No-boarding buses: Synchronisation for efficiency

Boarding of pediatric psychiatric patients is a no-fly zone for value.

Evolving concepts about the interwoven nature of physical and mental health have slowly, but incompletely, chipped away at the “reductionistic anachronism of mind/body dualism”1 that has historically separated them. The article, “Impact of Boarding Pediatric Psychiatric Patients on a Medical Ward,” in this edition of Hospital Pediatrics, however, highlights a series of challenges in which a pat...

Synchronisation Rings Composable Synchronisation for Object-Oriented Systems

Approach to Hybrid Energy Storage Systems Dimensioning for Urban Electric Buses Regarding Efficiency and Battery Aging

This paper focuses on Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESS), consisting of a combination of batteries and Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC), for electric urban busses. The aim of the paper is to develop a methodology to determine the hybridization percentage that allows the electric bus to work with the highest efficiency while reducing battery aging, depending on the chosen topology, cont...

Accessible Boarding – Retrofit Lift for Older Coaches

Regarding to EU regulations today's public transportation systems must be accessible for everyone without any restrictions. The relevant question is: How can trains be accessible for everyone? The huge variety of different vehicles and different platforms does not allow level boarding everywhere, only in so called "closed" systems. The paper gives an overview about the requirements for new boar...

Multi-Agent Based Simulation for Boarding

Optimizing the boarding process is one way for the airline industry to reduce the cost of the total air plane turn time i.e. the time between landing and take off. For this aim, boarding strategies that control when a passenger is allowed to board the plane are developed in order to reduce the overall boarding time. These strategies should be passenger friendly and robust to all kinds of distur...