Darrin J. Greenstein, Liesl L.Tiefenthaler, and Steven M. Bay ABSTRACT Stormwater runoff is an important source of toxic substances to the marine environment, but the effects of antecedent dry period, rainfall intensity, and duration on the toxicity of runoff are not well understood. In this study, simulated rainfall was applied to parking lots to examine the toxicity of runoff while controllin...

Many studies of randomly packed hyperspheres in multiple dimensions have been performed using Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics simulations to probe the behaviour of the systems. The calculations are usually initiated by randomly placing the hyperspheres in some D dimensional box until some randomly loosely packed density is achieved. Then either a compression algorithm or a particle scaling te...

Parking is recognized as the most difficult task among the driving tasks. Through this topic Articulated vehicle parking problem is more difficult than passenger car, because under the aspect of control theory, the vehicle and environmental nonlonomic constraint, nonlinear and time varying kinematic equations of motion, they require a sophisticated handling. In this paper Automatic Parking of A...

By increasing auto demands, efficient parking management is by no means less important than road traffic congestion control. Identification of parking available in metropolitan areas during the peak hours is most complex process for the driving people. This is due to shortages of parking spaces within the limited land areas of the city centers in many metropolises. Identification of parking ava...

An adsorption-desorption (or parking-lot) model can reproduce qualitatively the densification kinetics and other features of a weakly vibrated granular material. Here we study the the two-time correlation and response functions of the model and demonstrate that their behavior is consistent with recently observed memory effects in granular materials. Although the densification kinetics and hyste...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.02.009 0957-4174/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P.R.L. de Almeida), lesoliveira@inf. ufpr.br (L.S. Oliveira), [email protected] (A.S. Britto Jr.), [email protected]. br (E.J. Silva Jr.), [email protected] (A.L. Koerich). Paulo R.L. de Almeida , Luiz S. Oliveira , Al...

This paper presents a model for a dock assignment problem, where trailers need to be assigned to gates for a given period of time for loading or unloading activities. The parking lot is used as a buffer zone. Transportation between the parking lot and the gates is performed by additional resources called terminal tractors. The problem is modeled as a three-stage flexible flow shop, where the fi...

The relationship between antecedent rainfall and pollutant build-up is difficult to quantify, particularly in arid environments, due to the inherent unpredictability and natural variability in rainfall. To overcome this variability, a rainfall simulator was constructed to mimic storm events under controlled conditions. Simulated storm events at monthly intervals were used to measure increasing ...