Transportation, an infrastructure-focused domain, and Space, a less infrastructure-focused domain, are compared according to five design factors: mission objective(s), stakeholders, concepts, constraints, and dynamic lifecycle issues. The comparison uncovers domain-inherent biases in decision and design methods originating in both domains. Causes for domain biases and implications for a domain-...

Information technology (IT) provides the means to store, manipulate and disseminate massive amounts of data. The integration of IT at all levels of the transportation system creates the “intelligence” in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). But this integration is a long and difficult process of the search for, and the exploitation of, the numerous opportunities in the interconnected set o...

Telemonitoring during the golden hour of patient transportation helps to improve medical care. Presently there are different physiological data acquisition and transmission systems using cellular network and radio communication links. Location monitoring systems and video transmission systems are also commercially available. The emergency patient transportation systems uniquely require transmis...