Intelligent transport systems (ITS) non-safety capabilities along with the development of next generation grid-based vehicles will continue to play a fundamental role in the development of new applications that can impact logistics and supply chain management operations. The principles characterizing non-safety ITS applications can be developed to increase the reliability and visibility of supp...

The main objectives of the Third Gas Directive (2009/73EC) approved by the European Union are: unbundling, creating an independent Transport Service Operator (TSO) and ensuring free access to the market. The separation of gas trading from transportation activities required new market rules and gas balancing. Thereby, the TSO's responsibilities are to maintain network pressures within acceptable...

The systems in which information and communication technologies and systems engineering concepts are utilized to develop and improve transportation systems of all kinds are called “The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)”. ITS integrates information, communications, computers and other technologies and uses them in the field of transportation to build an integrated system of people, roads ...

Objective: To improve the reliability of complex urban public transportation network. Methods: Establishing the reliability evaluation system of urban public transportation network. Process: The paper introduces the development of urban traffic construction, describes the characteristic parameters of complex networks, and establishes the model of the reliability evaluation index system of compl...

In this paper, we demonstrate how to capture the robustness of a transportation network in the case of degradable links represented by decreasing capacities. In particular, with the use of Bureau of Public Road user link travel cost functions, we propose two relative total cost indices to assess transportation network robustness in the case of travel behavior associated with either user-optimiz...

Conventional maritime grids mostly only have one type of main power source. For example, seaports mainly rely on the grid, and plenty equipment is driven by fossil fuel which supplied outside transportation network. ships, engine source generators are shaft. However, with development electrification, capacities grow electricity becomes dominating energy form. Various efficient sources integrate...

The objective of this project was to develop a structural index for use in network-level pavement evaluation to facilitate the inclusion of the pavement’s structural condition in pavement management applications. The primary goal of network-level pavement management is to provide the best service to the users for the available, often limited, resources. Pavement condition can be described in te...

The traditional electrical power grid is currently evolving into the smart grid. Smart grid integrates the traditional electrical power grid with information and communication technologies (ICT). Such integration empowers the electrical utilities providers and consumers, improves the efficiency and the availability of the power system while constantly monitoring, controlling and managing the de...