Social Transportation: Social Signal and Technology for Transportation Engineering

Exploiting Motor Vehicle Information and Communications Technology for Transportation Engineering

Technology already exists to capture and communicate a variety of information from motor vehicles. Automobiles are equipped with sensors and can reliably report their location, velocity, and condition via cellular telecommunications. Truck location tracking with global positioning systems is common, and prototype systems exist for characterizing surrounding traffic and roadway conditions. Given...

Social Network Analysis of Sustainable Transportation Organizations

ii Acknowledgements The research team would like to acknowledge Dr. Tao Sun of the department of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont for his significant contribution helping to design this project, build the survey, analyze the data, and co-author academic papers on the findings. We also want to thank University of Vermont professor Curt Ventriss of the Rube...

Information Technology : Implications for Transportation

Electronics and telecommunications are rapidly changing and are having significant impacts on social and economic activity, with major implications for transportation. Location of businesses and households may be altered as telecommunications options improve. Already, there is evidence that businesses have become less dependent on proximate locations as electronic links have become more effecti...

Mining Engineering and Mineral Transportation

Defining and Differentiating Copresence, Social Presence and Presence as Transportation