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The end of automobile dependence
In this publication, Newman and Kenworthy look at how we can accelerate a planning approach to designing urban environments that can function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes. They consider a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation. The authors examine the rise and fall of automobile dependence using updated dat…
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- 978-1-61091-613-4
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- XIV, 308
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Logistics Management: Contributions of the Section Logistics of the German Ac…
This contributed volume contains the selected and thoroughly reviewed research papers presented at the conference on logistics management LM2015 in Braunschweig, Germany. The conference of the special interest group in logistics of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) was held in conjunction with the special interest group on production of the VHB. Thus, the papers reflec…
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- 978-3-319-20863-3
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Logistics Management: Products, Actors, Technology - Proceedings of the Germ…
This book gathers papers presented at the Logistik-Management-Konferenz 2013, which was organized by the VHB Wissenschaftliche Kommission Logistik and held in Bremen, Germany. The papers reflect the current state-of-the-art in logistics and supply chain management, focusing on environmental sustainability in logistics and supply chain network dynamics and control. The target audience primarily …
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- 978-3-319-13177-1
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The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles III
This volume contains papers presented at the International conference “The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles III: Trucks, Buses and Trains” held in Potsdam, Germany, September 12-17, 2010 by Engineering Conferences International (ECI). Leading scientists and engineers from industry, universities and research laboratories, including truck and high-speed train manufacturers and operators were br…
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- 978-3-319-20122-1
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- IX, 428
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- Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics
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Optimal Trajectory Planning and Train Scheduling for Urban Rail Transit Systems
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. It proposes new methods for shortening passenger travel times and for reducing energy consumption, addressing two major topics: (1) train traje…
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- 978-3-319-30888-3
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- XXI, 180
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- Advances in Industrial Control
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Modeling Mobility with Open Data: 2nd SUMO Conference 2014 Berlin, Germany, M…
This contributed volume contains the conference proceedings of the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) conference 2014, Berlin. The included research papers cover a wide range of topics in traffic planning and simulation, including open data, vehicular communication, e-mobility, urban mobility, multimodal traffic as well as usage approaches. The target audience primarily comprises researchers a…
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- 978-3-319-36573-2
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- X
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- Lecture Notes in Mobility
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Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transpor…
This book shows how transit assignment models can be used to describe and predict the patterns of network patronage in public transport systems. It provides a fundamental technical tool that can be employed in the process of designing, implementing and evaluating measures and/or policies to improve the current state of transport systems within given financial, technical and social constraints. …
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- 978-3-319-25080-9
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- XXXVII, 641
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- Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
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Transport Systems of Russian Cities
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. Over the past twenty-five years, urban transport in Russia has undergone serious transformations, prompted by the transitioning economy. Yet, the lack of readily available statistical data has led to a gap in the inclusion …
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- 978-3-319-47800-5
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- XIV, 299
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- Transportation Research, Economics and Policy
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Towards Functional Safety in Drive-by-Wire Vehicles
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 multip…
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- 978-3-319-36893-1
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- XIV, 233
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Natural Gas and Renewable Methane for Powertrains : Future Strategies for a C…
This book focuses on natural gas and synthetic methane as contemporary and future energy sources. Following a historical overview, physical and chemical properties, occurrence, extraction, transportation and storage of natural gas are discussed. Sustainable production of natural gas and methane as well as production and storage of synthetic methane are scrutinized next. A substantial part of th…
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- 978-3-319-23224-9
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- XI, 482
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- Powertrain
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