Books in Social sciences

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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Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Manas Pradhan + 1 more
English

Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures: Federation, Interoperability and Discoverability explains the current state-of-the-art practices in the smart city context for digitization and e-governance processes in accordance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses pros and cons of the various data standards and federation measures involved in the digital transformation of cities considering the end user as well as implementor’s viewpoint. It utilizes real-world use cases of cities around the world, highlighting their goals and what measures they have adopted. It provides guidelines for achieving long-term service federation, interoperability and discoverability while keeping the UN SDGs in perspective. This book provides the basic insights for technical and strategic viewpoints for data and communication interoperability and federation measures. Later it provides federated scaling solutions to enable service discovery and features in a cross-sector deployment. These are useful for designing digitisation measures by using one or leveraging overlapping features of many introduced solutions. These solutions are provided for specific contexts and use-cases, making understandability of the technical interfaces and their relationship with governance mechanisms easier for a range of audiences working in smart city contexts. This book will help practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain better understand existing and evolving technologies and how to better formulate their processes to provide a sustainable model for urban development. Giving them insight into the feasibility and implications of highly scalable smart city and urban solutions will allow better constructs for urban digital ecosystems, enabling information exchange and interoperability across multiple sectors. It ultimately supports infrastructure goals of ensuring security, privacy, and transparency while enabling future concepts for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Linked Data and e-governance.

Intelligent Urban Mobility

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Muhammet Deveci
English

'Intelligent Urban Mobility: Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Transportation' explores the role of technology in enabling greener, more accessible transportation in cities worldwide. This book provides insights into leveraging decision support systems to drive positive change, focusing on applied soft computing techniques, artificial intelligence, and fuzzy systems algorithms to help researchers and professionals seeking to mitigate congestion and emissions through sustainable mobility initiatives. Bridging theory and real-world practice, this book provides information on future studies to drive progress in redesigning city transportation to reduce environmental impact and carbon emissions, highlighting innovative models and frameworks for the analysis of mobility options and planning sustainable transport systems. Researchers, graduate students, and professionals in transportation, urban planning, civil engineering, and decision sciences interested in advancing sustainable urban mobility will find this to be a welcome reference offering technical guidance and expert perspectives on the application of decision support systems to evaluate and optimize planning for sustainable transit options.

The End of Driving

2nd Edition
August 1, 2025
Bern Grush + 2 more
English

The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Automated Vehicles, Second Edition explores both the potential of vehicle automation technology and the barriers it faces when considering coherent urban deployment. The book evaluates the case for deliberate development of automated public transportation and mobility-as-a-service as paths towards sustainable mobility, describing critical approaches to the planning and management of vehicle automation technology. It serves as a reference for understanding the full life cycle of the multi-year transportation systems planning processes, including novel regulation, planning, and acquisition tools for regional transportation.Application-oriented, research-based, and solution-oriented, this book concludes with a detailed discussion of the systems design needed for accomplishing this shift. This thoroughly updated second edition covers the future technology application milestones that will mark the rate of progress in the years ahead, including some that may not come to pass. More importantly, reasons for the existing lack of consensus on environmental impacts of vehicle automation will be tied to the visible milestones. I

Reliable Decision-Making for Sustainable Transportation

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Gholamreza Haseli + 2 more
English

Reliable Decision-Making for Sustainable Transportation explores decision-making methods that incorporate expert and decision-maker opinions for improved reliability. It examines fuzzy sets that capture ambiguity and enable a more comprehensive analysis of stakeholder perspectives, focusing on transportation case studies to demonstrate techniques for weighing criteria, ranking alternatives, and selecting optimal and reliable decisions. The book seeks to advance transportation planning, traffic engineering, road safety, and sustainability by integrating state-of-the-art decision support systems that leverage AI and multiple stakeholder viewpoints. This approach will benefit researchers and professionals across transportation, decision sciences, supply chain management, and operations looking for innovative ways to model uncertainty and decision-maker reliability, providing methodologies and frameworks for more robust group decisions.

Models and Applications of Tourists’ Travel Behavior

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Francesca Pagliara + 2 more
English

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 uniquely focuses 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.

Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning

1st Edition
June 1, 2025
Jose Holguin-Veras + 2 more
English

Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning: Practice and Theory provides the reader with a solid understanding of the role of urban freight activity on metropolitan economies, the externalities produced by freight activity, and effective public sector initiatives to mitigate or eliminate altogether negative externalities. This book addresses key topics related to urban freight and solutions for key challenges from a practitioner perspective.The authors systematically and pedagogically provide key and easy-to-digest information on a range of topics, including local economies and the role of supply chains and freight activity; technical procedures to estimate freight generation and freight trip generation; technical details about the wide range of initiatives that could address freight issues; and effective urban freight management and planning process (including both transportation and land-use). They also discuss simplified techniques to model and understand freight activity to support decision-making, and they incorporate key elements of sustainability and technology in different sections to provide an up-to-date view on how these relevant topics affect and are affected by urban freight.This book is a valuable resource for practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students interested in gaining a thorough understanding of the realities of urban freight systems, supply chains, and urban freight management, policy, and planning.

Comprehensive Energy Systems

2nd Edition
June 1, 2025
Ibrahim Dincer
English

Comprehensive Energy Systems, 5-vol set, provides a unique source of unified information covering the entire spectrum of energy from production to utilization in depth with basic to advanced levels of contents and addressing the critical issues that humanity face. This comprehensive book describes traditional and novel energy systems with thorough contents on system design, analysis and assessment, from single generation to multi-generation, also covering theory and applications. In addition, it also presents high-level coverage on energy policies and strategies, economic dimensions, environmental impact assessment 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.

Future of Transportation Logistics and Disaster Management with Drones

1st Edition
June 1, 2025
A. Prasanth + 4 more
English

Future of Transportation Logistics and Disaster Management with Drones discusses the important aspects and recent technological advancements of future drones, the challenges faced in current practices, and their advanced applications. It will take readers through essential components of drone systems such as methodologies, modeling, design, statistics, implementation, and maintenance. It explains the use of real-life technologies such as smart devices, virtual systems, IoT-based technologies, AI-centric solutions, smart sensors, and telecom networks to train and evaluate simple-to-complex models for building drone systems. This edited book provides all the relevant concepts, theoretical frameworks, emerging technologies, analytics techniques, and the latest empirical research findings in smart cities, transportation logistics, disaster management, smart devices, smart solutions, and more. It describes the future intelligent and resilient transportation systems backed with the Internet of Vehicle Things, the problems faced by Big Data Analytics, and their optimization techniques for inhouse supply-chain management. It also establishes a framework for handover management in the Internet of Drone-based networks. It raises and addresses the concerns surrounding the role of 5G communication for handling communication in drones, its related security, and legal aspects. The perspective of all stakeholders is discussed using case studies of existing applications at the global level, including industrial use cases. This book is a valuable reference for professionals who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of trust at different levels of the information and knowledge society, at the level of global communication, economy, education, and organizations as actors in drone systems. By the end of this book, readers will have the ability to design an end-to-end solution for Transportation Logistics and Disaster Management with the aid of smart drones.

Integrated Planning for Sustainable Resilient Regions

1st Edition
June 1, 2025
Rui Alexandre Castanho
English

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, the book equips readers with the tools to navigate the complex challenges of our rapidly changing world. It examines how sustainable development goals can seamlessly integrate into regional planning initiatives, offering a roadmap for fostering resilient communities and landscapes. Through sustainability transitions, territorial dynamics, and community engagement techniques, the 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, this book resonates with a diverse audience seeking to drive positive change through strategic and sustainable regional planning. From community engagement techniques to innovative policy frameworks, readers will find actionable guidance to transform theoretical concepts into practical and impactful development projects. By providing an essential bridge between theory and implementation, this book inspires meaningful conversations and actions that will shape the future of our regions, cities, and landscapes sustainably and harmoniously. Researchers, professionals, and students alike will find this a valuable source of information and practical tools to critically analyze the complex interactions between human activities, natural systems, and regional landscapes, fostering a holistic understanding of sustainable development within diverse regions.

Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics

2nd Edition
June 1, 2025
Constantinos Antoniou + 2 more
English

Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics, 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. It features prominent international experts who provide overviews on new analytical frameworks, applications and concepts in mobility analysis and transportation systems. The fields covered by this book are evolving rapidly and this new edition updates the 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 and limitations for realistic transportation applications, and transportation systems analysis that are related to complex processes and phenomena. It 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.