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Optimising Real-World Traffic Cycle Programs by Using Evolutionary Computation (2019)
Journal Article
Segredo, E., Luque, G., Segura, C., & Alba, E. (2019). Optimising Real-World Traffic Cycle Programs by Using Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Access, 7, 43915-43932. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2908562

Traffic congestion, and the consequent loss of time, money, quality of life, and higher pollution, is currently one of the most important problems in cities, and several approaches have been proposed to reduce it. In this paper, we propose a novel for... Read More about Optimising Real-World Traffic Cycle Programs by Using Evolutionary Computation.

Simulating the actions of commuters using a multi-agent system (2019)
Journal Article
Urquhart, N., Powers, S., Wall, Z., Fonzone, A., Ge, J., & Polhill, G. (2019). Simulating the actions of commuters using a multi-agent system. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4007

The activity of commuting to and from a place of work affects not only those travelling but also wider society through their contribution to congestion and pollution. It is desirable to have a means of simulating commuting in order to allow organisat... Read More about Simulating the actions of commuters using a multi-agent system.

Creating optimised employee travel plans (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N., & Hart, E. (2019). Creating optimised employee travel plans. In Advances in Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control in Engineering and Sciences (489-502). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89988-6_29

The routing of employees who provide services such as home health or social care is a complex problem. When sending an employee between two addresses , there may exist more than one travel option, e.g. public transport or car. In this paper we examin... Read More about Creating optimised employee travel plans.

Creating optimised employee travel plans. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Urquhart, N. B., & Hart, E. (2015, September). Creating optimised employee travel plans. Paper presented at International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems, EUROGEN-2015

A new adaptive probabilistic broadcast protocol for vehicular networks (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A. Y., Khalaf, M. B., Gharibi, W., & Ouenniche, J. (2015). A new adaptive probabilistic broadcast protocol for vehicular networks. In 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2015) (4 Vols) (2875-2879). https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2015.7145627

In VANETs, there are many applications that use broadcast communication as a fundamental operational tool, in disseminating information of interest to other road users under the umbrella of both safety and entertainment applications. Recently, the pr... Read More about A new adaptive probabilistic broadcast protocol for vehicular networks.

Stable Infrastructure-based routing for Intelligent transportation systems (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. P. (2015). Stable Infrastructure-based routing for Intelligent transportation systems. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (3394-3399). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2015.7248849

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) have been instrumental in reshaping transportation towards safer roads, seamless logistics, and digital business-oriented services under the umbrella of smart city platforms. Undoubtedly, ITS applications wil... Read More about Stable Infrastructure-based routing for Intelligent transportation systems.

Mobilfunk 5G Die ferngesteuerte Welt (2015)
Other
Thuemmler, C. (2015). Mobilfunk 5G Die ferngesteuerte Welt. [http://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/hannovermesse/mobilfunk-5g-die-ferngesteuerte-welt/11615084-all.html]. http://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/hannovermesse/mobilfunk-5g-die-ferngesteuerte-welt/11615084-all.html

Erst die neue Mobilfunkgeneration 5G soll den Durchbruch für die Industrie 4.0 bringen. Während die Forschung schon um die ersten Patente wetteifert, fürchten Kritiker das Ende der Netzneutralität

Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility. (2014)
Journal Article
Gabrielli, S., Forbes, P., Jylha, A., Wells, S., Sirén, M., Hemminki, S., …Jacucci, G. (2014). Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility. Computers in Human Behavior, 41, 416-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.026

In recent years, the design and deployment of persuasive interventions for inducing sustainable urban mobility behaviors has become a very active research field, leveraging on the pervasive usage of social media and mobile apps by citizens in their d... Read More about Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility..

