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    • Digital Transformation in Retail Supply Chain Management for Logistics 5.0

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Adnan Ahmed Sheikh + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Transformation in Retail Supply Chain Management for Logistics 5.0 explains how these technologies are reshaping retail supply chain management. The book elucidates on the digital tools and strategies organizations can employ to optimize their retail supply chain management, minimize costs, enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve sustainability objectives through industry 5.0-enabled technologies. It innovatively blends the details of recent advancements across retail supply chains and supply chain-related digital transformations. Its cutting-edge perspective makes it an invaluable asset for industry professionals, policymakers, business owners, managers, researchers, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students in retail, logistics supply chain management, digital business, and innovation.The book explores the nuances of the Supply Network 5.0, discussing the synergy between humans and machines, especially in the context of robotic process automation systems and artificial intelligence tools in the “new normal” of retail supply chain management. In addition, it specifically addresses textile products, FMCG, online products, construction, food and beverages, the shoe industry, SMEs, and other manufacturing sectors. Other sections delves into the often-overlooked environmental sustainability ramifications of the Fifth Industrial Revolution.

    • Autonomous Driving and Traffic Dynamics in Road Transportation

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 2026
      • Michail Makridis + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Autonomous Driving and Traffic Dynamics in Road Transportation: Modeling, Simulation, and Control discusses the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AV) on road transport systems and the similarities and differences with human drivers, focusing on key concepts in traffic dynamics and AI-based modeling. Simply treating AVs as conventional vehicles with slightly altered characteristics can lead to inaccurate conclusions, posing risks for researchers, engineers, and policymakers alike. This book addresses these challenges by offering a comprehensive discussion of the unique dynamics introduced by AVs and their impact on congestion, safety, energy, and their role in sustainable future intelligent transportation systems. Part I delves into traditional driving behaviors, examining the basics of car-following, driver characteristics, lateral movement, and how well AI models generalize these behaviors. Part II shifts to autonomous driving systems, analyzing their operational principles and providing comparative evidence with human drivers. Additionally, it assesses the performance of traditional car-following models against artificial intelligence developments highlighting strengths and weaknesses for each approach. Part III integrates human drivers and AVs into broader traffic flow theories, presenting findings on how autonomous driving impacts traffic patterns. It studies the impact from the perspective of traffic dynamics, energy efficiency and safety. Part IV looks at the role of AI and modeling, exploring the pros and cons of various methods and data sources. It emphasizes the need for physics-informed models to improve policy decisions and technical performance. Part V discusses real-world traffic management applications, combining AI and traditional models for traffic estimation, control, and ensuring fair, disruption-resilient outcomes. The book serves as a detailed guide for researchers, engineers, and policymakers who need to understand why there is a need to pay attention on the driving style of autonomous vehicles, where we should use analytical models and where data-driven approaches (or physics-informed ones), see the big picture, and learn about the state of the art in traffic state estimation and traffic management domains with the presence of autonomous vehicles.

    • Securing Electric Mobility

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Aparna Kumari
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Electric vehicles (EVs) continue to capture a growing share of the smart car market across the globe. Like most new technologies, e-mobility comes with a learning curve. Securing Electric Mobility provides readers with in-demand knowledge relating to the dynamically evolving intersection between information & communication technology and vehicle engineering.The edited volume offers in-depth understanding of the distinct features of EV cybersecurity. It opens with a description of the fundamental elements of EVs, their interconnectedness, their cyber-physical characteristics and resulting vulnerabilities. It then dissects the digital threat landscape to increase awareness of all possible risks posed by cyberattacks on electric vehicles, and from there it systematically covers data management, regulatory frameworks, existing solutions and emerging cybersecurity protocols and methodologies that are enhanced by blockchain, artificial intelligence, Internet-of-Things integration, machine learning, and real-time monitoring systems. The value of this thorough overview is strengthened further through the inclusion of real-word case studies, which prove the effectiveness of the adopted approaches to safeguard vehicle control systems, owners’ personal data, and the broader cyber-physical network and related equipment.This book proves to be a cardinal, state-of-the-art resource for academia and industry alike as it encourages further transformative, interdisciplinary investigations into the security-assurance complexities that guide EVs’ resilience evolution.

