Since the 1970s great progress has been made to develop transit systems which provide service considerably better than buses can offer in mixed traffic, but which require significantly lower investment than metro systems with exclusive ways. This “semirapid transit” category of modes, using mostly partially separated ways, has been introduced extensively in medium-sized cities, as well as suppl...

Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University, 1776 G 6 St., NW #159, Washington, DC 20059 7 {[email protected]} 8 Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 313 Ames Hall, 3400 9 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 10 {[email protected], [email protected]} 11 Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, 3135 TA...

Yiwang Wang 1,2,*, Chun Gan 3, Kai Ni 4 ID , Xinhua Li 4, Houjun Tang 1 and Yong Yang 5 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; [email protected] 2 School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Suzhou Vocational University, Suzhou 215104, China 3 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxvi...

To relieve the pressure of government investment and high-cost operation in major infrastructure projects, PPP (Public-Private Partnership) is widely used transportation engineering especially urban rail projects. In this paper, we use Excel Citespace software to categorize research hotspots analyze trend changes visualize cooperation network analysis by searching 217 academic papers core journ...

In systems today, software provides substantial portions of capability and performance. In many Department of Defense (DoD) acquisitions, however, software too often is a minor consideration when the early and most constraining decisions about program cost, schedule, and behavior are made (i.e., prior to Milestone A). These decisions manifest themselves in the acquisition strategy, the system a...

T HIS Special Issue contains revised papers originally pre-It attracted 383 participants from 17 countries. Immediately after this conference, in order to report on its success, we (Broggi, Ikeuchi, and Thorpe) decided to have a special issue in this newly created IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, by collecting some of the most important papers presented at the conference...

Hideyuki Murakami, Takahito Ohmura and Toshiyuki Nishimura National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Structural materials support the basis of global society, such as infrastructure and transportation facilities, and are therefore essential for everyday life. The optimization of such materials allows people to overcome environmental, energy and resource depletion issues ...

Logistics, transportation and distribution engineering can be divided into internal or in-plant logistics and external manufacturing or distribution logistics. The Internal or in-plant logistics includes the material handling systems and storage systems and the external manufacturing or distribution logistics includes the transportation modes such as trains and trucks. Both must be integrated i...

Mohammad Hadi Almasi 1, Ali Sadollah 2, Seungmo Kang 1,* and Mohamed Rehan Karim 3 1 School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University, 136-713 Seoul, Korea; [email protected] 2 Strategic Center for Energy and Sustainable Development, Semnan branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran; [email protected] 3 Center for transportation research (CTR), F...

Manan Singh 1,*, Rupesh Gulati 2, Ravi S. Srinivasan 3,* and Mahabir Bhandari 4 1 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA 2 Architecture & Facilities Engineering, Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, FL 32830, USA; [email protected] 3 M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32...