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The passenger car unit values of motorcycles at the beginning of a green period and in a saturation flow. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lee, T.-C., Polak, J. W., Bell, M. G. H., & Wigan, M. (2010, July). The passenger car unit values of motorcycles at the beginning of a green period and in a saturation flow. Presented at 12th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR)

The aim of this study is to estimate the Passenger Car Unit
(PCU) values of motorcycles in two traffic environments: at
the beginning of a green period and in a saturation flow.
Motorcycles are able to undertake both lane-based and
non-lane-based... Read More about The passenger car unit values of motorcycles at the beginning of a green period and in a saturation flow..

Stochastic based models for low volume road (LVR) network management. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mandiartha, P., Duffield, C. F., Thompson, R. G., & Wigan, M. (2010, October). Stochastic based models for low volume road (LVR) network management. Presented at 24th ARRB conference

A major challenge faced by road authorities is to manage road networks within budget constraints and the uncertainty associated in predicting future performance of pavements; this is particularly true for the low volume road network. Road authorities... Read More about Stochastic based models for low volume road (LVR) network management..

Contextual port development: a theoretical approach. (2010)
Book Chapter
Sánchez, R., & Wilmsmeier, G. (2010). Contextual port development: a theoretical approach. In P. Coto-Millán, M. Pesquera, & J. Castanedo (Eds.), Essays on Port Economics (19-44). Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2425-4_3

Ports play a critical role as gateways and facilitators of trade. In the last 20 years, ports have undergone an intensive evolution in trying to adapt to a changing environment (change in demand, etc.). The results and models from this evolution proc... Read More about Contextual port development: a theoretical approach..

Regional hub port development – the case of Montevideo Uruguay. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilmsmeier, G., Martínez-Zarzoso, I., & Fiess, N. (2010, July). Regional hub port development – the case of Montevideo Uruguay

This paper reflects on port development in Uruguay in an environment of trilateral interport competition. The regional characteristics of port development in terms of their geographical, functional and operational characteristics are discussed by ana... Read More about Regional hub port development – the case of Montevideo Uruguay..

The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yassein, M. B., Nimer, S. F., & Al-Dubai, A. (2010, June). The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks

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..

The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M. (2010, June). The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning. Presented at GAMUT International conference

Sustainable transport requires not only solid evidence to support policy and practice, but also to allow this to be examined with a high degree of transparency. Not all technical reports have the supporting evidence (or indeed models) made readily av... Read More about The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning..

Factors affecting interconnectivity in passengertransport - Case studies. Deliverable D4.1 of INTERCONNECT. (2010)
Report
Ulied, A., Bielefeldt, C., Biosca, O., Matthews, B., Shires, J., Schnell, O., Mandel, B., Wilmsmeier, G., de Stasio, C., Raganato, P., Bak, M., Borkowski, P., & Saugstrup, S. (2010). Factors affecting interconnectivity in passengertransport - Case studies. Deliverable D4.1 of INTERCONNECT

This report looks forward to examining selected representative cases of initiatives already
implemented in Europe or proposed for the short term, that seek to improve interconnectivity among
transport networks and making access for passengers easie... Read More about Factors affecting interconnectivity in passengertransport - Case studies. Deliverable D4.1 of INTERCONNECT..

Motorcycle vehicle emissions - effect of driving cycle in urban and rural context (2010)
Book
Kumar, R., & Saleh, W. (2010). Motorcycle vehicle emissions - effect of driving cycle in urban and rural context

Climate change and global warming is challenging task ahead. This text book covers the fundamentals of estimating emission factor with special emphasis on motorcycle exhaust emissions. For the first time the text integrates various modelling techniqu... Read More about Motorcycle vehicle emissions - effect of driving cycle in urban and rural context.

Modelling trip generation/ trip accessibility using logit models (2010)
Thesis
Hu, S. Modelling trip generation/ trip accessibility using logit models. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6694

Trip generation is the first stage of the conventional 'four-stage' transport model. The aim of this stage is to predict total number of trips generated to and from each zone. The two most common techniques for trip generation are linear regression (... Read More about Modelling trip generation/ trip accessibility using logit models.