    • Air Transport: A Computer Science Perspective

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Sebastian Wandelt + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Air Transport: A Computer Science Perspective thoroughly examines the integration of computer science principles in the field of air transportation. Bridging the gap between theory and real-world applications, it delves into automation, complex problem-solving, and cutting-edge technology in aviation. Authored by a seasoned team of a computer scientist and an airspace engineer, it offers a unique blend of expertise that highlights practical applications of algorithms, data structures, and optimization techniques essential for enhancing flight operations and enabling autonomous systems. Readers will gain insights into the latest regulatory frameworks, ensuring they are well-equipped to navigate the evolving air transport landscape.Structured in five parts, the book begins with foundational concepts such as computational complexity and intelligence. It then delves into critical aspects of airline operations, including network design, flight scheduling, fleet assignment, and aircraft routing. The exploration continues with airport operations, focusing on gate assignment, ground vehicle allocation, and delay prediction. In the realm of air traffic flow management, readers will discover trajectory optimization, airspace sectorization, and network resilience assessment. The concluding section summarizes key findings and provides an outlook on future advancements in the field.This book is an invaluable resource for a diverse audience, including transportation engineers, computer scientists eager to tackle real-world air transport challenges, and professionals in data science, software engineering, and aviation research. It is ideal for students in aerospace engineering, computer science, and data science programs, emphasizing practical applications that drive innovation and efficiency in the air transport sector.

    • Technological Innovations and Industry 5.0

      • 1st Edition
      • June 12, 2025
      • Jyri Vilko + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Technological Innovations and Industry 5.0: A Supply Chain Perspective provides a complete review of Industry 5.0, its guiding principles, and its possible effects on supply chains. Examining the difficulties and possibilities presented by the incorporation of cutting-edge technologies into supply chain management, it guides the reader through decision making to application.Robotics... artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and data analytics are increasingly changing how supply chains operate. This book presents the core ideas and potential impacts on, and risks to, supply chain structure. It includes analysis of the latest research as well as providing a sound understanding of relevant techniques and modeling for real-world advances. Evaluation approaches of decision support frameworks for circularity, sustainability, and supply chain performance are also included.This book is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking alternative solutions to address supply chain issues and meet sustainability and customer demands by leveraging advancements in technology.

    • Blockchain and Supply Chain Management

      • 2nd Edition
      • February 26, 2025
      • Nir Kshetri
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Blockchain and Supply Chain Management, Second Edition combines discussions of blockchain and supply chains, linking technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, satellite imagery, and machine vision. The book examines blockchain’s basic concepts, relevant theories, and its roles in meeting key supply chain objectives. The book addresses problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration. The book is balanced between blockchain and supply chain application and theory, covering the latest technological, organizational and regulatory developments in blockchain from a supply chain perspective.The book discusses the opportunities, barriers, and enablers of blockchain in supply chain policy, along with legal and ethical implications. The second edition has been thoroughly updated with a new chapter on the luxury good industry supply chains, as well as updated data and statistics; new examples, case studies, and In-Focus boxes; and added regularly updates throughout the book.As supply chain management faces massive disruption with the dynamic changes in global trade, the impact of Covid-19, and technological innovation, scholars, students, and researchers, as well as practitioners such as analysts, consultants, executives, engineers, and managers, will find this a valuable resource for addressing problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration.

    • 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.

    • Geographic Information Systems for Intermodal Transportation

      • 1st Edition
      • March 21, 2023
      • Eunsu Lee
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Geographic Information Systems for Intermodal Transportation: Methods, Models, Applications examines the basic concepts and applications of Geographic Information Systems for Transportation. The book discusses the unique characteristics of each transportation mode-- highway, railway, waterway and airway—as well as the combined intermodal transportation network. The book shows how GIS generates vehicle routes and shorted paths, develops transportation demand models, analyzes spatial data, and how three-dimensional modelling is applied to the intermodal transportation.

    • Big Data and Mobility as a Service

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2021
      • Haoran Zhang + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Big Data and Mobility as a Service explores MaaS platforms that can be adaptable to the ever-evolving mobility environment. It looks at multi-mode urban crowd data to assess urban mobility characteristics, their shared transportation potential, and their performance conditions and constraints. The book analyzes the roles of multimodality, travel behavior, urban mobility dynamics and participation. Combined with insights on using big data to analyze market and policy decisions, this book is an essential tool for urban transportation management researchers and practitioners.

    • The Role of Infrastructure for a Safe Transition to Automated Driving

      • 1st Edition
      • August 10, 2021
      • Adriano Alessandrini + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Role of Infrastructure for a Safe Transition to Automated Driving contextualizes the latest vehicle and road automation research and technology, focusing on the future role of road infrastructures. The book analyzes the problems an uncontrolled transition will pose and examines ways forward, covering risk, safety, and the influence of human factors in automated vehicles. Automated transport researchers, traffic engineers, and transport and city planners will find the book to be a great resource for addressing the complexity of the period during which both human-driven and automated cars will coexist. This integrated vision of different approaches to vehicle automation will help move the technology forward in a thought-provoking manner.