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The Social Sciences collection forms a definitive resource for those entering, researching, or teaching in any of the many disciplines making up this interdisciplinary area of study. Written by experts and researchers from both Academic and Commercial domains, titles offer global scope and perspectives.

Key subject areas include: Library and Information Science; Transportation; Urban Studies; Geography, Planning, and Development; Security; Emergency Management.

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Resilient Smart Cities

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Nisrine Makhoul
  • English
  • Paperback
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Using a consistent structure throughout, the book examines smart cities in a broad sense, looking at people, governance, economic, mobility, environment, and infrastructure dimensions. It identifies the likely weaknesses of those cities and threats faced, proposing a modeling platform to help enhance resilience of smart cities, offering state-of-the-research and deep literature review. Resilient Smart Cities shows the role smart cities play in achieving sustainability goals through the lens of urban resilience and concludes that smart cities are required to be cities of hope where well-being of the humankind is the center.

Smart City Standardization

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Leonidas Anthopoulos
  • English
  • Paperback
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Smart City Standardization: Smart City Standards Across the Globe contains numerous existing standards that have emerged for smart cities and helps readers understanding their complex processes. It presents the current state of smart city standards at both international and national levels, and it demonstrates how smart city innovation is clarified via standardization, as well as how competitive solutions compromise under international and national negotiations in standardization bodies. It helps practitioners and theorists understand the context and available solutions using a unique case study approach.The book starts with international and supranational levels and proceeds with the most important national approaches. It addresses the problem of smart city standardization and aims to provide answers to the crucial questions:1. What is the purpose of standardization in smart cities?2. How is smart city standardization established, and by whom?3. Which standards exist for smart cities?4. How do national standards transform international recommendations into smaller scale norms?Moreover, the standardization ecosystem is depicted, and the existing international standards are briefly explained. Finally, the interrelation between international and national standardization helps readers understand how the standardization is brought from high-level policymaking to national practices. These standards both clarify the smart city domain, and more importantly aim to homogenize the emerging intelligent solutions that cover the broad smart city scope, ranging from transportation and buildings, to waste, water, and energy.This book is a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and other practitioners who need to understand how they can use smart city standards to support their communities to strengthen city resilience, as well as instructors of courses in urban studies, ICT, security, public health, engineering, public administration and business administration, and more, to understand the smart city context from practical examples and theoretical considerations.

Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Alexei Tsyganov
  • English
  • Paperback
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Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers provides human factors principles and findings to allow nonexperts to consider the road user’s capabilities and limitations more effectively into the practice of design, operations, and safety. It provides data and insights on the needs, capabilities, and limitations of road users, including perception and effects of visual demands, cognition, and influence of expectations on driving behavior. It bridges the gap between human factors research and practical application, presenting complex psychological insights in an accessible manner.This book begins with Part 1 explaining the significance of the traffic safety problem and giving an overview of the importance of human factors in highway design and traffic engineering. Part 2 focuses on driver information perception and processing, including perception of depth and speed, driver’s visual search, how road users search for information, and how mental and information load affects drivers’ performance. Part 3 provides results of investigations of traffic crash causation and reviews major driver errors. Part 4 then describes key principles of road users’ considerations during highway design and traffic operation. Finally, Part 5 focuses on safety analysis and assessment and describes in detail the existing methods to evaluate human factors during safety assessments.This is a valuable resource for professionals in highway and traffic engineering, researchers, policymakers, urban planners, and students to understand how human factors contribute to traffic incidents and how to mitigate these through design and operational strategies.

Forensic Serology

  • 1st Edition
  • June 20, 2025
  • Shanan S. Tobe
  • English
  • Paperback
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Forensic Serology provides a comprehensive and complete synopsis of forensic serology. The book includes background information on different biological substances that can be detected, how the serological tests work, what the testing looks like, how to interpret the results, and what those results tell us. Coverage includes all aspects of serological testing, including basic presumptive testing, confirmatory testing, and new methods of testing, such as mRNA, methylation, proteomics, and much more. The book is written at a level that anyone with basic knowledge of science can fully understand, thus filling a gap in the market.

Models and Applications of Tourists’ Travel Behavior

  • 1st Edition
  • June 2, 2025
  • Francesca Pagliara + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Models and Applications of Tourists’ Travel Behavior provides an overview of all possible approaches to modeling tourists’ travel behavior, helping readers decide which theoretical approach should be chosen depending on the available type of data. It focuses on the connection between traditional travel behavior theories and tourist studies and introduces specific tourist contexts in travel demand modelling. It goes beyond the theoretical background of tourist travel behavior modeling and offers a practical understanding for choosing the right model and sourcing the right data.The book begins with the role of transport in tourist’ travel behavior, then employs a literature review to establish the necessary background on the topic. It then goes on to describe theoretical approaches, descriptive approaches, and statistical approaches for modelling. It discusses choice models based on both Stated Preference Data and Revealed Preference Data. It concludes with chapters on machine learning methods. This book uniquelyfocuses on modeling transport with regard to tourism, including mode choice, modelling waiting time, modelling delay, and more.A variety of readers will find this book a valuable resource: Educators can use it as a basis for courses on the quantification of tourists’ travel behavior; students will learn how to deal with modeling tourists’ travel choices; and researchers will benefit from a good starting point from where new models can be developed.

