The precast concrete products industry supplies 2,000 to 4,000 of different products to the construction industry. The demand for the products is seasonal. The industry builds up the stock in winter to meet the high demand in summer. As large numbers of products varying sizes and weights are involved, different handling and stacking requirements, the process of deciding appropriate locations to...

Abstract As the global energy and ecological environment are facing severe challenges, promotion of new vehicles is becoming more extensive. This paper introduces concept development history vehicles, summarizes status pure electric plug-in hybrid fuel cell in China, further analyzes opportunities vehicle industry, looks forward to its prospect based on GM (1,1) grayscale prediction model. Fina...

The automotive industry has made much efforts to deliver finished vehicles to customers with speed and reliability. Decreasing the time a vehicle stays within an assembly plant from production release to shipment contributes to reduce the total order lead-time and consequently, the total transportation cost as well. Conventional shipment planning algorithms are limited in accommodating the dyna...

Vehicle safety related applications which are drawing increasing attention in public have attracted extensive research both in academic and industry areas. However, it is assumed that one service is offered by one provider, thus forcing vehicle drivers to subscribe to several service providers within limited computation capabilities. In this paper, we present a fine-grained privacy preserving p...

Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANET) are gaining importance in vehicular networks and attracting an increasing attraction from both industry and research communities. Mobility Management is one of the most important and challenging research issue in vehicular networks which support various applications of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). A specific mobility management solution is required f...

Traffic signals are ubiquitous devices that first appeared in 1868. Recent advances in information and communications technology (ICT) have led to unprecedented improvements in such areas as mobile handheld devices (i.e., smartphones), the electric power industry (i.e., smart grids), transportation infrastructure, and vehicle area networks. Given the trend towards interconnectivity, it is only ...