Transport science and technology / edited by Konstadinos G. Goulias.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Goulias, Konstadinos G.

Conference Name:

Transportation Science and Technology Congress (TRANSTEC (2004 : Athens, Greece)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation--Research.

Transportation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book will offer a representative sample of the best papers presented at the Transport Science and Technology Congress (TRANSTEC) Athens 2004. It will also serve as the peer reviewed conference proceedings. As in the congress writing, in this book our aim is to demonstrate the most recent developments in merging scientific and technological discoveries to solve important transportation problems and to cover a wide variety of transportation issues in passenger and freight transportation but also a variety of modes. A parallel aim is to have papers that are representative of the research and development around the world. The chapters will be from the Americas (North and South), Asia, and Europe. The draft outline is organized into four parts. The first part will contain an overview and review papers from the keynote speakers and most likely one additional paper in the new area of human attention and microsleeps from a special paper session organized the Czech Technical University. The second part of the book will contain contributions from policy and planning and will span all modes of transportation and include both passenger transport and freight. In the third part, a selection of papers from traffic engineering and management will contain papers on new measurement techniques, traffic engineering parameters that can be measured more precisely with technology, and applications of information and communication technologies. The fourth part of the book will contain a series of papers illustrating the preparation of Athens for the Olympics and will contain papers that span from the preliminary planning to the operations of information and communication systems as well as the management of the public transportation system and its components. All papers will be peer-reviewed following the guidelines of the journal, "Transportation Research" to assure innovation in methods but also relevance to the subject matter. It adopts a global perspective with papers from the Americas, Asia and Europe. It is organized into four parts; all articles are peer-reviewed.

Contents:

Introduction to science, technology, and transport systems / K.G. Goulias

Highway capacity analysis in the U.S. : state of the art and future directions / L. Elefteriadou

Emerging simulation-based methods / A. Sivakumar and C.R. Bhat

Computational intelligence in transportation : short user-oriented guide / O. Pribyl

Development of high performance and innovative infrastructure materials / D. Goulias

Transport policy and research issues in Greece and the EU : current facts, prospects and priorities / G.A. Giannopoulous

Planning Athens' transportation for the Olympic Games and a first evolution of results / J.M. Frantzeskakis

Eye in the sky project : intelligent transport infrastructure for supporting traffic monitoring and mobility information / L. Panagiotopoulou

ITS applications at Egnatia Odos Polimilos : Veria highway section / K.P. Koutsoukos and L. Koutras

Problems of attention decreases of human system operators / M. Novak

Can creativity be reliable? / T. Brandejsky

Reliability of interfaces in complex systems / Z. Votruba, M. Novak and J. Vesely

Observed and modelled behavioural changes caused by the Copenhagen Metro / G. Vuk and T.L. Jensen

Qualitative techniques for urban transportation / P. Burnett

Toll modelling in cube voyager / T. Vorraa

Simulation modelling in the function of intermodal transport planning / N. Jolic and Z. Kavran

Use of mobile communication tools and its relations with activities / K. Saskai ... [et al.]

A multivariate multilevel analysis of information technology choice / T.-G. Kim and K.G. Goulias

A dynamic analysis of daily time uses, mode choice, and information and communication technology / T.-G. Kim and K.G. Goulias

Transport company information system : a tool for energy efficiency enhancement / V. Momcilovic ... [et al.]

An image processing based traffic estimation system / H. Hetzheim and W. Tuchscheerer

Distributed intelligent traffic sensor networks / M. Chowdury

Use of traffic management center and sensor data to develop travel time estimation models / J. Yeon and L. Elefteriadou

An evaluation of the effectiveness of pedestrian countdown signals / S.S. Washburn, D.L. Leistner and B. Ko

An analysis of the characteristics of emergency vehicle operations / K. Gkritza ... [et al.]

U.S. transportation policy and supply chain management issues : perceptions of business and government / E. Thomchick

Using performance measures to determine work needs : an operator's perspective / K.D. Jefferson

Planning Huckepack technology : advanced transport technologies in EU / N. Brnjac, D. Badanjak and V. Jenic

A dynamic procedure for real-time delivery operations at an urban freight terminal / G. Fusco and M.P. Valentini

The logistics services in a hierarchical distribution system / T. Ambroziak, M. Jacyna and M. Wasiak

The multiobjective optimisation to evaluation of the infrastructure adjustment to transport needs / M. Jacyna

Analysis of the Greek coastal shipping companies with a multi-criteria evaluation model / O.D. Schinas and N. Psaraftis

An evaluation model for forecasting methodologies used by ports / O.D. Schinas and H.N. Psaraftis

Establishment of an innovative tanker freight rate index / D.V. Lyridis, P.G. Zacharioudakis and D. Chatzovoulos

The role of liner shipping within an intermodal system : the port community case and the port authority investment problem / M. Boile, S. Theofanis and L. Spasovic

Infrastructure development to support the floating accommodation program of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games : prospects and challenges / S. Theofanis and M. Boile.

Notes:

A selection of papers from the conference Transportation Science and Technology Congress (TRANSTEC) Athens 2004, held September 1-5, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

1-280-74666-1

9786610746668

1-61583-251-3

0-08-046754-7

OCLC:

476031613