Drones for parcel and passenger transportation: A literature review

Massage for Infantile Colic: Review and Literature

Background Infantile colic is a painful phase in the first months of infancy but no safe and effective conventional treatment exists. Massage is used in traditional medicine as a control and treatment method for infantile colic. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of massage in the control and treatment of infantile colic. Materials and Methods We searched international...

MADARP: A Flexible Agent Architecture for Passenger Transportation

This work describes the development of a distributed agentbased application devoted to the flexible transportation of passengers. The system considers the planning and control of trip requests comming from clients. The underlying 3-tier agent architecture, named MADARP, provides a set of base agents organized around an interface, a planning and a service layer. Interface agents provide GUIs for...

Reliability and Safety Models of Transportation Systems - a Literature Review

Transportation systems form the backbone of economy and play an important role in society. Because of the far-reaching effects of disruptions on these systems (social, economic, national defense), they are classified as critical infrastructure systems. Reliability researches on various elements of transportation systems were carried out since the midtwentieth century. The focus was on vehicles ...

A Hybrid-Dynamical Model for Passenger-flow in Transportation Systems ?

In a network with different transportation modes, or multimodal public transportation system (MPTS), modes are linked among one another not by resources or infrastructure elements which are not shared, e.g., between different metro lines , but by the flow of passengers between them. Now, the movements of passengers are steered by the destinations that individual passengers have, and by which th...

The Social Costs of Intercity Passenger Transportation: A Review and Comparison of Air and Highway