Auditory overviews of routes can provide routing and map information to blind users enabling them preview route maps before embarking on a journey. This article investigates the usefulness system designed do this through Preliminary Survey, followed by Design Study gather design requirements, development prototype evaluation Usability Study. The is drawn in two stages with eight audio designers...

Ridesharing, i.e., the problem of finding parts of routes that can be shared by several travellers with different points of departure and destinations, is a complex, multiagent decision-making problem. The problem has been widely studied but only for the case of ridesharing using freely moving vehicles not bound to fixed routes and/or schedules – ridesharing on timetabled public transport servi...

Did you know that many birds use the San Francisco Estuary like a hotel, to rest during their long migrations? The is major stopover on Pacific Flyway—a huge path for migrating runs from South America Arctic Circle! Tons of waterfowl (ducks, geese, and shorebirds) make this journey every year. On long, harsh journey, need find food safe places rest. In U.S., groups work together manage habitat ...

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My half-century journey started from synthetic organic chemistry. During the first stage of my journey, my interest in stereochemistry was initiated through the investigation on the participation of steric effects in reactive intermediates, cylophanes, strained heterocycles, and organic compounds for photography. In chemoinformatics as the next stage of the journey, I proposed the concept of im...

This paper analyzed three middle grade novels and a short story from two cultures using the journey motif as the vehicle for the analysis. The three novels are Bud Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham both by Paul Curtis   and Journey to Jo’burg by Naidoo (1986). The short story is My Two Dads by M. Lee.  The three novels and a short story were chosen because these no...

Abstract Multimodal transportation systems require an effective journey planner to allocate multiple passengers transport operators. One example is mobility-as-a-service, a new mobility service that integrates various modes through single platform. In such multimodal and diverse planning problem, accommodating heterogeneous with different dynamic preferences can be challenging. Furthermore, may...