Telematics and Transport Behaviour

Telematics and Transport Behaviour
Author: Peter Nijkamp
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642801390

A major strategy to reduce transport congestion and other social costs of transport is to ensure that travellers make the best decisions, based on real time information. A wide range of technological systems have been developed to provide this information, but little is known about how travellers actually respond to it. This book offers an overview of various transport telematics options and provides an appropriate methodological framework, followed by a presentation of results from actual applications of these telematics systems from a range of European countries in various transport sectors. The empirical results are supplemented by analytical models and geographic information systems representations with a view on generalizing these findings and identifying the key parameters which determine user response.

Overcoming Isolation

Overcoming Isolation
Author: Harry Coccossis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-12-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783642798283

As European countries pursue a common effort towards establishing a European Union, various isolated -and consequently disadvantaged -regions are likely to face increasing competitive pressures due to their peripheral location. To assist such areas, regional, national and supranational bodies put much effort into developing transport and communication networks and linkages in order to ensure that such less favoured areas are better integrated in the broader European social and economic development process. This book addresses the issue of lagging development in various -mainly central and southern - European regions which are in a disadvantageous position as a result of their isolated 10cation.··The persisting problems of social and economic development in several European Union areas (e.g. islands, mountains, border areas) has turned the attention of policy-makers to "the critical importance of transport and (tele)communication linkages. The purpose of the book is to bring into perspective the role of transport and communications in regional policy for peripheral areas. This subject is currently of high priority, since the European Union through the Structural Funds interventions (i.e. the Community Support Frameworks) and the new Cohesion Fund relies heavily on transport and communication infrastructure investments to assist areas which are at a disadvantage due to their peripheral location and isolation. Furthermore, as the Union considers enlargement, some of these issues might be of wide European interest.

Great Trails of the West

Great Trails of the West
Author: Richard Dunlop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1971
Genre: History
ISBN:

Modern day historical tour along 15 trails of the western frontier.

Public Health and Informatics

Public Health and Informatics
Author: J. Mantas
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 1184
Release: 2021-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1643681850

For several years now, both eHealth applications and digitalization have been seen as fundamental to the new era of health informatics and public health. The current pandemic situation has also highlighted the importance of medical informatics for the scientific process of evidence-based reasoning and decision making at all levels of healthcare. This book presents the accepted full papers, short papers, and poster papers delivered as part of the 31st Medical Informatics in Europe Conference (MIE 2021), held virtually from 29-31 May 2021. MIE 2021 was originally due to be held in Athens, Greece, but due to the continuing pandemic situation, the conference was held as a virtual event. The 261 papers included here are grouped into 7 chapters: biomedical data, tools and methods; supporting care delivery; health and prevention; precision medicine and public health; human factors and citizen centered digital health; ethics, legal and societal aspects; and posters. Providing a state-of-the-art overview of medical informatics from around the world, the book will be of interest to all those working with eHealth applications and digitalization to improve the delivery of healthcare today.

Atlas of Stress-strain Curves

Atlas of Stress-strain Curves
Author: ASM International
Publisher: ASM International
Total Pages: 821
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 087170739X

Contains more than 1400 curves, almost three times as many as in the 1987 edition. The curves are normalized in appearance to aid making comparisons among materials. All diagrams include metric units, and many also include U.S. customary units

GoldSim Reliability Module

GoldSim Reliability Module
Author: Stefan Knopf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781728618098

The GoldSim Reliability (RL) Module is an add-on extension to the GoldSim simulation software framework allowing you to probabilistically simulate and analyze the reliability and performance of complex engineered systems over time. GoldSim provides the ability to model the interdependence of components through requirements and fault trees, as well as the capability to define multiple independent failure modes for each component for detailed reliability analysis. This facilitates both reliability modeling and risk analysis within a variety of industries, including space and defense, manufacturing, mining, telecommunications, electronics and infrastructure.

Fibre Reinforced Concrete: Improvements and Innovations II

Fibre Reinforced Concrete: Improvements and Innovations II
Author: Pedro Serna
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 994
Release: 2021-09-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 303083719X

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC), as presented by scientists and engineers at the RILEM-fib X International Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concrete (BEFIB), held in Valencia, Spain, on September 20-22, 2021. It discusses a diverse range of topics concerning FRC: technological aspects, nanotechnologies related with FRC, mechanical properties, long-term properties, analytical and numerical models, structural design, codes and standards, quality control, case studies, Textile-Reinforced Concrete, Geopolymers and UHPFRC. After the symposium postponement in 2020, this new volume concludes the publication of the research works and knowledge of FRC in the frame of BEFIB from 2020 to 2021 with the successful celebration of the hybrid symposium BEFIB 2021. The contributions present traditional and new ideas that will open novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration between different specialists.

Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South

Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South
Author: Ankit Kumar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000397440

This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South brings together theoretical and empirical contributions focused on rethinking energy transitions conceptually from and for the global South, and highlights issues of justice and inclusivity. It argues that while urgency is critical for energy transitions in a climate-changed world, we must be wary of conflating goals and processes, and enquire what urgency means for due process. Drawing from a range of authors with expertise spanning environmental justice, design theory, ethics of technology, conflict and gender, it examines case studies from countries including Bolivia, Sri Lanka, India, The Gambia and Lebanon in order to expand our understanding of what energy transitions are, and how just energy transitions can be done in different parts of the world. Overall, driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility, this book brings to the fore new concepts and ideas to help balance the demands of justice and urgency, to flag relevant but often overlooked issues, and to provide new pathways forward. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, environmental justice, climate change and developing countries. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003052821 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Critical Perspectives on Open Development

Critical Perspectives on Open Development
Author: Arul Chib
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 9780262363327

"Explores whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of ICT resources contributes to positive social change"--

My Sport Book - Show Jumping Training Journal: Note All Training and Workout Logs Into One Sport Notebook and Reach Your Goals with This Motivation Bo

My Sport Book - Show Jumping Training Journal: Note All Training and Workout Logs Into One Sport Notebook and Reach Your Goals with This Motivation Bo
Author: Till Hunter
Publisher: Training Journal Notebooks
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781729194492

Note all training and workout logs into one journal. Notebook for professional sportsmen, athletes, and for people who love a sport and want to live a healthy life. Order this journal and keep yourself motivated to achieve goals.