Timber transportation is one of the most expensive activities in forest operations. Traditionally, the goal of forest transportation planning has been to find the combination of road development and harvest equipment placement that minimizes total harvesting and transportation costs. However, modern transportation problems are not driven only by economics of timber management, but also by multi...

This study assessed the effect of rural-urban transportation on agricultural produce in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. Primary data obtained from 90 rural farming households were analysed using frequency count, Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression analysis and mean score from a 3 point Likert type of scale. Results of the study revealed that majority of the farmers were m...

The mass production of the four-wheel automobile in early 20th century changed human mobility forever. These suddenly “affordable” oil-fueled transportation boxes allowed us to move faster, range further, and triggered a dramatic transformation built environment. Unfortunately, this has also inflicted significant environmental harms. Recognition these harms led many propose prioritize vehicle e...

The chapter describes the complex situation of road carriers during the dynamic changes in the market for transport and forwarding services. Increasing globalization, innovation in the market, new growing customer needs (increasing expectation due to the high quality transportation service), emerging new competitors and changes in the legislative area are the elements which have an enormous imp...

Vehicular networking has established itself, in the short span of the last few years, as one of the most promising fields of research within the larger context of metropolitan-scale wireless networking. Enabling vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-toinfrastructure (V2I) communication, a pervasive deployment of vehicular networking technologies would have an unprecedented impact on mass road tr...