Technological findings recommend that Electric Vehicles (EVs) play a vital role in the road transportation system. EV's are becoming more prominent as formal vehicles have substantial effect on atmosphere. The rising adoption of EVs will lead to an increase number charging stations would profoundly impact power grid. inappropriate forecasting EV Charging Stations (EVCSs) has detrimental distrib...

Electrified transportation and power systems are mutually coupled networks. In this paper, a novel framework is developed for interdependent power and transportation networks. Our approach constitutes solving an iterative least cost vehicle routing process, which utilizes the communication of electrified vehicles (EVs) with competing charging stations to exchange data, such as electricity price...

Airborne dust, which contains high levels of toxic metals, is recognized as one of the most harmful environment component. The purpose of this study was to evaluate heavy metals pollution in dustfall from bus stations in Beijing, and to perform a risk assessment analysis for adult passengers. The concentrations of Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mo, Ni, Pb, V and Zn were determined by inductively coupled plasm...

The actual pedestrian movement starts and ends at special city entry points like bus stops, parking lots or metro stations. It is guided by the pedestrian intentions, but is subject to deceleration processes and avoidance maneuvers due to obstacles or pedestrians who are in the way. As a consequence, the pedestrians have to speed up in the course of time in order to reach the next destination w...

Environmental monitoring studies present many challenges. A huge amount of data are provided in different formats from different sources (e.g. sensor networks and databases). This paper presents a framework we have developed to overcome some of these problems, based on combining aspects of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architectures and Event Processing mechanisms. First, we treat integration us...

Imagine if, while getting off a shuttle bus on the way to work, a passenger makes a voice over ip telephone call using her wireless enabled Personal Digital Assistant. Packets from this device are then seamlessly routed between the fixed base stations of the local infrastructure and other mobile wireless devices in the area enabling the call to be completed. With the proliferation of wireless d...