Automobiles and urban density

Urban Density, Creativity, and Innovation

Geographers and social scientists have probed the effects of agglomeration and spatial clustering on innovation and economic growth. Economists and others have identified the role of knowledge spillovers in driving the innovation process. While innovation is thus assumed to be a function of proximity, there has been little systematic research on the role of density in innovation. Thus, this res...

Urban Density and Pupil Attainment

Urban Density and Pupil Attainment We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in England. Although – as widely recognised – attainment in dense urban places is low on average, this is not because urban environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most disadvantaged pupils with low average attainments attend the most urba...

High Density Urban Environment

Cooperative Automation in Automobiles

Digital Signatures for Automobiles?!

Identifying and tracking vehicles is of major importance for today’s logistics. The common non-electronic solutions are both easy to forge and difficult to use over distances. Combining the successful technologies of digital signatures and the Global Positioning System allows the secure identification of any car and checking its location. Both types of information can improve the fleet manageme...