahnsysteme fur den offentlichen Personennahverkehr nicht gerecht wird.