Innovations in individual urban transport systems

Integrated Quality Management for Urban Transport Systems

In our societies, in many areas of production and services quality management procedures are already well established. They became important elements of a successful business management. In traffic and transport such approaches to quality management came up only quite late with increasing privatization and market-orientation. Meanwhile, several instruments of quality management have been establ...

Urban transport

Enterprise Systems and Innovations

This paper analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and firms’ innovational performance. It studies whether the enterprise systems have impacts on process as well as product innovations. Using German firm-level data, the results show that ERP and SCM systems fos...

Sustainable Urban Transport Systems: An Expert-based Strategic Scenario Approach

Current trends in transport indicate that the system is moving away from sustainability and that major changes are necessary to make the transport system more compatible with environmental sustainability. Main problems may occur in urban transport, where not many promising solutions are expected, while the problems are severe. In view of the great number of uncertainties, we will in our paper r...

Optimized DTN-Routing for Urban Public Transport Systems

Communication is crucial to the coordination and efficient operation of public transport systems. However, deployment of infrastructure based communication systems is expensive, esp. due to long-term operational costs. Delay tolerant vehicular networks are a promising alternative since only very few infrastructure elements are required. This paper presents a DTN routing algorithm for urban publ...