The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) provides wireless and mobile communication between vehicles and infrastructure to improve the safety of transportation and make the journey more enjoyable. This system consists of many fixed and mobile nodes (Vehicles, Trains, Vessels, Air planes), Wireless and Wired Telecommunication Technologies to exchange information between mobile nodes or betwee...

There are approximately 88 million tonnes of food waste generated annually in the EU alone. Food spoilage during distribution accounts for some this waste. To minimise spoilage, it is utmost importance to maintain cold chain transportation perishable foods such as meats, fruits, and vegetables. However, these products often unfortunately wasted large quantities when unpredictable failures occur...

Abstract Objectives Mental health disorders are a leading cause of work disability and while the psychosocial workplace environment plays critical role, working time characteristics also implicated. We sought to examine association between mental in cohort two unionized, full-time worker populations, correctional supervisors, transportation maintainers. Methods Using cross-sectional study desig...

BACKGROUND Patients being managed on warfarin make frequent or regular visits to anticoagulation monitoring appointments. International studies have evaluated transportation cost and associated time related to anticoagulation clinic visits. To our knowledge, no studies have evaluated the cost of transportation to such clinic visits in the United States. OBJECTIVE To describe the methods of tr...

This study aims to minimize the total cost of a four-echelon supply chain including suppliers, an assembler, distributers, and retailers. The total cost consists of purchasing raw materials from the suppliers by the assembler, assembling the final product, materials transportation from the suppliers to the assembler, product transportation from the assembler to the distributors, product transpo...