Towards an applied gamification model for tracking, managing, & encouraging sustainable travel behaviours. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Wells, S., Kotkanen, H., Schlafli, M., Gabrielli, S., Masthoff, J., Jylha, A., & Forbes, P. (2014, May). Towards an applied gamification model for tracking, managing, & encouraging sustainable travel behaviours. Paper presented at First Urban Sustainable, CollaboratIve, and Adaptive MObility (USCIAMO) Workshop

In this paper we introduce a gamification model for encouraging sustainable multi-modal urban travel in modern European cities. Our aim is to provide a mechanism that encourages users to reflect on their current travel behaviours and to engage in mor... Read More about Towards an applied gamification model for tracking, managing, & encouraging sustainable travel behaviours..

Investigations of impacts of junction design on emissions: are our junctions sustainable? (2013)
Journal Article
Saleh, W., & Lawson, A. (2013). Investigations of impacts of junction design on emissions: are our junctions sustainable?. World journal of science, technology and sustainable development, 10, 143-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/20425941311323145

Purpose - An investigation of the driving behaviour and impacts on emission at two traffic junctions Design/methodology/approach - A signalised junction and a roundabout in Edinburgh have been selected. An instrumented car has been used and a GPS... Read More about Investigations of impacts of junction design on emissions: are our junctions sustainable?.

The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Yassein, M. B., Nimer, S. F., & Al-Dubai, A. (2010). The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks. In Proceedings of ITA 2010 (1462-1467). https://doi.org/10.1109/CIT.2010.261

Broadcasting is an essential operation in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) to transmit the message (data packet) from the sender to all other nodes in the network. Flooding is the simplest mechanism for broadcast operations, where each node retransmit... Read More about The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks..

Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Scott, C., Urquhart, N. B., & Hart, E. (2010). Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing (141-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12242-2_15

This paper investigates the influence of gradient and payload correction factors used within a CO2 emission model on the solutions to shortest path and travelling salesman problems when applied to freight delivery. Problem instances based on real li... Read More about Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing.

Novel QoS-Aware Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Romdhani, I. (2010). Novel QoS-Aware Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks. In 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), (336-342). https://doi.org/10.1109/cit.2010.500

Wireless Mesh Networking (WMN) emerges as a new technology to reshape the broadband industry towards a more efficient and cost effective connectivity. The WMN has been the ideal technology for the next generation wireless community networks that offe... Read More about Novel QoS-Aware Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks.

Everyday coping with technology (2010)
Working Paper
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2010). Everyday coping with technology

We report an empirical investigation of Borgmann’s observation that people are fixed in the range of relationships they can have with technology based on their prior familiarity with it. This technological horizon might serve to constrain the kinds o... Read More about Everyday coping with technology.

RKB: A Knowledge base to support research documentation, data, GIS, spatial data and communications for a major rail freight project. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Wigan, M., Kukla, R., Benjamins, M., & Grashoff, P. (2007). RKB: A Knowledge base to support research documentation, data, GIS, spatial data and communications for a major rail freight project. In Proceedings of the European Transport Conference 2007

The paper places data and document access, use and exploration systems in the context of the Data Observatories movement, as well as the document repository systems now becoming mandated for universities. It will show how taking these developments in... Read More about RKB: A Knowledge base to support research documentation, data, GIS, spatial data and communications for a major rail freight project..

Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, T., Armitage, A., Rutter, M., & Binnie, D. (2006). Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. In ITS World Congress (1-11)

Automated pedestrian sensing and tracking is receiving increasing attention from researchers in a number of areas. Applications are common in security, in urban planning, and in the retail industry. A common approach is to use CCTV and visible image... Read More about Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction..

Working towards identifiable feature extraction from a pedestrian’s gait. (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, T., Armitage, A., Rutter, M., & Binnie, D. (2006). Working towards identifiable feature extraction from a pedestrian’s gait. In 37th UTSG conference

This paper describes our work measuring the movement of pedestrians. We describe our data collection system, processing techniques and introduce our data analysis software system. Our work aims to provide data to improve security and monitoring of... Read More about Working towards identifiable feature extraction from a pedestrian’s gait..