Comprehensive Energy Systems

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Ibrahim Dincer
  • English
  • Hardback
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Comprehensive Energy Systems, Second Edition, Five Volume Set provides a unique source of unified information that covers the entire spectrum of energy from production to utilization, including basic to advanced levels of content that address the critical issues that face humanity. This comprehensive book describes traditional and novel energy systems with sections on system design, analysis and assessment, from single generation to multi-generation, and theory and applications. In addition, the book also presents high-level coverage on energy policies and strategies, economic dimensions, environmental impact assessments, and sustainable development.High-level sections include Energy Fundamentals, Energy Materials, Energy Production, Energy Conversion, and Energy Management. For this second edition, existing chapters have been improved and updated with new information, knowledge, technologies and applications. New chapters and case studies have been added on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, energy trading, transport, transmission, consumption, and recent dynamics in the energy sector after COVID-19.

Urban Computing and Artificial Intelligence

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Ansar Khan + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Urban Computing and Artificial Intelligence: A Data-Driven Tool for Urban Heat Mitigation is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on climate change, urban warming, and the future of resilient cities. The book helps city governments better understand how to plan for the effects of climate change and impending natural disasters. It compiles the concepts, strategies, and technologies associated with resilient cities, and provides an outline of what constitutes climate change and its behavior relating to urban systems. Finally, the book develops a comprehensive concept for the future resiliency of cities related to hydro-climatology and extreme events.Next, it explains the physical principles governing the formation of distinct hydro-climatology and resilient cities, and then illustrates how this knowledge can be applied to moderate the undesirable consequences of swift and haphazard urban development (energy, peak electricity demand, health, comfort, economy, and environment) and help to create more sustainable and resilient cities for the future. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged growing field, this timely book fulfils the need to bring together the disparate parts of urban climate research in global cities into a coherent framework. It is an ideal resource for students, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of urban climate, urban architecture and planning, environmental engineering, urban design, and redevelopment.

Integrated Planning for Sustainable Resilient Regions

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Rui Alexandre Castanho
  • English
  • Paperback
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Integrated Planning for Sustainable Resilient Regions explores the dynamic relationship between sustainable development and effective regional planning strategies. With a focus on harmonizing the diverse elements of social equity, economic prosperity, and environmental conservation, this book offers a deep dive into the interplay between human activities, natural systems, and the landscapes they inhabit. Considering both theoretical foundations and real-world case studies, it equips readers with the tools to navigate the complex challenges of our rapidly changing world. Researchers, professionals, and students alike will find this a valuable source of information and practical tools surrounding the complex interactions between human and natural systems.Users will find sections that examine how sustainable development goals can seamlessly integrate into regional planning initiatives and on sustainability transitions, territorial dynamics, and community engagement techniques. This book offers fresh perspectives for advancing knowledge and practice in urban planning, environmental science, and regional studies. From governments crafting policies that balance progress and environmental stewardship to architects and developers designing eco-conscious spaces, it will resonate with a diverse audience seeking to drive positive change through strategic and sustainable regional planning.

Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Constantinos Antoniou + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics: Tools and Applications for Modeling, Second Edition provides a guide to the new analytical framework and its relation to big data, focusing on capturing, predicting, visualizing, and controlling mobility patterns—a key aspect of transportation modeling. The book features prominent international experts who provide overviews on new analytical frameworks, applications, and concepts in mobility analysis and transportation systems. Fields covered are evolving rapidly, and this new edition updates existing material and provides new chapters that reflect recent developments in the field (such as the emergence of active, transfer and reinforcement learning).Users will find a detailed, mobility ‘structural’ analysis and a look at the extensive behavioral characteristics of transport, observability requirements, limitations for realistic transportation applications, and transportation systems analysis that are related to complex processes and phenomena. This book bridges the gap between big data, data science, and transportation systems analysis with a study of big data’s impact on mobility and an introduction to the tools necessary to apply new techniques.

Digital Twins for Smart Metabolic Circular Cities

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Simon Elias Bibri + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Innovative approaches to urban development are transforming cities worldwide. Digital Twins for Smart Metabolic Circular Cities: Innovations in Urban Planning and Climate Resilience explores the advanced convergence of smart city technologies, digital twin applications, smart urban metabolism, and circular economy principles. This comprehensive resource offers insights into sustainable urban practices, environmental planning, and innovative approaches to address the multifaceted challenges posed by rapid urbanization, environmental degradation, and climate change.In a rapidly changing world where smart cities are becoming the norm, this book provides a detailed and nuanced understanding of how digital twin technologies, smart urban metabolism frameworks, and circular economy models can be applied to foster sustainable urban development. As the field of smart cities and sustainability expands, the need for an integrative resource that captures the latest advancements, practical applications, and theoretical frameworks has become more pressing. This book meets this need by offering a holistic perspective that bridges urban planning, environmental sustainability, and the transformative potential of digital twins and smart urban metabolism within smart circular city frameworks.Digital Twins for Smart Metabolic Circular Cities: Innovations in Urban Planning and Climate Resilience equips readers with practical insights and solutions to navigate the complexities of contemporary urban development. It is an invaluable resource for urban planners, environmental scientists, policymakers, and technology experts interested in sustainable development practices. Through real-world applications, foundational theory, and forward-thinking strategies, it empowers readers with the knowledge to address the pressing environmental and infrastructural challenges associated with the future of smart cities.

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