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Energy-Saving and Punctuality Combined Velocity Planning for the Autonomous-Rail Rapid Tram with Enhanced Pseudospectral Method
Autonomous-rail rapid transit (ART) is a new medium-capacity rapid transportation system with punctuality, comfort and convenience, but low-cost...
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Lateral Control of a Trackless Road Tram ‘ART’ Using Multi-axle Steering
Autonomous rail Rapid Transit (ART) is a novel trackless-tram urban transport system with high flexibility, capacity, and low implementation cost....
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Smart Tramway Systems for Smart Cities: A Deep Learning Application in ADAS Systems
Artificial intelligence and deep learning-based techniques undoubtedly are the future of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) technologies. In...
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Optimizing Passenger Flows in a Multimodal Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Station Using Microscopic Traffic Simulation
Personal rapid transit (PRT) systems are on-demand transport systems in which small autonomous vehicles travel on their own dedicated infrastructure....
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Recent advances in traction drive technology for rail transit
The traction drive system is the “heart” of rail transit vehicles. The development of sustainable, secure, economic, reliable, efficient, and...
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Tramway Systems
In this chapter the principal technical characteristics of tramways with conventional and ground-level power supply systemsTramwayground-level power...
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Brief History of Rail Transit Development
Take history as a mirror to know the rise and fall. China has experienced a very “sad” process in history. The brilliant scientific and technological...
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STATUS QUO
Modern society is in the midst of a rapid, intense and extensive transformation. One of the main reasons for this change is the increasing pace of...
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The Internet of Things Solutions for Transportation
Before the principal vehicle was created by Henry Ford in 1908, all shipments were dealt with via carriage and ponies. Organizations needed to battle...
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Introducing Engineering Systems Design: A New Engineering Perspective on the Challenges of Our Times
Framing and understanding our connected and evolving world requires a systems perspective. Intervening and acting towards more sustainable futures...
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Towards a Smart Megacity: Hong Kong and Shenzhen
The Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province of China contains some of the fastest growing cities in the world. Enjoying locational advantage as a...
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Introducing Engineering Systems Design: A New Engineering Perspective on the Challenges of Our Times
Framing and understanding our connected and evolving world requires a systems perspective. Intervening and acting towards more sustainable futures...
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CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED TRANSPORT IN THE LONG LEVEL 4
Connection and automation are the instrumental drivers of change in the transport system – yet they are two fundamentally different trends that are...
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Romanian Personalities in the Field of Engineering
The chapter briefly presents the biographies of the most representative personalities who made contributions in the field of engineering born in...
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A corridor selection for locating autonomous vehicles using an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS method
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) provide a new mobility option and have been becoming widespread around the world. They can be used not only as automobiles...
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A review of advances in tribology in 2020–2021
Around 1,000 peer-reviewed papers were selected from 3,450 articles published during 2020–2021, and reviewed as the representative advances in...
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Incentivised Travel and Mobile Application as Multiple Policy Intervention for Mode Shift
Transport is one of the influential aspects of a person’s day-to-day life, as their activities cannot be fulfilled without moving. To expect a person...
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Electrical Engineering
The construction of high-voltage installations for buildings with supply from medium and low voltage installations is explained. The basics of...
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Conveying and Construction Machinery
In this chapter, the fundamentals of design of conveying and construction machinery will be presented. Machines that fulfill transportation tasks in...
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The Analysis of the Russian Forest Industry
The Forest industry is an important part of the Russian economy, so its condition has a great influence on the Russian economy in generfal and on...