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Enabling efficient transportation is a major challenge for large cities, as the transportation need is increasing, while the environmental impact has to be minimized. In this paper, we define an efficiency measure that shows how much of the current transportation mileage that is really necessary to meet all the transportation assignments. We show that the efficiency measure can be computed efficiently...
Electric vehicles (EVs) can help to decrease the emissions in the transport sector, especially in combination with an increase of renewable energies. However, for most of the people the comparably small range of EVs is still an obstacle concerning buying an EV. In this paper a project with a fleet test in the Ruhr-Area of Germany dealing with technologies for long distance electromobility is introduced...
Generating the power necessary to run our future cities is one of the major concerns for scientists and policy makers alike. The increasing global energy demands with simultaneously decreasing fossil energy sources will drastically affect future energy prices. Strategies are already being implemented to develop solutions for the generation and efficient usage of energy at different levels. Involving...
Sustainable development is among the greatest challenges of this century. Sustainability and development are apparently opposite. The traditional approaches try to manage the planet protection without taking the best from technology while eco-innovation focus mainly on smart transportation, smart use of energy and water and waste recycling. Many new concepts such as Smart, Intelligent, Green or Wise...
Manaus, the capital city of the state of Amazonas and the sixth Brazilian largest gross domestic product, demands highly qualified hardware and software developers for consumer electronics and telecommunication sectors of its free trading zone. However, what can be viewed as an opportunity for the youth alumni of local institutions of higher education contrasts with the low level of qualification...
This paper represents the smart system that bypasses the normal functioning algorithm of traffic lights, triggers a green light when the lights are red or to reset the timer of the traffic lights when they are about to turn red. Different pieces of hardware like microcontroller units, transceivers, resistors, diode, LEDs, digital compass and accelerometer will be coupled together and programmed to...
Internet technology has changed many aspects in business these days, from new product and services development, to business process improvement such as online tender, mobile payment, online registration, and many others. As a result of those changes, companies need the right resources who understand on how to do business and compete in this new economy hence new competencies are hired. This research...
Bad water resource management can increase the amount of problems caused by the scarcity. Situations involving water resources generally have many stakeholders who might not understand the complex situation and the decision made on it has outcomes and effect on people that will only be seen over time. Using soft Operational Research as the Problem Structuring Method we can structure a problem and...
Nobody likes sitting in a car which is in a traffic jam. If you are in a traffic jam, you think over the opportunities how you could escape from it as soon as possible. In this paper, an imaginary system is introduced which supports the car drivers of a city. The intelligent route planner system could show how you can more easily avoid the traffic jams of the city. Moreover, it provides other actual...
Two Lithium ion battery systems have already installed at practical traction substations, HAIJIMA SS and OKEGAWA SS, to utilize regenerative energy in d.c. 1.5kV traction power supply system of East Japan Railway Company. In this paper, the effect of energy storage system for energy saving by making use of regenerative energy is evaluated in detail. According to our experiences, the annual effects...
Counting of passengers in public transport system is a very significant task which must be performed for sustainable city planning. In different countries and cities this task performed very differently, or not performed at all, as well as there are no clearly defined international standards for public transport passenger flow analysis, and as a result, for system sustainable development. There are...
The fast growth of e-commerce business in several previous years has attracted attention of many researchers. There are numerous research investigate about purchase behavior. Despite of that, only a few study conducted to determine segmentation of online buyers. Market segmentation is the most fundamental and basic step in determining marketing strategies. This study illustrates the segmentation of...
Mitigating vandalism in local traffic and at stations, violent disorder, and theft by employing security guards, installing video cameras are expensive and only partially solve existing the problems. Related costs directly affect the fares and thus the attractiveness of local public transport. We discuss a concept to implement a Report-service to forward emergency and complaint messages in local public...
In the second half of the 19th century Budapest (Hungary) became a metropolis. Huge infrastructural investments formed the city into the present tourist-luring townscape. In 1896 the country celebrated the thousand year anniversary of the statehood and the mayor’s office wanted to raise the glare of the feast with an up-to-date technical solution. Up to that time horse carts, horse tramways electric...
In rural areas, people have lots of problems caused by the shortage of young people and increase of elderly. Various kind of trials were achieved to cope with this problems Government prepared some amount of budget to deal with this elderly problems. However, financial solution was becoming more difficult and another effective solution was required. Utilization of human resources typically elderly...
As the emerging nations add influence to the state of global economy, the new demand in air logistics is expected to catapult the increase in aircraft production, introducing a new horizon for potential suppliers to enter into the supply chain regime. This scenario may capture the attention not only from the industry institutions, but also from the public entities, that are in interest of plotting...
Based on previous studies, the different forms of Collection and Delivery Point (CDP)currently used by B2C e-commerce business are divided into five types in this paper, i.e., the convenience store chain mode, intelligent box mode, “scattered little stores” mode(similar with “Collect+” mode), self-run store mode and express service point mode, this paper then introduce the process of consumer going...
The amount of public transport subsidies in Beijing increased year by year, but the effect of promoting traffic congestion is not significant. The paper analyzes the status of Beijing public transport subsidies, then establish the Beijing public transport subsidy model. Analyze the proportion of the public transport subsidy accounting for the finance revenue ranges from 4.19% to 6.92%. Based the data...
Due to the global warming problem, it is more urgent than ever to take carbon emission problem seriously. Gravity method is a good model for us to do location selection, but that does not include carbon emission cost. So it is needed to take carbon emission cost into consideration. Three aspects of work have been done. First, the carbon emission cost of a certain kind of truck is calculated. Second,...
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