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Books in Transportation research general

Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Alexei Tsyganov
  • English
  • Paperback
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Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers provides details on the human factors' principles and findings that enhance the work of highway and traffic engineers, allowing non-experts to more effectively bring consideration of road user capabilities and limitations into design, operations, and safety. The book provides data and insights from scientific literature 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.Sections explain the significance of the traffic safety problem, giving an overview of the importance of human factors in highway design and traffic engineering, focus on different issues of driver information perception and processing, including driver perception of depth and speed, driver’s visual search, how road users search for information, and how mental and information load affects drivers’ performance, provide results of investigations of traffic crash causation and major driver errors, describe key principles of road users’ considerations during highway design and traffic operation, and focus on safety analysis and assessment.

Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Abhishek Kumar + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility: Global Trends, Policies and Practices provides a complete package for understanding and developing smart chargers for e-mobility applications. It discusses various concepts required for developing charging infrastructure and usage of different kinds of storage technologies, power electronics converters, controllers, communication requirements, grid infrastructure, sustainable technologies, policy frameworks, and all other related crucial aspects of E-mobility.Each part of the book covers a subdomain of e-mobility, beginning with an introductory chapter reviewing existing literature; the subsequent chapters are arranged to each follow the previous one. Other available books focus on specific technical subdomains of e-mobility, but none provides the wider outlook to meet the requirements of all audiences. This book uniquely brings together topics that are not otherwise easily accessible or available to these audiences.This book will be beneficial for engineers, scientists, and researchers, providing them with a comprehensive standard benchmark work to explore the evolving aspects of charging infrastructure for E-mobility. Further, it will also help policymakers, practitioners and government entities to formulate policies for successful implementations of E-motility for their masses. The techno-socio-economic focus will serve as standard literature for all.

Transportation Big Data

  • 1st Edition
  • December 13, 2024
  • Zhiyuan Liu + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Transportation Big Data: Theory and Methods is centered around big data theory and methods. As big data is now a key topic in transport because the volume of data has increased exponentially due to the growth in the amount of traffic (all modes) and detectors, this book provides a structured analysis of commonly used methods for handling transportation big data. It is supported by a wealth of transportation engineering examples with codes. The book offers a concise, yet comprehensive description key techniques and important tools in transportation big data analysis.

Aircraft Leasing and Financing

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 21, 2024
  • Vitaly Guzhva + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Aircraft Financing and Leasing: Tools for Success in Aircraft Acquisition and Management, Second Edition provides students and industry professionals with unique insights into the latest developments in the Commercial Aircraft and Engine Leasing and Financing industry that has grown into one of the most distinctive and important industries globally. This book offers a blend of academic and professional views that make it educational and relevant to the everyday operations of the industry. It can be used as a stand-alone textbook as well as a practitioner's guide.Given the impact of the COVID-19 virus on airlines around the world, the industry has experienced substantial changes since the first edition was published. This second edition is thoroughly revised and includes some new case studies and an entirely new chapter on Environmental Considerations with Respect to Aviation Finance.Aircraft Financing and Leasing details the industry’s foundational concepts, including aviation law and regulation, airline credit analysis, maintenance reserve development, insurance, transaction cost modeling, risk management tools such as asset and credit diversification, and the art of lease negotiations. Different types of aircraft are explored, highlighting their purposes, as well as when and why airline operators and investors choose specific models over others. In addition, the book covers important factors such as modeling financial returns for leased aircraft and appraising aircraft values.Users will find this an ideal resource for practitioners or as an outstanding reference for senior undergraduate and graduate students.

Planning and Operation of Container Terminals

  • 1st Edition
  • October 18, 2023
  • Kap-Hwan Kim
  • English
  • Paperback
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Planning and Operation of Container Terminals provides methodologies to optimize the design of container handling systems. The book offers various optimization models and details how to apply the models. In addition, it captures key points of academic research to provide a thorough and up-to-date guide on this rapidly changing field. Sections cover various aspects of terminal operation and propose key issues for their optimization. In addition, the relationships among various operational problems are described, along with tactics for the efficient utilization of resources. Students and professionals alike will find this a useful resource for getting up-to-speed in this dynamic field. The efficiency of a container terminal highly depends on the design of handling systems and operation methods of the terminal. In recent decades, the development of ports has become large-scale, modern and automatic, so it is necessary to learn about the design and operation of modern ports quickly and to understand the research hotspots, research frontiers and research status in the current field, as well as the use and innovation of research methods.

