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Driving as part of your work may damage your health. (2000)
Journal Article
Stradling, S. G., Meadows, M. L., & Beatty, S. (2000). Driving as part of your work may damage your health. Behavioural Research in Road Safety,

Company or fleet car drivers are part of a much larger group who drive a car as part of their work. This paper reports findings taken from a recent DETR funded study of factors affecting car use choices of the crash involvement and driving style of s... Read More about Driving as part of your work may damage your health..

Models for Estimating Solar Radiation and Illuminance From Meteorological Parameters (2000)
Journal Article
Muneer, T., Gul, M. S., & Kubie, J. (2000). Models for Estimating Solar Radiation and Illuminance From Meteorological Parameters. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, 122(3), 146. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1313529

Sunshine fraction, cloud amount, temperature, and global irradiation are the most commonly measured meteorological parameters. In this article five models based mainly on the abovementioned variables for the determination of irradiation and illuminan... Read More about Models for Estimating Solar Radiation and Illuminance From Meteorological Parameters.

Employer transport plans-a case for regulation? (1999)
Journal Article
Rye, T. (1999). Employer transport plans-a case for regulation?. Transport Reviews, 19(1), 13-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/014416499295655

Employer transport plans (ETPs) are increasingly seen by transport planners as one of potential means to manage the demand for private transport. Such plans seek to reduce trips to work by car by providing, through individual employers, a targeted,... Read More about Employer transport plans-a case for regulation?.

Tax and green transport plans: a survey of UK experience (1999)
Journal Article
Potter, S., Rye, T., & Smith, M. (1999). Tax and green transport plans: a survey of UK experience. Transport Policy, 6(4), 197-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-070X%2899%2900021-9

The widespread adoption of Green Transport Plans (GTPs) by employers has become an important aim of the {UK} government transport policy as it tries to find ways of reducing transport demand. However, the tax treatment of employee benefits that form... Read More about Tax and green transport plans: a survey of UK experience.

The dependent availability logit model and its applications (1998)
Book Chapter
Saleh, W., & Bell, M. G. H. (1998). The dependent availability logit model and its applications. In J. D. D. Ortuzar, D. Hensher, & S. Jara-Diaz (Eds.), Travel behaviour research: updating the state of play (473-486)

Modelling vehicle emissions using the TEMIS program: part 2 case studies. (1998)
Journal Article
Saleh, W., & Nelson, J. D. (1998). Modelling vehicle emissions using the TEMIS program: part 2 case studies. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 212(3), 205-212

Many challenges are associated with the ever increasing level of energy consumption and the damage to the environment caused by the pollutants from all sectors. On the local level the problem is associated with matters such as noise and air pollution... Read More about Modelling vehicle emissions using the TEMIS program: part 2 case studies..

Determinants of energy consumption: examination of alternative transport policies using the temis program. (1998)
Journal Article
Saleh, W., Nelson, J., & Bell, M. G. (1998). Determinants of energy consumption: examination of alternative transport policies using the temis program. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 3(2), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1361-9209%2897%2900030-8

Many challenges are associated with the increasing level of energy consumption and the environmental damage caused. At the local level, there is noise and air pollution while at the global level there are problems associated with acid rain, ozone lay... Read More about Determinants of energy consumption: examination of alternative transport policies using the temis program..

Lifelong Learning - getting started. (1997)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Armitage, A., Gupta, N. K., & Rae, G. (1997, June). Lifelong Learning - getting started. Presented at 8th Annual EAEEIE Conference: Innovations and Quality in Education for Electrical and Information Engineering

Environmental impact analysis of energy efficient windows. (1997)
Book Chapter
Muneer, T., Han, B., & Truslove, T. E. (1997). Environmental impact analysis of energy efficient windows. In V. Bentivegna, P. S. Brandon, & P. Lombardi (Eds.), Evaluation of the Built Environment for Sustainability. Taylor & Francis

COSMOS - Congestion management strategies and methods in urban sites. (1997)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wood, K., Bielefeldt, C., Biora, F., & Kruse, G. (1997, October). COSMOS - Congestion management strategies and methods in urban sites. Presented at 4th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

The paper describes the strategies for Congestion and Incident Management (CIM) on the basis of Automatic Congestion and Incident Detection (ACID) that COSMOS will develop, implement in SCOOT, UTOPIA and MOTION, and validate and demonstrate in London... Read More about COSMOS - Congestion management strategies and methods in urban sites..

Ownership and control in the bus industry: the case of Hungary. (1997)
Journal Article
Nelson, J. D., Saleh, W., & Prileszky, I. (1997). Ownership and control in the bus industry: the case of Hungary. Journal of Transport Geography, 5(2), 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0966-6923%2897%2984102-6

In Hungary, the impending expiry of existing operating licences for both urban and interurban bus services is leading to considerable pressure for change in the current system of ownership and control. Furthermore, the transport sector in Hungary fac... Read More about Ownership and control in the bus industry: the case of Hungary..

Anovel parallel processing synchronization method for observing electric fields in and around PCBs (1997)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., & Gupta, N. K. (1997). Anovel parallel processing synchronization method for observing electric fields in and around PCBs. International Journal of Electronics, 82(1), 61-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/002072197136273

The authors have taken the 3D FDTD approach to simulate the propagation of electrical signals within and around printed circuit boards (PCBs). This relates to the work currently being carried out into the propagation of very high speed digital pulses... Read More about Anovel parallel processing synchronization method for observing electric fields in and around PCBs.

MOTION - A new On-line Network Signal Control System (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bielefeldt, C., & Busch, F. (1996, April). MOTION - A new On-line Network Signal Control System. Presented at Eighth International Conference on Road Traffic Monitoring and Control

Machine independent algorithm for concurrent finite-element problems (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., & Gupta, N. K. (1996, April). Machine independent algorithm for concurrent finite-element problems. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics (CEM 96)

The finite-element method, initially developed for mechanical and civil engineering applications, is now applied to electromagnetics. This paper describes how parallel processing applies to finite-element simulations. The methods discussed are the pa... Read More about Machine independent algorithm for concurrent finite-element problems.

An Investigation into the improvement of Local Minima of the Hopfield Network (1996)
Journal Article
Peng, M., Gupta, N. K., & Armitage, A. (1996). An Investigation into the improvement of Local Minima of the Hopfield Network. Neural Networks, 9(7), 1241-1253. https://doi.org/10.1016/0893-6080%2896%2900017-2

The paper investigates the improvement of local minima of the Hopfield network. A local minima escape algorithm (LME algorithm), is proposed for improving local minima of small-scale networks. Experiments on travelling salesman problems (TSP) show th... Read More about An Investigation into the improvement of Local Minima of the Hopfield Network.

MOTION - A New On-line Model for Urban Traffic Signal Control. (1995)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bielefeldt, C., & Busch, F. (1994, August). MOTION - A New On-line Model for Urban Traffic Signal Control. Presented at Transportation Systems: Theory and Application of Advanced Technology, IFAC Symposium

This paper presents MOTION, a modular on-line model for urban traffic signal control. It consists of a network and a local level and builds on enhanced traffic state estimation. Special consideration is given to the prioritization of public transit.... Read More about MOTION - A New On-line Model for Urban Traffic Signal Control..

Invariant object recognition by neural network. (1995)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, M., Gupta, N. K., & Armitage, A. (1995, November). Invariant object recognition by neural network. Presented at Proc 1995 Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks