this lecture introduces testing methods for the protection of children in vehicles. in order to reduce the fatalities and injuries of children in transportation state of the art child protection is mandatory. global laws and regulations such as ece or fmvss are introduced and compared with new car assessment programs (ncap). engineering tools and equipment to test according to global child prot...

Performance Evaluation of Travel-Time Estimation Methods for Real-Time Traffic Applications Xuegang Jeff Ban a; Yuwei Li b; Alexander Skabardonis b;J. D. Margulici c a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA b Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH), Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California—Berkeley,...

The current weaknesses of the conventional intermodal freight transportation system have led to the development of the synchromodal freight transportation concept introduced and piloted in the Netherlands. The innovative concept has the advantage of adding flexibility, cost reduction, and sustainability among other things, into the freight transportation system. The synchromodal system has not ...

Safety is one of the most important and complex aspects of transportation engineering. It takes a traffic professional considerable time and effort to keep abreast of research in the field of safety as it relates to traffic engineering improvements. Reading through research reports and summarizing the results is an overwhelming task; especially when having to identify the constraints of each st...

Sheela Siddappa is a Researcher at General Motors in Bangalore, India. She holds a PhD in industrial engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include revenue management, statistical regression, and optimization under uncertainty. Dirk Günther is a Principal at Sabre Holdings in Witten, Germany. He holds a PhD in industrial engineering from the Georgia Instit...