The Digital Supply Chain

  • 1st Edition
  • June 9, 2022
  • Bart L. MacCarthy + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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The Digital Supply Chain is a thorough investigation of the underpinning technologies, systems, platforms and models that enable the design, management, and control of digitally connected supply chains. The book examines the origin, emergence and building blocks of the Digital Supply Chain, showing how and where the virtual and physical supply chain worlds interact. It reviews the enabling technologies that underpin digitally controlled supply chains and examines how the discipline of supply chain management is affected by enhanced digital connectivity, discussing purchasing and procurement, supply chain traceability, performance management, and supply chain cyber security. The book provides a rich set of cases on current digital practices and challenges across a range of industrial and business sectors including the retail, textiles and clothing, the automotive industry, food, shipping and international logistics, and SMEs. It concludes with research frontiers, discussing network science for supply chain analysis, challenges in Blockchain applications and in digital supply chain surveillance, as well as the need to re-conceptualize supply chain strategies for digitally transformed supply chains.

Creating Resilient Transportation Systems

  • 1st Edition
  • February 5, 2022
  • John Renne + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Creating Resilient Transportation Systems: Policy, Planning and Implementation demonstrates how the transportation sector is a leading producer of carbon emissions that result in climate change and extreme weather disruptions and disasters. In the book, Renne, Wolshon, Murray-Tuite, Pande and Kim demonstrate how to minimize the transportation impacts associated with these urban disasters, with an ultimate goal of returning them to at least status quo in the shortest feasible time.

Smart Metro Station Systems

  • 1st Edition
  • January 4, 2022
  • Hui Liu + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Smart Metro Station Systems: Data Science and Engineering introduces key technologies in data science and engineering for smart metro station systems. The book consists of three main parts, focusing on the environment, people and energy. Each chapter includes practical applications, along with information on metro traffic flow monitoring and passenger guidance, methods for behavior analysis and trajectory projection, clustering and anomaly detection in crowd hotspots, monitoring and prediction for station humidity, monitoring and spatial prediction for air pollutants, time series feature extraction and analysis of metro load, characteristic and correlation analysis of metro load, and prediction and intelligent ventilation control. This volume offers a key reference on the emerging area of smart metro stations and will be useful to those working on smart railways, data science, engineering, artificial intelligence and aligned fields.

Introduction to Network Traffic Flow Theory

  • 1st Edition
  • April 13, 2021
  • Wen-Long Jin
  • English
  • Paperback
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Introduction to Network Traffic Flow Theory: Principles, Concepts, Models, and Methods provides a comprehensive introduction to modern theories for modeling, mathematical analysis and traffic simulations in road networks. The book breaks ground, addressing traffic flow theory in a network setting and providing researchers and transportation professionals with a better understanding of how network traffic flows behave, how congestion builds and dissipates, and how to develop strategies to alleviate network traffic congestion. The book also shows how network traffic flow theory is key to understanding traffic estimation, control, management and planning. Users wills find this to be a great resource on both theory and applications across a wide swath of subjects, including road networks and reduced traffic congestion.

Parking

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2019
  • Dorina Pojani + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Most parking research to date has been conducted in Western countries. Parking: An International Perspective is different. Taking a planetary view of urbanism, this book examines parking policies in 12 cities on five continents: Auckland, Bangkok, Doha, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Nairobi, Rotterdam, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Shenzhen, Singapore, and Tokyo. Chapters are similarly structured, and contain detailed information about the current parking strategies and issues in these cities. The discussion of parking is placed in the context of transport, mobility, land-use, society, technology, and planning in each of these cities