The impact of an emerging port on the carbon dioxide emissions of inland container transport: An empirical study of Taipei port (2010)
Journal Article
Liao, C.-H., Tseng, P.-H., Cullinane, K., & Lu, C.-S. (2010). The impact of an emerging port on the carbon dioxide emissions of inland container transport: An empirical study of Taipei port. Energy Policy, 38(9), 5251-5257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.05.018

This study analyzes the changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from the movement of containers from established ports through the emerging port of Taipei in Northern Taiwan. An activity-based emissions model is used to estimate the CO2 e... Read More about The impact of an emerging port on the carbon dioxide emissions of inland container transport: An empirical study of Taipei port.

Driver behaviour on rural roads in Scotland. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stradling, S. G., Collins, E., Eynon, C., & McLeod, P. (2008, December). Driver behaviour on rural roads in Scotland. Presented at Behavioural Research in Road Safety 2008 Eighteenth Seminar

Government strategy is to reduce by 40% the number of serious deaths and injuries from road accidents before 2010. Police accident STATS 19 for Scotland show that most deaths and serious road injuries occur in rural areas on B and A class roads whi... Read More about Driver behaviour on rural roads in Scotland..

Novel QoS-Aware Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Romdhani, I. (2010, June). Novel QoS-Aware Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks. Presented at 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology

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.

An analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong logistics industry (2010)
Thesis
Lau, A. S. W. An analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong logistics industry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5680

Hong Kong freight forwarding services have flourished along with China's economic development. Manufacturing activities in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) have provided the Hong Kong logistics sector with many business opportunities. However, due to the... Read More about An analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong logistics industry.

Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation in time-dependent stochastic road networks. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bell, M. G. H., Trozzi, V., Hosseinloo, S. H., Gentile, G., & Fonzone, A. (2010, July). Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation in time-dependent stochastic road networks. Paper presented at 4th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability

The vehicle navigation problem studied in Bell (2009) is revisited and a time-dependent reverse Hyperstar algorithm is presented. This minimises the expected time of arrival at the destination, and all intermediate nodes, where expectation is based o... Read More about Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation in time-dependent stochastic road networks..

Sustainable urban transport in Central America - a future without the car? (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schreffler, E., Umana, N. U., Garcia Moreno, P. S., Mattsson, C., Rye, T., & Carreno, M. (2010, July). Sustainable urban transport in Central America - a future without the car?. Paper presented at World Association of Transportation Research (WCTR)

Is it conceivable to contemplate a future without the car as the center of an urban transportation system? Can emerging economies grow without concomitant growth in car usage? San Pedro Sula, Honduras, is one city at a critical decision point about t... Read More about Sustainable urban transport in Central America - a future without the car?.

Do “hyper-travellers” exist? – Initial results of an international survey on public transport user behaviour. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fonzone, A., Schmoecker, J.-D., Bell, M. G. H., Gentile, G., Kurauchi, F., Noeckel, K., & Wilson, N. H. M. (2010, July). Do “hyper-travellers” exist? – Initial results of an international survey on public transport user behaviour. Paper presented at 12th World Congress on Transport Research

Transport modelling – both in traffic and transit fields – has been traditionally based on the assumption of the utility maximization principle. In public transport networks with high frequency services this has led to “hyperpath” route choice models... Read More about Do “hyper-travellers” exist? – Initial results of an international survey on public transport user behaviour..

Dynamic route choice in a congested transit network with uncertain carriers’ arrival times (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Trozzi, V., Bell, M. G. H., Gentile, G., & Fonzone, A. (2010, July). Dynamic route choice in a congested transit network with uncertain carriers’ arrival times. Paper presented at 12th World Congress on Transport Research

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of exploiting the hyperpath paradigm within the framework of dynamic assignment to model the route choice in a congested transit network, where passengers might encounter queues at transit s... Read More about Dynamic route choice in a congested transit network with uncertain carriers’ arrival times.